Production: Ayngaran International

Direction: SP Jananathan

Star-casts: Jeyam Ravi, Roland Kickinger, Vadivelu, Oorvasi, Ponvannan, Dhanushika, Liyashree, Saranya, Varsha, Vasundhara and others.

Music: Vidhyasagar

What makes SP Jananathan to opt for such storylines? He was really brilliant with his previous film ‘Ee’ that had the right mix of commercial ingredients and social messages. Of course, ‘Peranmai’ goes inclusive of these factors, but with compulsory treatment. Say, for example, it’s not the right way to use Vadivelu or Hollywood’s stunning actor Roland Kickinger.

First things first, we must appreciate SP Jananathan for having done a deep research over forest regions (Jeyam Ravi keeps explaining about every aspects of foreign life, from Elephant’s dung to birds flying and its implication). Fine! But that doesn’t make the film exceeding your expectations.

One would really wonder how come a person like Ravi can just bump off Roland Kickinger merely within 35secs. Sounds ludicrous, isn’t? Even the heftiest guys with weapons are running for their lives when empty-handed girls chase them.

It’s almost like a 5-yr old child polishing the storyline of Hollywood ‘Rambo’. Naturally, you understand the way they tell your tales – The Hero jumps from the tree and attack the villain – Dishyum Dishyum – picks the knife and kills him.

The film is about Druva (Ravi), a forest officer hailing from a tribal community and he’s always deprived by his higher official Ganapathy Ram (Ponvannan). Druva has to train the college students of NCC and selects five students (Dhanushika, Liyarshri, Saranya, Varsha and Vasundhara). The girls are so tough and never respect Druva, because of his tribal origin. On a forest visit, they witness few terrorists from foreign country are planning to devastate the Indian spacecraft to be launched in the forest.

Now with one night left to save the spacecraft, Druva and 5 other girls have to fight at their best and shatter down the foreigners’ plans.

Jeyam Ravi does justice to his role and especially we’ve got to appreciate him for his bold act of appearing in semi-nude. His physique is extraordinary and it’s better if he opts for such challenging roles. But how come Jananathan could just draw weak characterizations on Oorvasi, Vadivelu, Ponvannan and even Roland Kickinger.

What’s going on over the screens becomes a kind of confusion at many points? It’s an action adventure and you don’t even see a single ‘Thrill’ factor. The film boasts more about the hero’s knowledge over all the weapons and even spacecrafts. Most of the time is wasted by demonstrating the machine guns. A puny girl handling the heavy weapons placed on her shoulder is completely silly.

Musical score by Vidhyasagar doesn’t help for film’s moment and cinematography by Satish is extraordinary. Kalyan Krishnan’s screenplay is completely disappointing.

Finally, ‘Peranmai’ doesn’t offer anything special, expect bringing us exotic locations of forests.

Verdict: Highly disappointing
Richard Mahesh