Indru Mudhal takes the second half of Kaadhal Koattai and makes a
full movie out of it. So we get a hero and heroine who keep fighting while they are in fact childhood friends who are
trying to find each other. The director places enough obstacles in their way to make the movie a marginally
entertaining one.
Krishna(Mithun) and Geetha(Daisy), students at the Navy cadet college, are constantly at each other's throats while
Jenni(Nandhita), another of their classmates, is in love with Krishna. Little do Krishna and Geetha know that they were
close childhood friends who had been separated when Krishna had to move to Chennai after the death of his parents.
When they go to Gujarat to attend a common acquaintance's marriage, Krishna and Geetha come together without
knowing each other's identities but fate separates them again.
Whatever the director's faults, he cannot be faulted with a lack of imagination. The means he employs to make sure
Mithun and Daisy never realise each other's identities definitely require a lot of imagination. This is especially evident
during the entire sequence that takes place in Gujarat. The coincidences that result in the situation the two find
themselves in are completely cinematic but imaginative. On the bright side, there is some suspense since we are
never sure what the resolution of the sequence will be.
It looks like the director wasn't sure about the exact relationship between Mithun and Daisy. While they start off
bickering, the sequence where they are stranded in the woods leads us to believe that the friction between then could be
thawing off. But once the sequence ends, they go right back to where they were before and so the the entire sequence
seems redundant. The close misses the two have after returning from Gujarat are similar to episodes in other movies
with the same theme and have been done better elsewhere(Kaadhal Koattai for example).
example.
K.S.Ravikumar is responsible for the major comedy track as a doctor who can never be flustered but gradually loses it
over an imaginary secret he thinks the hero holds. While initially amusing, the one-joke track loses momentum with
each new sequence and ends up getting on our nerves. But using K.S.Ravikumar to end the movie is a clever touch
from the director. Ramesh Khanna raises more laughs with his color blindness(the sequence where the police inspector
asks him to call his wife is a nice one) though one feels the situations have not been exploited as much as possible.
Mithun is likeable but has similar expressions most of the time making it difficult to infer if he is laughing or crying! Daisy
looks pretty and does well. Nandhita doesnt have much to do as the predetermined loser in the love triangle. Nagesh has
some nice one-liners and delivers them in his own style while Sarathbabu and Yuvarani play typical parents.
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