Unnai Kann Theduthe

Director: Sunder C.
Cast: Satyaraj, Khushbu, Rawali, Livingston, Vivek, Senthil, Manivannan, Kovai Sarala

The venue is a marriage hall. The buzz of activity indicates that pre-marriage rituals and other activities are on. It is the marriage of Livingston's sister. One by one, friends and relatives are dropping in. Livingston's wife Khushbu has picked him up at the airport in the early hours. He has come in from the U.S. and intends to take her back with him when he leaves immediately after the ceremonies. On the way, they see the body of a murdered youth being pulled out of a pond. They gave it just a passing glance as they move on, but as the narration proceeds, it turns out at least one member of the family is deeply involved. An invitation card to the same wedding is in the dead man's pocket and a 'thali' is clutched in his hand.

The investigating cop poses as one of the cooks and enters the venue. It's a Sunder C.film. And no Sunder C. film is complete without an impersonation of some kind. The cop's work is not difficult. He had only to find the person with the missing 'thali'. But then what would happen to the rest of the film? So the cop takes his own time fooling around the place, romancing with the cook's daughter and practically all the females young and old, who for the some strange reason find him irresistible. It is only midway through the narration that he shows his evidence around and soon enough discovers the person whose 'thali' is missing. It is the demure Khushbu draped in the traditional nine-yard saree. Surprising that during the elaborate dressing for the wedding and all, she never realised her loss. She admits the 'thali' is hers and makes a quick confession too, robbing the film of whatever suspense was left. One expected some cat-and-mouse games to follow. But the cat being quite reluctant to catch the mouse, and the mouse too not showing the slightest inclination to escape or fight back, it all ends on a tame note. There are many artistes and characters, but not one stays in the mind.

Khushbu's explanation, that the youth had barged into the house in the wee hours and tried to rape her and that she had killed him accidentally, is lapped up by the cop. And later, when it is discovered that the youth is the intended bridegroom, the cop even arranges a substitute groom for the girl. He is a cop in a Tamil film and he can do anything. Who are we to question him? And in the final scene, when Livingston and Khusbu are on their way to the airport, the cop makes a rush to follow them. But at the airport he changes his mind and lets her go. The bad deserved to die, says he. In one of the earlier scenes, the cop himself guns down in cold blood the wayward brother of a minister. Hence probably the empathy for Khushbu! Anyway all's well that ends well in this average entertainer

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