Parichaya Movie Review – Just Miss!
(2.5/5) Movie Review By Raju Shanbhag
In KFI, you often come across films that come perilously close to success and then get trapped in their own faults. Director Sanjay’s Parichaya, which relies on a heavy dose of coincidences and destiny, is a film that knocks the doors of success in the first half and then gets entangled in its own maze of irritating coincidences when the success comes knocking on its door.
May be that’s the fate of the film, maybe it was destined to give only so much to the audiences.
Parichaya tells the story of two well to do youngsters with different outlooks in life. Tarun is a DJ who loves music to the core and believes in taking things in his own hands (too bad the director didn’t take a leaf out his book!). Rekha, on the other hand believes strongly in destiny and leaves a lot of things to fate (nopes, her character didn’t direct the movie in the second half). The film is all about how these two individuals with strikingly different characters meet and how they are united by destiny in the climax.
In fact Parichaya introduces itself marvelously to the audience in the first half with some brilliantly handled scenes and some perfect characterization by the filmmaker. Sanjay shows his deft touch in the opening sequences of the film with Tarun and Rekha. Although the story itself is nothing spectacular, Sanjay leaves nothing to chance in this film about destiny, as he maintains a commendable grip on the proceedings. Tarun and Rekha are tailor-made for their respective roles and you start settling comfortably in your chair that the film will be a breeze.
That’s when destiny of Parichaya takes a U turn.
Director Sanjay, who plays around with a limited storyline beautifully in the first half of the film, loses his grip over the film in the second half as a series of coincidences (predictable just misses) invade the proceedings of the story. At first, they are amusing; but they soon get embarrassing and unbelievable as they are repeated with alarming regularity. To make the matters worse, a whole gang of character artists engulf the screen with their unnecessary presence and delay the inevitable climax as long as they can. As a result, a story that starts off with a some excellent narration and neat acting ends up as an ‘also-ran’ films that touched the fairy dust of greatness but returned empty handed as it was too busy gazing into the stars.
Tarun looks every bit of the chilled out DJ and a rich kid. The man has either successfully worked on his accent or somebody has wisely dubbed his dialogues for him in the movie. His dialogue delivery is surprisingly better than his previous films.
Rekha has very few dialogues in the film, but her expressive, emotive eyes do all the talking without any barriers of language. Watch out for the scene where she is expecting Tarun to come out of a lift and he doesn’t. There are no dialogues in that scene, allowing Rekha to emote her pain through her eyes.
Other supporting cast which includes Avinash is neat; but the lady who plays Tarun’s grandma is a bit of a letdown. Jessy Gift’s music is excellent, although Kailash Kher’s patho song looks determined to erase all those sweet memories from your mind. Other departments such as cinematography and choreography and editing are first rate.
On a whole, Parichaya is a film that excels in the first half and leaves its fate to destiny in the second half. Unfortunately, the lady luck hasn’t smiled on the film.
Tarun looks very cute in this movie Songs are marvellous
Most of the composers including legends like AR rahman Anu malik are “influenced” or “inspired” by other western and eastern music.
If i start putting links to give examples where AR rahman etc have copied…[oops i mean inspired] , then this webpage will not enough
Songs are excellent but picturization is not. The story seems old and the movie would have been a hit if it was released 2 – 3 yrs ago.
Gururaj,Are you sure of that?
Is this a remake? , name of de original movie pls?
One more addition to endless list of remakes.
Rekha is one of the cutest and sophisticated looking gals in KFI.. Hope she gets more chances here and we get to see her more.. For some unknown reasons her brilliant acting is going unnoticed. She had done a very good job in Ramesh’s Accident also. Unfortunately that movie didnt click
What ever it is Parichaya songs are much much better than compared to its so called original tunes……..I just can’t stop listening to these songs..
@sati you’re talking about “Maine Pyar Kiya (1989)” and “Photom of The Opera” theme was composed much earlier than the songs that you have mentioned so it cannot be a rip-off of those songs.
Yup !! It appears to be a rip off. No doubt, but the songs in Parichaya are melodious
hmmm.. “Phantom of The Opera” itself seems to be a rip-off from Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called to Say I Love You” and also there are traces of Europe’s “Final Countdown” song.
But whatever it is, the Parichaya versions of the songs sound much better than any of these versions.
rip-off (r¹p“ôf”, -¼f”) n. Slang. 1. A theft. 2. A thief. 3. An act of exploitation. 4. Something, such as a film, music or story, that is clearly imitative of or based on something else.
I think this makes the point clear.
@Hariharan, songs just have dotted resemblance and they are not direct ripoff…then most of the hindi, telugu and tamil songs with tunes copied from the world also qualifies as ripoff…
Listen correctly to the phantom of the opera tune they have lifted it directly from it and for The “Lizzie McGuire Movie” check this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcuYq_R559Y&feature=related
also another version of “Phantom of The Opera”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej1zMxbhOO0
Nope..
Kudinotave song doesn’t seem to be a rip-off from “The Phantom Of The Opera”. Here is youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny5H9GiVP_0
“Nededaduva kaamanabille” also is not a copy of “The Lizzie McGuire Movie”. Here is the youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOF3Kw1oOn8
Parichaya is once watchable timepass movie and songs are good. But lift scenes, shopping scenes, coffee day scenes, writing name and number on currency notes and endless just miss scenes (ha ha ha) are lifted from Serendipity, a classic 2001 English movie and JJ tamil movie was also xerox copy of Serendipity
“Parichaya” is nothing but a cheap rip-off of hollywood film “Serendipity” and “JJ(which is also a bad Tamil remake of Serendipity)”. I hope the actors and director of this nonsense look back at it and cringe with embarrassment.
Additional note for people who are praising the music and songs of this film – The music is also ripped off from “Phantom Of The Opera” – “Kudinotave Manamohaka” and “The Lizzie McGuire Movie” – “Nadedaaduva Kaamanabillu”.
Yes.. Actor Dilip Raj has dubbed for Tarun in this movie..