Spoilers ahead…
Read the full review on Film Companion, here: https://www.filmcompanion.in/article/uru-movie-review
In Vicky Anand’s Uru (Fear), Kalaiyarasan plays a writer named Jeevan. Early on, we see him waiting outside a publisher’s office, sweat trickling down his forehead. As it turns out, he needn’t have worried. The publisher loves his manuscript. The interaction between Jeevan and his publisher is replayed over the years. Slowly, we see that his books have stopped selling, his style has become stale. The publisher says readers are tired of Jeevan’s stories about family, love, sentiment. He wants something… different.
This is equally true of the movie-going audience, and one of the most heartening trends in Tamil cinema, over the past few years, is the emergence of young filmmakers who want to cut away from cliché and make different kinds of movies. Uru is about Jeevan’s attempts to write a novel about a killer who sees his murders as art. Jeevan tells his wife, Jenny (Sai Dhanshika), that he’s heading to the hills of Megamalai to complete his book, and as anyone who’s seen a Hollywood thriller about secluded writer (say, The Shining, or Secret Window, which this film reminded me a lot of) will tell you, strange things begin to happen.
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MANK
June 17, 2017
At long last brangan, a Tamil where you have nice things to say about the female lead and her character. At least that would have made the movie worthwhile
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myturner
June 17, 2017
There are indeed a lot of logical holes, but as you said in an earlier post, ‘Baby steps …’ right.
The only thing that let me down was the amateur camera angles and god awful, loud and unecessary background score. I thought many scenes would have been much more effective if there was just ambient sounds and no background score.
PS: Been following your work for a long time, but first time posting a comment. So, hi
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Manikandan
June 18, 2017
well made movie . But Pl read this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush_(2016_film)
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suresh kumar
June 18, 2017
They just remaked hush sir..
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MANK
July 24, 2017
Brangan, i finally caught up with this one. i agree with a lot of what you say, all about the genre thrills. but how is it asks us to make up our own minds ,because everything is explained at the end right. Or am i missing something. because the story within the story stops at a pivotal point and its not proceeded any further. it certainly cannot be Everything begins to go wrong when Jeevan smokes a joint, so here’s Theory No. 1: Maybe it’s all a drug-fuelled dream. because there are hell of a lot of loopholes to the theory
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Isnt it explained in detail that what we say was a novel written by Dhansika that keep replaying in her schizophrenic mind?. it was kind of a shyamalanesque twist, but i didnt mind because it did look plausible if you rewind the events. i think the key in the film is where dhansika’s character is introduced. you see kaliyarasan sitting looking at the ceiling, then camera does quick pan down and she appears as if out of nowhere . both characters being the same person. . one the frustrated writer which is dhansika herself and his wife which in visual form is also her.
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MANK
July 24, 2017
Apropos and one of the most heartening trends in Tamil cinema, over the past few years, is the emergence of young filmmakers who want to cut away from cliché and make different kinds of movies
i look at this situation as it was in hollywood during late 40s and 50’s, where we had the poverty row studios like RKO and republic making these genre B pictures as an alternate to big budget star driven spectacles that the major studios were putting out at the time. some of the great Film noirs and westerns came out of this system and some great filmmakers too.. i feel something similar is happening in tamil cinema now. All these thriller films and light romcoms. as opposed to malayalam film industry where these kind of genre pictures were always been made in the mainstream
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brangan
July 24, 2017
MANK: I do say “following one theory results in gaping holes in others.” 🙂
The ending “explains” it all, yes. But if you choose the “drug-fuelled dream” theory, then the end is part of this dream…
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MANK
July 24, 2017
Man , then that’s some dream .he transfers all his frustrations, all his insecurities on to his nagging wife . phew,! if he has that much resentment against his wife. then that’s the most horrifying aspect of the film
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