Within the final 15-20 minutes of the film Pon Ondru Kanden, Santy, the character performed by Aishwarya Lekshmi, repeatedly asks the 2 main males to close up. The fed-up expressions of the main woman and her request in direction of the heroes are precisely what you’re feeling in direction of them all through this film directed by V Priya. I had seen actor Vasanth Ravi expressing his disappointment on social media over the direct OTT launch technique of the movie. However as soon as I completed the movie, I simply couldn’t perceive why Vasanth Ravi thought the film had the potential to impress the viewers with a theatrical launch.

So the movie is primarily about two mates, Siva and Sai. Nicely, they weren’t exactly mates to start with, and lengthy story quick, circumstances made them mates. The city and funky Siva determined to take up the date physician position for Sai, who was completely alien to all these ideas. Quickly, Sai discovered somebody within the condo the place he lived, and it was a chef named Santy. However Santy had a historical past with Siva. How the three handled this awkward state of affairs is what you get to look at on this romantic comedy.

The film begins with this faculty reunion of our heroes, and we’re proven each of them asking whether or not the opposite one will come. One would assume that two males, who’re above the age of 30, holding grudge towards each other for one thing that occurred in class days, would have some depth. However quickly we understand that it was due to a crush they each had on one woman named Tripurasundari. The best way V Priya positions the grudge, reveals it by a backstory, and instantly makes the characters reconcile provides you that pink flag about how the remainder of the film goes to be. After that, it’s a sequence of scenes the place they’d both make characters lie or make Sai an absolute fool as a result of they’re operating out of fabric to make this film a comedy.

Despite the fact that the characters are written fairly badly, Ashok Selvan is an actor who has some grip on dealing with humor, and since his character isn’t the idiot within the story, he hardly ever needed to do the loud performing and was okay in his position. Other than the awkwardness of getting to see her in a dubbed voice, Aishwarya Lekshmi was pretty good within the character given to her. The climax was maybe the realm the place she needed to carry out, and I believe the shoddiness of the script helped her to channel the frustration into her efficiency. Essentially the most disappointing efficiency got here from Vasanth Ravi. The best way he tried to painting the naivety of his character by loud performing was outright unhealthy, and I used to be stunned that he fought to point out this to an viewers inside a theater. The one efficiency that was in sync with the film’s pitch got here from Deepa Shankar.

The interval block of the film that reveals the connection between Siva and Sandy made me assume that the movie will now discover romance in a greater manner, and we are going to get to see some wise conflicts on this love triangle. However the desperation to make every part humorous makes the film an especially broad-stroke enterprise. The best way the scenes are written for humor’s sake is sloppy, and the climax is the worst exhibition of pressured humor. I’ve learn articles in regards to the males written by Anjali Menon, Juhi Chaturvedi, and so on., and the way delicate these writers had been in representing the delicate aspect of males. On the subject of Priya V’s males, she is nearly making an attempt to be the feminine counterpart of somebody like Luv Ranjan when it comes to how characters are conceived.

Pon Ondru Kanden is a severely underdeveloped romantic comedy that fails miserably to depict modern-day relationship dynamics. From caricature characters, and compelled humor to outdated scripting tropes, V Priya’s movie is such a wannabe romcom that has all the weather of modern-day relationships, however simply doesn’t have the persistence to know any of them.