Yaan Review – is a Tamil action thriller released in 2014. Chandru is happily unemployed and enjoys life. When he meets Sreela he immediately falls in love with her, but is forced to find a job if he has to marry her. The job Chandru takes puts him into a life threatening situation. Will he be able to come out of the situation and marry Sreela is the plot of Yaan.
Well Yaan has good casting, brilliant cinematography, great stunts, decent plot but the thread that connects all these together in the form of screenplay and characterization is missing. It takes more than half the movie for the audience to figure out what the conflict is. And still at the end of the movie I was left wondering if it was love or drug trafficking. The climax is absolutely ridiculous. Cinematographer turned director Ravi K. Chandran has a lot potential to make some visually stunning movies. If he partners with some good screen writers he would be able to make very good movies. Some of the visual sequences you would love in the movie are the initial fight sequence, the way the hero recreates his encounter with the heroine, the song sequences and the stunt choreography.
Overall if you are seeing sequences from Yaan in isolation it looks good but when put together in a product it would make you yawn. If you are a fan of stunning visuals and stunts watch this at home or else you would not miss much.
Can Skip it
When I saw the trailer, I wondered if they are trying too many things and in the end I might be left without a clue what I watched 😀
You are right… 🙂 They seem to have lost the plot in the urge for doing great visuals….. Writing should be done by a separate department in Indian movies as in the case of many western movie industries…. It used to be like that in olden times but somewhere in between the whole thing changed… Even better would be if they are converting existing literature or novels into screenplays that way we could develop a good ecosystem of writers….
I would think that it is mainly because people just need something or anything for the weekend – and so they will manage with some actor’s son’s wife’s brother’s son’s friend’s wife’s father’s brother who will be made the writer 😀
True … 😀 I was recently in a screenwriter workshop and met with some actual screenwriters like Sridhar Raghavan (Dum Maaro Dum, Bluff Master), Charudutt Acharya (dialogues of Dum Maaro Dum, Jassi jaise koi nahi, his directorial venture Sonali Cable is releasing this week) and the way they approach the plot development is very different… But we don’t have that many popular screen writers for Indian Cinema nowadays one of the reason is the screen writers in Indian cinema do not have the empowerment like how the Hollywood movies have… For instance the screen writers in India cannot suggest shots in other words they are curtailed from imagining the movie visually… But in Hollywood movies they have a full freedom to do that and it can be used or overridden by the director and cinematographer… Only very few directors like Anurag Kashyap is very talented in the screen writing space as well… and few directors like Shankar and Rajamouli have a very talented screenwriting crew which helps them produce successful movies…
I was looking forward to Sonali Cable, but not releasing here.
Really there are very less releases this week as next week is for biggies…
Yes, but nobody knows what all strange movies are in theatre this weekend, most of them not heard about 😀
including Main Hoon Rajinikanth 😀
That is indeed extremely dangerous 😀
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