Yatchan

9/13/2015

For director Vishnu Vardhan, Yatchan is, in a way, a return to his small-scale roots. There is a whiff of the cheerfulness we saw in his breakthrough hit Arindhum Ariyamalum, though this film finds it hard to seamlessly balance the tone, swinging from serious to seriously spoofy in a matter of minutes. The plot, based on a serialized story of writers Suba, is pure pulp — there's the menace of murder, the glamour of movies, comedy and even ESP. The film begins with a back story for one of the heroines. Shwetha is struck by lighting in her childhood, which gives her the ability to see "paranormal experiences of visuals beyond time". It then intercuts with the stories of the two heroes. Chinna is a small-time gangster in Thoothukudi, while Karthikeyan is a wannabe actor in Pazhani. Circums