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Vallavanukku Pullum Aayudham Review
- 5/13/2014 7:11:53 AM
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Cast: Santhanam, Ashna Zaveri, Nagineedu, Ravi Prakash, Senthil, VTV Ganesh, RajakumaranDirection: SrinathGenre: ComedyDuration: 2 hours 24 minutes
Synopsis: Sakthi goes to Aravangadu to sell his father's property and gets into the Singarayar household as a guest, not realizing that the family wants him dead owing to a family feud. But, they will murder him only when he steps out of the house to uphold their hospitality. Can Sakthi manage to stay alive?
Movie Review: Vallavanukku Pullum Aayudham is an example of how most of our filmmakers are clueless when it comes to economy of storytelling. The film largely takes place in a span of three days and we should ideally be made to forget this fact and lose ourselves in the plot. However, the film only keeps reminding us what a better film its source, SS Rajamouli's Telugu film Maryada Ramanna (2010), is. That film was a minor effort for the director, who was clearly going for a lighter fare between his ambitious Magadheera and Naan Ee. And, despite some flab (especially the songs), he succeeded in making audiences accept a comedian as a hero and kept the film moving at a fast clip. Here, though director Srinath opts for a frame-to-frame remake, the momentum is missing in the scenes, turning the film into a drag, even for those who haven't seen the Telugu film. Perhaps, he should have rather gone back to Maryada Ramanna's uncredited source, Buster Keaton's silent film Our Hospitality (1923),
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