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Buffoon

  • 2022
  • 1h 59m
IMDb RATING
5.0/10
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Buffoon (2022)
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Rangarajan, a powerful casteist politician confronts the party leader for MLA seat and if denied warns to start a separate party. How far will he go to see it happen?Rangarajan, a powerful casteist politician confronts the party leader for MLA seat and if denied warns to start a separate party. How far will he go to see it happen?Rangarajan, a powerful casteist politician confronts the party leader for MLA seat and if denied warns to start a separate party. How far will he go to see it happen?

  • Director
    • Ashok Veerappan
  • Writer
    • Ashok Veerappan
  • Stars
    • Vaibhav Reddy
    • Anagha L.K.
    • Anthakudi Ilayaraja
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    5.0/10
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    • Director
      • Ashok Veerappan
    • Writer
      • Ashok Veerappan
    • Stars
      • Vaibhav Reddy
      • Anagha L.K.
      • Anthakudi Ilayaraja
    • 12User reviews
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    Vaibhav Reddy
    Vaibhav Reddy
    • Kumaran
    Anagha L.K.
    Anagha L.K.
    • Ilayaal
    Anthakudi Ilayaraja
    • Muthaiya
    Aadukalam Naren
    Aadukalam Naren
    • Rangarajan
    Joju George
    Joju George
    • Dhanapalan
    V.I.S. Jayapalan
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    • Director
      • Ashok Veerappan
    • Writer
      • Ashok Veerappan
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    5visking-92368

    Not up to the mark

    If you're planning to watch this movie, I would request you to wait and think about it another time. I expected a lot more from the movie.

    The movie starts like a political satire and ends in a way that would leave you confused. The story revolves around an induvidual who steps out of a political party in power to start his own. An attempt to oppress the induvidual ( who also owns a cocaine mafia ) is the gist of the story.

    The act performed by the stage artists were great. Vaibhav really mingles with the gang. Apart from that, nothing in the movie is appealing. The heroine part and the Srilankan tamil issues looked out of place. I must say that they could have given both these attributes more back story and screenspace. The way the story was narrated was confusing and was incomplete right from the begining. Well, not every gansta movie is like KGF but one fails to see the heriosm of anyone in this movie.

    The climax of this movie is the worst part of the movie. Director should have come up with a better plot.
    9itumaesh

    Good Screenplay but

    Good one but still expected a better climax. The screenplay was exceptional considering the directorial debut and the performances from the lead cast definitely needs a special mention and when it comes to maintaining the suspense of the entire plot the director has managed it to perfection. The climax was a partial letdown but not entirely though as there are other sequences in the movie that override the shortcomings of the climax. Its definitely a good one time watch but a must watch for the people who like the suspense factor when it comes to watching movies. This movie definitely deserves 10/10 but only partial disappointment is the climax.
    1dhirajouer

    Utter waste of time

    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.
    7m-ramanan

    Lower ur expectations, you might like it

    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).
    9pushstillalive

    Couldn't believe that this is director's first movie

    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.

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    • Release date
      • September 23, 2022 (India)
    • Country of origin
      • India
    • Language
      • Tamil
    • Production companies
      • Passion Studios
      • Stone Bench Films
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