|  Shanker's
magic works again. True to the hype, his latest film, BOYS, is a
youthful musical entertainer. Trendy, urban youth flick. It's the
tested sentiments that click and not the pre-publicity hype of about
techno-graphics, virgin-foreign locales, and camerawork.
The first half of the film is amalgam of so many teeny flicks that
have flooded Indian theatres recently. The second half of the film
gathers momentum and its logical conclusion is amazing. In fact
the film is heavily inspired by flicks like FAST FORWARD (Hollywood),
CHITRAM (TELUGU) and THULLLAVATHO ILLAMI (TAMIL), but director Shanker
has finally concentrated on showing the tribulations of success
and failures. Precisely, this worked for the film. The lewd jokes,
MTV-style camera angles all are passé.
Five teenage youngsters- Munna (Siddharth), Bob Galy (Bharath),
Juju (Nakul), Kumar (Manikandan) and Krishna (Sai Srinivas) coming
from different segments of the society are good friends. They have
common pastimes: thinking about girls and 'aunties'. They fall in
love with Harini (Genelina D'souza) but she doesn't believe in love.
Finally, she accepts Siddharth's love. When their parents come to
know these guys' mischief attitude, they restrict them meeting each
other. Munna and Harini elope and get married. Then starts the real
drama. They start a musical band in order to establish that can
independently live without their parent's support. The rest of the
film is how they make it.
All the debutant boys and girl (Genelina) have done good job. They
are very natural in their acting. Siddharth and Genelina (who had
acted in THUJHE MERI KASAM) have bright future. Rehman's trendy
and modern music is major asset. All the songs are good.
Ravi K. Chandran's camera work is splendid. But the much-hyped
time-freeze technique doesn't make any effect. Even the computer
generated 'girl friend' is awful. It should have been deleted in
editing. Shanker's screenplay, particularly in the second half of
the film, makes a lot of difference otherwise it would have fallen
into the regular teeny flick genre. He really knows audiences' emotional
buttons. The film will go well with urban youth.
Courtesy: Net Sources
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