Udayanidhi Stalin’s latest outing Saravanan Irukka Bhayamean has all the elements of a mass entertainer - comedy, love, horror and action. But none of it works in the film. The comedy is crass, the horror makes you squirm, love is non-existent and the action is terrible.
- Genre: Comedy
- Director: Ezhil
- Cast: Udayanidhi Stalin, Regina Cassandra, Srushti Dange, Soori
The story is wafer thin. Like most Tamil film heroes, Saravanan (Udayanidhi) is a jobless youth who roams around in a two-wheeler with his bunch of friends. Kalyanam (Soori), his uncle, aspires for a political career but due to the error committed by a drunk photographer, Saravanan ends up as the local head of a national party, and this upsets his uncle.Kalyanam on the other hand is left with no option but to leave the country to take up a petty job in Dubai. His other uncle’s daughter Thaenmozhi (Regina Cassandra) returns to town after many years, and quite naturally, Saravanan is besotted by her and falls head over heels in love with her. In the meantime, Kalyanam also returns and awaits an opportunity to teach a lessor or two to Saravanan. Whether Saravanan succeeds in his love and whether Kalyanam manages to put Saravanan in his place, is narrated in the most boring fashion.
Saravanan Irukka … has roped in almost all comedians from the industry- Madhumitha, Robot Shankar, Madan Bob, Yogi Babu, Manobala, Chaams -which quite naturally should have resulted in a laugh riot. But the film falls flat. It’s like watching various randomly chosen episodes from popular live comedy show, Kalakka Povadhu Yaaru , aired on satellite TV.
Uday who gave a neat performance in his earlier film, Manithan , fails to impress.His fans who were howling and hooting initially, walked out of the theatre silently. Soori has to change his style of comedy and reinvent himself to get to the next level.
Wonder why director Ezhil chose such a mundane script; his strength being comedy. But even that doesn't work here at all.
