Saravanan runs a unique business in town by arranging for the required number of cash-for-presence audience for any type of event and falls in love with Maya at first sight. When she comes to Saravanan to avail his business services and aided by further run-ins, the bond grows deeper and she falls for him as well. Unfortunate circumstances make them part ways which also leads Saravanan to go in search of his estranged Father and puts him through a host of unexpected situations which sets up the rest of the movie.
Language:
Tamil
Running Time:
146 min
Rating:
U
Release date:
15 January 2015
Directed by:
Sundar C
Produced by:
Kushboo Sundar
Vishal
Sundar C
Written by:
Radhakrishnan
S. B. Ramadas
Sundar C
Starring:
Vishal
Hansika Motwani
Prabhu
Vaibhav Reddy
Santhanam
Ramya Krishnan
Sathish
Pradeep Rawat
Kiran Rathod
Music by:
Hiphop Tamizha
Shot by:
Gopi Amarnath
Editing by:
N. B. Srikanth
Distributed by:
Avni Cinemax

What’s Hot

  • As with any movie that features the new age comedy wizard, Santhanam, this movie doesn’t disappoint in giving that load of fun and flair that you expect. His role as a cop and his misadventures take us back to the golden days of Goundamani in ‘JaiHind’! With actors like Satish, Manobala and even ‘Kanal’ Kannan in the mix, the movie never falls short of the trademark uninhibited humour.
  • Sundar C’s knack of being able to woo the family audience with some strong family values at as the core and deploying an enjoyable cocktail of deception, impersonation and mistaken identities to weave in a fiercely paced screenplay, has again helped him rake in the moolah with the movie running to packed shows even in the second week – all this amidst stiff competition from big movies!

What’s Not

  • The story or rather the lack of a strong one is the single largest factor contributing to a progressively deteriorating movie experience. Be it the poorly perceived idea of romance between the lead pair or the indifferent way in which family\love bonding are forged or broken or the objectionable depiction of women in a movie certified for universal viewing – the intelligence of the audience is insulted and the time spent by them disregarded.
  • When you think 40 vehicles filled with goons looking to strike down three unarmed Ladies is unreal enough, the ‘Hero’ blasts them all through some stunt sequences which are unfathomable – All this for no significant leverage on the movie, seems just too hard to forgive!
  • The major bulk of the songs scored in the movie have an uncanny resemblance to each other – partly because the voices are rendered by singers with little or no Tamil diction and largely because of the levels of noise they generate in comparison to the music. Sounds are too cluttered and every single one of the songs is so frenetically jarring.

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Aambala is a typical passé commercial family entertainer type of a movie that cares less about the integrity of the story and utilizes or rather blatantly abuses artistic freedom to such levels of absurdity that will make most of us cringe to leave us disappointed and bemused!