Baskar Oru Rascal review: Illogical story, exaggerated sequences make Bhaskar Oru Rascal a dreary affair

Baskar Oru Rascal, the Tamil remake of the Malayalam film Bhaskar Oru Rascal, is a film that deeply disappoints. The film, for the most part, comes across as a mindless mix of commercial elements. Needless to say, it fails to impress.

Bhaskar (Arvind Swamy) is an uncouth, brash, ruffian who happens to be filthy rich. The wealthy widower, who relies heavily on his muscle power to settle deals, has a son called Akash (Master Raghavan). Akash's friend at school, Shivani (Baby Nainika), is the daughter of a single parent, Anu (Amala Paul).

Akash is calm, polite, docile and sensitive. Shivani is exactly the opposite. She is bold, outspoken and forthright. While Shivani admires Akash's dad for his courage, Akash admires Shivani's mom for her soft-spoken, caring nature. Both children long for the love of the parent they've never had. Eventually, the kids decide to get their parents married to each other so as to enable them to have a proper family. Do the kids succeed in implementing their plan? Baskar Oru Rascal gives you the answer.

The film is full of loosely packed incidents that are grossly exaggerated. In short, the film does not entertain you. It exhausts you.

Sample this, the film's story begins with the murder of a scientist and then shifts to Bhaskar and Anu's lives. You are shown two young kids conniving to get their parents married! Something that is way too farfetched and difficult to accept. For a long time, there is nothing about the murder. In fact, one almost forgets about the murder having happened at all, when suddenly, halfway through, from nowhere, Anu's partner who happens to be the father of Shivani returns from being dead.

We are then told that Anu's partner was part of the conspiracy to eliminate the scientist, who was researching about something valuable, and that is why Anu desires to get away from him. The way the story is narrated leaves a lot to be desired. You are made to think and fill in the gaps in the storyline, with assumptions and presumptions. By the time, you are halfway into the second half of the movie, you begin to see stars. To add to this, there are gangsters who keep making appearances on and off.

As if all this tamasha wasn't enough, the fight sequences in the film just make you sigh and throw your hands up in the air. There is one fight in a mall in particular that takes the cake. Arvind Swamy rides a bike inside the mall and thumps the bad guys using a series of stunts, that one might well have never ever witnessed anywhere before. It is times like these that make one wonder if some filmmakers take audiences for fools.

The actors, to be fair, have done their bit. Arvind Swamy and Amala Paul seem to have delivered what the director wanted of them. They are both good actors and have come up with good performances. Amresh Ganesh's music and Vijay Ulaganath's visuals too are just about okay in the film.

However, the manner in which the story has been narrated and the way the film has been presented undo all the good work put in.

In all, Baskar Oru Rascal leaves you exhausted and exasperated!