Balloon Movie Review

Director : Sinish
Producer : Dhilip Subbarayan | Arun Balaji | Nandakumar
Cast : Jai | Anjali | Janani Iyer
Music : Yuvan Shankar Raja
Cinematography : R. Saravanan
Editor : Ruben
Production company : 70mm Entertainment and Farmer’s Master Plan Productions
Distribution : Auraa Cinemas
Running Time : 160 mins

Director Sinish makes his maiden directorial through the movie ‘Balloon’, which has Jai, Anjali and Janani Iyer in the star-cast. Yuvan Shankar Raja has composed music and cinematography is handled by Saravanan.

When the producer is impressed with one line story of a wannabe filmmaker Jeevanandham (Jai), he decides to travel towards a haunted place in a hill station along with his wife (Anjali) and friends for research on his script. But sooner, the couple along with friends experience phenomenal things that scare them to the core.

What’s so much disappointing about Balloon is that it doesn’t carry anything special or unique with the ‘Horror-Comedy’ genre.

By the title credits, the director seems to be showing off that he is genuine by listing the queue of inspired movies. In fact, he had mentioned during the promotional events that 30-40 horror movies inspired him to make Balloon. But then, what we see is not an inspiration, but a clear cut recreation of what we saw in those movies. There are very few interesting scenes raising the Goosebumps with eeriness. But most of the so-called supposedly spine chilling moments are really boring and time-worn. The episode involving the priest as exorcist happens to be the interesting one and director needs appreciation for it.

Getting on with the performance, it’s Anjali making an impressive performance. She has really worked hard to deliver nuance performances. The little boy as Jai’s nephew also does a justifying job. Jai has to work a lot on his performance and he looks all the way same with his stereotypical body language, mannerisms and performance. Chandini is good with what is offered to her. Yogi Babu keeps tickling our funny bones with humour quotient.

Musical score by Yuvan Shankar Raja happens to be the highlight trait, especially the background score. Cinematography by Saravanan and colouring are extraordinary.

Overall, except for 2-3 scenes that offer spookiness, most of the film is dominated by comedy liners. Balloon is yet another mediocre horror-comedy, which repeats the same old formulae of ‘Horror-Comedy’.