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Rasigargal Narpani Mandram Movie Review
- 5/12/2015 10:42:34 PM
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Cast: Robert, Ramji, Manoj, Visagar, Aishwarya, Nirosha, Chandrika, Vanitha, Jaguar Thangam.Direction: Robert.Genre: Comedy.Duration: 2 hours 10 minutes
Synopsis: Four friends loot cash belonging to a bank but the money is taken by Kannamma, their acquaintance and an effeminate idli seller. With a bent cop after, they must try to get the money back from Kannamma, who wants to marry one of them in return.
Movie Review: There are few things that make for a painful watch than comedy that is devoid of jokes and Rasigargal Narpani Mandram is the kind of comedy film that has a knot that could have been funny if only the people involved in the production had a feel for the material and known how to turn it into a comedy.
To its credit, there is a plot that would have made for a solid black comedy. It involves four desperate men, who under the influence of alcohol, decide to loot an ATM (wearing masks of MGR, Sivaji, Rajini and Kamal, thereby providing the film an excuse for the title) and end up with much more money than they imagined. But when they wake up, they find the money gone and a cop, who is planning to take the money for herself) hot on their heels. Now, they have to do everything — even marry the effeminate guy who took the money — to get it back.
There are a few elements here that promise something quirky — an effeminate antagonist, a gay marriage presided over by a priest, a godman-like gangster, a spoof of Speed, and we can see that the people behind
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