Spoilers ahead…
The trailer of Doss Ramasamy’s Dora brought to mind the Stephen King haunted-car story, Christine, which became a John Carpenter movie. But what we have here is the acknowledgement of an entirely different kind of superpower: the heroine’s.
Nayanthara gets the kind of “glorifying” dialogue usually delivered by the hero’s sidekick to keep the hero’s fans whistling. Her father, Vairakannu (Thambi Ramaiah), says there’s no one like her in south India. And isn’t that true? Which other actress today is capable of getting the trade excited about a film that has her as the protagonist, with no leading man? At this point in her career, Nayanthara is putting the “hero” in “heroine”.
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Balasubramanian Ramakrishnan
March 31, 2017
Excerpts from Take Off’s review are appearing here. Any glitch?
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sreedharpuliyakote
March 31, 2017
Dora title with Take-off review?
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vishal yogin
March 31, 2017
Not released in Bombay 😦 ;(
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praneshp
March 31, 2017
Thanks for singling out Thambi Ramiah!
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vishal yogin
March 31, 2017
Sorry, I just checked again, and on bookmyshow, it says Dora is released as a Telugu movie on one screen in bombay? So is that a telugu dub or remake? hmm
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Shankar
April 1, 2017
Can I say this? Thambi Ramiah is turning out to be very annoying. He is desperately trying to replace the void left by Vadivelu…by trying to duplicate him! Alas, it is very annoying…
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Phani
April 1, 2017
I need one information – do small children allowed to watch this movie in multiplexes
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Phani
April 1, 2017
I got answer.called multiplexes, they replied children are not allowed
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Phani
April 1, 2017
Hi BR, I had no hopes on this movie. But after reading review, decided to watch movie and booked tickets as well 🙂
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Venky
April 2, 2017
BR, We’re a bit disappointed with your tagline for this review which is quite unlike the other spot-on reviews we’ve seen from you this far. Going by the tagline “A surprisingly well-written (and emotionally solid) horror film” – this is not a well-written nor an emotionally solid movie. It is also not a horror movie but a badly made revenge movie, with themes from the 70s (cue 3 villains without any character depth) and an inspector who’s angry for no real reason. Nayanthara and Thambi Ramiah are the only reasons to see this movie, and in that sense, she kicks ass.
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Balaji Sivaraman
April 2, 2017
Hard to disagree with what Venky has said above. I went for this one solely based on BR’s tagline, and I don’t think I’ve ever been this disappointed before for that decision. During the film’s second half, the only thought in my mind was to go read BR’s review and try to understand why he found it “well-written”, “emotionally solid” and a horror film. I will agree with the badassery of the heroine. For that reason alone, I’ll watch a thousand Doras rather than one Singam III.
But that doesn’t dispel the feeling of disappointment when a movie with that tagline from BR turns out to be such a dud. It’s a new feeling. One that I’ve never experienced before. 😦
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