Urchagam -- Movie Review

Why do I make such stupid mistakes? How did I believe that a movie starring a hero who has only a couple of movies to his name and a heroine whose only credit till date has been her 'bare all' first movie would be of any good? Why did I think that good songs would automatically get converted to great visuals and a decent story? Why? Why? Why? Like everything else in life, I am searching for the answers to all these above questions.

Even writing a review for movies like this is an atrocious waste of time but I feel that I have a 'Social' responsibility (Look at my generosity here!!!) in making sure that other people out there do not make the same mistake as me and end up watching this hopeless parody of errors compiled in the name of a movie. There is no shard piece of evidence to show that this movie has anything original in terms of its screenplay. The term cliche would start appearing cliched if I start to list out the cliched sequences that appear in this movie. It would be better if I just said that it is so FULL of them.

There used to be a time in tamil movies when the heroine would take up a small bottle & the camera would zoom in to show the words poison (With the tamil translation below it) to explicitly show to the viewer that she is about to commit suicide. Then directors like Bhagyaraj came in and they just showed the heroine drinking something from a small bottle and in the next scene people would seen crying and the viewers understood what it meant. The latest line of directors like Bala show just the corpse of the heroine & let the viewer understand the sequence. The underlying pretence here in all this is that the movie watching public is assumed to have a certain amount of gray matter in their heads and that they can understand things without the need for an elaborated explanation. The director of this movie (I have no clue who it is.....) questioned my intelliegence by explaining even the simplest of things and made me look even more stupid than I am actually is. Then, towards the end, there were sequences where the villain would have made the FBI team go green with envy with his detective & deductive capabilities. And when I was expecting some answers from the directors on how the villain was doing all this, he provides me with none!!!

There is nothing to write about performances or technical aspects and I would directly go to a sour point that irritated me the most. There is this beautiful song 'Naram Pookal Thedum' that I was eagerly waiting for and when it finally showed up in screen, I immediately knew why I was not able to catch this song in the regular song programs that comes in every other channel these days. I was, afterall, looking for this song in the wrong program. I should have been checking 'Hot, Hotter, Hottest' or 'Midnight Masala' instead....... What a complete waste of such a brilliant song.

Final Cut: When movies like 'Paruthi Veeran' and 'Kireedom' try to take the tamil movie industry forward, these movies end up pushing them back by a solid 30 years. Avoid this at all cost.

Rating: 2/10 (The only reason I gave this movie 2 points is for the songs. If you have not listened to it yet, you are surely missing something)