Film Review: Bommai

Bommai, starring SJ Suryah, Priya Bhavani Shankar and Chandini, directed by Radha Mohan, hit screens on June 16th. Sj Suryah plays an artist who works in a mannequin factory where he paints the faces of the dolls. One day he comes across a mannequin with a mark on her face, which takes him back in Time, reminding him of the same mark of the face of his childhood best friend Nandini whom he lost in a fair. Haunted by her absence in his life he is on meds under psychiatric care. Now he is obsessed with the damaged mannequin who seems to come alive as an grown up Nandini for him. He becomes obsessed with the mannequin who talks to him in his imagination. He even turns violent killing a man What happens next? Where does this obsession take him? Though the film has a sort of unique premise with interesting storyline that could have been pursued in many ways, the film goes down a different path, taking a rather easy way out in the climax. The genre wavers b...