Movie: 6 Candles; Cast: Shaam Ibrahim, Poonam Kaur, Nagineedu, Anil Murali and Narayan; Director: V.Z. Dhorai; Rating: **
Shaam's "6 Candles" is an over-the-top version of Liam Neeson's "Taken" that seldom takes itself seriously throughout the film. A story of a missing child that gets linked to a multi-million dollar child trafficking business, "6 Candles" has moments of brilliance, but it does not quite capitalise on that enough.
Despite the effort put in by Shaam, who gained and lost weight for his role in the film, all that we get to see is a promising story sabotaged by convoluted screenplay.
When a six-year-old boy (Gautham) goes missing on his sixth birthday while walking alongside his mother (Lizzy) on a.
Shaam's "6 Candles" is an over-the-top version of Liam Neeson's "Taken" that seldom takes itself seriously throughout the film. A story of a missing child that gets linked to a multi-million dollar child trafficking business, "6 Candles" has moments of brilliance, but it does not quite capitalise on that enough.
Despite the effort put in by Shaam, who gained and lost weight for his role in the film, all that we get to see is a promising story sabotaged by convoluted screenplay.
When a six-year-old boy (Gautham) goes missing on his sixth birthday while walking alongside his mother (Lizzy) on a.
- 9/21/2013
- by Smith Cox
- RealBollywood.com
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