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Action, Comedy, Family 147 min
IMDb4.8
Three brothers return to their native village to mend the relationship between their estranged father and his sisters. However, to unite the family, the brothers are told to marry their cousins.
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Director Sundar C is an old hand at recycling past films and presenting them as new by adding spoonfuls of comedy but the formula deserts him in Aambala, a masala movie that is a trip through time, and not in a good way. The film is filled with tropes that would have been acceptable in the 90s. We have families that are separated because of an incident in the past, lost-and-found moments, henpecked husbands, botched up kidnapping plans, outdated athai ponnu romance, and so on. The multi-star cast, the wily hero, the over-the-top action scenes, the speed breaker songs (which, while foot-tapping, seem to belong to another film) and the noisy background score make us wonder if we have stepped into a Hari film, though this one clearly lacks the manufactured pace of that director's films. It is only the comedy scenes that keep reminding us that we are watching a Sundar C film, but even these become tiresome and even crass at times. If the film works to an extent, it is mostly because of Santhanam, who plays a cop named RDX Rajashekar. He effortlessly makes us laugh in the scenes where he becomes the victim of bad luck. But once the actor exits the frame, the first half becomes tedious w
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