Certain movies, have their intent in right place. But the end result could be quite different from what was envisaged on the drawing board. I got that feeling while watching the movie and post the end credits as well, that somewhere there was a miss from what was intended towards what got made. With a running time of 100 minutes and a theme relatable with Hitchcock movies, the basic premises where all covered perfectly. But even within this short run time, there are scenes that looks redundant and could very well’ve been trimmed further. Especially the interval block and the immediate scenes post the block.
The movie begins with the scenes shown on trailer – hero being cello taped to a chair with heroine sitting on the opposite chair, with cut wrist. It becomes immediately evident, when they show the apartment number as K13, that the story is going to revolve within that room. With an open room and almost no one outside for most of the scenes, wonder why the hero doesn’t make a break for it, which anyway is what he did to get out of the apartment, towards the end. There are no pressing danger or reason for him to sit and justify his struggle inside the room. The reason why the heroine lies dead and the justification are weird, yet different. Probably might’ve made a wonderful thriller story, on paper at least. The end twist was quite neat and the reason why it reminded of Hitchcock. But felt it was too little too late kind of scenario.
Arulnidhi, the current favorite amongst tamil thriller genre movie lovers, lives up to his reputation of picking different scripts on the thriller genre. I am a big fan of his script picking knack. Even in his dud movies like “Naalu policeum nalla iruntha oorum”, “Oru kanniyum moonu kaala maadum” and even his very first movie as well, the scripts have all been quite interesting. But were let down by the presentation. In this movie, its only him and a dead body for almost 90% of the running time. Emotional acting doesn’t seem to be his strong point and he is not able to drive home, the fear or anxiety, needed to be displayed by a person, in his situation. Shraddha has to literally dead pan her role. For the portions where she has some dialogues, she comes out as a vulnerable, yet quirky character. The reason why she chooses the hero is quite muddled and is half baked at best.
Gils verdict – considering the last couple of tamil movies that came in this year, K13 is a much better attempt which could’ve been done much better.
The movie begins with the scenes shown on trailer – hero being cello taped to a chair with heroine sitting on the opposite chair, with cut wrist. It becomes immediately evident, when they show the apartment number as K13, that the story is going to revolve within that room. With an open room and almost no one outside for most of the scenes, wonder why the hero doesn’t make a break for it, which anyway is what he did to get out of the apartment, towards the end. There are no pressing danger or reason for him to sit and justify his struggle inside the room. The reason why the heroine lies dead and the justification are weird, yet different. Probably might’ve made a wonderful thriller story, on paper at least. The end twist was quite neat and the reason why it reminded of Hitchcock. But felt it was too little too late kind of scenario.
Arulnidhi, the current favorite amongst tamil thriller genre movie lovers, lives up to his reputation of picking different scripts on the thriller genre. I am a big fan of his script picking knack. Even in his dud movies like “Naalu policeum nalla iruntha oorum”, “Oru kanniyum moonu kaala maadum” and even his very first movie as well, the scripts have all been quite interesting. But were let down by the presentation. In this movie, its only him and a dead body for almost 90% of the running time. Emotional acting doesn’t seem to be his strong point and he is not able to drive home, the fear or anxiety, needed to be displayed by a person, in his situation. Shraddha has to literally dead pan her role. For the portions where she has some dialogues, she comes out as a vulnerable, yet quirky character. The reason why she chooses the hero is quite muddled and is half baked at best.
Gils verdict – considering the last couple of tamil movies that came in this year, K13 is a much better attempt which could’ve been done much better.
Comments
I thought all movies only had a buxom lady running around trees or else some superhero dishum dishumming 24 villains while popping a cigarette into his mouth without touching it at the same time :)