October 31, 2013.
Cast: Ajithkumar, Arya, Nayantara, Taapsee, Rana Daggubatti.
Cast: Ajithkumar, Arya, Nayantara, Taapsee, Rana Daggubatti.
Director: Vishnuvardhan.
Mankatha provided a really good comeback for Ajith. What followed was a disaster in the form of Billa 2 and even before we have recovered from that impact here comes Arrambam.
Ashok (Ajith) is introduced as a terrorist who is bent on destroying certain people. He is aided in this endeavour by Maya (Nayanthara), who happens to be the computer whiz Arjun’s (Arya) classmate. Arjun is in love with Anitha (Taapsee).
Arjun is tricked into coming to Mumbai along with Anitha by Ashok who wants Arjun’s help in his endeavours. He starts coercing Arjun into doing things against his wishes with the threat of killing Anitha in case of non cooperation. Any viewer with an interest for English films would clearly see “Swordfish” by now but to make it worse what follows is a few so called twists (all of which fall flat), a horrible flashback and some scenes that really test your patience!!!
The script is very very mediocre letting anyone who has watched a few films guess what is coming and a few minutes after the interval you can very easily predict the climax. The first twenty minutes or so in the film is literally unbearable with two irritating songs, a stupid flashback involving Arya, Nayanthara and Taapsee, stupid makeup (Arya’s) and bad acting!!
Once you have passed that test of patience you would be subjected to a lotta unnecessary slow mo shots, completely trite background score, substandard direction and a lotta bad acting yet again. After all this it’s time for the flashback explaining how an honest Ashok was turned into a terrorist of sorts; Nayanthara starts the flashback with heavy words like torture, terror and the likes of it; but sadly it’s all just words and no action whatsoever.
The screenplay is so bad that the characters have to verbalise the scenes so that the audience might understand what they (characters) are going through which exhibits a blatant absence of feel that is required for any scene to reach the audience!! With umpteen characters (all played by major artistes) which are so very ill conceived it’s a cruelty to the film and unfair to the artistes of this calibre!!
Next comes the dialogues that make you laugh and cry at regular intervals; but the sad part is that both the laughter and crying are the unintentional by-products of some of the worst dialogues that you have seen in the recent times. After a point your laughter and crying would cease to make way for indifference owing to the realisation that it has reached the incorrigible plane!
In short Arrambam is a waste of time, money and efforts.
I am giving a 1.5 for Arrambam. Stay away!!
Rating Scale (Out
of 5)
Less than 2 - Unwatchable.
2 to 2.25 - Below average.
2.5 to 2.75 - Average.
3 to 3.25 - Good.
3.5 to 3.75 - Really Good.
4 to 4.25 - Great.
4.5 and above - Extraordinary.
