Achchamundu Achchamundu Review 1

Firstly, I would like to appreciate Arun Vaidyanathan for bringing technical revolution to Tamil Cinema at contemporary times. Of course, he had pioneered with the concept of ‘Red One Camera’ over here. Perhaps, it was really great to heed for the appreciations rendered to this film across various film festivals.

But, it’s different when it comes to analyzing the film ‘Acchamundu Acchamundu’. Moreover, I just would like to refer this film to a Hollywood movie titled ‘When a Stranger Calls’. I’m sure this isn’t a remake or nothing more off same conceptualization. Both the films have good concept on the papers but failed on the screenplay.

One thing Arun Vaidyanathan should’ve done is ‘Market Research and Audiences’ Psychology of South Indian people.

Senthil (Prasanna) with an executive job in New Jersey leads a happy life with his wife (Sneha) and child Rinku. Here enters a painter Robinson (John Shea) who’s basically a psychotic person interested in child abuse of sexual harassment. How Senthil saves his child from the evil plans forms crux of the story.

On the performance line, Prasanna hasn’t done anything more appreciable. Director Arun Vaidyanathan has just made the performers to enunciate English with ‘Stupid American slang’. Most of the times, their mannerisms looks more artificial and rest of the characterizations caricatured.

John Shea looks so pudden-head in his acts and maybe Arun has tried depicting him so naturally.

Karthik Raja’s musical score is just mediocre and background score by Martio is somewhat good. Of course, Arun has tried to scare the children and few weak-hearted audiences with loud music and sound editing by Kunal.

If the filmmaker had intentions about passing on a social message, he could’ve made a short film or documentary. But why drag so long for couple of hours and finally project the computerized presentation.

So, ‘Acchamundu Acchamundu’ has only limited probabilities of surviving in the box office as it fails to impress the B and C centres. As well miniscule audiences and some wannabe filmmakers would appreciate Arun Vaidyanathan for some technical achievements.

Verdict: Average

Richard Mahesh

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Achchamundu Achchamundu Review 2

Achchamundu! Achchamundu!, written and directed by Arun Vaidyanathan tells the story of a middle class Tamil family settled in New Jersey as they ran into problems after a stranger enters their house for painting work.

In this film director neatly narrates a story about a common menace in our society, sexual abuse on children.

Achchamundu! Achchamundu!, starring Prasanna, Sneha and award winning American actor John Shea, is the first Indian film shot with highly sophisticated “red one” high definition camera.

Don’t expect any hi-fi fighting sequence or hero/heroine dancing with 100+ dancers filled with multi color dresses in exotic locations. It is a very simple story presented it a very simple way. So it may not satisfy everybody as it doest have any super hero type actions or highly glamorous scenes.

But Achchamundu! Achchamundu tells a simple and realistic story presented in a beautiful way.

Verdict : Worth Watching

UMM