‘Selfie’ movie review: This GV Prakash, Gautham Menon-starrer needed more focus
Tamil cinema has thrown up a number of campus tales. Faculty romance? We have seen it. Hostel experiences? That too.
Reminiscing about faculty life? Bah, been there, carried out that.
This ‘what occurs after we get into faculty’ has been chronicled in a number of on-screen episodes. Selfie, the newest Mathi Maaran directorial starring GV Prakash and Gautham Menon, chooses to discover the ‘how we get into faculty’ part.
Kanal (GV Prakash), from a small city, needs to get into enterprise however his father has just one aim: to see his son as an engineer. He spends some huge cash, even pawning a few of his spouse’s jewels to make sure that Kanal will get a seat in a prestigious faculty in Chennai. What occurs when Kanal realises that the cash paid for his seat was really due to many middlemen and brokers concerned within the course of?
Selfie
Solid: GV Prakash, Gautham Menon, Varsha Bollamma
Director: Mathi Maran
Storyline: An indignant engineering pupil will get entangled in a school admissions rip-off
And so, sensing some huge cash in it, he turns into an agent himself. What occurs when he crosses paths with Ravi Varma (Gautham Menon), whose phrase is ultimate for everybody concerned within the enterprise of schooling?
As a topic thought, Selfie delves right into a topic that’s not often within the public eye, depart alone movies. Mathi Maran deserves credit score for not solely taking it up, but additionally protecting the screenplay as racy as attainable in order to not miss viewers curiosity. Nevertheless, he misses out on just a few counts, particularly due to a ‘filmi first half’ that includes a romance that has no place right here, and performances that don’t all the time hit the correct observe.
GV Prakash is an efficient match as an indignant younger faculty going teen, however the casting of Gautham Menon looks like a misstep. He seems to be misplaced in unfamiliar mileu, and tries to salvage that by sounding ‘native’, which doesn’t work more often than not. Vagai Chandrasekar scores as GV Prakash’s father, however the romance between the leads can be very perfunctory, with Varsha Bollama’s dubbing out of sync.
For a movie like this to click on, the face-off between the male protagonists must have much more depth. The climax additionally comes throughout as a rushed job, moderately than an in depth one. This Selfie wanted extra focus.
