Airaa Movie Review by Praveena | Nayanthara, Kalaiyarasan, Yogi Babu | Sarjun | Airaa Review
Airaa Movie Review by Praveena |
Nayanthara, Kalaiyarasan, Yogi Babu | Sarjun KM Movie | Airaa Tamil Movie
Review
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Airaa Movie Synopsis: A young woman,
who goes to her grandmother’s home in Pollachi, realises the presence of
something supernatural in the place. Meanwhile, mysterious murders are
happening in Chennai. How are these seemingly unrelated events connected?
Airaa Movie Review: The title credits
of Airaa plays over an animated sequence that shows the domino effect caused by
a Rube Goldbergian contraption. And the title itself contains butterflies.
These are the clues that director Sarjun offers us, right at the beginning of
his film, to the mystery that is at the centre of his film’s narrative.
When the film begins, we see a couple
of cops in Pollachi answering a distress call in a palatial house only to find
out that the place is haunted. The action then shifts to Chennai, to Yamuna
(Nayanthara), a media professional, who has to put up with a misogynistic NRI,
whom her parents are trying to set her up with, and a boss who is unsympathetic
towards her boredom at writing an Agony Aunt column. She packs off her bags and
moves to Pollachi, particularly the very haunted house that we were shown in
the beginning.
The house is occupied by her visually
challenged grandmother and Mani (Yogi Babu), a help. Soon, eerie events start
happening – creaky doors, rocking chairs, shadowy figures and the works, which
fans of the horror genre are only too familiar with. But the sceptic Yamuna
hits upon an idea and starts making fake haunted house videos to become popular
on YouTube.
Meanwhile, in Chennai, Amudhavan
(Kalaiyarasan, effective), who has lost his beloved Bhavani (Nayanthara, again)
to a road accident, realises that the seemingly unrelated deaths happening
around him could actually be connected to the dead woman. How do these two
storylines intersect, and what is Yamuna’s role in this mystery?
There’s an air of half-heartedness
about Airaa. It wants to be a ghost movie, but it keeps trying to play down the
horror elements. It wants to be a tragedy about an unfortunate character, but
doesn’t want to become too melodramatic. It wants to be a film with a
superstar, but cannot decide if it wants to showcase the star or the actor.
It tries to play around with the
Butterfly Effect concept to make the revenge angle – a staple of horror films –
seem unique, but unfortunately, this attempt backfires. One of the main
problems with the film is that Yamuna is an uninteresting character with no
endearing trait to make us fear for her safety. Yes, she is bold (in an early
scene, we see her putting down a man who tries to slut-shame her), but that
doesn’t feel enough. In fact, with the writing giving her nothing, even
Nayanthara seems jaded.
The characters around Yamuna are also
dull. You only have to see the way Yogi Babu’s character is treated to
understand this. Given how terrific the Nayanthara-Yogi Babu combination was in
Kolamaavu Kokila, it is all the more tragic.
And the writers (Sarjun and Priyanka)
choose to give us the all-important flashback – Bhavani’s backstory – only in
the second half. Bhavani is certainly an empathetic character, but then, when
we get to know why she is after Yamuna, it feels anti-climactic and more
importantly, unfair. To make things worse, the character’s absurd demand in the
end only robs away the goodwill.
There are a couple of moments that are
visually exciting – a shot where things in a room seem to be floating in zero
gravity, and a niftily edited sequence that cross-cuts between the action
happening in two places – and KS Sundaramurthy tries to salvage the film with
his background score, but they aren’t enough.
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