Looking at the trailer, it appeared that Vijay Sethupathi was the luckiest man on the earth, attending to romance 2 beautiful girls, Nayanthara and Samantha. however the character he plays in Vignesh Shivan's Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal - Rambo - is nothing however dangerous luck. He brings dangerous luck to folks like his mother, UN agency suffers a stroke shortly when his birth. Or he himself suffers - for example, once he needs a chocobar, it happens that the concluding piece has simply been sold to somebody else, instead a crow shits on that. But soon, Rambo turns into the person we have a tendency to saw within the trailer once more. His streak of dangerous luck apparently vanishes once he meets Kanmani (Nayanthara) and Khatija (Samantha). One visual says it all: we have a tendency to see Rambo with 2 chocobars in his hand.
This is a movie of 2s: There are two girls, 2 religions , 2 varieties of motion-picture photography, one realistic and one neon-lit: a scene shot on Napier's bridge makes the structure look radioactive-green. Anirudh's chartbusting songs are available 2 flavours: beat-heavy party-style numbers that keep you sound your feet and melodious tracks like Naan pizhai. Since I simply mentioned that song, let American state take a moment to understand Vignesh Shivan as a writer. there is a line that goes "naan nenacha thonum edame"! What a stunning thought: the girl becomes the man's notional destination. Anyway, these 2 flavours of Anirudh's songs mirror the 2 heroines: the homebound Nayanthara is usually in saris, and therefore the pub-hopping Khatija is usually in Western garments. Throughout the day, he's a cab driver and at nighttime, he's empNloyed during a spot.
The narrative shape looks divided into 4 quarters, or 4 sub-genres, if you will. First, we get a type of dry dramedy: that is, the comedy is layered underneath the drama. Then, we get a romance. Post-interval, we get a type of bed room farce, with two ladies cat-fighting over a man: here, the drama is layered below the comedy, and finally, we cease up with a relationship drama. All of this is conceptually charming and there are some amazing laugh-out-loud moments, in particular in the 2nd half. But the movie does not come together. Take Vignesh Shivan's Paava Kathaigal episode. There is a surprising loss of life that suggests us what the stakes are, and then the movie twists into a black comedy. In different words, the drama offers form to the comedy. Here, I in no way believed that both female used to be honestly in love with the man – so the stakes are non-existent.
Of course, you should argue that Kaathuvaakula is no longer intended to be taken logical at all, which is why we do not get even one defining relationship between Rambo and Kanmani, or Rambo and Khatija. You ought to say that the director is spoofing the sorts of triangular conditions that we see on TV indicates the place anyone listens to sob tales - say, of guys who have two better halves - and passes a verdict. Incidentally, the film's clunky framing system is a TV exhibit anchored by means of Prabhu, and it is stuffed with exposition. I wished the conditions had unfolded as scenes as an alternative than being defined to us via dialogue.
Anyway, my job is now not to surprise what the movie desired to be however to see what the movie in reality is. And this is a very combined bag of emotions. Many huge scenes fall flat. Many dialogues appear written in a stylised way, however they do not in shape well. Many details, like Khatija trying to be a singer or Kanmani being a Bengali, do not appear to count number at all. Many characters - like Khatija's ex who nevertheless wishes her - appear to come and go as they wish. All we are left with are the three stable lead performances and some beautiful moments.
