KTVI (I just cannot write the full form every time!) goes with the tagline, “A film without a story”. That’s not entirely true. Director Parthipan has made a movie about movie makers who attempt to make a movie and their subsequent challenges. So what’s the need for that tagline? I am still clueless; maybe it should have been “A film without a proper story” - but again that is a relative statement and varies from every viewer!!
I am not going to dissect the movie as it has been already done so (at least partially) by the director himself during it’s course. And if there are any complaints with regards to its narrative structure, then the movie’s tagline would come to it’s rescue! Parthipan is no wonder an interesting personality in Kollywood as he has managed to carve a niche for himself on and off screen. Be it a speech at a public gathering or a literary work like ‘Kirukalgal’ - each work of his would bear his unique stamp. But, the problem is that what he believes to be his strength is also his weakness because he always tends to overdo things such that they become rhetoric at times.
KTVI can be classified partially as a rhetorical work of an enthusiastic director who vents out his frustrations and rants on the humongous hurdles one should overcome in order to churn out a movie, thereby mocking at the Kollywood bureaucracy with the help of a bunch of new faces who are stewarded by ‘Thambi’ Ramaiah who seem to anchor the innings with poise and balance. The movie had so many subplots without a plot. Even the climax is an open ended one where the director feels that today’s audiences are intelligent enough to comprehend according to the context, which he also conveys through his main lead.
Some mixed bag performances from his actors, a bunch of trademark ‘Parthipan one-liners’ and some funky narrative meta-structures with a handful of celebrity cameos (Vishal, Tapsee, Vijay Sethupathy, Arya, Amala Pal and Parthipan himself) made this movie somewhat watchable without much complaints!!
Verdict: Average
Rating: 2.5 / 5
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