Today's blog post is a review of 'Bangalore Naatkal' - the remake of the acclaimed 'Bangalore Days'.
Straight up, let me tell you that I have seen Bangalore Days umpteen times. It was one of a kind movie in Malayalam and I regard it to be a classic. So huge huge fan right here. I think that the casting was perfect in that movie and I loved every little bit of it. Every single nuance and dialogue and scene.
When I heard about it being remade in Tamil, I wasn't really very enthused about the entire thing. Why take something already very good and try to make it better. But then I had seen Paapanasam, the remake of Drishyam and I was very impressed. So I thought OK. This should be good as well.
Unfortunately for me, and please don't think that I'm being biased here, this one is quite annoying. Quite a lot of things were annoying.
1) Bobby Simha's wig. And why would they choose him to play Nivin Pauly. Total miscast right there.
2) Arya's selfie stick. Very very annoying.
3) Lakshmi Rai or Raai however she writes it. The reason that Isha Talwar with Nivin Pauly worked was because of their earlier pairing in Thattathin Marayathu. There was a history there that the director utilised so well. This one is a total total failure. Plus she looks OLD.
4) Basically the only good thing about the movie was Parvathy who reprised her role as RJ Sarah.
5) Prakash Raj was wasted in his role.
I think I have said enough. I now shudder to think what the state of Premam would be. I hear that Shruti Hassan is playing Malar. I don't think I am going to watch it.
Honestly why twist a tried and tested formula!!!
Now am planning to watch Bangalore Days again to get over this !!!
Straight up, let me tell you that I have seen Bangalore Days umpteen times. It was one of a kind movie in Malayalam and I regard it to be a classic. So huge huge fan right here. I think that the casting was perfect in that movie and I loved every little bit of it. Every single nuance and dialogue and scene.
When I heard about it being remade in Tamil, I wasn't really very enthused about the entire thing. Why take something already very good and try to make it better. But then I had seen Paapanasam, the remake of Drishyam and I was very impressed. So I thought OK. This should be good as well.
Unfortunately for me, and please don't think that I'm being biased here, this one is quite annoying. Quite a lot of things were annoying.
1) Bobby Simha's wig. And why would they choose him to play Nivin Pauly. Total miscast right there.
2) Arya's selfie stick. Very very annoying.
3) Lakshmi Rai or Raai however she writes it. The reason that Isha Talwar with Nivin Pauly worked was because of their earlier pairing in Thattathin Marayathu. There was a history there that the director utilised so well. This one is a total total failure. Plus she looks OLD.
4) Basically the only good thing about the movie was Parvathy who reprised her role as RJ Sarah.
5) Prakash Raj was wasted in his role.
I think I have said enough. I now shudder to think what the state of Premam would be. I hear that Shruti Hassan is playing Malar. I don't think I am going to watch it.
Honestly why twist a tried and tested formula!!!
Now am planning to watch Bangalore Days again to get over this !!!
Kollaam.. Read somewhere as a comment "an uncle playing Nivin's role" :)
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