Avatharam

My review: Avatharam

"Avatharam", directed by Joshiy starring Dileep and Lakshmi Menon is a bland action thriller that has nothing new to offer. Age old revenge drama with stale romantic -comedy of the first half and cliched action thriller in the second half fails to get off the mark from the word go. Nothing in this movie is new to be seen. Dileep tries to spice up his role from inspirations from his past successful movies but sadly nothing much moves the audience. It is as if everyone has just gone through their motions when they were making this insipid affair.

Other than the distracted Dileep, movie also has Laskhmi Menon riding on her terrific form in Tamil industry in the most banal role of  her career so far. She has sparse screen-space and that too is under-cooked. Others in the cast perfectly fit the contrivances that the writer Vyasan Edavanakkad has let out unabashedly. Technically movie is good, well shot by R.D.Rajasekhar. Deepak Dev's music doesn't have anything to go by as far as the novelty is concerned.  

After the successful "Run Baby Run", Joshiy seems to have stuck on his trough with this one being the third straight washout from him. On the whole, "Avatharam" is boring movie. Period.

Bottomline: A tepid affair. 

2/5