Malini, a gullible nurse falls in love with an agent who works for the firm which processes her Canada visa. Due to an unexpected turn of events, she is forced to vacate her house and live-in with her lover. Trouble starts brewing when her lover’s boss lusts for her.
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Language:
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Tamil
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Running Time:
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131 mins
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Rating:
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U
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Release date:
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24 January 2014
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Directed by:
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Sripriya
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Produced by:
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Rajkumar Sethupathy
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Written by:
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Aashiq Abu
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Starring:
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Nithya Menen
Krish J. Sathaar
Naresh
Vidyullekha Raman
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Music by:
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Aravind-Shankar
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Shot by:
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Manoj Pillai
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Editing by:
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Bavan Sreekumar
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Distributed by:
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Rajkumar Theatres Pvt Ltd
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What’s Hot
- Nithya Menen, who plays the titular role, is the heart and soul of the film. Her wide range expressions when dealing with pain, pleasure, ecstasy, sorrow, and defeat are a delight to watch.
- Krish, who plays Malini’s lover, Varun, is a revelation and it is very surprising that he has done just one Malayalam film before this. He is as good as Prithviraj was in Kana Kanden and sure has the looks and acting skills to have a long future in cinema.
- The supporting characters such as Vijaya Naresh who plays Varun’s boss and the characters that Malini befriends while in jail have delivered some amazing performances and are the unsung pillars behind this film. Their performances in the scenes having shock-value such as the intermission scene and the scene involving the killer inside the jail are marvelous.
- The background score by Arvind-Shankar peps up the tale and serves as the backbone for the film. The art direction deserves a special mention as all the interior scenes coming in the film seem very pleasing to the eye.
- The director Sripriya deserves credit for taking up such a film to present it to the Tamil audience and although it is a remake, her razor-sharp dialogues admirably jolt the audience in the second half. We might never have a film as hard-hitting as Hard Candy coming up in Indian Cinema but films like these crop up now and then to satisfy such cravings.
What’s Not
- The first half harms the film a great deal as the jokes from Kovai Sarala irritates the audience a lot and the love track too does not induce a feeling of warmth. The characters of Kota Srinivasa Rao and Vidyulekha have no depth whatsoever and looks like their parts have been poorly edited out. Such reasons prevent the film from having the deep impact that the original Malayalam flick possessed.
- The songs though good to hear, are unnecessary for such a film and their placement reduces the pace of the film. There are also few scenes that have excessive BGM and this could have been avoided.
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