KME is director V.Priya's second attempt after the successful 'Kanda Naal Mudhal'. With an heavily urban theme in Kanda Naal Mudhal, success was largely restricted to the cities. But the film was well made and had an engrossing screenplay.
In Kannamoochi Enada, she attempts a comedy with an urban backdrop, setting up a trend for such movies.With the increase in gross collections in general from the top 3 Tamil Nadu cities alone, there is a growing market for movies targeted at just the urban audience! We are seeing younger directors experiment with niche subjects, which is a welcome trend!
Alright, this movie is meant for the city slickers, but the amount of work required to create an genuinely funny movie has been grossly underestimated here. Roughly based on the similar themed hollywood movie 'Meet the Parents', the writers have left out some core comic sequences (to avoid accusations of obvious plaguarism?) that could have turned this movie into a laugh riot!
The film tries hard to hold your attention but only succeeds in parts. Though plenty of comic situations are infused into the plot, the comedy is half-hearted! Prithviraj is a Software Engineer based in Malaysia, managing his uncle's software firm. Meets and instantly falls for 'Kadhal' Sandhya. The movie revolves around his antics to convince her father, Sathyaraj, the Chennai Police commissioner and win her hand!
Sathyaraj's stellar presence carries the movie forward at every stage. Prithviraj's role is the same stereotyped educated young man who falls in love the instant he sees the heroine! He holds the same expressions through his last three movies (mozhi, satham podadhae and this one) and he better reinvent himself soon!
The romance isn't well developed at all, and I feel that the easiest route to establishing the love between the lead pairs was taken. Radhika's presence adds gold value to the plot, as he essays the role of a woman who's lived under her husband's shadows, to perfection.
During her expression of soft understanding with Prithviraj and her outbursts against her husband, she helps keep the viewer's attention a bit, amidst the faltering screenplay. Sandhya has a very easy role her. He sudden change of mind is not well justified, as also Radha Ravi's sudden turn to goodness.
It's almost like it was time to end the movie, so all the characters were made to do a sudden about-turn!
Sripriya comes up with a Cameo in the second half as Sathyaraj's twin sister and does her best in whatever little time she has on screen. But again, she is helpless in a plot that dilutes the motivations of the characters in order to fit as a comedy movie! I guess the golden rule is that even a comedy movie is only as good as it's emotional content!
Still the movie manages to hold, purely based on the strength of its cast, the good production values and pleasing cinematography! You can watch it without getting too bored, if you keep all expectations aside!
But there's a good chance of disappointment if you watch it at the theatres expecting a hilarious entertainer!
2.5 stars on my scale!
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