Kadhalil Sodhapuvadhu Eppadi(Tamil) & Love failure(Telugu) – Review

     Here is the first breed from short film maker's era and the winner of reality show “Nalaya Iyakkunar”( Future Director- Tamil reality show in Kalaingyar TV). He has not just come in with a brand-new way; he has also come up with a fresh way of story telling by narrating the story through talking with the viewers all through the film; he took the most repeated genre in world cinema and has given a refreshed and new look to it. The team has furthermore had a new marketing strategy with sweet talkie paper advertisements. The film is a hit from day one because, the film was shot in a record 35 days and with a production value of five crore rupee.  New producer's duo Sidharth and Nirav Shah can multiply their vault size with this sleeper hit movie.

     Now let's get into the film, it starts off with a simple example of how a fight begins and the protagonist narrates his love story with a flashback sequence. The film is just not all about that, there are totally four different story. One is break up and patch-up of sidharth and amala Paul; one is about siddu’s friend and his frightened approach towards his love. The other is in the amala Paul's parents misunderstandings, which lead to file a divorce; amala's father Suresh goes to siddu’s father for divorce paper works, siddu’s father Ravi ragavender, who is a law practitioner by profession. Ravi is a lovable father at home who leaves no stone unturned in bringing up his boy siddu along with her wife, and this couple lives a happy married life. Furthermore, this film also shows the penetration of social-networking sites in our life with siddu’s father creating a FB account and browsing through siddu and amala’s photos and commenting about it were cute and fresh sequence.      The film makes you think that in the later part, Ravi will play a prominent role like patching up the young and the old pair but instead the film moves and teaches the viewers what exactly is “Made for each other." The film takes a turn when amala’s mother surekha vani arranges a sadabishegam- 80th marriage anniversary for her parents, which makes the characters and audience to think as how they made up to 80 years of marriage life. From here the film deserves a standing ovation, one for the self-realization of within all the characters and the way each character approaches the other was simply fantastic. Suresh's performance in love letter sequence and in the scene where he explains about “made for each other” was outstanding. Take a bow director Balaji for showing that words are more important than action in a relationship, by keeping the scene where he shows his LIC appointment order after patching up in the relationship was a great and a brilliant move. 

     The small part of SS music VJ’s Pooja and shyam with her Ex-boyfriend were more realistic, and many people, in reality, do that very often. Sidharth’s friends vignesh and Arjun are a livewire they provide the much needed comic relief. After all these good performances from various characters siddharth played his role to perfection, as an ever young college guy with millions of questions about his love and just lived as Arun all through the film. Amala Paul has to be given a special appreciation for picking up a role which is more performance oriented than a skin show performance. She was neat and decent all the way, there are no commercial elements like a fast beet kuthu song, exotic foreign locale or high-octane stunts. It's just a normal love story. It’s a perfect cocktail for this valentine's weekend. People who expect a romantic movie then this is not your film; this is a love story for all the age group; in fact, a learning curve for all film goers.      Debutant director Balaji has struck gold in his first attempt of transforming his short film to a feature film. He had confidence in his script, which was visible right from the beginning of the movie and avoiding the usual commercial elements is a welcome change to both Tamil & Telugu industry. As a whole complex story telling made simpler with flawless editing. It’s a complete family outing for a sweet and warm valentine weekend.

Rating 3.5/5

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