Maalai Pozhudhin Mayakathile, is a story that showcasts a "life-changing evening" in a coffee shop involving an upcoming director, a family of three, the manager of the coffee shop, and the two waiters working under him, all of their lives heading towards major crises. Whether or not they overcome their problems is what the 112-minute runtime of the movie constitutes of.
While the line above reads 112 minutes, the movie seemed much,
much longer. The movie is a mixture of seemingly intertwining stories, with the
coffee shop as it's epicentre, and in order to focus into each and every
characters' separate story, the movie has taken a chaotic way of moving
forward, which results in a grueling test of the audience's patience.
The way the story shifts between each character, and the placements of songs
are highly erratic.
The cinematography by Gopi Amarnath deserves mention, and so does
Achu, the music director. The music has been classy throughout the movie,
especially the background score. The songs have also been brought to the screen
in a beautiful manner, and 'Oh Baby Girl' is a definite favorite.
Now, the actors. We see Aari in his second outing, after
'Rettasuzhi', playing Ajay, whose desire to become a director puts him into an
array of issues. Panchu Subbu plays the role of the coffee shop's manager, with
a heart of gold. Balaji, last seen as a psychotic ex-boyfriend in 'Kadhalil
Sodhappuvadhu Eppidi', plays Satish, the workaholic husband, and complementing
him is his frustrated wife Ramya, played by Tejaswini, and his son Vishnu,
played by Master Vishnu. And all these artists, fit the role to the tee.
Additional characters, working in the comedy zone are Sivaji
Santhanam , Satish and Karunakaran, and though their attempts are worth
appreciation, they sadly do not make us laugh. Debutant Shubha has a long way
to go.
What we have in our hands is a promising cast, which has been led
astray in a not-so-promising movie.
Aditya Baskaran
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