“Bon Ondol Kanden” movie review: An exasperatingly boring satirical romance comedy that will test your patience.

It’s not hard to imagine what director Priya V wanted her latest film to be. Pon Ondol Kanden, to be: A simple, light-hearted story about two eccentric middle-aged men who put aside their lifelong animosity and become friends, only to fall in love with the same woman and fuel their hatred for each other. Admittedly, it’s not much new when you look at it as a sentence, but this is a movie written and directed by Priya.So, I’m planning to reintroduce her charm. kanda naar mudalor Kannamoochi Yenada With a talented cast of modern actors, modern filmmaking sensibilities, and fresh humor, it’s sure to intrigue a new generation of young people.

unfortunately, Pon Ondol Kanden It’s not just a surprisingly unfun and wildly derailed endeavor that tests your patience. Imagine watching a movie starring an adult character who acts as if he or she is possessed by a cartoon character. From start to finish, the film feels like a frightening festival of cardboard cutouts of commonplace archetypes. Shiva, played by Ashok Selvan, is a modern young man from the city, while Sai, played by Vasant Ravi, is a young man from Kumbakonam who has been caring for his mother (Sachu), who suffers from dementia, for the past four years. Two childhood friends become friends at a class reunion. It’s good to be friends, but why they become such good friends seems like a question Priya wishes you never asked.

Now, how can we show their background while ensuring that Sai is dependent on Shiva to navigate city life? Show Shiva as someone who goes on numerous dates in upscale bars, and Show Sai as a simple country guy who doesn’t know how to talk to women or behave “normally” in any situation. These are common metaphors. Pon Ondol Kanden It’s packed.

Such shallow writing extends to the female protagonist Sandy, aka Sundari (Aishwarya Lakshmi), a young woman working as a chef, who shares a past with one of the two men and is currently with the other. It is known that there is a close relationship. Naturally, this develops into a love triangle, but what’s going on in Sandy’s girlfriend’s mind when she becomes just a puppet caught between two nasty one-dimensional man-children? We can never understand what is happening.

Adding to the woes is the completely monotonous plot, full of clichés and characters coming and going. There’s something very useful about how the story progresses. For example, whenever it is necessary to put one of these characters on the path of the other, Shiva’s job as a gynecologist or his workplace mainly comes to the rescue.

What makes this razor-thin plot even more difficult to understand is the casting of Vasant as Sai. A character so different from his previous characters was a much-needed departure for the actor, but Cy was definitely not what was needed. Sometimes I wonder if anyone speaks with the modulation that he does, and even if he does, if that was a necessary trait if nothing else comes through about this character.

In fact, the only good development in this movie occurs when we disobey the rhinos. This is when I met Shiva and Sandy at the medical camp. The frame, lighting and music work together so well that Mani Ratnam’s fandom in Priya is visibly conscious. In a film filled with excessive text, this is the only respite we get. But how the subplot between Sandy and Shiva is written after that scene is another concern.

Tamil cinema seems to be in a very important position in opening up the romance genre to a new generation of audiences. While films like good night We pioneered more serious efforts like this. mistressis a Malayalam movie that explores relationships Premal‘s triumphant success really excites the anticipation of similar rom-coms in Tamil for a new generation of viewers. The film, with a serious script and plenty of comedy aimed at her Gen Z audience, told a simple story of two kind hearts in an endearing way.

Maybe that’s the kind of film you’d expect from a filmmaker like Priya, and in retrospect, perhaps Pon Ondol Kanden It was intended to be one such attempt in a sense. Unfortunately, it is far from what it should be.

“Pon Ondol Kanden” is now available on GeoCinema