Where is The Pulp?? :O - Review of the film 'abhiyum naanum'

DEAR uppu chappu - Mr. and Mrs. SALT AND PEPPER - Where did you sleep last night? For you were definitely not available in Radhamohan's damned script. Abhiyum Naanum is a wannabe feel good semi-bio pic which ends up looking like a substandard documentary.A screenplay which (with dreadful results) goes against the basic rule of having at least one twist in the story line is coupled with extremely ordinary performances to give Abhiyum Naanum. Here is the review of what has to be one of the worst tamil films to have hit the screens in recent times.

The story(?) Abhiyum Naanum is the simplest of all two-liners. Here it goes...

"ONCE THERE LIVED A HAPPY FAMILY. THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER"

No, the author of this article is not against feel good family films with a happy ending. He watched HUM AAPKE HAIN KAUN thrice in theatre. But even Hum Aapke Hain Kaun had some thing going in the story. It had a twist. It at least had fifteen minutes of sad scenes after Renuka Sahane's death. Why H.A.H.K. alone? Every other feel good film has to have some moments of anxiety unless it is an out and out rib-tickler, which Abhiyum Naanum is absofuckinlutely NOT.
Only 50% of the dialogues are intended to be humorous and only one fourth of these end up making us smile (forget laughing).

Everyone is miscast. Prakash Raj- the producer- definitely knew of his fate while the film was being made, which results in him looking sad through out the film. Aishwarya D/o Lakshmi, who has in the past acted in highly acclaimed characters like 'sound' Sarojakka in AARU, is the most irritating thing on screen. Trisha is there just for the sake of it. Everybody else is absolutely obnoxious- So obnoxious that the stink sometimes comes out of the screen into the theatre. (Its surely not the theatres fault because the place where I watched this film happens to be the First seven-star cinema hall in Chennai).

The music, art direction and camera - the three things which need to be very innovative and of superior quality when dealing with dry scripts like these, are a huge disappointment. There are a plenty of moments when we wonder if its the same team which made Mozhi - which was ranked number 2 in Krish kings list of best tamil films of 2007.The obvious problem is that Viji who penned the ultra-funny dialogues of Mozhi is not the one incharge of dialogues for this film and hence we are forced to sit through 2 and a half hours of shit-log which can hardly be laughed at.

The Punjabi element,the story of Joginder Singh, his profession,the family he adopts and rest of the crap tale is disturbingly boring and out of place. The whole film leaves us with just one question. "What was Radhamohan trying to do???"

Mudinja answer pannunga pa. Ennala mudilla.