2019, Tamil, Amazon Prime, 5.6/10 IMDB, Directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon,
The romance and action concoction works to an extend as the proportion seems just right. The lead pair’s chemistry, Dhanush’s performance and Mega’s innocence saves the movie.
There is something about this Director Gautham Menon. His mind has paralyzed somewhere with his adolescent age and his college days, ever filled only with fantasy and romance.
If he is ever thinking of doing a workshop with his Ondraga Entertainment banner, a special program for rekindling and rejuvenating Men folk to make them go back to their adolosent love mode, many women folk would readily register their hubbies.
Man, he is God damn good in capturing the adolescent romance, so raw and so fresh. The number of lip locks is so many that you can’t count with your fingers.😍
The movie have endless voice-overs from start to end and after you walk back home, it takes time to realize you are not schizophrenic and it’s just the movie that makes you voice-over words for every action of yours😂
Dhanush saves the movie by giving what it took over the three long years of production and his ‘ever 16’ physique helps in the continuity of the scenes without much confusion to as which was shot early and which was shot to fill the left over scenes.
The story itself travels in different time frame of 4 years and the story telling layers are so good in escalating the suspense quotient which otherwise would have been a flat uninteresting story.
The plot starts off with a college student falling for a debut actress in the shooting spot and the story travels in slow pace amidst the romance.
The story twists and turns with some money mongering producer’s greed involving in arms dealing in Mumbai.
The hero saga falls flat when he meets his run away from home brother, played by the poor accented Sasikumar. But somehow manages to pick up pace again with the suspense quotient and ends with a positive note.
The villain playing the producer has all the qualities of the GVM villains we know off. There is a over bridge anti climax which again reminds you of Kaka kaka..
Loved the sync and harmony of the casting of Dhanush’s family. Sashi Kumar, Dhanush and his father character all have some kind of real similarities in their features. But the emotional bonding was totally missing and felt staged.
With all the herculean tasks involved in releasing this movie, there seems to be no such fatigue of the span of 3 long years of production, that affected the story telling, except for the last scene where Dhanush hugging his sister was painstakingly shown with her head turned other way round, wonder it the girl who played the role vanished untraceably😂
It was a rounded movie with far better story than Ennai Arindhal and Achcham Enbadhu Madamaiyada.
Good watch.