Tag: #Horror

Housemates

Karthik (Darshan) puts all his hard earned money to buy a house only to get trapped into a totally unexpected mystery which is pretty much impossible to solve.

The movie starts with the protagonist Karthik trying to impress  the father of his love interest with the newly bought house. Writer gives an idea regarding how much hard work he had to put in to make the dream a reality. Slowly, movie shifts to horror genre. Though there isn’t much usage of highly supernatural elements, there is enough to maintain fear factor for the viewers and protagonist to try to solve the mystery in the most generic way. Kudos to the chilling background score and sound design for perfectly utilizing the limited space to successfully build an eerie atmosphere. After around 40 minutes, movie slips to humor zone and the involvement of the second family has been written and executed hilariously. What’s even exiting is the addition of a kind-of sci-fi element and the unique concept of Tesseract. Just like every horror movies, there is a melodramatic flashback and an incomplete wish on the movie as well. But those portions are so heartwarming.

Writer Rajavel made sure that the movie gave equal importance to the second family as well. Just like Karthik, Ramesh (Kaali Venkat) also had to suffer a lot to achieve the dream of own house. He also had to prove his worth to the world. Rajavel managed to highlight the similarities between the male characters in the 2 families. It was a was a smart idea to use match cuts in conveying the sci-fi portions to the 2 families. Power cut scene was just exceptional.

 

 There was confusion regarding the way they communicate with each other: Someone taking directly and sometimes writing on the wall. Director and editor could have addressed such minor concerns.

Darshan wasn’t that effective in portraying the emotional side of Karthik, especially when he expresses the pain of his loss. Apart from that, he was fine with the act. Arsha baiju was nice as Anu. For instance: the way she expresses her panic in loneliness, try to convince Karthik for house change or creates bond with a child in the other family. Kaali Venkat was fantastic in both versions of Ramesh who carried trauma of past. Vinothini was really good as the emotionally charged and the vulnerable versions of Viji.

 

Verdict: Housemates is a unique and appreciable attempt of tweaking the usual horror comedy template with the backing of strong emotional layer and high level sci-fi. Kudos to Siva karthikeyan for backing the project.

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Watch here: https://www.zee5.com/movies/details/house-mates/0-0-1z5822124

Awe!

After Watching this psychological,horror,sci-fi,fantasy thriller,i remained of another telugu film C/o kancharapalem because of the anthology mix and convergence nature. Here,beyond the convergence and the social issue,awe amuses the audience with the layering and tight portrayal of each character.

Awe follows a bunch of characters -egoistic magician,’YouTube’ chef, drug-addict,watchman cum scientist and a biker cum psychiatrist. The tale unfolds in a cafe parallel to the portrayal of mental conflicts of Kajal Agarwal’s character.How one meets other in a conflict and what is the conflict form the crux of the story.

Direction makes the tight script even tighter with apt switching between the stories. and confuses the audience.Taut editing doesn’t let the audience to try to predict the proceedings or climax. rich visuals and bgm creates the mood optimally.Sound design excel in many portions especially horror parts.The only reason i thought of not giving full marks to the movie is the lack of clarity in the statements of Devadarshini’s character .It is negligible compared to the quality of the kind of experiment of Prasanth varma.
I don’t know why is this film named ‘Awe’?

Kajal finally gets a good role and she performs it well too. Nani as fish and Ravi teja as tree (both voice)offer little humor.Regina as the drug-addict too gives earnest performance. Dialogs are nice especially Nithya menon’s character tells about the love between 2 women that itself is a fresh idea.

A marvelous,bit complex unique experiment for movie goers.

Rating:4.0/5