Buffoon

If you want ro really waste time in your life, watch this film. The acting by all the actors are all so bad. The director made a debut through this film and I hope this might be his last film. Stone bench productions seem to have lot of money that they thought they could give away 10 Crore and waste on this film. Overall the music is very bad from a reputed music director, screenplay at it worst. Infact there's no such thing called screenplay. Film is dead slow and you will know for sure what will be the next scene. Overall to summarize, producers who choose to float their money through this film has succeeded. We're failed.

Ashok Veerappan's debut directorial Buffoon is an engaging thriller that explores how far an ordinary man will go to save his life. Kumaran (Vaibhav) and Muthaiah (Anthakudi Ilaiyaraja) dream of going abroad, for which they need to scramble a lakh each. So they temporarily begin working as lorry drivers. But when they somehow get entangled in a drug trafficking case, their struggle to find a way out forms the rest of the film's plot. The film manages to address multiple issues through Kumaran and the people living in his orbit. Kumaran is a theru koothu kalaignan (street play artist), and is putting up a street play when we are introduced to him. Through subtle details and sequences in passing, the film manages to highlight the issues faced by such artists, who are often strapped for money. Buffoon also touches upon the issues of Sri Lankan refugees, mainly through Ilaiyaa (Anagha), Kumaran's love interest. The film's ability to seamlessly shift from the issues of street play artists to the personal problems of Kumaran, who battles a drug mafia, and a bigger political game, is how its screenplay shines.

Though the director has worked with sensible movie maker Karthik Subbaraj. Couldn't believe this is his first movie as director. Ashok Veerappan bro, you have great future. I wish you achieve great heights. I saw this movie and was predicting the climax but I was wrong because you had good multiple twists. (Fact is every human keep changing their decisions when they are behind money) You have explained "GREED" very well. What I liked the most in the movie other than the climax is, the escape journey to Kerala and how he returned to back to TN lawyer house. Pulling Joju sir to this role was awesome, I loved the father role and his acting should be appreciated. Police character, he was good asusual. In the previous movies of Vaibhav's, he has been chilling and casual. In this movie, he was serious and confused state of mind. His acting was also good.

What could have been better: His friend missed somehow in the ocean, all of a sudden he is returned. This line could be done better.

All the best to the crew for upcoming projects.

RATED 7/10 Language: Tamil Source: Netflix

The movie is decent thriller with its own flaws. The best part of the movie is it is not boring at any moment and no speed breakers in the name of sentiment and romance.

The negative point is that the pain and situation of hero is not conveyed to the audience, may be because of lack of character development.

Another problem in the story is that the morality of each character is changing on each sequence. The romance and refugee backdrop is just used for logic in the screenplay.

With all these flaws it has some witty moments with Ilayaraja (Muthaiya).

A very decent make, especially on the srilanka issues, the story and screenplay is all good, for cinema observer, not for cinema critics. Seems like the actor couldn't give life to his role, he could have done better. Very decent and strong dialogues on politicals matters, literally very bold dialogues. I liked the interval dialogue. I like the hype and the showtime of Joju Gorge. Director's very daring attempt on his debut with whatever provided to him he's done a decent job. Contents like this needs better freedom on the creative side and to my surprise the production seems chill,Production should have done more to this film.