Ghosty Tamil Movie Review
Cast-;
Kajal Aggarwal, K.S.Ravikumar, Yogibabu , Redin Kingsley, Thangadurai, Jagan, Oorvasi, Sathyan, Adukalam Na ren, Manobala, Motta Rajendran, Mayilsamy, Saminaathan, Devadarshini, Suresh Menon, Subbu Panchu Aruna chalam, Livingston, Santhana Bharathi, Mathan Babu, Radhika Sarathkumar ( Guest Appearance ) and others .
Crew-;
Written and Directed by : Kalyaan, , Produced by : Seed Pictures , Executive Producer : A Kumar , DOP : Jacob Rath inaraj , Music : Sam CS , Art Director – Gopi Anand , Editor : Vijay Velukutty , Stunt Director : Billa Jagan , P R O : Suresh Chandra , Rekha D’one , VFX Supervisor : V.Dinesh Kumar , Audio Label : Think Music , and others .
Story-;
The Tamil film industry is in need of fresh talent to revive the dearth of comedians, and director Kalyaan’s Ghost y falls short of being even a passable horror comedy. Despite featuring big names like Kajal Aggarwal, Yogi Babu, KS Ravikumar, and Urvashi, the movie fails to engage the audience due to its ineffective one-liners and absurd si tuations. The story revolves around Inspector Aarti, who accidentally kills an innocent youngster while in pursui t of a deadly gangster, Daas. Meanwhile, three aspiring filmmakers are introduced, whose lives are turned upside down after inhaling a dangerous liquid from a laboratory. What follows are a series of weird events that disrupt Aarti’s life, culminating in the reveal of a small girl who escaped from a mental asylum. The film’s poorly written plot proves that even a star-studded cast cannot save a badly written movie.
Most of the jokes fall flat, and the situational comedies lack realism. Although the story has potential with the ad dition of the small girl as a surprise element, the absence of any genuine scare factor makes the film fall short of being a horror thriller. The actors’ performances also disappoint, as most of the emotions appear forced, making it challenging to connect with the movie’s world. However, the background score does uplift certain sequences. Still, the staging comes off as amateurish and fails to engage the audience.Overall, Ghosty is another Tamil film t hat fails to do justice to the horror-comedy genre, and it’s high time the industry realises the need for fresh tale nt to revive the genre.
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Movie Review-;
Aarthi (heroine) a police Inspector. Her ultimate goal is to find and arrest an accused named Daas who escaped from her father’s custody 20 years back. In order to resolve the case, she is in search of the accused and wants to put him back in jail to do justice to her father’s remembrance. She takes over the case in her hand and she is desp erately in search of him. During this travel, a shootout happens but Aarthi shoots and kills another person think ing it was Daas, and commits a blunder. But after that, she manages to hide her mistake without affecting her job or the interrogation of the Dass case.
In the second half of the film, Aarthi is facing a bad occult presence at her home. How she tackles it and her eff orts to find and arrest Dass forms the rest of the story.Let me try to make sense of this convoluted mess of a scr eenplay. Let me try… Police officer Arthi (Kajal Aggarwal) is facing suspension because she behaves weirdly. She is disturbed by aspiring filmmakers Yogi Babu, Jegan and Redin Kingsley. Let’s leave this angle for now. Then, we have a random flashback where Arthi and her fellow officers — played by Sathyan and Urvashi — are out to arre st Das (KS Ravikumar), who has escaped from prison.
We learn that Arthi’s father was the one who put Das behind bars. There are two oaths taken that day. One, Ar thi asserts that she will arrest him again, and two, Das will kill her dad’s colleagues. Once again, let’s leave this an gle for now. Arthi is also disturbed by an eerie doll, which randomly finds its way into her house. Now, let’s leave this angle too, and yeah, there’s Jai in a cameo, playing the nalla aathma, who invariably becomes the saviour. Of course, a police officer needs a male saviour, even if it is from the other world.
The film is billed as a horror come dy, and it uses age-old tropes like randomly flickering lights, randomly found dead bodies, randomly grotesque dolls, randomly loud background score (Sam CS) and of course… randomly sh utting doors to establish the horror part. For the comedy part, watching sluggish set pieces with unflattering pa yoffs, and Kajal, painted with a clown face, trying to make us laugh out loud, only elicits a faint sigh that is a refle ction of our exasperation. But, points to the makers for constantly exhausting the audience with both its horror and comedy.
The ensemble cast, which boasts of talents like the late Mayilsamy, KS Ravikumar, Urvashi, Madhan Bob, and De vadharshini among others is criminally underutilised. The attempts to make us laugh fail miserably. For ins tance, in a scene when a nighty-clad Aadhi (Urvashi) huffs and puffs in to arrest an escaping Das, he asks her, “E na Un gala Rape Pana porangala?” And in an exorcism scene when Aadhi’s plan does not work well, Arthi says, “Order 2 litres of acid to pour on your face.” It is 2023. It was not funny in 1993, 2003, and 2013 either. I repeat, these ta steless and callous gags are unfunny.
They always were.Films like Ghosty remind us that it is high time we stop stigmatising mental hospitals and their patients. The irreverent stereotyping of people with mental health problems needs to be called out, especially wi th society trying to normalise such conversations. More importantly, it is just lazy writing to pluck these low-han ging fruits and still just make shoddy jokes around such sensitive topics. Responsible filmmaking, adequate res e arch and situational awareness is the need of the hour. The film is just a glossy 2-hour product of incoherent and lethargic writing.
Apart from Kajal’s charming screen presence, there is very little that goes her way in Ghosty. In a passing mom ent, Yogi Babu’s character comments about their potential heroine not having a proper lipsync. And watching Ghosty, this joke just hits too close to home. Walking out of Ghosty, which decided to portray most of its cha rac ters as fools, I wondered if the makers assumed its audience to be one too. Sexual Reference , No Nudity No Vio lence Some emotional scenes Action Comedy Horror Uses of Guns .
This IS MY Personal Review So Please Go And Watch The Movie In Theaters Only
Written By- T.H.PRASAD -B4U-Ratting-3 /5
