Netrikann Tamil Movie Review
Cast-;
Rajinikanth ,Lakshmi,Saritha,Menaka,Vijayashanti,Goundamani,Sarath Babu,Thengai Srinivasan (Guest, appeara nce) ,Neelu etc.
Crew-;
Directer – S. P. Muthuraman ,Screenplay – K. Balachander,Story – Visu,Producer -Rajam Balachander, Cinema tography -Babu ,Editer – R. Vittal ,Music – Ilaiyaraaja ,Production company -Kavithalayaa Productions ,Distributer – Kavithalayaa Productions ,Release date – 15 August 1981 ,Running time – 149 minutes ,Country – India ,Language – Tamil ,Release On – Disney Plus Hotstar O T T Platform P R O -Suresh Chandra ,Rekha D.one etc.
Story-;
The story revolves around Chakravarthy (Older Rajini) who is a successful textile businessman in Coimbatore. He is a big womanizer (perhaps his only weakness) and picks up any woman he wants. Other characters being wife Meenakshi (Lakshmi), his son Santosh (also Rajini), and his daughter Sangeetha (Vijayashanthi). It doesn’t take long for Santosh to find his father’s provocative behavior and tries to mend his father’s ways. Radha (Saritha) gets introduced as a candidate for the PRO (Public Relations Officer) interview and eventually gets selected and is sent to Hong Kong for training. Chakravarthy unable to tolerate his son’s growing menace sets off to Hong Kong for a holiday. Here he meets Radha and at one point ends up raping her. Chakravarthy flies back to India where he is met with a number of changes which all point out to the new General Manager. This person turns out to be Radha who has joined with Santosh to teach Chakravarthy a lesson for life. How the duo succeeds in changing Chakravarthy’s behavior forms the crux of the story.
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Movie Review-;
Milind Rau’s Netrikann is about a blind woman Vs a serial killer. I’m inclined to make these statements at the outset because it has been my observation that many viewers (and some critics) who may accept leaps of logic in films led by men, don’t extend the same generosity to a film led by a woman star. The two are, of course, very different films beyond this connection, in terms of the plot, characterisation and finesse in execution. But to get to all this, we need to buy the premise. So yes, this is a film about a blind woman who hunts down a serial killer.Nayanthara living up to her ‘Lady Superstar’ tag and leading the pack, while Milind Rau gives her an almost baked platform enough to prove her point. The almost baked platform, of course. By the way, this is also a remake, so you know. But I won’t be as harsh as Narappa; Netrikann takes efforts to have its unique soul.not when the visual crescendo is at its peak. Take one when the villain is telling his back story because, by this time, you have already predicted it. Stop spoon-feeding.Nayanthara fans won’t even wait for this review to come out, and they have a treat too.
If you are not one of them and want an opinion, give it a shot with no expectations, you will come out happy. Netrikann means ‘the third eye’. The movie is adapted from the Korean movie ‘Blind’ which already has multiple versions across the globe. Sonam Kapoor is doing the Hindi version, by the way. So what does Nayanthara with Milind Rau add to this already told tale? Emotions!Rau, by this point, knows the fodder that creates a perfect masala film for his audience and how to equip a female superstar to make her save the men. A star of Nayantar a’s position, who is already called Lady Superstar, can only do justice to a part changing the dynamics for an indu stry or country as a whole, who have worshipped machismo on screen. She is blind, but also courageous. She doesn’t need a man to save her, but she is saving multiple. You go, team! I am up for this.Milind Rau writes Netrik ann as an ode to his Lady Superstar and equips her character with the best layers. She is an orphan who feels responsible for her brother’s death. On top of it, she is blind now and cannot have her CBI Job.
He creates a blank canvas to paint a new story and begins the dark phase of the film.Enters James (Ajmal Ame er), who is a pervert and has some weird kinks. Busting him down and saving the girls he has abducted becomes Durga’s mission. While the villain is written too one tone, and all he got is s*xualising every woman possible, he gets nothing more. Of course, there is humour too. At a point where Durga acts like she can see, it is fun to watch.But the film falls prey to predictable nature. We know the badman is a pervert, and circumstances have multiplied the monster inside him. The makers give a predictable flashback, and that kills the essence. We know by this point, don’t spoon feed. Likewise, when the chases happen, which are choreographed quite nicely, why is there no one around? It’s a city and also pre-COVID era, where are the people?A leading actor as a blind Durga saving her brother Gautham from a serial killer with her sharp mind might look easy to think for a writer, but for a producer to invest and team to expect that it will bring the same applause as a man saving the day brings is noteworthy.
Nayanthara is here to prove her power as a bankable star, and she manages to do that quite nicely.The blind act looks a bit shaken when it begins, but once the film progresses, Nayanthara does too. Also, watch out for her when she plays a blind girl acting that she can see, skilfully done.Ajmal Ameer gets to play the pervert, and he looks one (a compliment). But when he has to do the same thing 10 times, it does get repetitive. But Ajmal mana ges to create the much needed spooky vibe.Manikandan, who plays Manikandan is an instantly likable character and the film deserves him. His arc from being a ridiculed officer to the most respected deserved more meat, thou gh.Milind Rau’s focus throughout is, of course, his muse Nayanthara. He uses the staple technique to create the thrills of the thriller and does an excellent job at it. One complaint, though, in a chase sequence when Gautham tells Durga to show her surrounding on a video call, and he notices the killer sitting in front, The music of the film makes little to no sense due to how it is placed. Crooned by Sid Sriram in his melodious voice, the songs deserve better.
Nayanthara plays Durga, a CBI officer who loses her eyesight and her adoptive brother in a car accident, and blames herself for it. Over the course of a song, she learns Braille, gets a service dog called Kanna (an adorable Labrador), and slowly picks up the shattered pieces of her life. Parallely, a psychopath (Ajmal Ameer) is abdu cting and sexually assaulting women but the police have no clue about the case. Durga and the psychopath have a chance encounter and she suspects that something is deeply wrong.Unlike several films that make the big reveal about the serial killer’s identity at the end, Netrikann shows us his face a few minutes into the film. This approacha ccompl ishes two things — one, the director does away with the pressure to ‘wow’ the audience with a killer they never suspected (most times, the ‘surprise’ falls flat because it is clumsy and wholly unconvincing); and two, the audience is hooked into a straightforward cat and mouse game without unnecessary red herrings in the plot. The emphasis is not on who the killer is but how he will be caught.There are a few other glaring loo pholes in the plot too. The complete absence of the media’s interest in this sensational story, for instance.
And nobody is saying that the police in India is exceedingly competent, but would they be such big duffers that when they have a suspect whom they think has abducted women, they would inject him with truth serum (inad missible as evidence anyway) instead of searching the premises of his home and other places he frequents? The psychopath’s MO (method of operation) is also unclear. Does he randomly pick up women or is it through his profession (Redin Kingsley is hilarious)?Despite the bland background story of Durga as an orphan, Nayanthara carries the film on her shoulders. To Milind’s credit, though he gives her a superstar introductory scene and a goddess’s name, Durga isn’t all-knowing and makes quite a few mistakes. The stumbles (literal and metaphorical) give us a vulnerable hero, someone we hope will survive. As a result, the close shaves that Durga has with the serial killer make us care. The first half is mostly taut, and is helped immensely by Manikandan’s presence as an SI (he goes by his real name for the role) who has goofed up a case and is looking for redemption. Sacchin Nachiappan, who plays Gowtham, an irritable delivery boy, also does a good job.
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Written By- T.H.PRASAD -B4U-Ratting-4 /5
