As we were idly rummaging through our DVD collection, what should we find?
An old Vikram film, Gemini.
Featuring Vikram and Kiran Rathod, Gemini has been hailed in some circles as a good movie for its time.
Folks, that’s a Goebbelsian lie. Gemini is not a movie that can be labelled ‘good’ in any era.
The 2002 movie starts with weird shouts of Gemanae, Gemanae, Gemanae and quickly moves on to the outside of a court building.
For some odd reason, we see an elephant outside the court building. Strange, even by Indian movie standards.
Kalabhavan Mani, who plays the villain Teja does an imitation of an elephant, the first of his many anima-tions.
Will update this review later tonight ET after completing the movie.
Update
Gavani, gavani, gavani (hear, hear, hear).
Indha Gemini, Gemini, Gemini padam oru mokka mokka mokka padam (Gemini is a lousy movie).
All we were left with at the end of the movie is a mind-numbing headache and curses for Saran, who is responsible for the inept story, screenplay, dialog and direction.
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The movie centers around the bloody clashes between our eponymous hero Gemini (Vikram), who plays a rowdy turned good soul and Teja (Kalabhavan Mani), a bigger rowdy for whom there’s no redemption in anything but a life of crime. Continue reading »
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