A flavourful thali of campus days and the life after
Overview: At a time through which faculty college students hardly get to expertise their campus or kind friendships, Hridayam provides its model of a enjoyable campus life, and an opportunity for individuals who miss it, to reminisce about their youthful days.
Arun (Pranav Mohanlal) and Darshana ( Darshana Rajendran) fall in love quickly after they be part of faculty within the first 12 months. They’re loopy about one another, however not too smart to keep away from the overall pitfalls of campus romance. The friendship, love and connections undergo numerous transformative phases, because the narrative progresses. The film additionally goes on to point out how Arun enters the following section of life and handles its evolution into numerous phases.
Hridayam tries to offer a sensible, coming-of-age depiction of a Malayali’s campus life in Chennai and those that have finished engineering within the metropolis would possibly join with it the perfect, because of the completely different moods, flavours and vibes of the town woven into the narrative in a hearty method. Pranav’s character will be termed an ideal archetype of Malayali engineering college students, who try and chart their very own path in campus and life, after a short preliminary section of conforming to the favored pattern. Sure, they begin on the crushed observe, however realizes midway by way of that this isn’t what they need. The film has an attention-grabbing emotional core, introduced out by performances of Pranav, Darshana and others, which makes mild tugs on the viewers’ heartstrings. Pranav, who dominates by way of each the halves of the movie, has positively advanced as a stronger performer with Hridayam. There are numerous hearty songs within the movie and they’re all well-placed.
The film is kind of lengthy at 172 minutes of operating time and will have been trimmed additional for a greater influence, particularly within the second half. Additionally, there are stretches the place one would possibly really feel that the story comes throughout as a bit too acquainted and simplistic, particularly for individuals who have accomplished campus life within the early 2000s. The trajectory that Arun’s life takes, from campus romance and discovery of the best profession, to that of a household man, is usually a bit too handy. Whereas life locations new challenges earlier than him, one can’t sense a lot of an evolution inside him, although there are just a few dialogues that attempt to paint a modified man’s image. Kalyani’s character, too, might have been developed with slightly extra depth, contemplating that she entered the protagonist’s life after he skilled one episode of the everyday meet-cute romance.
That is the type of film one would take house with a smile on the face, foolish campus reminiscences and could also be, a music on the lips, in case you don’t care a lot about character evolutions.
