Srinivasan's Pachamarathanal-An Honest Review
Pachamarathanalil
Sachidanandan (Sreenivasan) is a renowned cartoonist who leads a peaceful life with his beautiful wife Anu (Padmapriya) and a bubbly daughter Sneha (Ahina). When Sneha disappears midway through a commercial shoot, Circle Inspector Venkitesh (Nasar) gets busy hunting for clues, and unearths a few long buried skeletons from the family closet.
Pachamarathanalil might initially strike you as a kids’ flick, all loud and noisy. An odd half an hour later, it suddenly does a revamping of its background score into a spooky one and claims to be a thriller mystery.
Is Pachamarathanalil inspired from the Ben Affleck directed Gone Baby Gone?. Unlike the Hollywood flick, the missing-baby-mystery here refuses to gape at facts straight, and since it moves about with its eyes snapped shut, misses out on internal logic and a critical sense of judgment.
The film’s major weakness lies in its transparency more than in its implementation.
On screen though, Sreenivasan looks discomfited and totally embarrassed, and rigidly maintains a strange grimace throughout. Given the predicament that he has cornered himself into, even the smirk that he manages to come up with, should be a surprise. Padmapriya is infinitely better; and copes with the catastrophe. She diligently makes do with whatever is on offer and doesn’t make much of a fuss.
On the one hand there is an increasing number of pointless twists and turns and on the other a sharp decrease in the film’s vitality. By the climax, the last leftovers of mystery and credibility have been so efficiently ruined that there’s no genuine tension at all.
Pachamarathanalil
Sachidanandan (Sreenivasan) is a renowned cartoonist who leads a peaceful life with his beautiful wife Anu (Padmapriya) and a bubbly daughter Sneha (Ahina). When Sneha disappears midway through a commercial shoot, Circle Inspector Venkitesh (Nasar) gets busy hunting for clues, and unearths a few long buried skeletons from the family closet.
Pachamarathanalil might initially strike you as a kids’ flick, all loud and noisy. An odd half an hour later, it suddenly does a revamping of its background score into a spooky one and claims to be a thriller mystery.
Is Pachamarathanalil inspired from the Ben Affleck directed Gone Baby Gone?. Unlike the Hollywood flick, the missing-baby-mystery here refuses to gape at facts straight, and since it moves about with its eyes snapped shut, misses out on internal logic and a critical sense of judgment.
The film’s major weakness lies in its transparency more than in its implementation.
On screen though, Sreenivasan looks discomfited and totally embarrassed, and rigidly maintains a strange grimace throughout. Given the predicament that he has cornered himself into, even the smirk that he manages to come up with, should be a surprise. Padmapriya is infinitely better; and copes with the catastrophe. She diligently makes do with whatever is on offer and doesn’t make much of a fuss.
On the one hand there is an increasing number of pointless twists and turns and on the other a sharp decrease in the film’s vitality. By the climax, the last leftovers of mystery and credibility have been so efficiently ruined that there’s no genuine tension at all.
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