Ayalaan movie review: Sivakarthikeyan’s sci-fi movie feels outdated | Tamil News
The laughs are sparse and few and far between in this sci-fi comedy, as are the good ideas.
“For little creatures like us, vastness can only be endured through love,” is a famous quote from Carl Sagan’s novel Contact, which has inspired countless science fiction films and stories. is. Essentially, it contextualizes humans in terms of extraterrestrial life. A notable exploration of such an idea in India is Aamir Khan’s PK. While Bollywood films delved into human belief systems and values, Ayalaan touches on such “deep” subjects superficially. When the alien in this film arrives, he finds a plastic bag, but its advanced system reveals that it will take him 300 years for the plastic to rot. A drunk then mistakes it for a fellow alcoholic and hands over the money. The system says this is just paper and will rot relatively quickly. The alien discards both items with the same disdain. He also has a similar aversion to any junk food consumed by humans. Naturally, when he seeks help on Earth, he is “gravitated” (as it is an alien movie) to the main character Tamizh. Now Tamizh is an organic farmer and he would rather live in poverty than use pesticides. He politely implores the swarm of locusts (which are living things, too) that will destroy the cornfield in minutes to leave. You can see the drift.
This alien, by the way, is called Tattoo by his human friends, and for reasons that are not very interesting, this alien came to Earth to inspect the catastrophe caused by new technology. . It tracks down the man behind the threat, Aryan. Tamil filmmakers these days are not very careful about nomenclature and the politics behind it. If the hero’s name is Tamizh, it’s fitting that the villain is Aryan (Sharad Kelkar). But Brownie doesn’t point out the way his character is written. He is a typical Jagapathi Babu-like villain who has acquired an alien rock called the Spark that gives immense power to deep mining. He dug too deep into the earth, releasing prehistoric toxins into the atmosphere, which is clearly not good news. Other than Tamizh and Tatto’s bond, the rest is as predictable as possible. Once they start sharing power, it’s more than just an emotional bromance. It’s only natural that the villain gets some of that, and so does he. It’s all accomplished with artificial writing.
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But ‘Ayalaan’ is by no means a lazy film. A lot of effort went into the VFX. Although the tattoo looks far from realistic, his texture and appearance are effective given the creepy atmosphere of the movie. The elaborate stunt sequences may have been tough, but it ends up being a tiring watch. And surplus staff. Director R Ravikumar doesn’t trust his audience, so he relies on depicting his ideas in exquisite detail. For example, the idea that Tamizh and Tatoo must come into physical contact to maintain their power is explored in boring fight sequences that repeat things more than they need to. Understood. Or a pedestrian expo that is intentionally targeted at “all the centres”. Either way, it came at a price. The price of the movie could have been higher, but it was too simple.
Ayalaan movie cast: Sivakarthikeyan, Yogi Babu, Rakul Preet Singh
Ayalaan movie director: R. Ravikumar
Ayalaan movie rating: 2 stars
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Date first uploaded: January 13, 2024, 00:03 IST
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