Filmmaker Shakti Soundar Rajan continues his mission of constructing Kollywood caricatures of common Hollywood movies… however why?
Filmmaker Shakti Soundar Rajan continues his mission of constructing Kollywood caricatures of common Hollywood movies… however why?
Allow us to think about a pub quiz, whereby the contributors are requested to guess the film’s identify primarily based on a one-line description.
Quizmaster: The protagonist has to outlive a zombie assault.
Participant: I Am Legend!
Quizmaster: Nope.
Participant 2: Evening of the Residing Useless?
Quizmaster: No.
Participant 3: Resident Evil? Shaun of the Useless? Land of the Useless?
Quizmaster: Nope, nope, and nope. The fitting reply is Miruthan.
Quizmaster: Okay, subsequent one. A man, who just isn’t an astronomer, known as upon to destroy an earthbound asteroid.
Contributors 1, 2, and three: ARMAGEDDON!
Quizmaster: Nope.
Contributors (stunned): Then?!
Quizmaster (with a cheeky smile): Tik Tik Tik is the proper reply.
Quizmaster: Shifting on… A teddy bear that appears like this (factors to a photograph on his cellphone) comes alive and befriends the protagon–
Participant 1: It’s Ted!
Quizmaster: Nope.
Participant 1 (visibly aggravated): Dude, you even confirmed me the picture. I’m rattling certain that’s how the teddy bear seems in Ted.
Quizmaster: Shut sufficient. However the appropriate reply is Teddy.
At this level, the contributors remorse signing up for the quiz with a hardcore Shakti Soundar Rajan fan and stroll out of the pub.
Together with his newest Captain, closely impressed from Predator, Shakti continues his mission of constructing Kollywood caricatures of common Hollywood movies.
“However why?” it’s possible you’ll ask. Fully comprehensible.
It’s a query that can be greatest answered by the director himself. However at the present time, when our audiences have quick access to the largest of Hollywood blockbusters with the very best visible results, it appears counterproductive to rehash a cult monster flick from the ‘80s. Why would somebody need to purchase Adibas sneakers once they have already got entry to the unique Adidas ones?
Ripping off, per se, just isn’t the issue. A filmmaker can steal an concept and even the plot – however what she or he does with it issues. Quentin Tarantino, for example, felt Kaante (the Hindi model of his cult traditional, Reservoir Canines) was “fabulous.” Shakti, nevertheless, has taken the premise of Predator and made it boring.
The primary drawback of Captain is it fails to evoke any sense of dread. In monster motion pictures, half the battle is received if the creature seems terrifying. The one in Captain, referred to as Minotaur (as a result of it seems just like the Greek legendary beast), has an attention-grabbing anatomy. Its physique has a small, removable spider-like half, which might emit bio-radar waves that may, amongst different issues, management human minds. Its saliva could cause short-term reminiscence loss. However as a consequence of low-budget visible results, Minotaur seems like monsters from Shaktimaan.
Greater than the VFX, nevertheless, the movie falls flat due to an insufficient screenplay. There are a couple of attention-grabbing concepts; for example, the protagonist, Captain Vetri Selvan (Arya), is an orphan. He considers his group his household. The thought of how he has people who find themselves keen to sacrifice themselves for him sounds touching. However Shakti conveys this by way of expository traces (uttered by a stone-faced Arya) and a montage track with generic glad moments (one puzzled if Arya and Co are in a college summer season camp as an alternative of a high-risk operations group). All of the characters are underwritten. Aishwarya Lekshmi is wasted in a cameo. Even Simran, who performs a barely larger function, does little to maintain us invested within the movie. Simply because the story is ready in a military backdrop, the director makes an attempt to throw in some token patriotic line in a scene that feels completely pointless.
When Captain ends (in two hours, fortunately), you partly want the creature spat at you so you’ll be able to overlook watching it. However Shakti closes it with the promise of a squeal. Now, that evokes a way of dread.
Captain is at present operating in theatres