Bhaskar Oru Rascal Review: Except for Arvind Swami, everything falls flat

Bhaskar Oru Rascal is a remake of the Malayalam movie Bhaskar the rascal.

With the star cast of Arvind Swamy, Amala Paul, Baby Nainikka (Theri baby), Master Raghavan, Robo Shankar, Soori, Nassar and others, the movie had quite some hype.

With the release of the trailer, the hype did build up a little further because we got to see Arvind Swamy in a rather different appearance.

After his comeback in Thani Oruvan, Swamy had sported certain kind of roles and his role is Bhaskar Oru Rascal is simply different and something you wouldn’t expect.

That’s a refreshing thing for sure and Arvind Swamy has given his best to do justice to the role.

The movie is about how two families come together by the efforts of two little kids who are friends.

And, the movie is supposed to be a family drama with some commercial elements.

But what we are given in the plate is more than what we expected, not in a pleasantly surprising sense. It is overwhelming, distracting, and simply pointless.

Arvind plays Bhaskar a short tempered business man who delivers a thug performance. He spontaneously loses temper on every (little) thing that provokes him.

And he is a widower with a son Akash (Master Raghavan).

Amala Paul plays Vinitha whose husband is believed to have died in an accident, and she lives with her daughter Shivani (Baby Nainikka).

Akash and Shivani are friends and they expect everyone in their respective families will be happier if their parents are united. So the kids create plans to make their parents like each other.

Initially Vinitha dislike Bhaskar for his behaviour, but then later on things seem to fall in place which is when the unexpected happens.

The rest of the story is supposed to keep us hooked mixed with emotions – instead the screenplay falls flat and moves in rather unnecessary directions.

Soori and Robo Shankar are mainly in the movie to generate some laughs among the audience and they try their best to do so.

However, they only succeed in a very few places due to the “template” of the comedy that’s somewhat stereotyped.

Amala Paul appears as a decent woman and handles a rather matured role neatly. But she also does provide some glam in the songs so the audience are not disappointed.

The kids though are forced to play a rather matured role – the characterisation of the kids is not how it is supposed to be.

They deliver dialogues that are way beyond what a kid of their age would talk.

And they also think like well-grown adults which is somewhat unacceptable as well as gets annoying after a while.

The movie thus fails majorly on various areas. There are very few convincing things like Arvind’s characterisation that’s fresh.

But beyond that, there’s no reason why you would make yourself sit through the movie. Especially the second half.

Having said that, if you are into a family drama that has some mindless commercial aspects, you can go for it.