Dhanush is renowned for his versatile and impactful performances. He is teaming with Vignesh Raja of Por Thozhil fans for Kara. Kara OTT rights have been bagged by Netflix and streaming will be after the completion of its theatrical run. The film is releasing today on 30 April and let us see what impact it made on viewers.
Kara story revolves around a youngster who indulges in robberies to meet both ends meet and what happens when he decides to reform himself. Kara (Dhanush), after getting caught by the cops in a robbery decides to reform himself to keep his wife Malli (Mamitha Baiju) happy and goes on to meet his father Kandhasaami (KS.Ravikumar), a farmer.
What consequences he face in the process and what role his mother Dhanam (Sreeja Ravi), uncle Kasi (Karunas), friend Murugesan (Prithvi Rajan), DSP Bharathan (Suraj Venjaramoodu), Panjavan Bank Manager Muthu Selvan (Jayaram) and others play form the interesting part.
Dhanush as usual came up with captivating performance. He carried the film on his shoulders though it offered nothing new to him. He showed good emotions, expressions and delivered dialogues with ease showing good mannerisms and body langauge.
Mamitha Baiju played the de glam role to perfection and made an impact with her screen presence. Jayaram played the role in his own style and added value to the narration. KS.Ravikumar sported a different look and performed the role of the father highlighting the emotions to the core.
Suraj Venjaramoodu is ok in the role of the cop while Karunas and Prithvi Pandiarajan are good on the screne.
Kara story is penned by Vignesh Raja. He chose the 90s Gulfwar backdrop and the happenings in the village and tried to attract viewers to create interest around it. He starts the narration in an interesting manner introducing Dhanush in a stylish and rustic way. When one expected the narration to pick up pace, it slides down with familiar emotional scenes. He spent most of the first half, highlighting the father son relationship in the backdrop of the banks, loans etc.
The first half ends on a predictable note and many expects a better second half. The narration picks up pace in the second half with racy screenplay with few interesting twists. However they are far and inbetween and most of the time, the predictable elements and routine and monotonous shades ended up testing the patience of the viewers
The story offered nothing new though the director tried to highlight how banks lure poor people to take loans and then act as leeches to grab their properties. The entire narration looked cliched and screenplay offered nothing new. The repetitive scenes added to the woes of the people. The film finally ends in a predictable manner.
Cinematography of Theni Eswar captured the village atmosphere in a realistic way. The background score of GV.Prakash Kumar is adequate. Editing of Sreejith Sarang could have been far better as there are many scenes that turned repetitive and slowed the pace of the narration. Dialogues are ordinary and production values are good.
Altogether, Kara turns out to be patient testing tale of predictable crime thriller. Dhanush tried to elevate the scenes and carry the film on his shoulders but Vignesh Raja's story offered him no scope. While the story turned predictable,the screenplay turned out tobe cliched and direction lacked novelty. No amount of reworking would have added value to the final output. Dhanush too played such similar roles, fighting for the poor aka Robinhood roles quite often and people who expected something out of the box will be disappointed. Considering all these aspects, Cinejosh goes with 2 rating for Kara.