Kavan movie Review
‘Kavan’ in the first half takes you deep backstage to rip open how the Television channels work and how everything you see on air from a dance show to a one on one talk show is manipulated to work to the advantage of the owners and their nexus with politicians. In the second half it is gratifying to watch the heroes win not by physically fighting the antagonists but beating them at their own games. The dialogues are bold and striking and each character has its own distinctive style of speech which enhances the viewing.
On the downside the pace in the second half nosedives and stays low only to rise again in the climax. The entire second half is one huge sequence actually and it is a bit taxing on the viewer. The Channel Head-Politician duo who are shown as power heads in the first half just puff and fume in the second while the underdogs take them for a ride all too easily.
Hip Hop Tamizha Aadhi has once again provided a remarkable background score and nobody goes for the doors during any of his songs with the Bharathiyar number going down well with the crowd. Abhinandan Ramanujam’s cinematography, especially in the second half is excellent in giving the right feel for the different versions of the sequences of events. Antony’s smooth cuts play out well throughout and when one hears that the climax footage was five hours credit to him indeed for keeping proceedings fairly exciting. Writers Subha, Kabilan and K. V. Anand has dished out a well researched screenplay on their chosen subject and the powerful dialogues compliment it. K. V. Anand has once again delivered his brand of commercial cinema, but what makes ‘Kavan’ special is he has come closer to hitting the target in communicating the story he set out to tell.
