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Review - Ninaithu Ninaithu Parthen |
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Ninaithu
Ninaithu Parthen- Big subject in a shell
Cast: Vikranth, Ashita, Roja, Karunas
Direction: Manikandan
Music: Joshwa Sridhar
Production: Babu Raaja |
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begin with one cannot really classify this film
into any particular genre. It has everything starting
from the routine boy meets girl and love blooms
story, to family emotions, action, some slapstick
comedy and nationalistic sentiments. A perfect mix
that would make a winner you would think but then
each element hangs loosely and none of these really
captivates you. The plot is interesting just because
of the fact that an Indian boy falls for a Pakistani
girl. That should have given the director enough
and more twists, turns and emotions to work with.
But then you find the usual trappings of commercial
cinema coming into the movie.
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The parent-child sentiments have been among
the most effective tools in Tamil cinema right
from the days of Sivaji Ganesan, but here it
gets in the way of the main plot, in particular
the climax. Comedy, well yes it is enjoyable
in parts but sadly that does nothing to elevate
the script or the movie on the whole. The villains,
the manipulators and the usual anti-social bigwigs
are shown to be in vehement opposition of the
very presence of a Pakistani girl in India,
let alone her love affair with an Indian boy.
The one thing about the movie that is sensible
is that the story has been shown to take place
during the years of the Kargil war. That explains
the hatred that the heroine evokes in India,
no unnecessary sequences are wasted in explaining
this to the viewer. |
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Coming to the performances, Vikranth seems to have
learnt a bit, not a great deal from his previous experiences.
But the young man still has to do a lot of hard work
if he has to earn his place in the crowd of talented
newcomers in the industry. Karunas and Mayilsamy try
to make the most of the limited opportunity succeeding
to an extent. The biggest surprise moment of the movie
is (not anything about the story if you thought so)
the special appearance made by none other than Dr.Cherian,
Chennai’s maybe India’s most sought after
heart surgeon. If not for anything else the Ninaithu
Ninaithu Parthen team should be congratulated for
convincing the surgeon to appear on screen.
Summing up, Ninaithu Ninaithu Parthen’s biggest
downfall is its script. Caught in a web of its own
with many plots and subplots getting mangled leaving
the viewer confused about what the director wants
to convey. The director himself seems to have been
in a big dilemma when it came to the precedence that
he had to give to the plots, you can’t have
two or more plots being given the same level of screen
time. Finally, the climax is a very big let down.
It is the sort of climax that you would like to ‘walk
out on’. |
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Taking a look at the positives of the movie
(well, there are very few), the choice of subject
should come first. It is a sensitive theme which
has a lot of scope and the director did show
good vision in choosing it. But everything else
is downhill. It might be right to say that the
movie does not reflect in full the abilities
of the director. Some introspection would do
him a world of good. After all, he is from the
Selvaraghavan school of film making. Manikandan’s
debut leaves a lot to be desired.
Ninaithu Ninaithu Parthen- drowned in dilemmas. |
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