A formidable drama that’s highlighted by good dialogues and thrilling moments.
Performances
Story & Narration
Technical Features & Music
Debutant director Ashok Veerappan delivers a compelling drama in Buffoon, which seems to be his directorial debut. The movie registers the occasions that happen within the lifetime of a therukoothu artist who falls into all types of bother whereas looking for himself a greater life.
Kumara (Vaibhav) is a therukoothu artist who feels that his present job of being a stage artist doesn’t discover him a lot cash, and desires go to an overseas nation to earn extra. By making an attempt to take action, he falls into bother and comes head to head with gangsters and cops who flip his life the other way up and make him face the tough actuality.
Buffoon has real intent in hand and proceeds by following one level after the opposite within the protagonist’s life, and the way small incidents and selections result in huge issues. The movie has an easy first half the place it features momentum slowly by introducing us to the burden of the issue, after which strikes on a great observe within the second half travelling via the monitor of the lead and the way he is ready to get via his issues.
Vaibhav delivers a really environment friendly efficiency taking part in the lead function, which has each harmless and difficult shades to it. The actor understands the burden of the function and has achieved a great job that’s value of appreciation.
Anagha has a nice half to play within the movie and carries it off effectively, together with the opposite actors equivalent to Tamizh who play strong elements. Joju George’s cameo may not have a lot of an influence however it’s a character which retains its presence all through the movie.
The music by Santhosh Narayanan enhances the movie’s proceedings whereas the remainder of the technical elements are good too.
On the entire, Buffoon is a convincing drama that has each crime and thriller components in it. Debutant director Ashok Veerappan scores via the size of his sharp dialogues, sensibilities and dealing with of the completely different conditions in his movie. Buffoon Film Assessment by Siddarth Srinivas