These days Kollywood directors are careful enough to avoid lewd comments and dialogs in their movies from the watchful eyes of the censor board which is doubly careful after the moral police have taken law in their hands for various reasons ranging from gathering political mileage to tarnishing an actor’s image. Also the new rules laid by the state government have made life tougher for ‘A’ rated movies as they cannot be sold to satellite televisions. At this juncture, a movie with little known actors and a debutante director (Madhan Kumar) has boldly worn the ‘A’ certificate from the censors around its neck like a diamond pendant and that lured me to watch this movie.
Pitched as a romantic comedy, ‘Yaaruda Mahesh’ narrates the romance between Shiva (Sundeep) and Sindhya (Dimple), their life after marriage and how Shiva turns into a new leaf from just being a loafer.
Though the movie was liberal enough to offer sleaze and glamour in equal proportions, it doesn't appeal to a large extent thanks to the below par production values and a limping screenplay. The dialogs that were lewd were sharp at times but bore a cliched hang of things for the major part of the movie.
The movie has been surely made on a shoestring budget as the characters were shown in very many domestic settings except for some songs between the lead pair that were shot in outdoors (not abroad). The movie had fun too, especially that portion by small screen comedians like ‘Robo’ Shankar and co. was truly hilarious, but other than that one should think hard enough in order to remember some really comic punchlines which were few and far between.
The lead pair of Sundeep and Dimple neither had a crackling chemistry nor an endurance to perform. Half the time one can notice their lip sync going awry as neither of them had a Tamil root.
Jegan as the mainstream comedian was somewhat refreshing from the regular ‘Santhanam Special’ these days. But his role was somewhat of a rehash of a friend who gets squeezed between the turmoil and the farce is drawn from such scenarios which has been tried and tested in the past.
Swaminathan as the professor was another stress buster during the first half.
Livingston, Uma Padbanabhan and Srinath were stereotypes.
Music by Gopi Sundar was average as there was hardly any scope; cinematography and editing departments too suffered a lot at the hands of novices.
The notion to pull out an adult rom-com from the hat was audacious for debutante Madhan Kumar, but he should also concentrate on the script and how it would engage the audiences, who have exponentially developed their taste for good cinema in the past few years.
Verdict: Below Average
Rating: 2/5
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