Plot
Director narrates that this movie is about the struggle of people at tea plantation before independence.Story revolves around the young town crier who begs for his livelihood and with no reason the heroine falls for him.As usual whole village against their love so hero decides to search job and falls in the way of a overseer of tea plantation,he deceives protagonist and the whole village.The whole village falls in the trap of whimsical overseer and the people in the plantation were been badly exploited.Then the rest of movie is about the difficulties and the struggle met by the people and how protagonists tries to escape from that place.
Screenplay
An usual story of a realistic exploitation film we have seen through ages but it lacks pace.Although its not an usual mainstream movie but the christian conversion scenes was added purposefully and handled poorly.People lost their patience at many times particularly the scenes before climax.Except climax the movie don't contain single scene to applaud.Not even a single point of brilliance in screenplay in the whole movie.
Screen play is very straight forward and predictable one only climax scene has some class in it.
Performances
Bala was always known his characterizations and extracting performance from actors and this movie is also not an exception.Stellar performances from leading protagonist Adharva murali who lived up-to his character without over acting. Vedika,Thansikka and all other junior artists of the village and tea plantation lived to their characters. But the director able to get only amateur performance from the foreign junior artists since they were not to the subject of cruel methods in acting.
Music
Neither songs or BGM makes impact even though GV.Prakash hugely praised for his versatility in works for periodic film like Madrasapatinam. Re-Recording is average and not synced with movie at some parts and no one will have a feel of a periodic film.
Cinematography
Average one and very low saturation level of color makes us to feel whether its a color movie or black and white.
Final word
Not hard hitting and a average movie with average screenplay the movie with few crappy dialogues the movie can be credited only for the team's hard-work and performance of the characters.Not even nearer to the levels of Naan - Kadavul, a mile stone in directors career.The movie is only for the people who were not aware about the exploitation of plantation workers before independence.
My Rating
5/10