Bangalore Natkal

My review: Bangalore Natkal

"Bommarillu" Baskar is a close friend of M.Raja, who is one of the best at remakes in tamil movie industry. Baskar seem have imbibed a lot from his friend as well which is evident in his "Bangalore Natkal" which is a  remake of last year's Malayalam blockbuster "Bangalore Days". Baskar has improvised the script written by Anjali Menon in a more pacier and interesting manner suited for the tamil audience. He is a master of handling family oriented emotions and conflicts which shows this time too.

"Bangalore Natkal" is faithful to the original in its storyline, emotions and settings while I found it to be more focused keeping the viewers' interest intact unlike the more laborious original. The major doubt that was pitched against this remake was its casting whether they would able to do justice to the steller cast of the original. But amazingly the cast of this movie have done a pretty decent job of it all. Another striking aspect of the movie is its dialogues. The humorous oneliners work like a dream. In fact these oneliners are an important factor that masks the weakest link of the cast, Bobby Simha, instead projecting him in a better light. 

Sri Divya's character is the central fulcrum around which the plot is woven and she has done brilliant job of it. It is not an easy job fitting in to a character that Nazriya played so wonderfully well in the original, but she has done just that. Nowhere in the movie would you feel that she has not done justice to the role. She is just terrific. Arya is also good in his role of Arjun who is constantly fighting with the scars of his childhood. Bobby Simha gets all the best oneliners of the movie through which he kind of passes muster. Rana Daggubati is good while Parvathy is brilliant as ever. This role she would do in her half sleep with elan. The support cast is chosen with care and they have done their parts very well. Saranya is top class in the role made memorable by late Kalpana.

Technically the movie is more glossier and richer than the original while Gopi Sunder continues the terrific job he did with the original. 

On the whole, in my opinion "Bangalore Natkal" is livelier, richer and faster than the original that keeps you interested. I liked it more than the original which was sluggish and boring.

Bottomline: Improvised remake.

3.5/5