June R

Cast: Jyothika, Khushboo, Saritha, Biju Menon, Ravikumar, suriya
Language: Tamil
Director: Revathy S. Varma
Producer: A. Ansari
Camera: Madhu Ambatt
Story: Revathy S. Varma
Screenplay: Revathy S. Varma
Dialogue: Revathy S. Varma
Music: Sarath
Year: 2006

The highly hyped June R directed by Revathy S Varma with all woman lead of Jyothika, Kushboo and Saritha has turned out to be a damp squib. First and foremost the debutant director has no clue about filmmaking and the whole affair looks amateurish and shoddy.

A considerable measure of blame should go to a half-baked script, poor screenplay, continuity lags, and an unbelievable story with no logic- and all this with an ‘A’ team of talented actors and technicians like cameraman Madhu Ambat. It had the potential for an intense and incisive film but what we get instead is a variation of a single episode from a mega serial!

The audience are supposed to sympathise with June (Jyothika) an orphan girl who was born in June (and that why her name is June!!) and is a creative director for an advertising agency. She yearns for maternal love and bumps into a lady Rani amma (Saritha) in a road accident whom she nurses, takes home and treats her like a mother. What follows is an unimpressive tale of their bond, a court drama and a silly climax.

Amudha (Kushboo) a lawyer and June’s best friend, Raniamma’s son (Biju Menon), his wife is the other characters in the film who struggles in their respective poorly etched out roles. And it is sad to watch Saritha, an extremely talented actress being wasted and portrayed like a clown in songs! And the director has failed in establishing the relation that June shares with her adopted mother (in a few days time).

And to top it all there is an item song in the climax which tests your patience. Wasn’t it suicidal for Suriya to do that insipid cameo in the end? But Revathy Varma has to be thanked as the film is just 110 minutes!

Jyothika has tried hard to do justice though we just can’t sympathize with her character which is one-dimensional. Sarath’s music gives you the feel that you have heard it before and technically the film is just about passable. Hope Revathy Varma learns the nuances of filmmaking and comes out with something better next time.

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