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Yaan Review
- 10/4/2014 1:03:54 PM
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Cast: Jiiva, Thulasi, Nasser, Jayaprakash, Karunakaran, Thambi Ramaiah, Bose Venkat, Nawab ShahDirection: Ravi K ChandranGenre: ActionDuration: 2 hours 36 minutes
Synopsis: To prove himself to his girlfriend Sreela's father, Chandru accepts a job in a foreign country only to get imprisoned there on arrival for carrying drugs. Facing a death sentence, can he clear his name and find the person who landed him in such a predicament?
Movie Review: When a cinematographer decides to turn a director, the one thing we can be assured of is that the film will look pretty. And Yaan, the directorial debut of Ravi K Chandran, one of the finest Indian cinematographers at the moment, is certainly a visual delight. Right from the opening frame, where we see a magical Mumbai skyline at night to the closing one of the leads stranded in an expansive desert, the images look beautiful. The costumes of the actors too are finely colour coordinated to go with the locations. But despite all the colours on screen, this is such a dull, flavourless film, let down by the writing, which is preposterous and uninspiring. We only get a whiff of what Ravi K Chandran is after — a fugitive-on-the-run thriller with a Roja-like romance involving a woman trying to save her lover.
The film begins with a shootout where a most-wanted terrorist is shot dead and the director uses this a couple of scenes later to nicely stage a song capturing the hero, Chandru,
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