MOODAR KOODAM ("NONSENSE ON SCREEN")

September 13, 2013.

Cast: Oviya, Jayaprakash, Naveen.

Director: Naveen.

After the success of films like Pizza, NKPK, Soodhu kavvum etc the Tamil film industry has all of a sudden become willing to let the filmmakers experiment, even though they are debutantes.

Moodar Koodam is one among such offerings which comes from debutante director Naveen (who also plays one of the leads in the film), an ex-associate director of Pandiraj.

Four strangers Naveen, Sentrayan, Vellachami and Kuberan happen to meet each other in lock up. Owing to the not so good background that each of them has they stick together and decide to rob Vellachami’s uncle played by Jayaprakash.  In Soodhu kavvum if it was kidnapping that had gone wrong here as expected the heist goes wrong.

It is good to experiment but when it is an experiment with an experiment the project will have danger signs written all over it unless supported by a solid script which unfortunately is not the case with Moodar Koodam.

The earnestness wrt the script is evident but the end product falls way too short of what was expected by the writer(who happens to be the director as well). When a comedy film evokes not even a single laugh from you till the interval or even after that then you have to call it something else. To say the least it is nothing short of nonsense on screen in the name of dark comedy.

The film seems more like a documentary with the lead actors giving moral insights every now and then more or less mechanically which neither has the intended effect nor any entertainment value. The average background score does not help either.

The even more irritating factor is the flashback that each of the four lead cast has!! To make it worse even Jayaprakash’s dog “Tiger” has a flashback shown with one of the dumbest irritating horrible songs ever shot which serves no purpose at all in the scheme of things.

It is very very hard to tell anything good about the movie but if forced to think too much there are just 3 good things about it. The first one is the earnest performances by the cast in a few scenes; the second is the cinematography and editing which look slick and the final one being the technical finesse with which the cartoon style flashback of Kuberan has been shot.

I am giving a 0.25 for Moodar Koodam. Do not go even anywhere near the posters of the film!!

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.