Friday, March 4, 2022

Naradan Review : A boring take on TV's TRP chase

At the outset, thanks to director for a dialogue - I told him not to use name CP and bring disrespect to C P Ramachandran. If the idea was to put across the view that trial by media is a violation of an individual privacy and that the Big Boss of the No 1 channel is himself a man with no moral standing and hence cannot be the moderator of such media trials , director Ahshiq Abu bores you for close to two hours with so many real life incidents that any TV news channel viewer knows and finally gets to the point. If you are no TV news channel viewer  and interested in only local news and obit pages in newspaper, this film will go over your head..

You have a guy who jobwise is  in shoes of Arnab Goswami and  he is called CP. His mannerisms like holding the pen makes you think he is JB of  JB junction. Then you have the Kerala minister stepping down due to a honey trap laid by a channel to moral policing being done at instance of media to get TRP. You get the Kunal Kamra heckling and  a background news playing on manipulating TRP and so on. Finally, the movie shifts to top gear in court and then you get filmy scenes like senior lawyer telling junior lady lawyer to do her home work and she giving it back to him etc. So the  media  is told that like good old days, you just report court hearings and verdicts and do not conduct any trial in your studio by bringing in any evidence on your own.  Just report the FIR details and wait till it reaches court - this is the  Judge order to media. Luckily, the Judge did not say that those watching such breaking news and media discussions will be prosecuted for being abettor of violation of individual freedom. Something like, watching porn is illegal .

Tovino does carry the role well and there is hardly any one character that stands against him in the story till the court room drama. So when Anna Ben as lawyer gives all the punch lines , you see that Indrans takes away her space.  The most filmy and hilarious  part was CP asking the rival channel Editor to stop the telecast of spy cam clip if he does not want to see her daughter in the nude.

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