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Silandhi - Frail cobweb! |
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Starring:
Munna, Monica, Riyaz Khan, Nellai Siva
Direction: Aathi
Music: M.R.Karthik
Production: Shakar |
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While
thriller as a genre finds few takers in Tamil cinema (remember
Akku?), Silandhi is an attempt to reopen the topic. The movie
defies the rules of Tamil cinema, running only to 100 minutes
(although not without songs). A commendable attempt, though.
However, there are no excuses for trying an overused and tawdry
storyline. Besides, using contemporary issues (that seem forced
and biased) to give the story a new-look is barely justification
enough.
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While
the honeymoon couple, Munna and Monicka, make merry,
Monicka is haunted with a few incidents and strongly
feels the possibility of a stalker intruding their private
lives. To make matters worse, her friends are brutally
slaughtered by a stranger. When
things go out of hand, she spills the beans about the
party-hard and blind date lifestyle of her roomies before
marriage and how it culminated into the murder of an
innocent man. And the worst of her fears are realized
when the stalker’s identification is revealed.
Silandhi could have been one of the creepiest thrillers,
however, the director’s conviction in portraying
the lifestyle of young girls (IT professionals, it is
told) as sex-maniacs seems contrived and lacks credibility.
And the movie falls flat on its nose when the stalker
delivers a two-page dialogue about how his dreams of
marrying off his sister and taking care of his elderly
mother were shattered owing to these girls’ crude
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Director
Aathiraj quit his more-than-a-decade old job as a
journalist for an evening daily to direct Silandhi
and it is easy to decipher the source of his inspiration.
The movie is shot using HDD camera and the clear winner
is Fausia’s cinematography and the goose-flesh
inducing angles. So it is M. Karthick’s background
score that deserves a special mention.
Monicka has tried her best to shed the good-girl-next-door
image and struts around scantily clad with a near-innocent
face. Chandru – the erstwhile PRO – plays
the villain and shoulders the responsibility with
considerable ease.
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And, before we forget, the movie has an A certificate.
Verdict : Average thriller!
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