Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi

Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi

A light hearted approach towards the world’s totally complicated parameter… love. After the short film in the same title by the same director Balaji Mohan won accolades in the internet ‘YouTube’ world, obviously out of the box thinkers like Siddharth got intrigued by it.

What’s the story all about? It’s a regular tale of a boy meets girl, fall in love, and make the fur fly by fighting each other’s heads off, break up and then patch up. So what is new? The old story gift wrapped in a new perspective gives it a fresh appeal. If you are planning to watch this movie, I would recommend you not to watch the short film before because it might simply spoil the fun of it.  

Arun and Parvathi are students in an engineering college who meet in the college canteen and by chance become friends. As fate would have it, they fall in love too in a short while. After that the movie is a hilarious roller coaster ride. There is no suspense or thrill in the story but it makes sure you enjoy every bit of it because it captures the psychology of the youngsters to whom you can easily relate yourselves too. The scene in which the director makes a mental comparison of male and female thought process is totally funny. What is more lovable about the movie is that the protagonist directly converses with the audience.

Psychology is the driving factor of the movie. Love is not only portrayed among the college goers. The role of the protagonists’ parents is very realistic too. Arun’s parents are very casual and their conversations sound interesting. There is an occasion where Arun returns after a Pondicherry trip with his friends in a pissed off mood when his father asks him how the beach was. He curtly replies ‘Beach maathiri irunthuchu’( It resembled a beach). This is something everyone of us can relate ourselves to.  Parvathi’s parents are in the verge of separation but their love for each other is portrayed in subtle manner and towards the end of the movie it gets beautiful. The emotional outburst that is kindled within the kids when the parents fight is beautifully portrayed in this movie and Amala Paul as the affected kid has essayed her role with perfection. Both Siddharth and Amala Paul score a perfect mark for portraying the lead roles with ease. Not even in a single instance do you feel that something is overdone or underdone.

The movie is targeted at the youngsters but seriously don’t today’s youth have anything useful to do in college. The hero says that he had never faced any real challenge in his life and so he wanted to take up finding his dream girl as a challenge. It sounds a wonderful challenge, doesn’t it? Being an engineering student and keeping up the academic excellence itself is a challenge. Also I don’t know in which college our protagonists are studying because they are found together in the college park or the canteen most of the time and no staff seems to bother them unlike our college professors who have their eyes on us all the time. But for a romantic comedy, we must not seek too much logic.

A good aspect about the movie is that the first meeting of the duo is made realistic and not like some fairy tale. The movie earns a standing ovation for having not allowed the pair of them to dance around trees in some foreign countries for a duet song as soon as they meet. For the first time in the history of tamil cinema the guy who encounters break up doesn’t grow a beard or take drugs or try to get himself killed. Instead the song ‘Parvathi Parvathi..’ sung by Siddharth is a brilliant number.

Surely Siddharth’s marketing skill has played a significant role play behind the movie’s success. The promos and advertisements definitely were very creative that drew the youth audience all the way to the theatres. The newspaper ads looked like comic strips which was an innovative approach. And the ones that watched the movie were not disappointed either. In today’s time scale, the movie definitely wins a good score on a critic’s rating.

           

            Moral of the story is ‘Boys will be boys and girls will be girls no matter how deeply they fall in love’

Bottomline: If you are bored of all the soapy romances, I would highly recommend you to watch this movie and shed tears of laughter for a change.