Silence Tamil Movie Review
Cast-;
Anushka Shetty ,Madhavan ,Anjali Michael Madsen ,Shalini Pandey,Subbaraju ,Srinivas Avasarala etc.
Crew-;
Presents – krithiPrasad,PublicityDesigner – Anil & Bhanu,P R O Nikil Murugan,Cheography – Viswa Ragh u,Vis wa Turlapati,Lyrics – Kruakaran ,Stunts – AlexTerzieff,Keith cox,Sound Designer – Vijay Rathinam,Ba ckgr oun dscore – Girish Gopalakrishnan,Editor –Prawinpudi,Co Producer – Vivek kuchibhotla,Costume Designer –Neera jakona ,Art- Chad Buffet,Directer – Hemant Madhukar,Producer-Kona Venkat,TG Vishwa Prasad,Written- Mani Seiyon (Tamil dialogues),Screenplay-Kona Venkat,Story-Hemant Madhukar,Music Score – Girishh G.Soundtrack -Gopi Sundar,Vishwajeet Jaykar,Cinematography – Shaneil Deo,Editer -Prawin Pudi,Production -company Kona Film Corporation,People Media Factory,Distributer -mazon Prime Video,Release date – 2 October 2020 ,Run ing time -125 minutes etc.
Story-;
Sakshi (Anushka), a deaf and dumb artist is engaged to a world class cello player Anthony Gonsalves (Madha van). They both go in search of a painting in the haunted house. Anthony is murdered in the haunted villa, leaving Sakshi the witness. Maha (Anjali) and Richard (Captain of the police force) are officers assigned to the case. It is revealed that multiple girls had gone missing in Seattle and the police were already under scrutiny. Anthony’s death increased public’s dissatisfaction with the police. Maha questions Sakshi regarding Anthony. It is revealed that Sonali(Shalini Pandey), Sakshi’s best friend is also missing. Sakshi recounts her meeting with Anthony. She grew up in an orphanage in Sequim where she met her best friend Sonali. One day, she receives a delivery. The envelope contains some document related to Sakshi’s travel to Seattle.
Sonali is upset but eventually comes around and makes Sakshi promise to bring her to Seattle once she’s settled down. Soon, Sakshi arrives in Seattle and is employed at an Art gallery. There, she meets a colleague, Vivek. One day, Anthony arrives as the guest of honour at the gallery to officiate an art exhibition. There, Anthony meets Sa kshi and is impressed with her work. He donates one million dollars to her orphanage and invites her to his con cert. Sakshi attends the concert and is mesmerised by his music. After the concert, Sakshi agrees to teach Anth ony painting while he teaches her music. Sonali also moves to Seattle to be with Sakshi. Anthony and Sakshi’s friendship blossoms as they get to know each other better. They eventually fall in love and get engaged. 2 days later, Sonali goes missing.One day, Sakshi voluntarily undertakes the task of acquiring the painting of Josephine Wood from the haunted house.
Maha goes to the orphanage in Sequim to further investigate Sonali’s disappearance, suspecting that it’s linked to Anthony’s death. It is revealed that Sonali is very possessive over Sakshi. Sakshi was Sonali’s only friend. Son ali has even been arrested previously for stabbing someone. Maha begins to suspect Sonali and fears that Sonali could be a threat to Sakshi’s life. Maha goes over to Sakshi’s house and crosses path with a hooded male. Maha discharges her weapon but the hooded guy escapes unscathed.The police search Woodside Villa again, hoping to discover evidence against Sonali. Tom (police officer) finds a key belonging to Anthony. He brings the key to Ric hard. Richard takes the key from Tom and kills Tom. Maha notices Richard’s blazer button next to Tom’s corpse and realises Richard is involved. She breaks into Richard’s office and discovers the key Tom found.
She trails Richard and follows him to a Farmhouse in the outskirts Of Seattle. She realises that the Farmhouse belongs to Anthony and is undocumented. Richard searches for the hard disk to the CCTV footage and gets an gry when he realises it’s gone. He then leaves the Farmhouse.The story changes to Vivek’s POV here. Vivek and Sakshi became good friends after she joined the Art gallery. When Sonali arrives at Seattle, she tries to isolate Sakshi from Vivek. Vivek is hurt but Sakshi explains that Sonali is just a different character. Once when Sonali and Sakshi were baristas, a customer asks out Sakshi. Sonali insists that he is a flirt and says that she will prove it. Sonali, Sakshi and the customer go out one day and Sonali hits on the customer. The customer too puts his hand on Sonali’s thighs under the table.
Sonali brings his hand up and stabs his hand with a fork. Sonali got sentenced to a month jail due to that. Vivek decides to give Sonali a chance and they soon began to get along. After some nudging from Sakshi, Vivek pro posed to Sonali. Later on, when Anthony proposes to Sakshi, Sonali is visibly displeased. One day after Anthony’s concert, his fans greet him. Some kiss him and even gave him their phone number. Sonali tries to convince Sakshi that Anthony is a flirt and not to trust him but Sakshi does not buy it. Sonali texts Anthony flirtatiously to prove a point. Anthony dismisses her at first but eventually agrees to meet her. Sakshi assures Sonali that Anthony is probably just trying to teach her a lesson. Sonali goes to meet Anthony and gets in his car. Sakshi follows them behind in her own car. Anthony leads Sonali to the Farmhouse.
Sakshi waits outside. She sees them having wine together and slowly get intimate. Suddenly, Anthony grabs a bat and hits Sonali across the head. Sonali dies. Richard arrives at the scene and helps Anthony clean up the me ss. Sakshi flees the scene unnoticed and tells Vivek what happened. Sakshi and Vivek conspire to get their reve nge on Anthony. They go to the police station to report Anthony but see Richard there. Sakshi informs Anthony that Sonali is missing. Anthony brings Sakshi to Richard to file a missing persons report. There, Sakshi chances up on the missing persons report of the girl who gave Anthony her number. Sakshi does her own research and realis es that the dates of girls going missing in Seattle coincides with the dates of Anthony’s concerts. Sakshi and Vi vek plan to kill Anthony. Sakshi brings Anthony to Woodside villa under the pretext of finding a painting. Vivek restraints Anthony and inquires about Sonali.
It is revealed that Anthony was married 2 years earlier. One day, while in bed, Anthony’s wife utters the wrong name. Anthony suspects her and later find out she’s cheating on him. Anthony kills her lover and his wife with Richard guarding the door. He then proceeds to kill Richard’s wife who was also having an affair. Subsequently, he begins to kill all unfaithful girls who hit on him. Sakshi gets angry and hits Anthony, killing him.Vivek finds out that the Farmhouse has a CCTV feed and steals the footage. He deletes all traces of Sakshi ever being in the Far mhouse and plans to give the footage to the FBI to get Richard arrested. Richard kidnaps Vivek and asks Sakshi for the footage. Richard tries to kill Sakshi and Vivek but Maha comes to the rescue thanks to the GPS tracker she placed on Richard’s car. Richard admits to all his crimes of assisting Anthony and Anothony’s murder case was closed saying the ghost murdered him.
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Movie Review-;
It all begins when Sakshi takes Anthony to a haunted home in Seattle. She goes to the haunted home to seek out a classic portray. The home in query has seen a couple killed brutally in 1972. The deaths are designed to make us imagine that this is, certainly, the doings of the satan. And reduce to 2019, we additionally discover Anthony crucified to a wall within the basement in the identical method of the home’s earlier occupants. The plot thick ens, when Sakshi one way or the other miraculously escapes the clutches of loss of life and makes a run for her life. Now, she ought to be capable to settle the talk concerning the presence of a ghost in the home. However, she is deaf and mute and that makes police officer Richard Dawkins (Michael Madsen) snap: “Just what I need. A mute for a witness.” Firstly, that’s insensitive and never cool in any respect. And secondly, Richard knew Sakshi personally even earlier than this incident and meaning he should have been conscious of her situation as nicely.
Indian films set abroad, featuring at least a handful of foreign actors, are already notorious for the way they ali enate Indian viewers. The reasons for this are many, and it begins with language, which usually switches betw een English and the local Indian language, to ensure at least a few important dialogues get drowned out in the inability of one or more to perform in a foreign tongue. Then, there’s the context problem. When a film is set in god-knows-where, there’s no room for the audience to really connect with the people and the place, especially when there’s little the film does to explain the setting and the specificities of that place. And then, there’s the plot. Eventually, for a lot of Indian audiences who watch English films, there needs to be something the film ad dresses to get them to watch a film about Indians living abroad.
That’s the issue with this thriller. Things within the narration simply don’t add up. The gaping holes within the narrative, to place it like Maha (Anjali), disrespects the “experiences and intelligence” of the viewers. And the largest bummer is not a single actor behaves usually or brings in some originality to his or her efficiency. It ap pears like all of the actors had been perpetuating stereotypes, as an alternative of discovering a distinctive voice for his or her respective characters. For instance, Anjali’s Maha thinks swag is all about sporting fancy sun sha des. She doesn’t have a single high quality that conjures up respect or admiration for her character.
But Silence is so generic a film that you can find+replace the Telugu-ness of its lead characters with Punjabiness, Russianness or even Martianness, and you’d probably get the same film. In a sense, it’s like the writer sat up one day and said, “let’s make a B-grade Hollywood thriller, but let the leads speak in Telugu or Tamil or not.” And one other instance is using the “F” phrase. It appears author and producer Kona Venkat felt, on condition that Mic hael Madsen is taking part in an American cop and he has executed a few Tarantino motion pictures, he should use the “F” phrase even when there is no necessity for that. Take, for instance, the scene from “Old Cases”, which is episode four from season 1 of The Wire. Two cops take up a homicide case and methodically study the crime scene, making discoveries. And your complete dialog within the scene is stuffed with nothing however iterations of the “F” phrase. And it’s an iconic scene that may persist with the viewers for years to return. But, each time Mi chael Madsen makes use of that adjective, it feels so shallow, meaningless and misplaced.
Even then, a well-written thriller can be excused for a lot of things if, no matter how generic, it manages to “thr ill”. But Silence suffers from lack of focus, because it begins like a haunted house thriller. A man walks down to his basement to discover an elusive painting, and ends up crucified on a wall moments later. Decades pass, and the house remains untouched until a Colombian businessman rebuilds it, with several people working on it to bring it back to life. But hey, they didn’t once bother to go to the basement to see what really happened there, le aving the scary painting lying there for years together. Don’t bother, because the film is hardly about this house at all. It’s about a mute painter called Sakshi (Sakshi, like the witness, get it) played by Anushka Shetty, who wi tnesses her fiancé’s murder in the same house. How wonderful is the idea that the witness to a murder cannot speak? Apparently, it’s no big deal because Sakshi can lip-read, use sign language and also communicate deep feelings.
What about the other strand in the screenplay where we get a religious detective named Mahalakshmi (Anjali, trying really hard to roll her Rrrs) who is investigating this case amidst an already-serious case of women disa ppearing across Seattle? Well, you can’t really take her too seriously when her Captain is a man named Richard Dawkins (others call him ‘Dickens’), who is the unintentional spoof of every white cop we’ve ever seen in Hollyw ood.It is quite a task to stay invested in a film where the plot points are constructed merely for shock value, rat her than with any kind of coherence. Like a red herring that comes in the form of Sakshi’s friend. Her possessi ve ness is cited as the reason for her strange behavioural patterns, but the scenes that show us this aspect are socri ngeworthy and done in such a hurry that you hope they were going for comedy.
The performances of all of the actors are uninspiring as a result of the writing is so dull. It feels just like the ac tors had been within the movie for the paycheck however not as a result of they believed within the materials. Anuskha hardly makes an effort to promote the movie along with her efficiency. Maybe she should have realised midway by way of the manufacturing that the viewers wouldn’t purchase a variation of Bhaagamathie.With ter rible performances, especially by the foreign actors, and a couple of subplots that struggle to fit in, Silence is a film that leaves you speechless for all the wrong reasons. But, in all honesty, there is a film idea in there some where. Maybe write the part towards the end into a full-fledged film and name it “The League Of Extraordinary Cuckolds”, and that’s an original thriller idea I’d pay money to watch. This one is just a cold, lifeless corpse of a movie.
This IS MY Personal Review So Please Watch The Movie In Amazon Prime Video O T T Only
Written By- T.H.PRASAD -B4U-Ratting-3 /5
