‘Vivekanandan Viralaanu’ movie review: A loud, overdramatic take on an issue that the film fails to grasp – The Hindu

Vivekanandan is the sort of character that the majority stars would keep away from taking part in. With hardly any redeeming high quality, the position requires the actor to make an exhibition of an evil, psychotic streak; not one thing that may garner them the straightforward applause {that a} do-gooder, tremendous hero position would get. Shine Tom Chacko, who’s most creatively anointed because the ‘shining star’ within the credit of Vivekanandan Viralaanu, is without doubt one of the few who just isn’t averse to do such roles, regardless of his current proclivity to usher in his interview mannerisms to his characters.

With filmmaker Kamal too returning after an extended hole of 5 years, with an intent to make a movie that may replicate the altering occasions, there was a lot to stay up for. But, what one sees all through the film is the losing away of a chance for a hard-hitting tackle a severe subject, drowning all of it in an excessively loud drama that spells out the whole lot 1,000,000 occasions and doesn’t let the viewers suppose. In case the viewer didn’t get the supposed message of the movie, there are a number of characters repeating, ‘My physique, my rights’ and a poet explaining all of it once more ultimately credit.

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Vivekanandan leads a twin life, with each the ladies in his life (performed by Swasika Vijay and Grace Antony) bearing the brunt of his violent sexual perversions. To a lot of the surface world, he’s simply one other regular man, whereas each the ladies proceed to endure silently, till the day one in every of them decides to take cost. In taking on such a topic, one can see a veteran filmmaker making an attempt to be nearly as daring as the brand new crop of filmmakers, however the movie falls flat in execution and fails to have a transparent grasp on the weighty points that it makes an attempt to sort out. The recipes for catastrophe are all rightly combined, from stilted conversations to half-baked narratives and a dramatic background rating that by no means stops.

The video-going-viral trope has grow to be so overused as a straightforward methodology to handle the key battle factors within the script. One can simply predict the frames that may comply with, from folks staring on the display in railway stations and workplaces to nearly the whole state and even the nation coming to a standstill over the stated viral video. In Vivekanandan Viralaanu additionally, issues proceed on this trend, with such visuals filling the intervals between the heightened family drama. However then, that was to be anticipated in a movie with ‘viral’ in its title itself.

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Maybe the one constructive that may be stated concerning the movie is that the filmmaker didn’t select to even barely whitewash the character performed by Shine Tom Chacko, which so usually occurs in movies with recognized stars taking part in such characters. However such glimmers in an ocean of nothingness doesn’t make an enormous distinction.

Vivekanandan Viralaanu is at present operating in theatres

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