| Director:
Perarasu |
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Cast: Bharat, Kajal Agarwal, Khushboo, Biju Menon, Aishwaria,
Chitti Babu, Ravi Maria, Raj Kapur |
 With
an insipid script, scenes that have no logical continuity, sense
or sensibility; confused narration, and the waste of talented
actors, 'Pazhani' turns out to be a total fiasco.
It's Bharat's first full fledged action role, and the actor
makes a desperate, but futile attempt to play the action hero.
Spontaneous and natural otherwise, his boyish frame taking on
single handedly, a dozen or more armed hardened criminals , is a
bit too hard to digest. Added to that is the numerous,
unsuitable punch lines he's been given. The director should have
known the capabilities and limitations of his hero, or at least
should have tried to project him in a more convincing and
acceptable way.
Bharat plays Pazhani who at the
age of ten had been sentenced to fifteen years in jail for a
murder. Juvenile homes seem to have been unheard of here!.
Pazhani comes out of jail and changes his name to Vellaiah. Not
revealing his identity, he takes a job at the house of his
sister Karpagambal (Khushboo), who by now was married to Jeeva (Biju
Menon) a wealthy two- timing charlatan. How Pazhani came to know
of his sister's whereabouts is a mystery unexplained..Pazhani
takes on his detractors, foils their plans, and tries to set
things right for his sister. With the scenes of sibling bonding
lacking in depth, the sentiment factor too doesn't work out
here.
 Khushboo
goes about her role with earnest sincerity, unmindful of the
contradictions in it, and the silliness of some of the scenes.
But it's not so with Biju Menon, who understandably looks
confused, not quite sure if Jeeva is a bad man or a gullible
one. Aishwaria plays his mistress Durga., her character having
to talk a lot! Durga's hoarse voice puts you off after a while.
There is debutant Kajal for the love angle, cutting a pretty
picture, trying hard to lip sync her lines.
Keeping the names of places as
the title, and making dramatic cameo appearances in his films,
has been the trademark of director Perarasu. And he follows it
here too. The director who had begun promisingly enough with 'Tirupachi'
and 'Sivakasi', had taken a downward slide with his subsequent
films 'Thirupathi', 'Dharmapuri',and now 'Pazhani'!
Malini Mannath
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