Film: Bad Boy
Starring: Karthi,Anushka,Santhanam
Director: Suraaj
Producer: K.E.Gnanavelraja
Banner: Studio Green
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Alex Pandu (Karthi) is hired to kidnap
the health minister’s daughter Anushka. Despite doing it successfully,
he later changes his opinion and decides to save her. Alex stays at
Santhanam house despite the latter not giving him nod and flirts with
his sisters Nikita Thukral, Sanusha, and Akanksha Puri. Who hires Alex
for kidnapping her and How does Alex save Anushka bashing up the goons
forms the rest of the story.
Performances
Karthi looked good and
he has put in loads of energy for the mass entertainer. His efforts in
doing the risky stunts in the early half was worth mentioning. However,
his work has gone in vain due to the uninteresting screenplay.
Anushka looked gorgeous and she has got a limited role restricted to songs most of the time. She is hardly seen in the first half.
Santhanam is the saving
grace for the film. Karthi-Santhanam’s scenes have worked well in the
first half. However, Santhanam’s double-entendres will not entertain
family audiences. Milind Soman and Suman are okay. Others were adequate.
Technical Analysis
Saravanan’s cinematography is classy and
top-class, Devi Sri Prasad’s songs are good while the background score
is loud at times. Editing is inconsistent and patchy, Suraj’s direction
is just okay while the screenplay is illogical and predictable.
Production Values are lavish.
Analysis
Director Suraj has put in loads of
action and entertainment into the film. The first half has good number
of comedy entertaining scenes between Karthi and Santhanam but the
scenes are totally irrelevant to the storyline while the action part and
the villain episodes looked forced. Suman and Milind Soman
characterizations are poorly etched. On the other hand, there are many
double meaning dialogues in the film.
The main part of the story actually
begins in the second half but the narration falls flat. Bad Boy is made
concentrating on the mass audiences but the fights looked out of logic
and unrealistic.