^ 'Nagesh Thiraiyarangam-A film that happens inside a theatre'.^ Gandhi, U.Sudharsan (31 August 2017).Abhilash considers senior actor Vietnam Veedu Sundaram as his mentor. Alas! Sometimes less is definitely more.After playing the villain in Nagesh Thiraiyarangam, Abhilash played the lead role in Dhoni Kabadi Kuzhu. All Ragavan had to do was to go easy with milking the melodrama out of a simple emotional story. I really doubt if all these add to any viewing pleasure for adults, but it is certain that the little ones will have a riot at the theatres.ĭirector Ragavan has a lot working in his favour in My Dear Bootham, mainly the impressive duo of Prabhudheva and Ashwanth who do all the weight-lifting. There is also a sequence where Karki transforms into famous cartoon characters to impress his master Thiruna. For instance, Karki wrings out a miniature cloud when the shower fails to work, hunts down a bee with a spear, and takes Thiruna and his friends on a trip to the moon. The visuals don't exactly qualify as great, but they are as creative as one can get. Post the entry of Prabhudheva as Karkimuki, the film starts exuding the feel of a picturesque children's magazine. A majority of the film is packed with enough fun-filled visuals and ideas that we go a bit easy on the not-so-good parts.
Thankfully, My Dear Bootham isn't a full-fledged sob story.
I really wish the makers did some basic research before penning such triggering sequences in a kids film. But here, the kid suffers despite having an all-powerful genie. In an ideal world, he would have been saved from this agony by his teachers, friends or his mother. He doesn't stop there! As a final payoff, he also makes the wailing kid wet his pants in front of the entire school.
For instance, if the director has to show Thiruna's unsuccessful attempt at a speech competition, he resorts to incessant close-up shots of his bullies' evil laughter, Thiruna crying ugly, and his mother squirming. He gets bullied by his classmates, name-called by the teacher, and laughed at by the neighbours, but his mother is comfortably ignorant of all this and shockingly, these highly traumatising episodes are either presented in the tone of a sitcom or border on torture porn.
The child with stammering issues goes through hell every single day. There are certain portions, which does hit the right emotional chords, but for most parts, My Dear Bootham ends up being a tear-jerker that tries really hard to portray Thirunavukkarasu as an object of sympathy. Though the plotline sounds like a perfect fit for adults, the director merely scratches the surface in exploring the foster father-son angle and relies more on melodrama. Looking macroscopically, My Dear Bootham is a journey of Thirunavukkarasu (Ashwanth) a fatherless child with a stammering issue and a talkative genie separated from his child, who fill each other's void.
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