‘Kannai Nambathey’ movie review: This convoluted thriller ends up being unintentionally funny – The Hindu

Director Mu Maran’s directorial debut, 2018’s Iravukku Aayiram Kangal, regardless of not being a revelation in Tamil cinema’s tryst with the thriller style, is a racy entertainer. The movie was webbed with an intricate plot that was advanced sufficient to get us hooked and was good sufficient to not take its viewers without any consideration. In his sophomore movie, Kannai Nambathey, what’s repeated is the ‘eye’ reference within the title (which will even be the case with this evaluation), a fancy plot, and as a bonus, a good try to attach each movies. What’s lacking is the crucial raciness within the screenplay and novelty within the convoluted plot, with out which, the movie loses stream method earlier than its climactic reveals.

Kannai Nambathey follows the journey of Arun (Udhayanidhi Stalin) who, alongside along with his new buddy and roommate Somu (Prasanna), inadvertently finds himself in the course of a homicide. Like a toppled stack of dominoes, a sequence of occasions kickstart main to greater revelations. Typically we miss what’s proper below our noses and typically there’s extra to it than meets the attention, and that’s most likely the concept behind the aptly titled Kannai Nambathey. Mu Maran takes the standard route we’ve seen with our thrillers within the set-up — introducing the primary actors, the futile feminine lead whose closeness to Arun is established with a montage track, and the quintessential hero’s buddy who disappears, fortunately, after the primary couple of minutes. On paper, Kannai Nambathey seems like an intriguing story of what occurs to a man who goes out of his method to assist a girl solely to seek out her useless; the basic case of an abnormal man pushed into extraordinary circumstances. However the movie retains throwing advanced array of expositions at you till the final reel.

A specific amount of leeway for coincidences and the dearth of logic is often pardoned on the subject of thrillers, however the issue with Kannai Nambathey is how the entire movie is constructed on the porous sands of fortuity. What we find yourself with is a home of playing cards that comes down crashing after we calculate the chances of its happenings. It’s no shock when a personality, who is just not even associated to the movie’s story, randomly reappears within the context of offering comedian aid at an integral a part of the movie, simply out of sheer likelihood. By this time, you’re not laughing due to it, however on the movie itself.

‘Kannai Nambathey’ is a basic track from MGR’s legendary 1975 movie Ninaithadhai Mudippavan that roughly interprets to ‘the one who accomplishes what he needs’. Sarcastically, our lead Arun is something however that and as a sufferer of circumstances, is aware of what’s transpiring method later than when he’s speculated to. Apparently, it’s additionally the case with Arulnithi’s character Bharath in Iravukku Aayiram Kangal, however after getting pushed round for some time, Bharath will get into the groove. In Kannai Nambathey although, a few the age-old ‘I’m going to kill you, so how about you realize what occurred’ trope is what helps Arun meet up with the happenings.

A nonetheless from ‘Kannai Nambathey’ 
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The casting of the movie bought me excited given the record of skills it’s bought. It has Udhay’s fellow solid member from the underrated Kanne Kalaimaane (the attention references maintain writing themselves), Vasundhara. Kannai Nambathey additionally stars Bhumika and Srikanth who’re reuniting after 20 years since Roja Kootam. However Kannai Nambathey reduces these skills to one-dimensional roles. Discuss having your childhood ruined! A number of “twists” refill the second half of Kannai Nambathey however by then, the audiences are so battered that a number of the surprises find yourself being unintentionally humorous. In a scene from the third act, a personality goes, “Nanba nee severe ah pesuriya illa comedy panriyanu therila.” Touché.

Together with the twists come the expositions that hurriedly and conveniently attempt to unravel the knots that the movie meticulously braided. Amidst all of this chaos, we get a cameo of types that connects this movie with Mu Maran’s first outing. Who desires MCU after we can have our very personal MMCU? Like an onion, Kannai Nambathey is a group of layers that, when unravelled, don’t have anything at its core, aside from leaving us teary-eyed. In all probability that additionally explains the title.

Kannai Nambathey is presently working in theatres

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