Well a review by one of my friends..about a moview which was claimed decent for this season's relaease... I hate posting movie reviews... what to do..
Here it goes
Hi all,
Yesterday I had the opportunity (or say the fate ) of watching the tamil movie "E" literally translated as " THE FLY".
The movie, in itself, with all the hype regarding BioTechnology, BioWar etc was seeming quite OK, atleast from the trailers ,posters,and reviews and eventually I never expected the "Jatka" after seeing the movie, esp. coz my last movie was "Casino Royale".
To start with, the movie is based in slums of Chennai (As if Bihar & UP are not poor enough ). Suddenly the (anti)Hero : Jeeva in this case, gets beaten up by police and then the next moment he there in the streets jumping around with girls clad in microminio (I still don't know what that girl was doing - well u will get to see this song in all music channels soon). By this time the much needed heroine in tamil films has already entered (Nayantara) the scene. She is a bar dancer and lives nextdoor to "E".The start was not that boring with some excellent Camera work and some good dialogues. Even the acting was quite good by almost all the actors.
So as the story goes, our hero, an orphan, lives around doing small crimes and dreams of making it big...well this part sucks..what I mean by making it big is big crimes like smuggling, murder etc. Even this part is digestable considering that our hero had the privilage of having an extremely bad past ( as if its new in Indian films). And then as he hangs around our Villian Dr Ramakrishnan (Ashish Vidyarthi) enters the slums. He projects himself as s sort of "social serverce guy" who is providing free medical service, while in reality he would be using the poor, uneducated slum dwellers as guiana pigs for his weird experiments. Now again there is another Nurse hanging around this doctor and as the story progress this nurse can be seen here an there with lesser and lesser dress. ( even nayantara was overtaken in some scenes ).. The funniest part was that every time the nurse injects the syringe into some poor guys body a superb graphics piece pops up showing blood vessls and haemoglobins and the poisonous medicine mixing with the blood streem. First time it was OK, but imagine seeing this same stupid piece 10-20 times..well you will have to bear this through out the movie and as the movie nears its end more graphics will come. You will definitley feel the nostalgia of "sakthiman and starwars"..
And then one more character enters the scene. Nellai Mani (Pasupathy), a naxalite, who is after the Doctor to kill him and to save the poors from the international mafia ..yeh you heard it right..by the middle of the movie, things goes to international level with FBI and team searching for this Nellai Mani. But you don't have to be clairvoyant to predict that Nellai mani will end up with "E" at some point of story and there will be a "knowledge transfer" of all the tricks and tips from the master to student. :))... Well luckily all these things are covered in a stupid flashback song (after Nellai mani's death). Thankgod director is unaware of "Mask of Zorrow"!!
So as the director tries all combinations to keep the story moving, like nellaimani trying to kill doctor, doctor trying to kill nellai (ofcourse using E's help), and "E" messing around here and there, and Nayantara showing her belly , you will be happy to see the sign "Intermission"..
As the movie enters its other half, Now I was getting totally pissed off, really hoping that something will happen in second half. So another song happened..what else can you expect.
Now slowly the director, tells the audience all the nonsense about biowar, in a laymans point of view, (well it is appreciable, but exaggerrated). I am not going in to details like the poilce serching Nellai Mani, police announcing prize money, doctor offering 10lacs for nellai's death etc...but in the end Nellai is wounded badly in a encounter and Jeeva helps him to a hideout. Even though E's initial intentions are crooked , he will eventually end up being a follower of the fight for the "good cause". There are some fight sequence ( why these fights always happen in RAIN, I guess people fight in Chennai only during the months of Oct-Nov ).
After this there are some good graphic sequence like the Doc's medical lab ( more or less a 3D copy of Dexter's and Mojojojo's labrotory --well does anybody watch Dexter and powerpuff girls..well they are far better and they getover in 1/2 Hr. And best of all you can always switch off the TV if u want ).
The climax was fast. Nellai dies, Nayantara leaves Jeeva, Jeeva kills Doctor and then he is shown in Krissh like setting jumping like a monkey on top of a building. ..
Well thats "E" for you. If you still dare to experiment , well you can try it, but be very very careful...your girlfriend/boyfriend ( who ever paid for the ticket) might actually end up hanging themselves. Infact I felt that you can watch a live FLY for 3Hrs or for that matter you can watch any insect but "E" is waste of time especially if you are in genre of people watching movies once in a fortnight for relaxation.
