PACHI TAMIL MOVIE REVIEW
Gayatri, Preethi Nedumaran, Dev Ramnath, Jana and Mahesh go on a trucking trip into the dense forest of Kollimalai. Balasaravanan, a member of the tribal community, accompanies them to guide them. On their way there is a sign saying “This is a restricted area” and the friends try to enter the area when they see it. Balasaravanan stops them and warns them that it is a dangerous place. Despite his warning, the friends enter the place and encounter many unexpected horrors.
Knowing that this is Pachi’s act, Balasaravanan tries to save at least the remaining people, is he successful? Who is Pachi? The story of the film tells the fans howling.
Horror films almost always seem to take place at night. But this episode, which keeps the audience in suspense for two hours, based entirely on daytime events, has become a treat for horror fans after many years.
Gayatri, Preethi Nedumaran, Dev Ramnath, Jana and Mahesh, who are playing the lead roles in the film, have acted in such a way as to transmit their sense of dread to the audience. Their journey of fearlessly traveling deep into the dense forest gives the fans a tick…tick…experience.
Balasaravanan has once again proved that he can make a mark in character roles beyond comedy roles. Playing a realistic role as a tribal, he has acted emotionally in the scenes where he struggles to hold back the men traveling towards danger. Knowing that there is danger, Balasaravanan makes viewers pray that he will somehow escape as he risks his life to save those who have trusted him. To that extent, his Velanthi performance and the face of his daughter waiting for him are strongly imprinted in the minds of the fans.
The way Bachi designed the character, the make-up of the character and the way the character was portrayed on screen set the film apart from other horror films.
Cinematographer Parthiban grabs the audience’s attention by showing grandeur on screen in the very opening sequence that introduces the plot. Movie watchers are sure which place is this? They will ask that, so much so that he has searched for new locations and shot them. His camera angles that keep the audience in awe especially with the daytime scenes add a lot of strength to the film.
Music composer Rajesh Murugesan has composed the music in competition with the cinematographer. He has given life to the hills, clouds and dense forests shown at the beginning of the film with his song and has made the audience excited with the background music.
Cinematographer Ignatius Ashwin, who avoids the usual style followed by horror films, has correctly predicted the amount of expectation and fear that the audience will have with the character of Bachi. Her cinematography inspires fear and makes fans celebrate the character of Bachi.
Art director Kumar Gangappan, who applied make-up to the character of Bachi, and sound design, the film impresses the fans technically.
Ramachandran P, who has written and directed, has designed the screenplay and visuals by knowing the pulse of the fans. Director Balachandran, who has handled the screenplay in such a way that it is affected by English films like ‘Wrong Turn’, has performed horror magic on the screen by adapting many of the ancient ghost and paranormal stories we have heard to the current times.
In spite of Balasaravan’s warning, the tension and fear of the characters when a crowd tells them inside, the director has designed the horror scenes in such a way as to infect the viewers.
Released as a complete horror experience after many years in Tamil cinema, this ‘Pechi’ will surely make the fans talk.
All in all, this ‘talk’ is not a ghost, but it scares the fans more than a ghost.
MOVIE RATING : 3.5/5
MOVIE REVIEW BY B4U MEDIA TEAM
