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Masala Padam Movie Review
- 10/14/2015 10:56:29 AM
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Cast: Shiva, Bobby Simhaa, Gaurav, Lakshmi Devy, Hyde Karty.Direction: Laxman Kumar.Genre: Drama.Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes.
Synopsis: A producer challenges a bunch of social media reviewers who have torn his recent masala film to come up with a good script in six months.
Review: In the titles of Masala Padam, director Laxman Kumar (the cinematographer of films like Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu and the Thillu Mullu remake) shows us clips from the Lumiere Brother's famous Arrival Of The Train to those from Tamil cinema's superstars like MK Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, MG, Sivaji Ganesan, Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan, to tell us a bit of the history of cinema. The film begins with a newly released masala film being trolled by social media reviewers. One of them is hit by a car and believes that it was a hit organised by the film's producer. The producer denies the allegation and challenges them on TV to come up with a script in six months. They decide to follow the lives of three men — Mani (Shiva, who generates the laughs with his usual deadpan style), a middle-class sales guy, Krish (Gaurav, adequate), a rich orphan and Amudhan (Simhaa, one-note), a gangster — and ask their friend Diya, a travelogue writer, to flirt with all three of them. Will their plan work out?
True to its name, Masala Padam is a potpourri of many genres — there is comedy, action, romance, drama. And it contains nods to numerous films down the years, by way of shots and plot lines.
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