A simplistic high-concept comedy that could have been more inventive

Naai Sekar Film Synopsis: A person bitten by a canine that’s being experimented upon by a scientist begins behaving like a canine!

Naai Sekar Film Evaluate: Kishore Rajkumar’s Naai Sekar has an ideal premise for a enjoyable movie, particularly a kids-centric one. The brilliance of this concept is its simplicity – what if a person bitten by a canine begins behaving like one, whereas the begins to point out human qualities?

The protagonist right here is Sekar (Sathish), an IT worker, who’s in love along with his colleague Pooja (Pavithra Lakshmi, a assured debut). An individual who hates canines, Sekar by chance will get bitten by Padayappa (with the voice of Shiva, who brings his wry humour), a Labrador that’s being experimented upon by Rajarajan, a scientist. Man begins to show the animal’s traits whereas the canine begins to behave like a person. At a time when there’s an appraisal underway at work, and a gathering with Pooja’s father within the offing, can Sekar set issues proper earlier than it’s too late?

With a premise ripe with promise for a enjoyable journey, Kishore Rajkumar does not should attempt too onerous to make a good entertainer out of Naai Sekar. And in Sathish, he will get the suitable actor for this function. We all know the actor as a comic, so a number of the antics that he has to do after being bitten by the canine (like biting a personality beneath his hip) does not really feel like image-damaging stuff. On the identical time, he’s additionally acceptable as a daily man with a romantic curiosity. The actor, in his half, will get the mannerisms proper, be it hanging his tongue out or exhibiting pet eyes. The characters additionally appear quirky – a comic book villain (Ganesh of Shankar-Ganesh duo – a casting appears funnier as an thought and fewer so on display) who sings so much, a scientist (George Maryan) who sports activities T-shirts which have wacky descriptions like Ezhaikalin Einstein Naan, Chinna Stephen Hawking, and Virtually-u Aristotle, and a scaredy cat cop who’s a fan of the yesteryear actor Krodham Prem. There are even a few visible gags, like animals named after Rajini movie titles and a Korean restaurant named Bong Joon Hoo Restaurant! The pop cultural references, from the background scores to clips of yesteryear movies, are additionally spot on.

However the issue with Naai Sekar is that it’s content material to be a time cross comedy when it may have been one thing actually, outrageously humorous. Kishore Rajkumar appears to have gone about writing the script with a guidelines of issues he ought to embrace in a dog-related film – the flexibility to smell, the liking for biscuits, the urge to urinate on a lamppost and so forth. And the scenes that happen within the IT workplace are pedestrian and clichéd. What number of instances do we have now to see Manobala and Lollu Sabha Swaminathan enjoying managers? And the wackiness of the villain and his henchmen ought to have resulted in funnier moments, which isn’t the case right here. The movie settles for low-brow humour when it may have executed much more.

There’s additionally the sensation that the writing deserved a pair extra rewrites. For instance, the arc involving two small-time canine thieves who promote them to a restaurant that makes canine meat, which is not sketched nicely. In its current type, Naai Sekar is more likely to enchantment extra to children, particularly these under-10. For the remainder, it is a movie that may really feel humorous in elements and juvenile in the remainder.

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