Gautham Vasudev Menon’s ‘Joshua’ is an underwhelming affair, an action B-movie with no pulp thrills
- Trinity Auditorium
- Mar 1, 2024
- 1 min read
The film stars Varun and Raahei. The slickly staged action sequences aren’t bad, but the movie wants to be more and that’s the problem.
“Imai Pol Kaakha” is the tagline for Gautham Vasudev Menon’s new movie, titled Joshua. The tagline sounds so poetic, something right out of the Maruvaarthai song from one of this director’s own earlier movies. “Imai pol naan kaakka, kanavaai nee maaridu…” went that lyric, as Dhanush cradled and comforted a distraught Megha Akash. There’s a similar dynamic in this movie. Varun (as Joshua) is the Dhanush equivalent, the protector. Raahei (as Kundhavi) is the woman in distress. Sadly, this time, the poetry is missing. So okay, you say: “This is an action movie. Who needs poetry?” But we do. Because the entire emotional hook of the narrative is based on these two characters falling in love, and the more we feel their poetry, the more we’d want them to be together. There is an interesting, well-staged, no-fuss stretch at the beginning, where Joshua and Kundhavi meet and talk and fall into bed. And then he begins to speak about his past, and things rapidly go south.
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