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Movie Review : Daas
Producer:Lakshmi Movie Makers
Director: Babu Yogeswaran
Cast: Jeyam Ravi, Renuka Menon
Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
The film has in the lead Renuka Menon, the famous Malayalam
actress and Jayam Ravi. Babu Yogeswaran who wrote the script of
mega-serial ‘Annamalai’ wields up the directors’ baton for the
first time with this movie. The film offers Jayam Ravi the
stance to dwell in an out an out action film. If you believe
that it is certainly going to appeal to the masses, then you’re
right. The film is particularly attempted for the B and C
centers. The plot is set in the milieu of a caste dispute in
south Tamilnadu. And such themes have always clicked with the
masses.
The film is set in Tirunelveli and revolves around a College
campus story. Antony Dass (Jayam Ravi) is a middle class guy who
studies in the college and also happens to be the captain of
football team of his college. His love interest is Rajeshwari (Renuka
Menon). She is the daughter of the owner of the college Annachi
(Shanmugharajan). She belongs to a family of rich and her father
is also a caste leader.
Both of them eye each other without revealing their feelings.
But her father some how comes to learn about it and immediately
suspends Dass from College. Another incident happens
subsequently when Raji’s cousin sister Puneeta and her lover
Guna who is Dass’s best friend are burnt alive for falling in
love with each other. Dass’ attempt to save them proves futile.
Dass fuming over the incidents that have happened to him one
after another goes to Annachi’s house to take revenge on him. He
then flees with Raji to Madurai. They seek refuge in the house
of Nasir (Krishna). Annachi starts his volatile search to track
them. He traces them with the aid of minister (Mahadevan) and
police officer (Pepsi Vijayan). It’s the struggle that Ravi
faces now. How he overcomes it and marries his love Raji forms
the rest of the story.
The film begins well. The first half is loaded with pace with
the string of action following one after the other. However the
second half is pretty predictable and treads the line of any
other commercial stuff. The climax is given a different look
with terrorists planting a bomb and a Muslim wedding. However
the length proves to be another blow to it.
It’s evident throughout that Babu Yogeswaran intended to project
Jayam Ravi in a larger than life image. He plays a super-hero by
handling dozen guys with just two arms. He also fights against
the issue of casteism, power at last emerging triumphant. Ravi
however does his job well as an action hero. He has done a
commendable work. Even his dialogue delivery and tone sounds
better. Renuka Menon appears fine with her skills and so does
Vadivelu’s comedy work.
The action sequences are the best thing to watch on the
screen. Rocky Rajesh has done a good work in that regard. Yuvan
Shankar Raja has given some wholesome stuff to the ears. ‘Samy
Kittay’ is a superb number. The cinematography by
Vijay.K.Chakravarthy is another highlight on the technical side.
His shot of the locales of Tirunelveli, Theni and Kutralam is
stunning.
The film is entertaining and appealing, if you’ve the teeth
for commercial potboilers.
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