In case you are wondering what prompted me to go watch a Tamil movie without sub-titles, kindly read the title of the review again.
And for those of you who wouldn’t mind sitting through 18 reels of feeling deaf just for Madhavan, think again.
The film begins with two passengers stuck together because of bad weather. One is a handicapped, weird guy Sivam aka Kamal Haasan and another is a Germany returned dude A Urs aka R Madhavan.
The first fifty minutes or so of the film are completely hilarious. Inspite of the fact that you can’t really understand the dialogues per say the actions are quite explicit to break into laughter.
The two perfectly opposite people are stuck in a situation and how they cope up with it makes for some innovative comic scenes.
But then the film takes a turn to boring land - Kamal Haasan’s flashback. Although it is refreshing to watch a normal Kamal Haasan doing what he is good at - dancing and fighting - his past is too predictable, too filmi and too naive.
The flashback story extends till the interval and to the better part of the interval as well. And from that point on it is yet another cliched string of coincidences which happen one after the other.
The concept of the film: two diferent people stranded togehter is good. But unfortunately hasn’t been executed well enough after the initial start-up.
Madhavan is a delight to watch. One realizes why he is such a superstar down South. Kamal Haasan is obviously good more so in the role of a physically challenged guy. In the flashback part, he kind of overacts and looks narcistic.
Overall it is quite an ordinary film. For those who don’t understand Tamil can conveniently avoid it.