I watched "Unnai Pol Oruvan" last night. Thanks to my brother Kapil for the links. I was expecting a lot considering it was a Kamal movie. Unfortunately I wasn't too impressed with the movie. I wish they would stop making all these message movies. But if you absolutely have to make a message movie, at least make a movie with a decent decent script that incidentally has a message. When you set out to make a movie with a message, but it also has to be commercially successful, you're starting off with a handicap. You contrive ridiculous scenes where actors spout off lines that when you consider the urgency of the situation in the movie are downright ridiculous. The script had such glaring holes, that you could drive a 18-wheeler through them.
Here's a sampling. You have a guy that calls you with a threat, and instead of taking it seriously, you lecture him, on the morals of what he is doing. Yeah, I'd like to see that from the police. Oh, and you periodically go off, "Are you serious!?", "Is this true!?". Juvenile writing. And then you have a scene in the end where the protagonist just gets off saying easily, there weren't any bombs planted in the first place. Why then go to the trouble of the establishing scenes earlier in the movie, like in the bus, train, mall, etc.
This movie had a lot of potential, no seriously. Possibly along the lines of "Kaakka Kaakka". However, it was so badly directed, badly acted, badly wrote that it was mildly funny. The one redeeming factor was the absence of the usual ridiculous song-and-dance sequences. But it still would easily be one of the worst Kamal movies.
It was the first Tamil movie I've seen in a while though. So it was good to watch for that reason. However, it begs the thought, if a Kamal movie is this bad, how bad have other Tamil movies got!?
Just thought I'd share my 2 cents on the subject. What do you guys think!?
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