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Misadventures of a Travel Junkie
A travel junkie with no one particular identity to himself creates a chaos when he sets out to help a group to rescue their friend.
Gulu Gulu
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GuluGulu, Kulu Kulu, KuluKulu
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IndiaUA
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29 Jul 2022
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The black comedy has well written quirky characters and interesting wacky ideas, but gets bogged down by the incoherent execution, with a mix of some fresh entertaining ones and some completely bland moments. It partially succeeds in its attempt to blend emotions with comedy and has some instantly attention grabbing dialogues, but few woke elements feel forcefully placed. The final 20 minute chaos was pure laugh out loud enjoyable stuff and wraps it up on a satisfying note.
Santhanam pleasantly surprises in his dead pan nomad character, voicing on relevant important topics and existential philosophies. Perhaps, would have fancied a deeper exploration into his character. The rest of the cast puts in a decent show and get their moments to score. The major standout though was SaNa’s kickass songs and bgm. The movie did promise high potential, perhaps a tightly fleshed out narrative and dialogues could have made the product much crisper. For now, it ends up a mixed bag.
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Gulu Gulu had the potential to be what Doctor was to SK for Santhanam but the incoherent screenplay makes it hard to indulge in it completely. The characterization given for him is easily one of the best I have ever seen in his serious roles. The climax was an avalanche of humour with spoof of various movies.
Technically it's very strong - Santhosh Narayan songs, color palette and the cinematography. But the writing is non existent and lot of the narratives didn't work for me. The comedy sort of works here and there, I remember laughing for - the coffin carrying scene, KGF spoof, Paavakka kozhambu, PUBG pan, Paithyakkaran from Dikkiloona.
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The film could've been a masterpiece if Rathna Kumar had put the same amount of effort for the screenplay as he did while writing Santa's character.
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Rathna Kumar writing this movie:"Sometimes I'll start a sentence I don't even know where it's going I just hope I find it along the way"
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Rathna has this innate talent to make the scene very good, I just want this guy to tick the box of making a more cohesive screenplay to attract a wider spectrum of audience. Anyway, I had a great time watching Gulu Gulu with all the pop culture references, self intuitive narrative and charming characters.
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Rathna kumar has an over active brain and this is not the first time I came out of his film thinking this. His debut, Meyaadha Maan is an unconventional romcom. The film even though it never entirely came together for me, had some interesting characters and fascinating stretches (huge fan of that single shot interval block, very innovative). His second film Aadai (which again had confusing and problematic ideology) had some smart ideas and interesting stretches like that trip of a sequence of friends together getting stoned. So it's safe to say Rathna doesn't lack imagination. Infact he occupies the other end of the spectrum, tad too smart for his films. He is a good writer, he is capable of…
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Never even imagined Santhanam having a hero moment with a flamethrower.
SaNa is the 2nd hero of the film. -
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glad I didn't trust the reviews, everything worked out very well. the woke ness of the film comes out of genuine not some generic, only some placements didn't added much value to point that it's trying to say. Anyway feel like kinda watching coen brothers film in theater with full burst laughters.