June 08, 2009 APK
Rating - ??
Cast: Charmme, Manjula, Shashank and others.
Music: Manu Ramesan.
Direction: Karuna Prakash.
Producer: Sanjay Swarup.
Banner: Indira Productions Pvt. Ltd.
Release Date: June 05, 2009.
Don't read it. It's not even that interesting. But in case you are interested in screechy women, catfights, painfully happy families (where you know something bad is going to happen)-then maybe Kavya's Diary is for you. Intensive theraphy is also for you.
Pooja has a loving husband and two little kids, is friends with her husband's ex-girlfriend and a gardener named Athidi. They get a dog named Snoopy but Snoopy dies, and somehow an unemployed ex-call centre employee comes her way and takes up a job in her house as the children's nanny. Kavya and Pooja hit it off and there's a whole lot of female bonding when Pooja's brother-in-law proposes to Kavya-and gets killed in a hit-and-run case. Who killed him? Kavya..
Okay, so great suspense and the story unfolds and you can't wait to find out what happened after the break. Chances are, you'd have fallen asleep in the first 20 minutes where the family bonding had to be established. Why, why oh why? It's boring beyond belief, and you are praying for the story to begin. The pace is too slow for a thriller, the dialouges are amatuerish, the direction-editing is not slick enough for a thriller and the climax could have had a better build up for it to have any impact whatsoever.
There's a storyline, there's a feminist issue and there are characters and relationships. That much is fine to begin with, but how you mould it and how the direction turns out, how the subject is treated is more important and this is where the movie woefully fails to engage the audience. For the pace and treatment, it could have been a movie about a happy family, husband-wife troubles/outsider in the marriage and sorting out those through patience and love. That could have worked. Murder mystery and psychopath involvement? Nope, not happening.
The movie only works in parts, but in entirety it doesn't gel. There are a few moments, like when the gardener sees the nanny nurse the baby, the way she renovates the kids' room and when Pooja realizes why and a bit and piece here or there. Background is jarring while two of the songs are nice.
Performance-wise, no one leaves a mark, and Charmme is just okay too. The movie just doesn't thrill and therefore cannot be said to have done justice to that genre.
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