![]() ![]() At least for a while, it’s a low-key bliss-out. (It’s the classic construct: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.) This film, too, is pure formula, but made with taste and understatement and a genuine understanding of how opposites attract. Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi’s Vanakkam Chennai, on the other hand, is a rom-com in the truest sense, the way rom-coms are made in Hollywood. Mainly, though, I suppose it just sounded cool to have him do this.) The film is a vile mess. (Why? So that he wins the right to “correct” a girl that he and his idling friends have their eyes on. ![]() Sarkunam’s Naiyaandi slavishly follows the Kollywood formula, with thoroughly exaggerated characters whom we see only on screen – like the mother, at the beginning, who’s so desperate to marry off her older sons that she accosts unsuspecting “eligible” girls with a list of questions, including one about caste, and from there it’s just a small leap to the hero-introduction scene that has Chinna Vandu (Dhanush) vaulting across an open well. The two love stories this week are worlds apart – at least movie worlds apart.
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