The impossibly convoluted plot gave me a very real headache much before reaching the interval. It’s as if the director simply didn’t know when dialing up the scene was required or when subtlety would work better. The few hair-raising scenes collapse in on themselves into chaotic bangs. It's hard to fault them with a script that sounds like the very first draft got okayed for filming.Īranmanai 3 is also confused about what it sees itself as, because horror-comedy it is not.

Sampath Raj and Andrea Jeremiah put out what is an uneven performance at best. Personally, I’m of the opinion that she’s only cast as a heroine in the instance the director wants a “vela ponnu” (there’s a dialogue praising the lightness of her skin) but nothing in the way of acting or even a passable attempt to pretend she’s speaking her own dialogues. Only, it fails to because the plot gets distracted by new rabbit holes to fall in to every five minutes while you’re internally screaming for the movie to please end.Īrya, who has a far smaller role than expected, is more impressive in non-speaking scenes than when he’s attempting to woo Raashi Khanna in an insipid romance. The discovery of all this is supposed to function as the pivotal point. The plot tries to give you the back story of not one but three ghosts and why they’ve taken to haunting the palace where the film is set or occasionally killing off characters we care little about (there’s anyway a steady stream of new ones.) The king (who knows of which kingdom) played by Sampath Raj forcibly marries Eshwari (Andrea Jeremiah) we learn in a flashback. Sundar C, who is also the director, and has given himself a meaty role, baffles you with his intro scene-a man who supposedly adores his small daughter is utterly emotionless in an unnecessarily violent scene of a child drenched in paint thinner followed by a trail of fire. Speaking of wasted talents, in a film that has a seemingly bottomless supply of characters, hardly anyone puts on a performance that doesn’t range from grating to forgettable. To be able to waste a talent like Yogi Babu’s must take some considered effort. Even with three established comedians sharing the screen (Vivek, Mano Bala and Yogi Babu), the humour is cringe-worthy when not downright offensive.

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