Ranjith keeps coming across as a different film director. At most times, it often looks like he's a passionate writer first, then a director. His panache for picking story based on Oppresion as the central theme is laudable, but his writing needs better screenplay to justify it. It certainly looks like he has got a brilliant premise, just not the right scenes to portray it.
There is depth in story, felt like there was a lot of research done in the issue that was being spoken but despite being better than Kabali, it still fails to be wholesome. Some things from the movie can be applauded like, the performances, the way some scenes were structured, the metaphoric symbolism and the unspoken version of Ramayana.
Again, it’s “some” and not “all” which what makes it a piece of work that can’t be enjoyed as a whole. Certain crucial scenes, lacks build up. The story registers so many deaths, that drives the audience to stay disconnected because the deaths were not given the value it should have gotten. The emotions were not carried forward, the scenes that follow does not justify the emotion behind the death.
Huma Qureshi, Manikandan, and Anjali Patel characters are made look so important in the first half but from the start of the second half, their character dims down and does almost nothing to support the story. From second half onwards, most important characters were only there to face the repercussions from the battle between Kaala and Hari Daadha and their ideologies and goals from the first half is not brought forward to the second half making it all look like it was done for nothing.
At most scenes, the screenplay lacks the punch that most mass scenes find its glory, only to be saved by a couple of really good acting (Easwari Rao as Selvi is brilliant). Take the scene where Kaala gets the crowd to revolt against the government. A similar scene is shown in Mudhalvan, in where Arjun is seen putting his hand up to the air, amidst a roaring crowd - you simply don't get the same feeling here in Kaala.
The scene just feels....like just another scene.
In summary, Kaala becomes another failed attempt from Ranjith and Rajinikanth to make a different Rajinikanth film. A different Rajinikanth film doesn't necessarily mean its an entertaining film.
The End.
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