Boomika is yet another con game by putting names like Karthik Subburaj as the presenter of the film and then hyping it as Eco Thriller. Happens to be Aishwarya Rajesh 25th film ( as if all she did so far were gems). Yet another reason is director Rathindra Prasad who directed an episode in Navarasa.
Rathindra Prasad does what he did in Navarasa. He started off well and concentrated on the camera- music - editing ( but somehow the CGI looked bad). He mucked up the content. Now such films get made and sold to an unsuspecting Netflix by a super marketing hype . First you put across the subject - not just horror but eco- horror. Bhoomi (Earth) takes revenge on those who play with it. Right stuff for all the educated environmentalists and those who eat only organic food and use only paper bags. They are the ones who pay Rs 800 PM for subscription. Second is cast- Aishwarya Rajesh. She takes up women centric roles and mind you not the Nayanthara type but that of a bold women fighting for a cause. This is her 25th film and a eco mixed horror film is just the thing. Last but not least is Kartik Subburaj . He is a champion of causes- don't you remember Mercury ?. ( for a living he will do a masala dishoom movie with likes of Rajnikant and Vikram). As a producer, he picks only the best . ( Penguin was a horror film that Amazon picked up despite such bad content just coz it had Keerthi. Last minute addition was Rathindra Prasad the director. If Mani Ratnam can pick him then he is best.
Netflix falls for this hype. Result is Boomika. A film which has no horror to keep you rooted and a bunch of characters who do some clowning. I think the director himself turned a critic and put in a dialogue - First time a psychologist who psych's the ghost.
This is what happens through out. Now a flashback sequence makes a good watch as the girl who plays the one with autism does a neat job and so also her father. I think her name is Avantika
In case you are so immersed in the horror aspect, director brings you back to the core theme - Mother Nature and need to preserve it. The film has been dubbed into several languages ( I saw it the next day after I saw the Tamil). Netflix is hell bent on giving Tamil cinema a bad name all over India.
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