Review Overview
Performances
Screenplay & Direction
Technical Aspects & BGM
Harmless ride but beware of glib phrases!
Moone Moonu Varthai, certainly, has offbeat humor in some parts that worked really well but as a film on the whole, it is extremely voluble and monotonous.
Cast: Aditi Chengappa, Arjun Chidambaram,Venkatesh Harinathan, K Bhagyaraj, SP Balasubramaniam, MS Bhaskar and others
Cinematography: Srinivasan Venkatesh
Music: Karthikeya Murthy
Editing: Kiran Ganti
PRO: Suresh Chandra
Written & Directed by: Madhumita Sundararaman
Production: Capital Film Works
Release Date: 26-06-2015
Run Time: 02:09:00
Director Madhumitha gave us a word of advice before Moone Moonu Varthai started. “Do not watch this film keeping in my mind my Vallamai Thaaraayo and Charan’s Aaranya Kaandam,” she said. And, I think it’s fair enough a warning to put forward since it laid to rest the minimal expectations few of us had for the film. We were prepared to watch it with an open mind.
On the outset, the film is about two childhood friends –a happy-go-lucky protagonist in Arjun (played by Arjun Chidambaram) and his best buddy Karna of (played by Venkatesh Harinathan of Sutta Kadhai fame) and their attempt at entrepreneurship with a genuinely eccentric idea. However, an incident that involves Anjali (played by Aditi Chengappa), neighbor of Karna, changes their life and how they resolve it before things become worse forms the rest of the plot.
In an attempt to produce a complete fun ride to make all audiences sit through the film with a smile on their faces, Madhumitha seems to have bitten more than she could chew. The dialogues penned by Rambho, that form the bedrock of this wannabe ‘bromance’ comedy, are a big letdown. It works only one out of five times in a scene and the ratio gets sapless as the story progresses since it’s predominantly a dialogue-driven film aimed to leave the house in splits through and through. It is with Arjun and Karna’s quirky business, Madhumitha has managed to explore few middling scenarios that are quite lumbered across the second half.
The lovely chemistry between SPB and Lakshmi as the grandparents of Arjun is beautiful to set eyes on. The duo looked organic as a caring, nonchalant yet uncompromising couple. Both of them have delivered splendid performances.
Karthikeyan Murthy has scored really well with a range of impressive tunes. May be with Crazy Mohan on board as a co-writer, Madhumitha, like Kola Kolaya Mundhirika, could have surely pulled off this film and achieved what she set out to do.
Moone Moonu Varthai, certainly, has offbeat humor in some parts that worked really well but as a film on the whole, it is extremely voluble and monotonous.
Moone Moonu Varthai Movie Review: 2.25/5
Written by Surendhar MK