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Komban Movie Review
- 4/2/2015 8:14:03 PM
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Cast: Karthi, Lakshmi Menon, Rajkiran, Super Subbarayan, Kovai Sarala, Thambi Ramaiah, Karunas, Marimuthu.Direction: M Muthaiah.Genre: Action.Duration: 2 hours 16 minutes
Synopsis: An angry young man tries to give up his violent ways after his marriage runs into trouble but his nemesis will not rest until he is killed.
Movie Review: For both Karthi and director Muthaiah, Komban is a retread. If Karthi's character of Kombaiya Pandian reminds you of a somewhat righteous Paruthiveeran, the plot — a ruffian trying to mend his ways for his family — is the same as we saw in Muthaiah's debut film Kutti Puli. There, Sasikumar played a rouge-with-a-good-heart whose mother tries to reform him by getting him married. Here, Karthi plays a do-gooder with a temper that often lands him in trouble and he attempts to reform after marriage, because of his concerned father-in-law. The villain in both these films is a big shot who feels slighted by the hero's arrogance and wants revenge while the heroine is an intrepid girl, interestingly, played in both the films by Lakshmi Menon.
The problem, though, is not the similarity of the characters or predictability of the plot, but the lack of real excitement in most of the scenes. The film hums along, moving from one scene to the next, without really making much of an impact in the viewer. Even the action scenes are less thrilling. In fact,
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