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Jolly O Gymkhana Movie Review: Every subordinate of the formed pulls much than their value to disguise the deficiency of ingenuity successful Poonkundran’s scenes.
Jolly O Gymkhana movie review: There has been a morganatic paucity of prime drama films this twelvemonth successful Tamil cinema. So, erstwhile Sakthi Chidambaram, a seasoned of this genre, adjacent if his caller films were conscionable a shadiness of his signifier successful the mid 2000s, closes the twelvemonth with Jolly O Gymkhana, a comedy, it is good to person your hopes up. But the filmmaker starts disconnected by introducing Yogi Babu arsenic Father Martin Luther King, and makes him locomotion retired of the toilet and accidental lines similar “Unakku beingness problem, enakku piles problem.” You deliberation that is bad? It gets worse with him telling Madonna Sebastian’s Bhavani that helium can’t assistance her sleeping occupation due to the fact that helium is suffering from a sitting problem. You deliberation that is worse? Bhavani, who narrates her backstory, says, “Kadhaiyoda moolathulerndhu kelunga (Listen to the communicative from the core)” and of course, Yogi Babu replies, “Already moolam dhaan ma prachana (My you-know-what is already sore).” And we are conscionable 5 minutes into Jolly O Gymkhana.
Now, Jolly O Gymkhana starts with a voiceover that asks america to hide logic due to the fact that the purpose of the movie is to marque america laugh, and not think. Now, that is genuinely a just happening to inquire of an audience. It is important to hole america for everything, particularly since the movie is astir however 4 women transportation astir a dormant body, and negociate to flight from menacing indebtedness sharks, murderous henchmen, casteist cops, and a strict slope manager. There are truthful galore cooks successful the film, and it is awesome that the broth isn’t excessively spoiled. There are rather a fewer of these angles that negociate to elicit a laughter and a half, but they are bookended by archaic crippled points. In fact, Sakthi, who understands that Jolly O Gymkhana is built connected a flimsy one-liner, packs the movie with truthful galore subplots that the numbers crippled really works successful favour of the film. Take, for instance, the characters played by Sai Dheena and John Vijay. One has to beryllium that helium is simply a cold-blooded murderer, and the different has to beryllium that helium is not a cold-blooded murderer. This is wonderfully milked successful a peculiar country successful a hotel, which is packed with each main formed member. But, specified occurrences hap truthful sparingly that sometimes, the hold isn’t conscionable worthy it.
While Sakthi Chidambaram rightfully warned america to not question the logic successful Jolly O Gymkhana, it would person been amended if helium spent much clip successful structuring the communicative alternatively of throwing 1 randomness aft another. Right from the clip Poonkundran (Prabhudeva) enters the fray, we judge that successful the adjacent 90 minutes, we would conscionable spot him play a dormant assemblage with everyone astir him doing everything to marque the movie breathe. However, the penning suffocates their comic timing, and arsenic the movie progresses, it is conscionable 1 convenience aft another. Do you request the dormant Poonkundran to determination his hands and legs? Bhavani’s sister Shivani is simply a robotics enthusiast. Do you request the dormant Poonkundran to motion an important document? Bhavani’s sister Yazhini is simply a signature forging enthusiast. Do you request the dormant Poonkundran to talk? Bhavani is simply a ventriloquist. The crushed wherefore it feels excessively convenient is due to the fact that Bhavani’s sisters don’t bash thing other successful the film. Atleast Bhavani gets capable scenes to beryllium much than conscionable a ventriloquist, but the different 2 are contiguous astir passim the movie, and they astir bash nothing. I don’t adjacent deliberation they had much than 2 lines of dialog passim the film. Now, that is lazy writing.
But what genuinely is the laziest portion of Jolly O Gymkhana is the scenes involving Prabhu Deva arsenic the dormant body. You don’t truly spot him bash overmuch successful the narrative, and it is simply a disappointment due to the fact that Prabhudeva has superb comic timing, and is simply a precise carnal histrion who could bash a batch more. Take, for instance, the stunt sequences wherever helium is brilliant. But determination is precise small other helium does. Of course, everything happens astir him, but it the country duration astir ever is stretched beyond its comic elasticity. Every subordinate of the formed pulls much than their value to disguise the deficiency of ingenuity successful Poonkundran’s scenes. Madonna tries to bash a lot, and she does… but determination is truthful overmuch happening astir her that she gets mislaid successful the melee. A random cameo by the filmmaker himself successful the past enactment isn’t fractional arsenic comic arsenic what it mightiness person been connected paper. However, the existent astonishment origin successful the movie is Abhirami, who exhibits awesome comic flair, and makes you wonderment wherefore she doesn’t get much specified roles. Of course, she excessively is burdened by mundane dialogues astatine times, but she besides gets immoderate of the amended lines of the film.
Another item of the movie is undoubtedly Ashwin Vinayagamoorthy’s euphony that keeps the proceedings airy and cheery. But the songs are placed excessively adjacent to each different and it acts arsenic distractions. Jolly O Gymkhana, conscionable similar each Sakthi Chidambaram films, has a sentimental flashback that comes retired of nowhere. There is precise small impact, contempt the stakes being seemingly high. This dichotomy doesn’t enactment for Jolly O Gymkhana due to the fact that the abrupt tonal displacement feels retired of spot without a superior adversary. Here, everybody is successful connected the amusive adjacent erstwhile murders hap astatine the driblet of a hat. So, the abrupt sentiment towards the end, and a throwaway enactment of “Manam vittu pesa madham edhuku (Why should religion beryllium a hindrance for a heartfelt conversation)?” feels not conscionable retired of place, but a force-fit of sorts.
But what truly had to beryllium forcibly near retired of the movie was the crass one-liners and lyrics that marque you squirm successful your seats. Now, it isn’t similar these are determination passim the film. But it makes you wonderment wherefore it was determination successful the archetypal spot erstwhile Sakthi Chidambaram could really conjure up a half-decent movie without it. Isn’t it precocious clip the ‘avana nee’ dialog oregon ‘aunty-hero’ trope gets buried six feet heavy into the ground? There is simply a distasteful gag astir a antheral going to bargain lingerie for his wife. And the dialogues are repetitive aft a constituent due to the fact that determination are lone truthful galore ‘death’ and ‘body’ related jokes you tin write. Honestly, immoderate were funny, but aft a point, it was conscionable insipid.
At 1 constituent successful the film, Yogi Babu says, “Generally, successful a story, you volition person 1 fool, but here, you person a full national of them.” Honestly, Jolly O Gymkhana could person been thing absorbing and decidedly much funny, but erstwhile the makers edifice to the easiest pickings, feeling atrocious astir the could-haves oregon revolting connected what was included is conscionable a fool’s errand.
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