Much like the saying, ‘Better late than never’ its easier to uproot them rather than reason with them. Until its, a little late do people even notice the presence of an “anti-social” amongst them.
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After Mundasupatti and Raatchasan, I’m definitely pumped about what Ram Kumar has in store next.Cast: Vishnu Vishal, Amala Paul, Ramdoss, Kaali Venkat, Suzane GeorgeĪn exceptional narrative that blends over-the-top heroism of Indian Cinema with actual realities of world cinema, that elevates both the movie and the film industry to a new plane.Ī common trait that differentiates a psychopath and a normal person is usually nothing. It’s almost an anticlimax when the killer is revealed, though this revelation comes with a flavour that isn’t without interest. There are many beautifully edited stretches (San Lokesh is the editor) that I sometimes watched slit-eyed. In Raatchasan, (a) is far more impactful than (b). In any serial-killer movie, the important things are (a) how the trail of clues leads to the discovery of the killer, and (b) what’s the psycho(logical) reason behind the killer’s elaborate, ritualistic MO. Ghibran’s terrific score is the aural equivalent of bad airplane food - it makes your tummy queasy. If you turn a blind eye to the coincidences (say, the plot point around an autorickshaw) and the obvious red herrings (a suspected killer), the bulk of Raatchasan works. Had she been better at studies, she wouldn’t have had to change schools, she wouldn’t have met the magician… She’s a bad student, not above manipulating Arun to bail her out in school. But Arun’s family is convincingly real: his sister (Vinodhini), brother-in-law (an affecting Ramdoss) and niece Amudha, who isn’t the cute brat we usually get but a sketched-out character. She’s just a way Arun stumbles on a vital clue. She isn’t roped in just for duet duties, but there’s otherwise no colour in the character. Viji (Amala Paul) is less interestingly written. It’s a one-note character - but I liked that she is humanised when she sings a nursery rhyme to her child over the phone, in the face of mounting irritation that Arun may be right.
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Arun proposes that they’re looking at a serial killer, but his supervisor, Lakshmi (Suzane George), hates his guts. Soon, teenage schoolgirls start vanishing, only to be found mutilated. But the events in it will keep returning to him.Īlso Read: Baradwaj Rangan’s Review of NOTA But I did like the touch where Arun throws his bound script into the sea, and it’s borne back to him by the waves. This is a genre where the slightest flab is detrimental to the film’s well-being. Its relevance to the narrative is that Arun wants to make a film about a serial killer and his research will help him track down this film’s serial killer - but we waste a lot of time (this is a long movie), and the story wouldn’t have changed by much even if Arun had been an obsessive serial-killer buff, cutting out and preserving newspaper articles. I wished this whole section had been written differently. Arun (an impressively focused Vishnu Vishal) is an assistant director looking for a producer who will back his filmmaking debut, but because of family circumstances, he becomes a cop. It isn’t all that far from a claw hammer under the chin. Then again, let’s not forget that in the original version of the fairy tale, by the Brothers Grimm, one of the evil stepsisters cut off her toes in order to squeeze her foot into the glass slipper. Perhaps they thought the earlier name was too cute, too Disney. Also, the film was titled Cinderella, before the more male-sounding Raatchasan. As for the gender aspect, the fluidity is part of the film’s mystery. Director Ram Kumar teases the boundaries of his “U/A” rating, with impressively disturbing imagery that’s closer to an “A” (gouged-out eyes, and so forth). One upward stroke, and… The (suggestive) gore in that sentence is intentional, as is the gender ambiguity. If an image from Raatchasan (Demon) crawls into your eyeballs and gnaws at the brain, it’s this one: a serial killer looms over a petrified little girl, a hammer in his/her hand, with its claw positioned under her chin. Cast: Vishnu Vishal, Amala Paul, Munishkanth
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