Chinnari Movie Review / Chinnari Movie Rating : Let me start with the conclusion here, if you're fan of horror genre and its obvious Chinnari exciting you enough to make you look on FDFS, then give it a second thought cause it's nothing cool to entertain you. Based on the same old story about motherhood and learning how to be a parent. It relies heavily on all the repeated things reminding you of these tits Mama (2013), Budugu (2015) and The Conjuring films made a few years ago.
Lost in the tug of love between two women, Chinnari is a tale on the scale to which a mother will go for her child. It is centered on Priya (Priyanka Upendra), pregnant of 6 months, who tries to regain her life after the death of her husband in a tragic accident. The family is transformed into a large ancestral villa in Goa. When they enter the Villa they never know that they bring a doll possessed by the spirit of Kumari, a supernatural spirit extremely obsessed with children and is approaching Kriya (Yuvina Pathavi) in a short stay. But to Priya's surprise, now she has to face Kumari who also likes Kriya to most. Who will win the girl - Priya or Kumari? Form the rest of the story.
Chinnari is a low-budget horror film, borrowing extensively the elements from the story of Mama Guilermo Del Toro (2013) on the desperately wandering spirit of motherhood. This was expanded from a short film by writer Andres Muschietti of the same name. Here, Lohith inculcates elements of the Maternity, the Phantom performing Dream Interpretations, Banging Gates, loud noises, the mind playing hide and seek with the main actors. It has the same RGV style routine atmosphere throughout, with everything below the average from the script, direction and action. However, his efforts to merge the human drama with horror flatter that neither drama intrigues you nor the cold elements completely frighten you. The director even leaves out many important points, such as why bleeding doll? What is the purpose of spooking others into the villa, through scary dreams? If the Spirit was so possessive toward the children, why did he try to kill the unborn child? And he never tries to impress and take the child away from his parents? How is it that no one discusses frightening dreams in the strange situations they pass through? Now, do not reveal the terrible sequence of realization of Kumari. Moreover, it is quite difficult to enumerate the powers or general modus operandi of the mind. All living and enlightened characters have a motive behind what they do. The ghosts too. Right.
The beginner filmmaker relies heavily on cliché horror elements for an elevated scared jump, but having experienced almost everything about the story in the initial initial minutes, building tension only bores you for you know what will eventually follow. There is some twist that occurs after the climax, but it if timeworn you lose your interest even in that. With a badly written script without any novelty, Chinnari stages all its actors performing like sleep by walking through their characters without specific interest. Priyanka Upendra does a good job, but his performance seems relaxed, probably because of a dull script. The child artist Yuvina Pathavi is performing well. Aishwariya Shindogi fills the beak of the eye. Madhu, Sridhar, Sandeep and Vathsala are wasted. The spirit in the film is terribly horrible with a bad CGI and this remains another reason why they are not able to generate tension and fear as required.
Come to other technical details. The dialogues are dull and lifeless. Cinematography by HC Venu is good, while rough editing does not allow to connect with scenes taking the emotional quotient of it. The background score is too strong, but it supports some scenes in the second half.
Chinnari might have hutzpah, but very unfortunately he has no interest in actually scaring us with anything original. The film is only driven by contempt, it wants us nauseated in sweetness. If this sounds like your scuzz cup and you know who you are, and you will not be disappointed. But for me, Chinnari remains only as a kind of cheap imitation of Hollywood, so I'd rather suggest you look at its original if you really want to get some entertainment.
Lost in the tug of love between two women, Chinnari is a tale on the scale to which a mother will go for her child. It is centered on Priya (Priyanka Upendra), pregnant of 6 months, who tries to regain her life after the death of her husband in a tragic accident. The family is transformed into a large ancestral villa in Goa. When they enter the Villa they never know that they bring a doll possessed by the spirit of Kumari, a supernatural spirit extremely obsessed with children and is approaching Kriya (Yuvina Pathavi) in a short stay. But to Priya's surprise, now she has to face Kumari who also likes Kriya to most. Who will win the girl - Priya or Kumari? Form the rest of the story.
Chinnari is a low-budget horror film, borrowing extensively the elements from the story of Mama Guilermo Del Toro (2013) on the desperately wandering spirit of motherhood. This was expanded from a short film by writer Andres Muschietti of the same name. Here, Lohith inculcates elements of the Maternity, the Phantom performing Dream Interpretations, Banging Gates, loud noises, the mind playing hide and seek with the main actors. It has the same RGV style routine atmosphere throughout, with everything below the average from the script, direction and action. However, his efforts to merge the human drama with horror flatter that neither drama intrigues you nor the cold elements completely frighten you. The director even leaves out many important points, such as why bleeding doll? What is the purpose of spooking others into the villa, through scary dreams? If the Spirit was so possessive toward the children, why did he try to kill the unborn child? And he never tries to impress and take the child away from his parents? How is it that no one discusses frightening dreams in the strange situations they pass through? Now, do not reveal the terrible sequence of realization of Kumari. Moreover, it is quite difficult to enumerate the powers or general modus operandi of the mind. All living and enlightened characters have a motive behind what they do. The ghosts too. Right.
The beginner filmmaker relies heavily on cliché horror elements for an elevated scared jump, but having experienced almost everything about the story in the initial initial minutes, building tension only bores you for you know what will eventually follow. There is some twist that occurs after the climax, but it if timeworn you lose your interest even in that. With a badly written script without any novelty, Chinnari stages all its actors performing like sleep by walking through their characters without specific interest. Priyanka Upendra does a good job, but his performance seems relaxed, probably because of a dull script. The child artist Yuvina Pathavi is performing well. Aishwariya Shindogi fills the beak of the eye. Madhu, Sridhar, Sandeep and Vathsala are wasted. The spirit in the film is terribly horrible with a bad CGI and this remains another reason why they are not able to generate tension and fear as required.
Come to other technical details. The dialogues are dull and lifeless. Cinematography by HC Venu is good, while rough editing does not allow to connect with scenes taking the emotional quotient of it. The background score is too strong, but it supports some scenes in the second half.
Chinnari might have hutzpah, but very unfortunately he has no interest in actually scaring us with anything original. The film is only driven by contempt, it wants us nauseated in sweetness. If this sounds like your scuzz cup and you know who you are, and you will not be disappointed. But for me, Chinnari remains only as a kind of cheap imitation of Hollywood, so I'd rather suggest you look at its original if you really want to get some entertainment.