Director: Narayan Nagendra Rao
In the very
beginning of the movie, an aspiring filmmaker gets money from a big-shot under
one condition that he makes his aide (an old hefty guy) the hero of the film.
Rejecting the offer, the protagonist comes to a coffee shop from where the
story kicks off. At the end of the 2 hours long movie, I felt, with great
potential to be the decade’s best unintentional comedy, had the film-maker went on
to make the film with that aide, the director of Maali Pozhuthin Mayakathile
would have spared us from the insipid tale of romance. For a film that is set
in CCD where one would at least expect a cappuccino, the director takes a bean
that is neither roasted nor dried out, brews it with rain water that floods the
screen and serves with a teaspoon of salt.
Sometimes we
make few decisions based on certain information. Many a times, they backfire;
one such being my decision to watch Maalai Pozhudin Mayakathiley. I could go on
blotting this page with negativity about the movie but I didn’t choose this
film to do precisely that. There were concrete reasons that drew me to the
silver screen. The symphony of the scintillating tracks by Achu & textbook
beauty shoots of Gopi that looked glamorous in the teasers did appease the
peeved mind. Though they occupy 1/4th of the time space, song
sequences alone can never make a poorly made film tolerable.
Maalai Pozhudin Mayakathiley is another example
that unique concept alone can never carry a film to the podium; in this case
not even to the cafeteria of the stadium.
This review was written for Wogma
This review was written for Wogma
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