Singapore Saloon movie review: RJ Balaji's underdog story has too much going on – Hindustan Times

Singapore Saloon film assessment: The previous few movies of director Gokul featured massive Tamil stars, however didn’t fare nicely on the field workplace. This time across the Junga director groups up with RJ-turned-actor-and-director RJ Balaji, who is understood for his comedy. Singapore Saloon tried to mix director Gokul’s sensibilities with actor RJ Balaji’s to a sure extent, however how nicely do the 2 meet? Additionally learn: RJ Balaji unique interview

Singapore Saloon’s plot

Singapore Saloon begins with Kathir’s (RJ Balaji) beautiful confession – he’s going to die by suicide. He then narrates what compelled him to make this resolution. The movie revolves round Kathir’s ambition to turn out to be a famend hair stylist.

He grows up in a small city, the place he spends a variety of time together with his buddy Basheer (Kishen Das) at Chacha’s (Lal) barbershop referred to as Singapore Saloon. He feels enthusiastic about this occupation, however he feels training is essential and arms himself with an engineering diploma. His dream of opening his personal salon sees him undergo extreme struggles, monetary and in any other case.

His spouse’s (Meenakshi Chaudhary) miserly father (Sathyaraj) and his personal dad lend him cash to open his dream salon, and he opens his Singapore Saloon in a constructing apparently formed like Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands. Then in a serious coincidence, he faces an enormous catastrophe simply earlier than the saloon opens. What occurs to Kathir’s dream and his life?

Director Gokul has tried to offer us an underdog story of a younger man, who dares to make his dream a actuality. The primary half of the movie is stuffed with lighter moments as we see Kathir at school and develop his first crush. When Sathyaraj comes on display, there are extra enjoyable components. Within the second half, the director makes the movie actually sentimental and sappy.

What works and what would not

The writing is patchy and being an underdog story, it’s cliched and doesn’t make you root for him. Although there are scenes, the place you empathise with the protagonist or have amusing, the theme of constructing your dream come true is harassed via a number of characters within the movie. The director additionally brings in different social themes into the movie – faith, financial inequality and so forth.

The movie lags at factors and the protagonist appears to be morose all through the movie for some motive. Shouldn’t the movie give the viewers hope?

Lower to the performances, RJ Balaji is sweet and convincing because the hairstylist however his character may have been higher written by the director. We would have liked to see him work as a hairstylist and hone his abilities, however Gokul fully misses that. Like talked about earlier, Kathir’s function is excessive on unhappy sentiment and drama which is a downer.

Actor Sathyaraj is great within the scenes he seems together with his sons-in-law. Sathyaraj’s traces is probably not howlarious however the best way he delivers them and his expressions make you chortle. Kishen Das and Robo Shankar are apt for his or her roles however Meenakshi Chaudhary doesn’t have an excessive amount of to do within the movie.

The music and songs by Vivek-Mervin will not be very common and nothing memorable. The cameos by Arvind Swami and Lokesh Kanagaraj enliven the proceedings and add some pleasure.

Last ideas

The storyline of constructing hairstyling a noble occupation and hairstylists as individuals, who deserve respect is sweet. However director Gokul has tried to convey collectively too many components in Singapore Saloon and that is, sadly, its downfall.

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