Parthiban’s ‘Teenz’ is a set of interesting ideas that do not come together in a satisfying way

The film stars a bunch of teenagers and Yogi Babu. It starts off like a ghost story and undergoes a genre shift, but the writing needed to be better.

Looking back, it seems fitting that Parthiban’s debut as a director was called Pudhiya Paadhai, i.e., New Path. Because that is the thing that has come to define him, the fact that he will always find a path to give us something new. Take Teenz, the latest film he has directed. In the opening credits, he doesn’t use the Tamil word for director. He says “uyir” and “uruvakkam”, as in, this film was birthed and developed by Parthiban. Again, it’s something new. The setting is new, too. When was the last time you saw teenage kids in an apartment complex – eight boys, five girls – as the protagonists of a story? These teenagers are well cast. I have a feeling that a handful of them will go on to become very good actors.

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