SK’s childhood dream is to become a movie star and tries to reach his dream by acting in a theatre group. His limited acting skills especially in the romantic scenes (attributed to his lack of experience in true love) is a major hurdle to realise his dream. When cupid finally strikes, SK falls at first sight for Dr. Kavya who he later learns is already engaged. Crestfallen, he resumes work and when he dons the guise of a nurse for an audition, Kavya mistakes her for a nurse which paves the way for SK’s second chance get into Kavya’s life.
Language:
Tamil
Running Time:
150 min
Rating:
U
Release date:
07 October 2016
Directed by:
Bakkiyaraj Kannan
Produced by:
R. D. Raja
Written by:
Bakkiyaraj Kannan
Starring:
Sivakarthikeyan
Keerthy Suresh
Sathish
K. S. Ravikumar
Saranya Ponvannan
Rajendran
Yogi Babu
Aadukalam Naren
Mayilswamy
Music by:
Anirudh Ravichander
Shot by:
P. C. Sreeram
Editing by:
Ruben

What’s Hot

  • The Art direction from Muthuraj fits hand-in-glove with veteran P. C. Sreeram’s cinematography which maintain that air of liveliness throughout the movie even in the many scenes shot in the night – the proposal scene is one that awed the audience.
  • A lot of curiosity had been generated from the time the first look posters featuring Siva Karthikeyan as a nurse were out. The Weta Workshop team that did an impressive job in Shankars I (2015) with their craft to create disfigured faces in the movie, have done their job with equal perfection to create something lovely this time around. SK’s Remo avatar was just spotless and a third avatar in the climax was truly the icing on the cake!
  • Costumes designed for both the lady characters were a class apart. Right from Remo’s fashionable western wear to Keerthy’s traditional wear, a wide range of the spectrum was utilized and each of them was quite attractive in its own style.

What’s Not

  • The protagonist trying to become a movie star, Love at first sight, the lead lady already engaged to another man, impersonation and cover ups when about to be exposed, persistent stalking from the protagonist in a bid to change her mind – this movie has all the time-worn clichés of a rom-com you can recollect from your memory, but none of them work to create the magic that the director has taken for granted to happen.
  • The dialogues and scenes intended to invoke laughter, take women-bashing to intolerable levels including a repulsive portion where the inebriated protagonist ties an effigy of the lead lady to a lamp post and beats it down while mouthing popular movie dialogues and tries to burn it – assisted by friends and witnessed by his mother!
  • The songs are not quite the relief the audience were expecting, them being ungainly in both the placement as well as the content presented which was no so refreshing and sounded similar to Anirudh’s previous numbers albeit the charm that the originals possessed.

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Verdict

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‘Remo’ has a ton of technical expertise working in its favour to give it a posh look on the outside, but underneath all that gloss a lot of repulsive content is being propagated such as demeaning women at the expense of an immoral lead character with malicious intent – now that’s a pretentious cover up of a fiasco at the core!