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A Dreary Plot that Fails to Excite

The plot centres on Adhyan, a youngster, who comes to India from Japan to look up Anamika.

Malini Mannath

The plot centres on Adhyan, a youngster, who comes to India from Japan to look up Anamika. The duo had fell in love after they began chatting on the internet. Fatigued by the journey, Adhyan was suffering from an extreme case of jet lag.

The film is about how he inadvertently gets trapped in the affairs of some anti-social elements and tries to extricate himself from it. Debutant director Ram Manojkumar, a former assistant to director Shakthi Rajan of Naaigal Jaakirathai (2014), has made an effort to shift away from the routine formula. But what is lacking is a coherent screenplay and genuinely exciting moments in this action thriller.

The film opens on a promising note. Adhyan taking a lift from a cab driver Subramani, learns from him that the apartment he would be staying in was believed to be haunted by the ghost of a girl who had committed suicide. The walls of the apartment are decorated with some spooky paintings. It leads one to believe that yet another ghost-thriller was on the way.

Heeding the warning of her friend and with Adhyan failing to keep an appointment at a scheduled place for their first face-to-face meeting, Anamika starts doubting the real intentions of her Facebook lover. These episodes are fairly well handled. The moments of interaction between the two gives one the impression that the film would be a journey of discovery. But the director changes track again. The plot shifts to the underworld and the cop-thug nexus.

The mood keeps shifting, and no emotion is allowed to linger for long. Also the transition from the pre-interval scenario to the post-interval one is jerky. This is when the narration shifts from the protagonist to the rather long and distracting flash back of the villains. The scene of Adhyan taking on all his tormentors is a predictable one. Though a surprise revelation about his activity in Japan, did give the baddies jitters. Adhyan is, at the most, a promising work of a debutant.     

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