A generic campus movie and a middling courtroom drama

For a lot of its working time, Friendship appears like a guidelines of flicks set in a school. We get a scene involving raging, a combat between seniors and juniors, a celebration track contained in the campus, a few classroom scenes the place the professor is made enjoyable of, a scene in a hostel of boys watching porn, a sporting occasion (right here, it’s a cricket match, which is a no brainer on condition that Harbhajan Singh performs the lead), a motorbike experience, sentimental dialogues on friendship… you title it, and it’s right here! The principal gamers are a gaggle of mechanical engineering college students (a robotic Harbhajan, a typical Sathish and co) and the brand new woman, Anita (Losliya, overly expressive), who has joined their class.

Now, Anita is the type of character who we get to see solely in our movies. She is that fearless beginner who tells her seniors that she anticipated them to rag her higher, that nice sport who would not thoughts her image being morphed and referred to as a name woman, that one that makes mates with everybody, and that annoying character who’s chirpier than a hen. Wait, in case you assume ‘loosu ponnu’, let’s inform you that she is far more than that. She is a loosu ponnu with most cancers! And simply while you assume you may not be capable to adequately really feel sorry for her, she additionally finally ends up getting gang-raped and murdered!

And abruptly, from an atypical campus drama, we’re dropped right into a middling courtroom drama involving harmless women, lustful wealthy males (insert Pollachi intercourse scandal references), corrupt cops, crooked cops, smug politicians (the late Venkat Subha performs a minister) and amoral legal professionals (an efficient MS Bhaskar). We even have a lawyer/vigilante, performed by Arjun, who’s stable within the position, though it’s exhausting to shake off the irony of the #MeToo-accused actor arguing for the protection of girls. Ultimately, we’re instructed that “girls are our accountability” and proven a classroom that’s in mourning. And we go away the theatre hardly being affected by neither the movie, which is so generic, nor the performances, that are, at finest, purposeful.