Three youngsters – Kathir cannot get over his lost love life and decides to end his life. Nisha, who loves Kathir, takes the help of his friend Kumaran and they con him to believe they too have similar desires to commit suicide and they rent out a beach facing bungalow to end their lives in. The strange supernatural events surrounding the bungalow and the constant plans hatched by Kumaran to unite the couple amidst Kathir’s suicidal tendencies form the core of the movie. The Proceedings take an unexpected turn when the love blossoms only to be interrupted by an unknown force which forms the remainder of the movie.
Language:
Tamil
Running Time:
126 min
Rating:
U/A
Release date:
15 January 2015
Directed by:
Sam Anton
Produced by:
Allu Aravind
K. E. Gnanavel Raja
Written by:
Maruthi Dasari
Sam Anton
Starring:
G. V. Prakash Kumar
Nikki Galrani
Karunas
Bala Saravanan
Srushti Dange
Music by:
G. V. Prakash Kumar
Shot by:
Krishnan Vasant
Editing by:
Ruben
Distributed by:
Dream Factory

What’s Hot

  • Bala Saravanan and Karunas hog the limelight with their sarcastic humour. Bala has picked up pretty well in recent movies and his slang while mouthing dialogues has its own perks to up the humor quotient. With Karunas for company donning a constantly eccentric behaviour, the audience are treated well with bolts of comic scenes.
  • G V Prakash has shown his melodious traits once again with a fair share of soul stirring love songs topped with some peppy numbers and energetic background scores to present an enjoyable audio experience. At least a couple of songs – “Vandha Mala…” and “Sattena Idi Mazhai…” are guaranteed to garner your subconscious involvement!
  • Nikki Galrani makes her debut in Tamil as Nisha, the lead lady and this will be quite a memorable debut. Be it her cute looks or her adorable expressions in the face of love or her emotions when helpless or her taunting expressions under grotesque makeup when possessed by a ghost, she makes an impression which is hard to ignore.

What’s Not

  • The initial plot used to kick start the movie is so morbid since it advocates Suicide as ‘the’ solution for all troubles. Though suicides are technically legal now, such ignorance could undermine the efforts put in all these years to reduce suicides amongst youth over trivial issues.
  • G V Prakash in his debut as an actor looks totally out of sorts like a sheep in a horse stable! To be fair on him, this was not such a great role to start off your acting career with. The character of Kathir lacks any convincing personality trait to be focussed upon as the protagonist and his looks/styling doesn’t make it any better. If we blame it on nerves, then the director has missed a trick by not extracting the best out of him.
  • The screenplay is a definite dampener on the movie with lack of any arguably riveting episodes or game changing moments. The few mysteries in the first half are dissolved early in the second half which is replaced by repetitive encounters with the supernatural force and typically predictable comic reactions out of fear.

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Verdict

Verdict Stamp

‘Darling’ begins on a funny and mysterious note, but soon embraces the predictable path and loses a lot of venom to wander off to mediocrity. Nevertheless, the humour sprayed all over the movie never lets up and manages to pull itself up to present a decent entertainer!!