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Pretty Good

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Ambuli (Tamil: அம்புலி) is a 2012 Tamil science-fiction thriller film directed by Hari Shankar and Hareesh Narayan, who earlier directed Orr Eravuu (2010). The film was made in stereoscopic format, making it the first 3-D film in Tamil cinema.Times of India rated the movie 3.5/5 [8] and Behindwoods rated Ambuli 3/5 calling it between 'not bad' and 'good'but when copared to a budget of 19.60 crores its worthlessHari Shankar and Hareesh Narayan, who made their directorial debut with the horror film Orr Eravuu (2010), decided to shoot a mystery thriller based on folklore and superstition. In an interview they stated: "We have taken inspirations from folklore and Ambuli tells the story of a village which is soaked in superstitions. Ambuli means 'moon' and it is a moon light mystery".[2] The film was promoted as being the "first ever-stereoscopic 3D film in Tamil cinema".[3][4] The directors further disclosed that the plot revolved around "four youngsters who go in search of a story, the problems they face and how they overcome them", while clarifying that there was no villain in the film.[5] Newcomers R. Ajai, P. S. Srijith, Sanam and Jothisha Ammu were signed on to enact the lead roles,[6] while Gokulnath, best known from the reality-based dance competition Maanada Mayilada was selected to play the titular character. The filming began on 4 February 2011.[7] Vanessa Taylor, who has previously worked in Hollywood films including Harry Potter, worked as a DI Colorist in the film.

Ambuli is about the mysterious deaths of people who pass through the forest on the outskirts of a village.The villagers have mortal fear of a thing lurking around called AMBULI.The villagers have varying beliefs and myths surrounding "Ambuli".The directors need to be appreciated for two reasons,their attention to detail to 60s period and the effort taken to not provide the viewers a usual masala fare.The costumes,art direction,visual tones/cinematography are all good and are based upon the subject.There are scenes that show that the directors might be inspired by various Hollywood flicks like The Blair Witch project,Jeepers Creepers and The Village(directed by Manoj Shyamalan).The film does not have right cinematic elements to thrill the audience.That is disappointing considering the fact the promos promised a great Hollywood style thriller.The acting of the lead actors is uniformly average.Actors Parthiban and Jegan manage to stand out with their acting skills.Other seasoned artists like Uma Riyaz,Thambi Ramaih and Bala Singh are wasted in their roles.The villain of this film does not provide any scope for horror.The makers try too hard to entertain by amateurish comedy.It does offer little respite.The background music is good and the BGM in the climax sequences appear to be inspired by the music in Predator.The college farewell song is OK.Other songs appear forced into the narration.The picturisation of songs are either awful or average.Some scientific aspects are thrown in but they do not seem to be completely convincing.The 3D effect is a gimmick!!They could have easily shot in 2D itself.On a positive note,one would say that the first 20 minutes and last half an hour do manage to grab your attention.

Just Before watched the movie in Sathyam Theater (Chennai). A very Good Attempt. Very interesting story flow is the Big plus of this movie. Songs are very Big minus of this movie. 3D is another plus. But comparing to the Hollywood standard, watching movie experience is pain full. Too much of 3D effects. Lot of powerful lights very near to our eye. Too much of fast moving objects very near to our eye. So it results headache and pain for me. i don't know these kind of movies needs any health measure before releasing the movies. Anyway,This is first attempt in Tamil cinema. Only negatives are songs and too much of "near to eye 3D effects". Other than this everything is OK for me. My Final Verdict : Two thumps up. Please encourage this movie. Then only more standard movies will come after this. My rating : 9/10

Ambuli is an Excellent low budget movie (but going to be a block buster).I have seen Avatar, Kungfu panda, Piranha, Adventures of Tin Tin and couple of movies in Stereo scope 3D in Chennai-India. Ambuli gave me a wonderful surprising depth in Stereo scope 3D. This is amazing that it came better than any of the mentioned English movies.The Plot is very thriller, the way the story of Ambuli narrated is a perfect puzzle solving screenplay. There only one big star Parthiban is acted in this movie, others are not more familiar, but its perfect.The movie could have skipped the songs, especially the final climax song (that's boring). But its not going to affect the movie anyway.Overall I gave 10 for a Perfect and first 3D stereo movie in Tamil Film industry.