Eradondla Mooru is convoluted and preposterous. Up until the interval, it is difficult to understand the plot of the film and when it finally becomes clear, one realises how ludicrous it actually is.
Sneha, who suffers from a fatal disease and Preethi, who is blind, are really good friends. Sneha finds out that their neighbour, Prem, who has no idea about Preethi (not even that she is blind), has fallen for Preethi.
Worried for her friend, Sneha warns him to stay away from Preethi but he refuses.
So, she lies to him that Preethi is engaged and takes him on a road trip (nobody knows why) under the pretext of meeting Preethi’s fiancé. Sneha falls in love with Prem during the journey but does not admit it.
Later, convinced that Prem does indeed love Preethi, she agrees to set them up. However, she does not tell Prem that Preethi is blind.
Instead, her elaborate and perplexing plan is to stage a play about the three of them and donate her eyes to Preethi so that she can see the play and understand Prem’s love for her.
If piecing together this baffling love story is difficult, watching it is that much more tiresome.
The director experiments with a non-linear narrative which serves no purpose to the film except making it unnecessarily complicated and hard to follow.
All the dialogues in the film (and this is not even a generalisation) are clichéd, cringe-worthy lines.
Sneha and Prem incessantly speak in riddles, some of which are distasteful. If this was not enough, the puns on words such as Sneha, Preethi and Prem are tireless.
Towards the end, the entire insufferable story finds a recap of sorts in the form of the play. The film itself is needlessly long and makes the audience wait until Sneha understands what she feels for Prem.
Even the play in the film is inconclusive and asks the audience what the climax should be. It is almost as if the director, realising that the story is too disarranged, is floundering for a solution. The performances of all three actors are average.
Thankfully, the songs, (one of which is sung by Kailash Kher) are decent and ease the pain that the film brings.
The only time that the film strikes a chord with the viewer is when one of the characters unwittingly says, “the script has no clarity.” One couldn’t agree more.
Eradondla Mooru not only gets its mathematics jumbled up, but its script too.
Eradondla Mooru (Kannada)
Director: Kumar Datt
Cast: Chandan Kumar, Shwetha Pandit and Shobitha
