‘Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal’ film evaluation: A honest Vijay Sethupathi and an excellent Samantha deadlift this protected love triangle

She thinks he’s hers and hers solely, as does she. 

This tug of conflict steadily snowballs right into a wrestle, wherein the 2 women struggle all of it out for the gentleman. Our gentleman, then again, makes an attempt to diffuse the issue, pacifying the women, in some instances taking the blame on himself. This isn’t Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal starring Nayanthara, Samantha and Vijay Sethupathi however Panchathanthiram that featured Simran, Ramya Krishnan and Kamal Haasan within the terrific ‘Vandhen Vandhen’ music. 

This parallel between these two movies can be wherein it differs. In contrast with Panchathanthiram precisely the place a take pleasure in triangle was simply playful and suggestive, it’s quick in Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal. And this steadfastness is what tends to make the Vignesh Shivan directorial scarcely fulfilling and totally superficial. Oh, there’s a additional parallel: Simran in that movie was introduced as a ‘homely’ girl, though Ramya Krishnan was the vamp. Although Samantha (who appears to be stunning and deadlifts a lot of the film) is just not penned as a vamp, her character does come all through as an object of need with extraordinarily small psychological authenticity.

Allow us encounter it: Vignesh Shivan is just not a transgressive filmmaker. Mainly, none in mainstream Tamil cinema, is. So, if a majority of these a take pleasure in triangle ended as much as be produced in Tamil, discovering the psychological state of a man and two women, the one wise decision to your film can be to have a handy ending, the place by the ethical boundaries proceed being untouched and ideas exist mainly as contemplations. Someplace you’d bear in mind that Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal wouldn’t be even fifty % intriguing of what Okay Balachander or Balu Mahendra skilled achieved of their movies. However as soon as extra, this isn’t a movie that needs you to really feel however expects you to be a part of in for a jolly journey, with a nadaswaram-major score by Anirudh. 

Assured, however is the movie on the very least entertaining? Fully not. Aside from for a a number of perfectly-considered-out concepts, Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal ( KRK) stays firmly bland. It is a crime for a movie that has three unbelievable actors in Vijay Sethupathi, Nayanthara and Samantha who do not need an incredible deal to do for the uncomplicated motive that the screenplay itself doesn’t have enough oil to maintain the motor working. 

Give credit precisely the place it’s due: Vignesh Shivan units up the premise fairly correctly a couple of boy named Rambo (Vijay Sethupathi), who’s born to a Muslim mom and a Hindu father. Instantly after Rambo is born, his father dies and the mom receives a paralytic assault. He’s shortly thought to be the harbinger of dangerous luck and despair. So considerably in order that rain stops for him, when Rambo measures out to get drenched. This superstition turns into perception. However Rambo’s mom (oddly named Minah Khalif) reminds him that “when it rains, it pours”.

There’s a excellent on the spot in KRK when Rambo will get to information rain for the initially time with out having presently being apologetic for who he’s. The best way Vignesh Shivan treats this on the spot, it’s as if to advocate that Rambo is finally cleansed of his curse and kissed by the rain gods. This transpires when the ladies of all ages of KRK — Kanmani (Nayanthara) and Khatija (Samantha) — particular their take pleasure in for him. Rambo telephone calls them his “angels”, whereas 1 thinks that the demon must be the absence of a weighty script. The primary 50 % is so intensive that, at a single concern, you cut back monitor of what’s happening and get began eager about the calculations, provided that the film has two main actresses. 

So, though the ‘homely’ Kanmani will get the soulful ‘Naan Pizhai’ tune, the pub-likely Khatija will get the groovy ‘Dippam Dappam’. Of system, Rambo is in actually like with Kanmani in the midst of daytime and with Khatija at night time. I hope you recognize why. Nearly each of them will get a scene the place by the hero arrives to the rescue of his girl. The best way wherein Vignesh Shivan has conceived the ladies of KRK raises questionable uncertainties. Nayanthara as Kanmani will be seen as a illustration of the on a regular basis girl from the prior period. She is single, has a sister and a brother with a developmental incapacity, and has an ancestral property beneath debt — if solely the late actor Sujatha was all-around. Samantha as Khatija, then again, is created as this technology’s girl coping with troubles these sorts of as home abuse from her boyfriend and lecherous seems to be from males. Even the way in which these females fall in actually like with Rambo appears like a straightforward path to clear up the screenplay problems. You by no means must look some place else. The 2020 Telugu film Krishna and His Leela handled this oddity comparatively fantastically.

However then there are a handful of instances when KRK will come genuinely alive as what Vignesh Shivan might probably have imagined, courtesy Vijay Sethupathi. There’s a scene when Kanmani and Khatija confront Rambo in a temple. They ask him why he has been stopping them, not realizing concerning the two-timing. Vijay doesn’t treatment them. He simply measures backwards, prostrating upfront of them within the guise of looking for blessings from God. No different male actor would have agreed to this. The viewers went nuts. There are some giggle-out-loud occasions when Vignesh imagines well-liked take pleasure in tales as a love triangle together with his actors. Who would have assumed that the long-lasting Titanic pose would have three as a substitute of two? See, that’s what KRK actually ought to have been. You additionally get a number of scattered laughs on this article and there however these are certainly not ample to keep up your curiosity.

This aside, one thing necessities to be acknowledged about Vijay Sethupathi and the astonishing functionality he possesses to proceed being honest to the character he performs. Simply observe out for him in the long run when anybody asks how he might take pleasure in two girls on the similar time. Vijay offers a lame clarification using the movie’s title. However somewhat one thing about his voice, the way in which he states it, would make you actually really feel it can come from the center. He makes you imagine. Almost certainly women and men had been being appropriate in pointing this out. KRK would have been much more interesting skilled it been a romance in between Nayanthara and Samantha. Maybe.

Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal is presently working in theatres.