Kalavathi Movie Review

Sundar C's Chandrakala has turned out to be an average grosser at the box-office for its comedy and horror elements. Now, the director has come up with sequel version starring Siddharth, Trisha and Hansika as leads. Checkout Kalavathi Movie Review
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Storyline

With his father and Zamindar (Radha Ravi) of the village being hospitalized, Murali (Siddharth) and his fiancé Anitha (Trisha) visits him to take care of him. Meanwhile, a series of mysterious happenings in the palatial house, Murali’s brother and his aides also get attacked by the evil spirit.

Anitha's brother Ravi (Sundar C) enters the house to help out Murali in cracking the mysterious happenings.

The rest of the story is about why Kalavathi seeking a revenge, the flashback and the reason for haunting Murali’s family.

Performances

Siddharth has very understated role, and one wonders why he has taken up this movie, when he always signs up exceptional roles. He has given his best for the role, though he hadn’t had much to do after the flashback sequences.

Trisha is glamorous especially in the beach song, and has performed well though her role was just okay.

Hansika does a convincing job in the title role as Kalavathi, and in a two different roles, she balances her act in emotional as well as horror scenes.

Poonam Bajwa is brief yet significant while Sundar C delivers noteworthy performance. Kovai Sarala, Soori and Manobala fits in their roles.

Technicalities

Hiphop Tamizha's musical scores will appeal to Tamil audiences more, while the background score is a bit loud.

The placement of songs could have been better. Cinematography is neat and suits horror-genre.

Dialogues go with the flow of the movie, while editing by NB Srikanth could have been much better.

Sundar C has come up with a different story, and he tried to present Kalavathi in a similar format as Chandrakala incorporating commercial elements but he was hardly successful this time.

Production values are okay.

Analysis

Like the horror-comedies released in the recent times, Kalavathi also is packed with doses of comedy and scary elements packed with the commercial ingredients. Director Sundar C treated the film similar way as Chandrakala, but the issue is neither comedy nor the horror elements are in right doses or novel.

The film’s screenplay continuously reminds you of Chandrakala which takes away any exciting or thrilling factors, giving you a feel of watch it with a changed title and actors. The narration is highly predictable and neither the characterizations of Siddharth or Trisha are too impressive.

The first half of the film has nothing much to offer except in the pre-interval episodes where the key plot gets revealed. However, the second hour despite its actual plot is quite dragging and hardly has thrilling scenes.

Except for very few comedy sequences and the climax sequences, Kalavathi doesn’t offer much. Watch it if you don’t mind the same horror-comedy format retelling again..

Finally

Kalavathi- Neither Scary nor Funny!

RATING: 2.75/5