New Delhi. What is the chance that a reporter of a city news portal suddenly gets a connection to a terrorist in Libya and then instead of getting him arrested, she starts chatting with him and then finally goes to Libya to meet him, due to which the FBI and CBI get after her, there is a fierce shootout in Libya and there is a good ending. The Tamil film Rangi, which was released in theaters in December and recently on Netflix, is a flight of such imagination in which if there was some other actress instead of Trisha in the lead role, then perhaps the audience would have done such a thing to their TV that TV manufacturers would have got an opportunity to sell new TVs.
The story of Rangi has been written by AR Murugadoss and M Sarvanan. Murugadoss has penned films like Ghajini, Thuppakki, Jai Ho, Holiday, Kaidi, Akira, Sarkar and Darbar. He himself is a successful director who has directed actors like Aamir, Rajinikanth, Vijay and Surya. How his story turned out to be so superficial and weak can be a subject of research. M Sarvanan, who was an assistant to Murugadoss, has so far made films based only on his own stories, except for one or two films, the rest have been ordinary. There is too much flight of fancy in Rangi’s story. There are no things that are believable.
Rangi is an investigative journalist in a news portal who also beats up goons part time. Someone sends obscene videos of Rangi’s brother’s daughter to Rangi’s brother. While trying to solve this issue, Rangi reaches her niece’s classmate who has created a fake account in Rangi’s niece’s name and reaches all those people who are talking to her niece on this fake account. After getting rid of everyone, Rangi finally talks to the last contact of that fake account and finds out that this contact belongs to a Libyan terrorist. Rangi’s investigative journalism inspires her to uncover this secret but in this process, she starts talking to that terrorist almost every day. That terrorist also attacks the policeman who arrests Rangi because of her niece. The FBI arrests Rangi and forces her to help catch the Libyan terrorist. For this, Rangi has to send his niece to Libya so that the terrorist comes to meet her and the FBI can arrest him. Meanwhile, the terrorist’s associates want to kill Rangi’s niece so that their gang remains safe. There is a shootout between the FBI and the terrorists and in the end the entire terrorist gang is killed.
Why did Trisha Krishnan do this film? How will we get the answer to this? Trisha’s role is of a reporter who wants to change the society through journalism. Then she turns from a journalist to a detective and catches her niece’s classmate who created a fake account in her name. After this, Trisha has to fix all those perverts who keep talking obscenely from her niece’s fake account and ask her to send her obscene videos. After this, Trisha beats up all these perverts and straightens them out. Then suddenly she posts the excesses of a policeman on her news portal and after a while she beats up his goons as well. She sympathizes with the terrorist because she is a minor. She also does not understand that she is in Libya and going there is difficult, if not impossible. To understand Libya’s politics, she goes to her teacher who explains the civil war going on for decades in a jiffy. There are so many weak links in the story that the audience remains confused. It is not known which way the story will turn. For a good film, it is very important that the audience understands the upcoming story, even if only a little. This does not happen in Rangi.
How does Rangi manage to beat people up? Who knows? When Rangi caught her niece’s friend using a fake account of her niece, why didn’t she get the account closed? Why didn’t she catch the perverts and hand them over to the police? Anything is happening in the film. Rangi is so technologically weak that the terrorist sends text and audio in Arabic and obviously there must have been some time zone difference. The three and a half hour time zone difference is simply blown away. On Trisha’s complaint that an inspector is harassing her, a minor terrorist from Libya, with the help of one of his associates, shoots the inspector and the other policemen in Chennai. The sleeper cells of the Libyan terrorist are in India? That too in Chennai? And they know which police station Trisha is being taken to and which inspector they have to shoot? That terrorist commits such a big crime for Trisha and Trisha doesn’t understand the seriousness of the matter? Anything is going on.
Talking about music, cinematography, editing will be nothing but a formality because the story of the film is so weak that a sensible viewer will catch the nonsense. Rangi is a story that has been written in a haphazard manner and logic has been thrown away. You can watch this film only for entertainment purposes because the action is okay. The film is rubbish.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : February 9, 2023, 07:00 IST