Diary Movie Review: A thriller from Arulnithi that has all the aspects to glue you to the seats

Title: Diary
Forged: Arulnithi, Pavithra Marimuthu
Director: Innasi Pandiyan
Score: 3/5

Evaluate by Bhavana Sharma

Actor Arulnithi is tremendous busy with back-to-back releases. Within the span of a month, Diary is his third launch and all three movies are thrillers. The movie is directed by debutant Innasi Pandiyan and expectations on this had been big from day one particularly when Arulnithi got here on board. 

Story:

Varadhan Annadurai (Arunithi) is a brand new cop on the town. He will get to deal with a cold-blooded case and that takes him to Ooty. He has to work with colleague Pavithra (Pavithra Marimuthu). As he begins digging and investigating the case additional, he’s led to a bus that’s travelling from Ooty to Coimbatore. The investigation takes a distinct flip as one thing totally different retains taking place to every of them on the bus. What occurs to them? Why are they on that bus? What brings all this collectively kinds the crux of the story. 

Performances:

This movie is directed by Innasi Pandiyan who has give you a narrative that could be very a lot intriguing. He actually doesn’t get to the purpose however as an alternative chooses to lag by way of using poorly written comedy. These scenes change into nothing however a serious velocity breaker for the plot to go ahead.  The story picks the tempo later within the first half and that’s when Diary will get extra fascinating. The movie’s pre-interval premise is simply bang-on. Within the second half, the movie is stuffed with many twists and turns – some are predictable.

It’s made very clear that Arulnithi is selecting up scripts which have a very good scope to carry out and show his mettle. He delivered a fantastic efficiency and it’s apt to the necessities of the movie. 

The supporting solid of this movie has many younger and small-time actors who’re equally the spotlight. 

Music and BGM by Ron Ethan Yohan pour soul into the movie. The cinematography by Aravindd Singh is on top of things. It’s visually interesting. 

On the entire, Diary is price a watch. Debut director Innasi Pandiyan has supplied each potential component on this thriller to impress the viewers and entertain them. He may have averted some foolish comedy scenes within the first half. 

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