Friday, December 24, 2010

Manmadha Banam - Comedy of errors..

 
Story:
 
Ambujakshi (Trisha) is a successful film heroine. Madan (Madhavan) is a rich industrialist and he is the fiancee of Ambujakshi. Madan starts suspecting Ambuja and their relationship is on the verge of break up. Ambuja goes to Europe on a vacation along with her childhood friend (Sangeeta). Madan hires a detective Major Bhushanam (Kamal Hassan) to track her movements as he is suspicious that she has a secret lover.Bhushan has his own commitments in the form of his friend’s (Ramesh Aravind) chemotherapy and hence keen on earning money by any means. In the process Bhushanam meets Ambuja and he has to pretend that he is not on her trail. The rest of the story is about how the fate plays a vital role in this comedy of errors.

Highlights:

    * Screenplay during the first half, reminded a bit of Gautham Menon
    * Rich locations and impressive camerawork in catching them on the lens
    * Kamal’s flashback song in a rewind mode was variety

Disappointments:

    * Hardly anything for Kamal Haasan to show his real prowess in performance
    * Complete disjoint between the first half and second half in terms of feel Silly comedy
    * No trace of Ravi Kumar’s commercial elements
    * Last thirty minutes brought dead silence among the audience, this was out of confusion

Analysis:

Given the title, the expectations were that it would be a flossy romantic entertainer with its own share of comedy and entertainment. However, the film takes off as a rather serious love story filled with sentiments, intensity and depth. With little humorous narration, the film runs smooth till interval.

But then, it turns into a total reverse with the second half getting into silly comedy and unwanted sequences on the lines of ‘Pellam Oorellite’ etc, with confusion in character lines. At one point, the total film looks silly and there is absolutely no life in the climax. The saving grace to the film is the technical values, the star power and two decent songs.
 
Bottom Line: Dissapointing..!!