Boomika Movie Review
Cast-;
Aishwarya Rajesh ,Madhuri MJ ,Ayaan Abhishek ,Surya Ganapathy ,Vidhu ,Pavel navageethan ,Avantika Vandanapu ,Ayaan Abhishek etc.
Crew-;
Cinematographer – Italy based Roberto Zazzara , Music – Prithvi Chandrasekhar, Editor – Anand Geraldin , Stunt – Don Ashok , Art – Mohan, Sound Mix – Raja Krishnan MR , Sound Design – Sync Cinema , Sync Sound Recordist – Thomas Kurian , Murals & 2D Animations – Manu Ananth & Shaaz Ahmed , Colorist – Balaji Gopal , Costumer – Jayalakshmi Sundaresan , Makeup – Vinod Sukumaran & Ram Babu , VFX – iGene , VFX Advisor – Deva Sathya , PRO – Suresh Chandra & Rekha , Publicity Designs – Design Point , Production Controller – D Ramesh Kuchirayar , Marketing Head – Senthil Murugan , Associate Producer – Pavan Narendra , Executive Producer – M Ashok Narayanan , Co-Producers – Kal Raman, S. Somasegar, Kalyan Subramaniam etc .
Story-;
Boomika begins with an accident that happens near Nagapattinam. A man is speaking to his pregnant wife over ph one when boom, a truck hits his car and he dies. The action then shifts to Pudhumandhu village in Ooty, wh ere we are introduced to the principal players. Gautham (Vidhu) is at the hill station with his psychologist wife Sam yuktha (Aishwarya Rajesh) and son Sidhu to begin work on a real-estate project for a minister. They are jo ned by his friend Gayathri (Surya Ganapathy), an architect who Gautham has invited to help out with his project, and Arthi (Madhuri), his sister. They go to his palatial mansion in a remote estate, where, very soon, eerie things begin to happen. Like, dead people start texting them, a mobile phone works without a battery, a perfectly wo rking car refuses to start, wild dogs attack them and so on. What’s happening around them?
Who’s the mysterious person texting them from the great beyond? And what do they want? Samyuktha’s (Aish warya Rajesh) husband Gautham (Vidhu) acquires a contract to build a township villa in an abandoned forest ar ea. Gautham takes the help of his close friend Gayathri (Surya Ganapathy), an architect, to plan the const ruc ti on. Gautham, Samyuktha, Gayathri, Aditi (Gautham’s sister – Madhuri) visit the guest house in the forest area to plan the construction. However, they start to experience several paranormal activities in the guest house which leaves them shocked and terrified. Slowly, they unravel the mystery behind the forest. Why did these lead cha racters experience the paranormal activity in the guest house and what is their fate towards the end? Watch the film to know! The movie will revolve around some environment theme which is packed with horror, thrill, and full of interesting twists and turns.
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Movie Review-;
Samyuktha’s (Aishwarya Rajesh) husband Gautham (Vidhu) acquires a contract to build a township villa in an abandoned forest area. Gautham takes the help of his close friend Gayathri (Surya Ganapathy), an architect, to plan the construction. Gautham, Samyuktha, Gayathri, Aditi (Gautham’s sister – Madhuri) visit the guest house in the forest area to plan the construction. However, they start to experience several paranormal activities in the guest house which leaves them shocked and terrified. Slowly, they unravel the mystery behind the forest. Why did these lead characters experience the paranormal activity in the guest house and what is their fate towards the end? Watch the film to know! More than a horror thriller, Boomika is an eco-fable that isn’t coy about its in-your-face messaging — be nice to Mother Earth or else…. Rathindran Prasad is so fixated with delivering this message that he stumbles in the storytelling. The film is elegantly shot (the cinematographer Roberto Zazzara frames the action cleanly) and the production design feels chic.
But while there is stateliness in the visuals, the narrative is anything but that. One reason for this is that the wri ting of the characters is too simplistic and one-note — a level-headed person, a modern young woman, a scaredy-cat, a devious man, a suspicious-looking help…. Naturally, the performances hardly register. They all feel very mu ch functional, nothing more nothing else. In fact, you even wonder what drew the usually reliable Aishwarya Ra jesh to a role that is quite generic.Aishwarya Rajesh as Samyuktha delivers a neat and measured performance and the talented actress garners attention once again with her knack for unique selection of scripts. Debutants Vidhu and Surya Ganapathy do justice to their roles, while Madhuri’s performance and character look exagge rated and overdone. Avantika Vandanapu is a revelation. It is not an easy task to play an autistic child, but the young talent has done a pretty impressive job. Pavel Navageethan happens to be the show-stealer among the lot.
The dialect and body language that he brings in through his character add more authenticity to the story’s ba ckdrop. Other actors are just about okay.Boomika is well-intentioned and it does fair justice in conveying the importance of nature and the environment. Right from the first scene, Rathindran prepares us for a ride that will be filled with several elements of nature. The dialogues on nature and man’s greed stand out, leaving an impact. The screenplay is quite interestingly packed until the midpoint after which the pace and engagement dip by ma rgins. The scenes that lead to the tension in the first half are well executed. The theories about relating a human body to that of the earth make us understand the topic much more, in-depth.The film is also overly dependent on its score to make us feel. Prithvi Chandrashekar’s insistent score tries too hard to instil fear in us; in fact, even be fore we are shown something thrilling, the music begins to foreshadow it robbing the element of surprise from the scenes.
It keeps throwing fancy stuff like Gaia Hypothesis and PT Extinction, and while these are interesting at a con ceptual level, we never find the scenes as involving because the characters seem distant. And after a point, it begins to resemble a feature-length PSA on environmental conservation.Boomika is technically outstanding. Roberto Zazzara’s visuals are brilliant, setting the right kind of mood. Be it capturing the scenic beauty of the hills or setting an eerie mood for the paranormal sequences, Roberto does an excellent job. Prithvi Chandrase khar’s background music uplifts the intensity of the sequences quite well. Due credits to the sound department for their quality of work. The VFX does look tacky, though. With more detailing to logic and an engagingly pa cked screenplay, Boomika could’ve delivered a solid impact.On the flipside, logic takes a backseat in a few important moments and had that been handled with more detailing, the film would’ve looked complete.
The lead characters never go wrong in any of their assumptions and they get most of the things right in their fir st-ever go and this, in a way, lacks believability. Also, the final revelations looked a bit hurried. Despite having a traumatic experience in the forest, Gautham getting back to it again seems force-fitted. Though treating this script with the elements of horror is interesting on paper, it doesn’t work the same way, visually – for example, the ghost sequence, in the end, falls flat without any impact. Director Rathindran tries to infuse a lot of concepts and theories into one single film and due to this overfeeding of information, one does not manage to hold the connection with the film.
This Is My Personal Review .So Please Watch The Movie at Home With Hole Family Tamil Premiere on Star Vijay on the 22nd of Aug at 3 pm.
Written By- T.H.PRASAD -B4U-Ratting – 4 /5
