Filmmaker Shakti Sundar Rajan continues his mission of creating Kollywood caricatures of popular Hollywood movies… but why?
Filmmaker Shakti Sundar Rajan continues his mission of creating Kollywood caricatures of popular Hollywood movies… but why?
Let us imagine a pub quiz, in which participants are asked to guess the name of a movie based on a one-line description.
Quizmaster: The hero has to survive a zombie attack.
Participant: i’m great,
Quiz Master: No.
Participant 2: night of the Living Dead,
Quiz Master: No.
Participant 3: domestic wicked, dropping out, land of the Dead,
Quizmaster: No, no, no more. The answer is right miruthana,
Quizmaster: Okay, next one. A man, who is not an astronomer, is asked to destroy an asteroid associated with Earth.
Participants 1, 2, and 3: Armageddon!
Quiz Master: No.
Participant (surprised): Then?!
Quizmaster (with a cheeky smile): tik tik tik tok The answer is right.
Quizmaster: Moving on… a teddy bear looking like this (pointing to a picture on his phone) comes alive and befriends the protagonist-
Participant 1: This ted,
Quiz Master: No.
Participant 1 (upset angry): Man, you showed me the photo too. I’m pretty sure that’s what a teddy bear looks like Ted.
Quiz Master: Close enough. but the correct answer is teddy,
At this point, the contestants regret signing up for the quiz with a staunch Shakti Saunders Rajan fan and exiting the pub.
with your latest captainheavily. Inspired by Cruel, Shakti continues its mission of creating Kollywood caricatures of popular Hollywood movies.
“But why?” you can ask. Completely understandable.
This is a question that will be best answered by the director himself. But in this day and age, when our audiences have easy access to Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters with the best visual effects, revisiting a cult monster flick from the ’80s seems counterintuitive. Why would someone want to buy adidas sneakers when they already have original adidas sneakers?
Ripping off, per se, isn’t the problem. A filmmaker can also steal an idea or plot – but whether or not he does with it matters. Quentin Tarantino, for example, felt thorns (Hindi version of his cult classic, reservoir Dogs) “was fantastic. However, the power has taken the basis of Cruel And made it boring.
main problem of captain Does it fail to arouse any sense of dread? In monster movies half the battle is won if the creature looks like Horrible. one in captain, called the Minotaur (because it resembles a Greek mythological animal), has an interesting anatomy. Its body consists of a small, detachable spider-like part that can emit bio-radar waves that, among other things, can control the human mind. Its saliva can cause short-term memory loss. But due to the low-budget visual effects, the Minotaur looks like monsters. Shaktiman,
More than VFX, however, the film falls flat due to insufficient scripting. There are some interesting ideas; For example, the protagonist, Captain Vetri Selvan (Arya), is an orphan. He considers his team as his family. the idea of how he has people who are willing to sacrifice themselves for him sound To touch. But Shakti expresses it through a montage song with expository lines (spoken by stone-faced Arya) and moments of general joy (one wonders why Arya and Co. are a school rather than a high-risk operations team. in summer camp). All characters are underwritten. Aishwarya Laxmi gets wasted in a cameo. Even Simran, who plays a slightly bigger role, does little to keep us in the film. Just because the story is set in the backdrop of an army, the director attempts to throw some symbolic patriotic line in a scene that seems completely unnecessary.
When captain ends (in two hours, thankfully), you partly wish the creature spits at you so you can forget to see it. But Shakti shut it down with a promise of screams. now, He Creates a sense of fear.
Captain is currently playing in theaters