Film: Ponmagal Vandhal
Starring: Starring: Jyotika, R Parthieban, K Bhagyaraj
Director: JJ Fredrick
Rating: **1/2
Reviewer: George Sylex
Overview - Ponmagal Vandhal is the first Tamil film to have avdirect OTT premeire. Due to Virus outreak the movie auditoriums are closed, Suriya and Jyotika chose to air Ponmagal Vandhal on Amazon Prime. Though Ponmagal Vandhal seems like a thriller, it talks about a pertinent issue and conveys a message for the Indian crowd. Let's check what is special in this.
The film is set in beautiful locales of Ooty, yet with an extremely dim past. The story is focused on Pethuraj (Bhagyaraj) who revives a case from 2004 that included a sequential killer named, 'Psycho Jyothi' who was indicted for the seizing and murder of five kids and two teens. Pethuraj's girl Venba (Jyotika), a first-time lawyer, takes up the case to draw out reality. All the while, some stunning mysteries get uncovered and challenges are tossed at Venba, who makes a special effort to uncover new data about the case and proceeds to demonstrate Jyothi was certifiably not a killer. She is tested by the Procecuter Rajarathinam, played by Parthiepan. How she carries equity to Jothi structures the remainder of the story.
Till the halfway purpose of the subsequent half, the film adheres to the court kind, however, out of nowhere we see Venba conveying an enthusiastic monolog featuring the torment survivors of rape experience. Presently, this can be contrasted with Ajith's monolog in Nerkonda Paarvai, however, the thing that matters is that it is the end contention in the last mentioned, though, in this film, it precedes we are legitimately persuaded that Jyoti is blameless. Had the monolog been set in the peak, the effect would have been bigger.
The court scenes do not have the high to keep us put yet fortunately the catastrophe in the story makes it fairly watchable. For a thriller about a relentless killer who went after little youngsters, the film isn't sufficiently chilling. By and by, what despite the fact that everything works in the film's kindness is the way that it strikes a forceful enthusiastic harmony with its back-story. Ponmagal Vandhal conveys a significant message against youngster sexual maltreatment, and when a lady talks about it, it turns out to be much progressively hard-hitting.
JJ Fredrick has picked as a film with two significant subjects — the blemishes in our legal framework and youngster misuse. These are exceptionally contacting subjects, yet he may have lost the stunt in settling on some solution for the film. He has two choices — making a court show or making a passionate dramatization. He attempted to adjust the things among both and lost his direction. The film is directly into the subject in the principal scene itself. The principal half has two tracks — the Courtroom drama and the equal track of Venba's battle.
The movie's second half needs to have the steam with a decent number of turns during the time spent the contentions in the court. In any case, each such scene crashes and burns, and even gives you an inclination that the makers didn't attempt to keep it an astonishment or mystery. We discover court drama intriguing when the lead lawyer is shrewd yet for the significant piece of the film, we feel Jyothika as feeble. At places, she goes excessively sermonizing. The last touch to the case is likewise kept basic. A little suspense that comes towards the end increases the value of the film.
My Final Word - Ponmagal Vanthal is a solid film with its content. In any case, if we see this in a film perspective it's hardly any captivating as it's promotions. The main thing we have it in this is just an awareness subject. But the film is watchable for is short running time and homely streaming.
