KS Ravikumar shines in this watered-down remake
The story revolves round Subramani (KS Ravikumar), a curmudgeonly, very conservative widower, who desires his son Adithya (Tharshan), a robotic engineering graduate, by his facet on a regular basis. The latter rebels at some point when he will get a proposal to work for a robotics agency in Germany. With not one of the caretakers lasting lengthy, due to Subramani’s cantankerous nature, Adithya lastly brings house a prototype robotic to take care of his father.
After resenting it initially, Subramani progressively begins to develop keen on Kuttappa, because the machine will get named by the villagers, and at one level, turns into obsessively hooked up, treating it as his personal son. An alarmed Adithya, who is aware of the dangers posed by the robotic, returns house to make his father realise the hazard, however can he persuade the outdated man earlier than it’s too late?
Whereas Android Kunjappan, regardless of its novel premise, unfurled as a slice-of-life movie (a Malayalam cinema speciality) for probably the most components, Koogle Kuttappa’s administrators, Sabari and Saravanan, paint each plot improvement (together with the less-than-convincing turns the story takes within the last parts) and emotion in broad strokes, turning the movie right into a loud rural drama. Whereas the makers might need performed this within the title of constructing it accessible to audiences right here, what this method appears to have ended up doing is flip the movie right into a generic village-set movie, one thing that we get to see in Tamil cinema each month. Additionally, given the publicity to various content material that audiences have as of late, due to the OTT growth, it’s time for filmmakers to begin trusting the viewers extra and provides them movies which are distinctive and never generic. Which is what, sadly, would not occur right here. We have now Yogi Babu doing his routine shtick — getting ridiculed and ridiculing others. We get a generic duet and a generic folks quantity; we get to see Marimuthu and Suresh Chandra Menon play loathsome characters, once more; the previous as an boastful authorities officer within the village and the latter as a grasping and uncaring businessman in Germany.
What this does is flip the movie into one thing that’s much less affecting. Sure, the plot strikes together with no main sluggish downs, however barring a few scenes (just like the dinner desk monologue that Subramani delivers to Adithya), nothing stays in our thoughts as soon as the movie will get over. And save for KS Ravikumar, who captures the equally irritating and endearing high quality of Subramani to extent, the opposite performances hardly register. Tharshan hardly makes us really feel for Adithya’s plight as a younger man torn between the respect he has for his father and his dream, whereas Losliya, who performs Adithya’s girlfriend, is strictly practical. Even the subplot involving Subramani’s outdated flame would not transfer us a lot. It’s primarily the scenes between Subramani and Kuttappa that hold us concerned as it’s amusing to see this odd couple construct their bond.
