‘Love’ - a very basic of human emotions, has so many forms. Love between two unknown individuals, especially a male and a female has been the subject of contention on almost all platforms. Also the relationship has been the subject of exploit by poets, scientists, politicians, philosophers and so many others since time immemorial. After all, it's the basis for human evolution and perpetuation. Director Suseenthiran has also exploited this very basic emotion in his latest film, AKS, but has treated it with a realistic appeal and made us see through a window that holds water to the current context.
AKS depicts the perception of love by today’s youth, who do not believe in the so called ‘value system’. We are allowed to take a peek at today’s love affairs among the college goers, how their lustful desires in the name of love turns their lives upside down and also the role played by their family and relatives in influencing their decision to get united.
Director Suseenthiran needs a big round of applause in having no qualms of taking a realistic stand and depicting the current situation as is. It comes as a harbinger with many more good movies to follow from his stable (hopefully?) after his forgetful outing with Vikram last time in the form of ‘Rajapattai’.
The newbie, Santosh Ramesh is a typical boy next-door who neither looks impressive nor acts too well. He was convincing in a role where he was supposed to look helpless. The scene where he pursues his friend to act as the husband to his lover in order to meet a doctor was an instance where he scored. Also that scene had a director’s touch as it depicted the reality that a guy who is not even eligible to be passed off as a husband, does so many other things!
Manisha Yadav was brilliant only in her second outing! She performed to the tunes, but looked natural.
The supporting cast played an important part - especially the parents of the lead cast. Jayaprakash, Thulasi, Poornima Jayaram and others including the ones who were cast as friends were pretty much there to hold the story together.
Editing was the savior as the movie had a taut screenplay and the duration was kept under 2 hours without unwanted numbers and scenes.
Music by Yuvan was very average, except the song ‘Alaipaayum Nenjile’ which was hummable in bits and pieces.
The movie is worth a watch with a well conceived story that reflects what we have become as a society without embracing the practicalities of life like inter-cast marriage and beautiful relationship between individuals. Afterall we are being governed by politicians who try to make a name for themselves by leveraging the cast appeal in order to fill their vote banks and also by educationists who promote a gender bias at institutions and do not promote a healthy relationship between opposite genders. As long as this remains, we as a society tend to face such complications even in uunderstanding a very basic emotion like love.
Verdict: Above Average
Rating: 3/5
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