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Oru Nerinte Nombaram Review
- 6/11/2013 6:07:57 AM
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'Oru Nerinte Nombaram' is set on a film director's mind, who is obsessed with Seetha (Vaigha), a victim of sexual abuse whom he once happened to see on the streets. Unable to erase the memory, he settles down to pen down his thoughts, thereby writing her story - a horrendous tale of exploitation and abuse.
Its abuse that remains at the core of the film, and it starts off with the child being abused when she is just a kid. Later she is gang raped by her stepfather and his friends. Left alone on the streets, she is raped by a policeman. Thrown at the mercy of a politician, she is raped by him as well. She adopts a retarded boy from the streets, and he rapes he
Structurally, the film presents a novelty of sorts in that it makes use of the same actors in different roles, so much so that its lead actor appears in almost every other scene, in one role or the other. One does wonder however, as to that prompted the makers to attempt a strategy as this.
Barring this innovation, there is little else in the film that would retain your interest in it. The story of abuse that has been told and retold a zillion times already, receives no further special treatment in 'Oru Nerinte Nombaram'. On the contrary, the emotional element that is so vital in films as these, has gone totally missing, making it an exercise in futility.
The script is like a flimsy thread that threatens to snap at any point. Each time the woman is raped, along comes a messiah, thanks to the writer's imagination,
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