Diary Tamil Movie Review
Cast-;
Arulnithi , Pavitra , Aadukalam Kishore , Jayaprakash , ShaRa , Thanigai , Dhanam , Ron Ethan Yohann and Others.
Crew-;
Written & Directer – Innasi Pandiyan , Produced – S Kathiresan , Co-Producer -Sekar Babu , Music – Ron Ethan Yohann , Director of Photography – Aravinnd Singh , Editor – SP Raja Sethupathi , Art Director – Raju.P , Action Director – Pradeep Dinesh , Choreography – SriKrish & VijiSatish , Costume Designer – Meenakshi Shreedharan
Lyrics – Gnanakaravel , Production Executive – Mohan K , Audiography – Suren.G , Sound Design – S.Alagiak oo than Suren.G , VFX – Skyhigh VFX Studio, Accel Media & Raymax Studios , DI – Infinity Media , Publicity Desig ner- Prath ool NT , Stills – Amir , PRO – Suresh Chandra, Rekha – D’One , Banner – Five Star Creations LLP , Audio – “Hariharan Music”, Released – Red Giant Movies – etc.
Story-;
Varadhan Annadurai (Arunithi) is a new cop in town. He gets to handle a cold-blooded case and that takes him to Ooty. He has to work with colleague Pavithra (Pavithra Marimuthu). As he starts digging and investigating the case further, he is led to a bus that is travelling from Ooty to Coimbatore. The investigation takes a different turn as something different keeps happening to each of them on the bus. What happens to them? Why are they on that bus? What brings all this together forms the crux of the story.
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Movie Review-;
Arulnithi’s Diary seems to be a film that was written backwards. It’s a thriller with many supernatural elements thrown in and it requires us to hold on to large pieces of information for a long time, only for them to make sense when the twists are revealed. But the issue with Diary isn’t just that it’s written around one or two major twists. There are many and they are directed towards us starting at the one-hour mark with a new revelation coming in every 10 minutes or so. At first you are amused that it has taken so long for these ideas to finally come together. By the third big revelation, it feels too co-incidental to feel real anymore. And by the fourth or fifth twist, you do n’t care anymore because anything can happen at any point in time. This film is directed by Innasi Pandiyan who has come up with a story that is very much intriguing. He really doesn’t get to the point but instead chooses to l ag through the use of poorly written comedy.
These scenes become nothing but a major speed breaker for the plot to go forward. The story picks the pace la ter in the first half and that’s when Diary gets more interesting. The film’s pre-interval premise is just bang-on. In the second half, the film is filled with many twists and turns – some are predictable. It is made very clear that Aru lnithi is picking up scripts that have a good scope to perform and prove his mettle. He delivered a great perform a nce and it is apt to the requirements of the film.This is generally the feeling that dilutes some of the striking ideas in Diary. My favourite among these is the concept of a haunted bus with a mysterious set of passengers travelli n g on the last bus out of Ooty. Each passenger has a history and a purpose, and this is made more interesting when it feels like a mix of genres within the bus itself with an investigation, a comedy, a romance and a horror movie be ing played all at once.
The supporting cast of this film has many young and small-time actors who are equally the highlight. Music and B GM by Ron Ethan Yohan pour soul into the film. The cinematography by Aravindd Singh is up to the mark. It is vi sually appealing. Individually, each of these elements feel too basic to actually make a difference. The comedy su bplot, for instance, is that of a man cracking one joke after another on his way to elope with his lover, the night b efore her wedding. On the other side is the drama of a young couple on the run after the girl’s MLA father se nds goons to kill them. Let’s take the case of this young couple to explain why we never feel anything for them. This is a couple whose plight is meant to be the emotional base for the whole film. They are young and earnest and they are on the run from a set of people who will surely murder them. But the second the couple starts op ening up th ey are also stupid enough to reveal that they’ve come with a big bag of gold, that too with the exact amount.
Now when the couple themselves are naive enough to risk their lives with this information, we don’t really care if they stay alive or not. On the whole, Diary is worth a watch. Debut director Innasi Pandiyan has offered every possible element in this thriller to impress the audience and entertain them. He could have avoided some silly c omedy scenes in the first half.This is generally the deal with every character in the film. With the format of the s creenplay obsessing over the next big twist, it forgets to place any kind of emphasis on bringing these characters alive. They should have felt real for us to care for them, but they are just doing their own thing without a care in the world for why they are doing them. And you feel this most in the excruciatingly long first hour, when the plot is set up. An under-training sub inspector (Arulnithi) randomly picks an unsolved case to investigate as his first a ssignment. He meets a cute police inspector, they fall in love, we get a basic AF love song and they also start in ve stigating before the actual plot kicks in with the haunted bus.
With random events such as a man stealing this officer’s car forced into the screenplay for these events to begin, there’s just too much silliness early on for us to take the film seriously. But when our defences are down and wh en the film willingly dumps any effort to stay logical, there is some fun to be had. One particular twist felt surpr isingly original even though you feel annoyed that they didn’t do more with the idea. It’s also a film that brings together too many different strands to make a larger point, making it feel overstuffed and tiring. With a little bit more care and a more careful choice of subplots, we wouldn’t need to wait for the twists alone to get to the poi nt. With loud and frustrating performances, silly dialogues and an overall hollowness in the way its written, Di ary isn’t quite the page-turner it could have so easily been. A film about a haunted bus travelling through the g hats at midnight needed to be far more fun than this.
This IS MY Personal Review So Please Go And Watch The Movie In Theaters Only
Written By- T.H.PRASAD -B4U-Ratting – 4 /5
