Ragalaipuram Movie Review
Score Board
| Magazine Name | Score |
| Online Film News | 1.0 |
| Sify | 2 |
Cast and Crew
Production: Karunas
Cast: Angana, Karunas, Kovai Sarala, MS Baskar, Sanjana Singh
Direction: Manohar
Screenplay: Manohar
Story: Manohar
Background score: Srikanth Deva
Lyrics : Vairamuthu
Karunas, Kovai Sarala, Mano Bala, M.S Bhaskar, Singampuli, Vaiyapuri, Delhi Ganesh, Mayilsamy. Debut director Manohar, has packed his cast up with some of the top names of the comedy department, in order to roll out a flick which does not have too many objectives, but to etch out some decent comedy.
The formula the director uses here is simple, ‘Ridicule Policemen’. Well, has he succeeded in producing the desired result? The answer would unfortunately be a horizontal nod.
Ragalaipuram is all about a timid man, who is forced to work as a Police constable and he eventually becomes courageous due to the consequences of a medical condition he believes he suffers from.
Karunas plays Velu, who is the panicky police constable around whom the story revolves. Although the story or the screenplay has nothing much to offer, Karunas pulls his part off neatly without too many flaws. The surprising factor is that the actor has attempted to shake his legs to the folk beats of music director Srikanth Deva and it has worked out well for him.
Angana, the female lead, plays the character of a meat shop owner who falls in love with Velu following a few sequences where she erroneously believes that Velu is a brave policeman. However she occupies very little screen space after she falls in love, and appears on screen only in portions where she has to test the loyalty of her lover.
Verdict: A movie that has bits and pieces of comedy
Score: 1.0 / 5
Review by : OnlineFilmnews Review Board
Sify Review
Karnas is once again trying to become a full length comic hero, with another comedy caper 'Ragalaipuram'. He plays a bumbling cop who is a coward with oodles of luck coming his way.
The film is a remake of Sreenivasan’s 1991 Malayalam comedy caper 'Aanaval Mothiram'. The original itself was inspired from the Hollywood comedy 'Short Time'. The Tamil remake is nowhere near the original, as director Mano’s jokes fall flat and the comic scenes are so predictable.
The story itself has been told many times in commercial cinema. Velu (Karnas) a coward who can be bullied by a small kid, gets into police force as a constable on sympathy quota after his father had died in harness. In the police force due to ‘lady luck’ shining on him, he soon becomes an inspector.
One day due to mix up he comes to believe that he has cancer. To get insurance benefits for his family (mother and two sisters) if he dies in action, Velu suddenly turns brave and does daring operations.
The movie comically chronicles his new-found bravado, which makes him a hero. The director has also roped in half a dozen comedians like MS Prabhakar, Delhi Ganesh, Manobala, Singampuli, Kovai Sarala and others in the supporting cast. The idea is to make it laugh a minute, but most of comedy scenes fall flat.
Karnas as the bumbling cop has also a love interest in the form of Angana, who has only a single expression throughout the film. It has been laced with commercial elements including an item number and comedy featuring ex-sex bomb Shakeela.
Though the running time of the film is hardly 2 hours and 10 minutes it drags big time, as jokes fall flat. The music of Srikanth Deva is half baked.
Verdict: Below Average
Score: 2 / 5