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Ambuli 3D is being touted as the first 3D Tamil film. Ambuli is also the nth typical Tamil trash with the use of 3D being more migraine inducing than its saving grace. Directors Hari Shankar and Harish Narayanan have a fixed idea of music numbers, humour, thrills and movie characters. According to them, a movie must have all of these in equal measures. The music numbers are embarrassing to watch, the humour is stale, the characters are assigned roles such as hero, hero's friend, hero's lover, villain (get my drift?) and the thrills are cheaply ineffective. The growling noise in the background grates multiple senses while the cheesy dialogue brings to the fore, not the characters but, the simpleton mind it came from. Ambuli's all camp.
If you're going to be stubborn and ignore all of what I've said, still interested in what the film is about, here you go. A pregnant lady was exposed to a solar eclipse decades back but killed by her monstrous child at childbirth. The monster (named Ambuli) has grown up and lives on an abandoned corn field, relentlessly putting an end to anyone who passes through. People have died but the cops refuse to take action because they want photographic evidence. The dead body count goes up but the cops sit it out. The hero and his friend take the task of capturing Ambuli on camera upon themselves. Most of these details are handed to you at the very beginning. Of course, this isn't all. You're supposed to be caught off guard.
After withholding Ambuli for over two hours, you're brought face to face with a character from a low-budget costume drama. I'm sure I looked creepier as I walked out pale faced, every drop of life drained out of me. Ambuli's the ultimate tranquilizer. To have survived two terrible movies (Muppozhudham Un Karpanaigal being the other one) on the same day and remained mentally stable, I can only feel thankful. But these harrowing experiences are a necessary evil. They increase my longing for good cinema and further fine-tune my movie rating system. How would you know what's good without knowing what's bad?
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