Makal - Visithiran- Google Kutappa - Akka Kuruvi : A bad week for viewers

 

The week saw the fall of a great director Sathyan Anthikad with the film Makal. Visithiram remake of Joseph and Google Kutappa ( both Malayalam ) fell flat on it's face as mere copying the original without any effort to give it a Tamil touch and also actor R K and director- actor K S Ravikumar  making a fool of themselves intrying to do a Joju George and a Suraj Venjaramoodu. Swamy probably thought by remaking Majid Majidi's Children of Heaven in Tamil would put him on a pedestal . Sadly, this has sullied name of Majid and also puts a question mark on Swamy's film making craft..

I do appreciate the guts to do the Joju George role in Joseph by RK , He probably thought that this would launch him in a new avatar in Kollywood. The plot did have scope to quicken the pace of the thriller but all that was wasted and having the same director Padmakumar doing it in Tamil was a mistake. In Google, K S Ravukumar with his aged look apart has not done anything that comes close to Suraj and here too the few changes are nothing much to write about.

Sathyan Anthikad Makal looks like he started the film in a hurry and just about stitched together a screenplay that is more slower than a soap drama. Off and on he remembers to switch to his trade mark formula of family entertainer and then shoot what comes to his mind with the actors available at hand. A director who shuns fight scenes resorts to one in the climax as he has no clue to end the film. He has run out of ideas. Poor Mira Jasmine ! What a wasted comeback. Jayram sleep walks through the role. Only good thing is Devika Sanjay. She will go a long way.

Akka Kuruvi is the  lesson that celebrated Majid Majidi would have learnt. The film making is worse the the one gets to see in amateur category on YouTube. If two Malayalam remake ere faithful to original, here Swamy brings his `touch' and ruins a superb Internationally lauded film. . Instead of being `official remake' it could have been an inspiration and saved Majid the embarrassment. However Seeman of NTMK after seeing the film says that this film is more poetic than Swamy's earlier films. A matter for intellectuals to debate.