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Persiakkaran Review
- 10/24/2014 12:58:32 PM
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Asok R Nath's 'Persiakkaran' is a mopey affair that gets increasingly frustrating with every passing moment. The characters in it lack individuality and the film falls short on insight, which makes 'Persiakkaran' a trite and shallow film that leaves you unconvinced.
Varmaji (Mukesh) is an affluent NRK based in the UAE, who runs a charitable institution that opens a gateway to heaven, for several of those expatriates who have had their lives destroyed after having landed in the Middle East. Aravind (Adil Ibrahim) who works as an RJ, runs into a call girl Aparna (Sudakshina), and starts following her around
It's extremely difficult to chalk out a story from 'Persiakkaran', since it's more like a series of anecdotes that have been stitched together in no particular fashion. There are a few occasions when the events almost tend to rake up your interest, but for the most part, it's a royal disaster from the word 'go'.
Ashok R Nath has floundered real bad this time around, and it's only with a sense of disbelief that you can watch Aparna's story unfurl in flashback. This is a tale that totally belongs to a long bygone era, and in 2014, its way out of place and time.
The camp that Varmaji has set up for the less fortunate ones, is headed by Becker Sahib (Kochupreman), who harbours no hopes of returning home. There is a man who keeps mouthing lines from a play in English, a young girl who has been deceived and who has ended up pregnant,
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