Kanchana Movie Reviews

Kanchana Story:

Raghava Lawrence is a go lucky happy guy, who lives along with his mother (Kovai Sarala). He loves to play cricket and spends all the time finding a ground for playing the game along with his friends. Lawrence suffers from Achluophobia (Fear of darkness). He gets frightened by the dark and ghosts, after sunset, so he sleeps with his mother. He falls in love with Priya (Lakshmi Rai).

His interest in the game of cricket lands him into trouble finally. One fine day he hits a dead body with his wicket while he was playing cricket with his friends. After coming home he will observe blood stains on the cricket stumps and from this time he lands himself in a devil's trap. From then, strange things happen in his house as the evil spirits attack him and he stars behaving unusually, like a woman. He starts dressing up like a women like wearing sarees, bangles and what not, he completely turns like a women. The evil spirit in him will start killing few specific people.

Who is that evil spirit in him? Why it started killing people? Will Lawrence get rid of the evil? Answers to all these questions forms an interesting climax.

Performances:

Lawrence turns out with an energetic performance. His performance looked convincing in every frame and does more than expected. However, he has proved better in direction department this time than his acting.

Lakshmi Rai, who played the love interest of the hero, did justice to her role. Her sex appeal and oomph factor especially in songs and few scenes is a visual feast to the masses.

Hats off to Sarathkumar for taking up the role of a transgender, undoubtedly he gave a superb performance and filled the life into the entire film though he played a cameo.

Kovai Sarala was loud and irritating, Devadarshini was okay, Sreeman brought few laughs, Babu Antony, and Manobala were apt. The others did their bit well as needed.

Technicalities:

Raghava Lawrence, who has penned story, screenplay and directed Kanchana, gets decent marks for handling all the departments effortlessly. He has improved his direction skills a lot when compared to Munni.

Vetri’s cinematography needs a special mention as his lens work is excellent. He captured the key scenes with ease and his cinematography raises goose bumps to the audiences while watching horrifying scenes in the film. Editing is okay but could have been better.

Thaman’s music is okay; however the background score was okay and could have been better during the suspense and tension creating scenes as it would have evoke little bit fear. The song before the climax has come out excellently.

Analysis:

To convey in a straight forward manner, Kanchana is no different from Muni. The only difference identified is Lawrence has done better execution when compared to Muni. The first half of the film is okay but the real story starts only from the second half. Once the second half starts, Lawrence went on to show comedy mixed horror scenes. The climax of the film is regular but it is well drafted with grip and aptness.

The positive pints of the film are Sarath Kumar’s performance, spine chilling horror scenes, concept of God vs Devil in climax scene, second Half and last but not the least the climax song picturised on ghost scenes using graphics was excellent.

On the flip side, immature comedy, unnecessary drag in first half, screenplay loopholes and the film needs immediate trimming in order to engage the audiences.

Overall, Kanchana serves a good combination of horror, action and comedy. It will be too early to judge audience’s reaction towards the film. Kanchana goes well with B & C centres as it will appeal the mass audiences and given the genre it is not meant for kids.

If you are the type who loves to be jolted off your seat, who likes getting spooked then this is the right movie for you.