This film came with great hype as being one of the best offbeat movies to come out of Tamil cinema in recent times.
The film starts off with a hit and run incident where Nirmala (Viji) is knocked down by a speeding car driven by a rich businesswoman named Sandhya. We are then shown scenes of her two kids, Senthil and Selvi, frantically looking for her around the city along with her estranged husband.
Along with these searching scenes, we are also shown glimpses of Nirmala's past and near-past as a bi-polar and extremely moody woman. Her husband isn't able to tolerate her and finds solace in another woman.
The jumps in narrative are too many and we are not able to fully immerse ourselves in the search for Nirmala. What happens to her and whether she is reunited with her kids is the suspense factor which was supposed to be gripping. But, it hardly is. The non-linear nature of the movie is a drawback for sure and the lay moviegoer wouldn't appreciate such untimely jumps.
Just when we expect the film to be a really intense emotional roller-coaster ride, it loses focus big time when we come to know what actually happened to Nirmala after the car incident. The club song towards the end is another real drag.
K's music is the only plus point in the movie and the youngster's RR is soothing and haunting. The film has a very heavy Mysskin hangover in the way there are so many night shots. The mad beggar is another typical Mysskin character.
Viji's character (Nirmala) doesn't win our empathy thanks to her bi-polar acts which are overdone. She is a doting mother, a really steely woman who stands by her kids at all times but her character doesn't make a big mark.
After the opening title credits, we are led to believe that this film is an ode to motherhood but the film ends with a sermon about how bi-polar people have achieved greatness (Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon Bonaparte, Albert Einstein, Agatha Christie and even many cinema actors like Jim Carrey are listed as being bi-polar)
FINAL WORD: As the film ends, we don't feel anything and for a film that was meant to be a tribute to motherhood this indifference wasn't part of the equation.
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