Zombie Movie Review Rating: 2.5/5
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Cast:
Yogi Babu, Yaashika Anand, Sudhakar, Gobi, Anbuthasan, Bijili Ramesh, TM Karthik
Direction:
Bhuvan Nullan R
Production:
M.Vasanth, V.Muthu Kumar
Music:
Premji Amaran
This was one such Friday. Zombie has everything that a film shouldn’t have. It’s offensive, insensitively-made and painfully boring.
Bhuvan R Nullan seems to have focused more on Yashika Aannand’s cleavage and TM Karthik’s crotch than the script. The characters couldn’t really make out what they were doing on the screen. Oh, there’s Yogi Babu, who mouths ‘funny things’ like, ‘Andrea saapaadu’ (read: Android software) and ‘ice phone’ (read: iPhone) and so on. For a change, he name-calls others, referring to them as ‘Kizhinja Moonji’, and the like. (In most of the films, he is at the receiving end). Basically, Yogi Babu’s character doesn’t give two hoots about offending others. But what does he do? (Please, figure out. Hey, do you really want to?) By the way, the lip sync is appalling, and his portions look as if it were partly dubbed.
I hear that you ask me what is the story. There’s no such thing. A bunch of men and women find themselves stuck in a resort and turn into zombies. A few of these awfully-written characters think their wives, girlfriends and mothers are enemies. How do they vent their frustration? They pour their hearts out over a beer. They are first laughed at and later laughed with.Yogi Babu name-drops several of his previous films, including director Sam Anton and actor Vijay Sethupathi as well. It is lazy acting, or is it a given now that the fourth wall will inevitably be broken in every one of Babu’s films? He makes references to Bijili Ramesh’s inability to mouth dialogues or dub his content without mistakes, and it is surprising considering how Babu’s own dubbing is subpar. It also appears that the dialogues were significantly fine tuned at the dubbing stage (considering the overlap), and that raises questions about what material was used as reference while filming.
Yashika Aannand is used as eye candy. The many voyeuristic shots reinforces that notion, and it is easy to lose count on the number of slow motion shots that involve her. And yet, there are more offensive content in this film which tests a viewer’s patience. It raises the question as to why or how such culturally disrespectful and insignificant movies get made. What rationale is applied to justify the use of such underwhelming content and pass it off as entertainment?
But there is a way Tamil film industry can avoid such treacherous roadblocks in the future, and it involves the film certification board.If you have to go through the 2-hour ordeal and still find out some good takeaways, well it isn’t much apart from the interval block and the endnotes; Premji is clueless in the music department, composing mass music for zombie clashes is alright, but does it do the justice for a flashy yogibabu? We all know why Yaashika is in the movie, her oomph factor is supposedly targeted to lure the youth.