It is astounding what one powerful performance can do to a film, given the correct contextual compulsion. In this well-written but not-so-effectively executed film, Madhavan, in his second grey outing in a row after Shaitaan, plays Saravan, a born loser who dreams of making a scientific breakthrough while trying to wrestle with imminent insolvency and a wife whom he is about to lose.
Saravan has nothing to lose in life. On the other side of the social fence is Arjun, a superstar test cricketer on the skids played by Siddhanth, who seems to rein in his performance at those very moments when he needed to explode on screen.
Less is not more on this occasion. Not when Siddharth’s adversary is played by Madhavan as a no-holds-barred desperado. Watching the likeable but incomplete portrait of ruination and redemption, I wondered what Test would have been had Siddharth played the character a few octaves higher.
Saravan has nothing to lose in life. On the other side of the social fence is Arjun, a superstar test cricketer on the skids played by Siddhanth, who seems to rein in his performance at those very moments when he needed to explode on screen.
Less is not more on this occasion. Not when Siddharth’s adversary is played by Madhavan as a no-holds-barred desperado. Watching the likeable but incomplete portrait of ruination and redemption, I wondered what Test would have been had Siddharth played the character a few octaves higher.
- 05/04/2025
- por Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
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