![]() Her performance adds edge to what is ultimately a serviceable film. Thankfully, Bailey doesn’t disappoint as Ariel. (It seems to not have occurred to the objectors that a fictional character does not belong to anyone.) The detractors had no standing, but their outrage fueled the anxious anticipation and expectations around the film. ![]() Their complaints of a nonexistent white erasure are littered across the internet under the hashtag #NotMyAriel. Marshall’s Ariel (Bailey) is Black - a choice that sent scores of people clutching their pearls and reverting to racist protestations. That these already tempered fairytales are retrofitted for contemporary audiences is merely a bonus.Ĭast: Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King, Melissa McCarthy, Javier Bardem, Daveed Diggs For the global conglomerate’s bottom line, remaking classics is worth it. Nostalgia pays in cash, correctives in publicity. The questions raised by this faithful adaptation are familiar, but answering them only matters to an extent. It features new music by Lin-Manuel Miranda and wrings as much as possible from the corporation’s CGI budget. The film sets the right mood here and there, thanks to its technical aspects, like cinematography and music, by Ghibran, whose background score is powerful and intriguing.Īrulnithi's effort to try something inventive is laudable, but Dejavu is certainly not a film you can experience more than once.We’ve been here before, haven’t we? A Disney live-action remake igniting a round of existential debate? This time it’s Rob Marshall‘s interpretation of The Little Mermaid, based on John Musker and Ron Clement’s 1989 version and starring Halle Bailey as the titular sea creature. Madhoo, who plays the role of DGP, tries to hold the film in some places. Every crime thriller needs a convincing climax, where the final reveal resurrects the whole film, but here, it tries really too hard to satisfy the audience and the effort looks pretentious.Īrulnithi's performance is good and he has given what the role demands. Towards the end, we are made to feel that the characters with good intentions weren't confronted with any challenges at all and so, the play they stage becomes a bit insensible and takes the viewers for granted in many instances. The film loses steam as it progresses and makes us wonder about the logical loopholes it conveniently skipped towards the end.ĭirector Arvindh Srinivasan's Dejavu has a good motive at the core, but it fails miserably in packing everything into a sensible screenplay. ![]() Who is this writer, what is the dejavu moment here and what secrets does Arulnithi unravel in his investigation? What starts off as an intriguing episode of a writer appearing at the police station with a unique complaint, doesn't live up to the expectations till the end. The writer predicts every proceeding in the case in his writings as Vikram Kumar starts his investigation. As the writer is held and kept captive, Arulnithi appears as special undercover cop Vikram Kumar, to handle the kidnapping case. That very night, the writer writes a story about a kidnapped girl, and the next day, the DGP's daughter (Smruthi Venkat) gets kidnapped. While he tries to complain to the police that the criminals in the real incidents are threatening him, the police shoo him away dismissing it as a drunkard's babble. Even if the cause is fair enough to seek justice, the play enacted by the victims is not believable and it does not move us in any way.Ī writer (Achyuth Kumar) witnesses all his fictional crime writings happening in real life. But Dejavu tries to defy all rules and gives us a world where anything and everything is possible. ![]() Dejavu Movie Review: Crime thrillers always create a world of their own with certain possibilities and challenges in that particular sphere.
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