Sakalakala Vallavan - All Over The Place!!!

Bharath Vijayakumar

Sakalakala Vallavan would roughly translate to 'King Of All Trades'. We hardly expect anything of that sorts when we enter a film from a maker whose previous film was 'Alex Pandian'. Luckily his latest venture actually focuses on only one aspect and that is comedy. Then why this title? It is too futile a question at the end of a tiresome 150 minutes.

Plot:

Yes!!! Now we understand the title. It is probably anointed on anyone from the audience who can dig out anything that would resemble a 'plot' from this debris of a film.

Cast:

Jayam Ravi is a very capable actor. Watch Peranmai to get this clarified. But one really cannot understand his recent choice of films. Anjali is present throughout the first half for a very obvious purpose.'Eye Candy' is a term that we would associate with a heroine in such a film. But the way Anjali is presented, it almost hurts your eye. Trisha seems to have a better role and by better we only mean by a slight margin. It is Soori who keeps trying his best to keep us laughing. He succeeds at times. But the violence that is dished out on him in the name of comedy hits a new low. Vivek does his 'bit' (no pun intended) in the second half and raises a few laughs. The jokes here almost entirely border on sexual innuendo.

Making:

Suraj probably rented out the Time Machine from the recent 'Indru Nettru Naalai' and took the entire crew back to the late 80s and 90s. Excuse the cast and the film can easily pass off as a film from those periods. But it would still be a mediocre film from that era. The entire film is an assortment of mostly bad and few bearable scenes. Not sure if anyone from the cast and crew had any clue as to how the movie was shaping up. The movie could have very well focused on 'Taming the Shrew' part alone.This is actually the crux of the film. But nothing much happens around this. We really do not get to know the character of Trisha and why she behaves in such a manner. The songs really irritate you. They sound like sheer cacophony.

Bottomline:

A comedy film where most scenes actually challenge you to 'laugh if you can'.

Rating :1.75/5