Kalloori Review

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When Kalloori movie was set to be released after years of production, Sheker Kammula's "Happy Days" was making heavy waves and redefining blockbuster in Tollywood. 'Happy Days' was successful due to its comedy, the feel good factor and importantly Tollywood has seen quite a less number of college based movies. Not the same with tamil, which has been flooded with a lot of movies burgeon forth with the same theme (Idhayam, Boys, Kadhal Desam, April Madham). But college based theme are evergreen and can never become a yesteryear, even yesteryear movie/song remake are making huge hits, I thought this could best bet by Shankar. But to my surprise, Shankar has taken huge risk in this. The movie goes in similar lines of the conventional college story, where you have a group of friends and love blossoms, but the risk is taking up a huge concept which would get political opposition, bringing in lot of new faces, and allowing the director to take a movie which revolves around rural education, which would reduce the commercial values of the movie. Kalloori is all about life at rural colleges which rarely hears the sounds of the bikes, sizzling cars, cell phones and the life of those students, who had to sacrifice his siblings education to get himself educated, a contrast to what we have seen these days in college based movies. Many won't get the nostalgic feeling which drives every college based movies to succeed commercially, but you will definitely get to see how hard is to educated in rural India and how hard to survive in India which is cursed with politicians.

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Kalloori movie opens with a few people silently clearing a ground, near a tree and it takes us back in time where a bus heading towards the Government Arts college. Director doesn't take much time to introduce a group of people, who claim themselves as friends for a long-term. Despite a movie without much of heroism, the lead role Muthu enjoys a good built-up introduction. All the students enter into the Lecture Hall to see a city cultured beautiful gal Shobana from Banglore (played by charming heorine of 'Happy Days' Tamanna Bhatia, with a lot of glycerin and with a little makeup). She being undisturbed by the comments passed by her colleagues, disturbed the attention of our weak hearted hero. Gang was given strict rules of maintaining friendship with gals only if you are ready to live without promoting them to Girl Friend. Rule was heavily backed by a Kayalvili, who believes in friendship and hates love which arises due to friendship, and her single dialogues haunts Muthu's mind which is now ready to accept Shobana as his friend. Muthu, who has joined the college with a dream of getting into government job through sports quota, haunted by Shobana's care and affection goes into a dream world, unaware of the fact She is still in real world. But when Muthu realizes its a dream, he loses his concentration in the game. Shobana on the other hand, in an effort to make him win the game, loses her heart. Transformation of the friendship into love was pretty natural, you wouldn't complain much on it.
After falling in love, Tamanna expresses some matured acting when she tries to control her petty jealousies when her friends take care of Muthu. Her longing to be with her fellow but not convinced to do that at the cost of her gang was nicely expressed..

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Efforts taken by the students to learn English and few interesting characters in the group had succeeded in provoking laughter at some places. But trying to carry the same comedy till the end was bit annoying. Director has scored in portraying the actual sufferings of the students which they forget when they are in group. Misunderstanding, hot discussions didn't miss to find its place. Every character in the movie did their role well. But the dialogues and the background doesn't seem to have induced much of our emotions given the great effort taken by Sakthivel in scripting this. Not to mention the music director's effort to make the good songs, with clearly understandable lyrics. Of late, its rare we get songs with a clearly understandable and good lyrics. Unnarugil Varugayil song will be hummed for next few months..

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But what makes this movie speaks for itself is its climax, the last 15 minutes should have turned many peoples eyes to wet and mind to blaze about political curse in India and the blind Indian Judiciary.

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Spoiler Warning:
It was all about the true incident of the Tamilnadu Agriculture University bus ablazed by Political mobs to show protest of the arrest of Jayalalitha on Feb 2, 2000 in Dharmapuri. To avoid any more volience due to this movie director has shown them to happen in Andhra Pradesh. But it would be very difficult for any person who has watched those horrified incident in the early millennium to ever forget this.

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In a nutshell, Kalloori a movie throws light on a horror-struck incident in a sublime of friendship and love. Natural narration, flawless performance and credible songs has been weakened by the lack of excitement in the dialogues, background music, careless editing.

Kudos to Shankar for encouraging to take such a bold non-commercial movies in the Tamil Flim Industry..

Verdict: Miss the movie at your own risk.

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