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Director:R.K. Kalaimani
Cast:Prabhu, Karthik, Kausalya, Vivek, Vyapuri, K.R. Vatsala, Ponnambalam.
It is a love
triangle with both the heroes wanting to play martyrs, shuttling
the poor girl between them. And with two top heroes on the scene
one waits to see which of them gets the edge. And, of course, it
is Karthik who wins the game being one up, by losing his girl.
The film is fairly interesting in the earlier portions but soon falls into the familiar pattern. Prabhu plays a house-broker who saves all his money, so that he can return to his village and marry his niece. The same girl who was his childhood playmate and for whose sake he had even gone to jail. It is a couple of decades since he had set eyes on the girl. So, when she comes to his very neighbourhood looking out for a place to stay, he naturally does not recognise her, nor does she do so. Prabhu to make some fast buck on the side, rents out to her a portion of his place where he himself was a tenant. He learns that she had escaped from home to avoid a bad marriage, the marriage to this same uncle. Never mind that the family hadn't seem him for decades, nor known his whereabouts. The guy had come into inheritance since, and thus his sister's new found interest in him.
Villain
Ponnambalam enters the scene. The neighbourhood dada, he grabs
any girl he fancies & his goons carry her away for the
rape-scene. But married girls are forbidden fruits for him. When
he makes a grab for Kausalya, Prabhu gets her out of his clutches
by feigning to be her husband. He turns saviour many times, but
why he doesn't tell her about the villain's fetish is a puzzle.
Ponnambalam meanwhile snarls, curls his lips, narrows his eyes
and plays the bad man to the hilt. Can't really blame him, for
the poor guy has all along been playing henchman to the boss or
the two-bit villain. Naturally he didn't want to let go this
opportunity! As for Vivek the bum-chum of Prabhu, one liked him
in earlier films. He was the saviour then, a great relief from
the monotonous scenario. But now one wishes someone would save us
from him, for he is plainly unbearable with his double entendres
and overacting. Since he has started writing his own comedy
track, he is taking more footage to the detriment of the film.
Kausalya and Karthik finally meet
after the many 'narrow misses' in the story. Prabhu, happy for
her, even guides her in matters of the heart, till he realises
who she is. Heartbroken, he however decides to play martyr. But
he hadn't reckoned with the exuberant Karthik who speeds up his
martyr act, by feigning indifference to the girl, and putting on
a bad man act. The ruse works, the girl realises the greatness of
her uncle, and promptly switches sides. Give Karthik a cameo
role, that of a genial carefree youth, and he'll bring back
memories of 'Mouna Ragam'. Prabhu's role is like the one he had
played in 'Ponmanam'. Kausalya is slowly picking up the nuances
of acting, and it will take her a few more films before she can
comprehend it fully.
Malini