The movie has been in the news for all the wrong reasons and as the saying goes – nothing beats controversy related publicity. Again, thanks to the lockdown driven OTT addiction, despite having noticed this movie previously, the controversy related to the dog’s name, induced the curiosity. Being a Malayalam movie, almost 50% of the dialogues are in tamil!! The movie show cases Chennai so beautifully and most of the locations being very close to very I live, it was nice to watch them on screen. Another 10% of the dialogue is in French with rest being in Malayalam. Despite a 3 language dialogue driven movie, there is no semblance of a story on any of the language is an altogether different thing. The movie thrives on looks and looks alone. Good looking apartments, good looking cast, good looking supporting characters, even the vehicles used in the movie looks good!!! Good looking avashyamundu would’ve been the USP for the casting team I guess!!! But unfortunately kadhai anavashyamnudu happened to the story department!! Kalyani priyadarshan looks normal in some angles and angel in some angles. Cameraman’s gavanikka. Shobhana sleep walks through the role alongside Suresh gopi, who appears to have his own doubts on choosing to play this role. Dulqur being the producer, would’ve managed to fill in whenever he had time I guess. His role also has that hangover effect from characterization perspective. Calling the dog prabakaran was not there on the version I saw. May be it got removed already!! Marking tamil speaking brahmin community as beef eaters and are so fond of dried fish or chicken can be pardoned as no one bothers to make an issue out of these things, having tolerated such nonsense across decades in multiple films. Guess no hero worth his salt can afford to loose an opportunity to mock this community. Probably one sure shot way to superstardom!!! Urvashi who comes as a cameo is another nice addition to the cast. In fact, except for the heroine, rest all look like cameos in this almost 2 hour movie. To me it felt like an extended episode of Seinfeld, except that instead of comedy it was romantic dramedy and instead of under half hour it has 4 episode worth of content. In the end you leave with a feel good effect but if anyone happens to ask you for the story, you would sure be hard pressed for an answer!!! Varane avashyamund – pakkanumnu avashyamillai.
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The only thing that is staying in mind is the controversy.
The only thing that is staying in mind is the controversy.
I watched, re-watched and then re-watched - all before the Prabhakaran issue broke.
Why the French ?? But of course, Gilus would have followed it perfectly after reading Hercule Poirot novels :)