Staples like the intro song or the action scenes feel awfully stale and the less said about the romantic track and its development (or lack of) between Suriya and Nayanthara, the better. But at least the filmmaker should work on the elements to make the narrative flow entertaining. For instance, Premgi says spirits don’t go to temples but he does and later on we find out he is one. I have no issue with the formulaic entertainer or even lack of logic. This when the second part of the film is a notch better with at least some plotting and the odd interesting twist but by then its bland going ons fail to engage you.ĭon’t get me wrong. OK, he might have attempted a type new to Tamil cinema, but it’s finally the complete film that counts and MEM fails miserably in its execution. Lazy writing, tacky CG and a terribly weak first half pretty much sound the death knell for the rest of the film. Unsurprisingly, the final result is a half-baked hotchpotch of a product going nowhere. In MEM, he combines the horror-comedy genre – the film owes a lot to The Frighteners (1996), Ghost Town (2008) and the Korean film Hello Ghost (2010) amongst others – with a formulaic revenge drama that’s been done to death. Little wonder then, his films are becoming little more than a collage of obvious crowd pleasing commercial items and in-house Tamil film jokes put together haphazardly and edited most jerkily in the hope of boosting a flimsy narrative, which is then put together by mishmashing from various films.
He leaves behind a man who claims to make not films but instead dishes out diets ( Biriyani (2013)) and aims to hit sixes ( Massu Engira Masilamani). Venkat Prabhu, the once extremely promising filmmaker ( Chennai 600028 (2007)), is dead. I think I can finally say it though I was hoping I did not have to. And among the ghosts is his father, Sakthi (Suriya again), who was brutally murdered by the villains… After a nearly fatal accident, petty conman of the streets, Masilamani (Suriya), realizes he can interact with ghosts who need their incomplete wishes fulfilled.
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