Chimbudevan's films have a streak of fantasy running through them. His latest offering 'Oru Kanniyum Moonru Kalavanigalum' (OKMK) too is very different from what we get at the cinemas every Friday. Will these Kalavanigal steal our hearts?

Plot:

OKMK is more about treatment than plot. It tries to showcase a new meaning to fate where every minute counts to the extent that whether you are alive or dead depends on the two hands of a clock!!! Arulnidhi along with his friends (Bindhu Madhavi and Bhagavathy) has to elope or rather kidnap his girlfriend (Ashrita Shetty) from her wedding ceremony.While he would be doing this anyway, he is also offered a huge sum by a business rival of Ashrita's father to complete this assignment. Whether he pulls this off or not and how time plays the domineering factor in this whole episode is OKMK for you.

Chimbudevan:

OKMK is a valiant attempt from the director. His intent to not bow down to commercial compulsions and stand out from the rest is very obvious.The film has just two songs and neither of them is a duet. This is after having two leading ladies in the film! An enormous amount of detailing too is in place. Take for instance the scene in a single screen theatre that is screening Baasha. You hear from outside that inside the auditorium the pre-interval sequence is going on and after a few minutes the audience rush out for the interval. While this has no relevance to the plot itself it shows the amount of thinking that has gone into each scene. The genuine love between Arulnidhi and Arshita has been brought out well by just a couple of scenes instead of a complete flashback to narrate it. The hot-headed inspector who specializes in encounters and yet the child in him that still reads 'siruvar malar' are such seriously good characterizations

Cast:

Arulnidhi shows gradual improvement as an actor with OKMK. That he is keen on selecting different scripts is quite evident from the kind of films that he is a part of. Bhagavathy Perumal after a rib tickling debut in NKPK makes his presence felt in this film. While not all the intended jokes bring out laughter, he definitely offers healthy humour on screen. Both Bindhu Madhavi and Ashrita Shetty might not have many scenes to express their acting credentials explicitly but they are still vital cogs in the wheel of OKMK. Bindhu Madhavi looks ravishing on screen.

OKMK's achilles heel:

While there is no denying that the film deserves a watch for the honest effort put in by the team, it does find it hard to keep the engagement quotient intact as it peters out towards the climax. There are genuine laughs in the film. The scene in the elevator when Bhagavathy gets irritated by Bhindu's atrocious ignorance about Bharathiar and the scene where Bhagavathy reminds Arulnidhi to remind Nasser to compensate for the toll pass are a couple that come to mind.These genuine laughs are interspersed with some silly humour. Nasser seems to have been under utilized. The underlying problem with OKMK is that it has to tell the same story three times with different endings. While this might work in a thriller where we are anxious about the next happening, here it gets repetitive after a point. It would have still worked wonders if the genuine laughs that the movie provides here and there had been more consistently thrown at us. Not all the humour that might have sounded good on paper has been translated on screen.

Bottomline:

OKMK is definitely a valiant attempt by Chimbudevan. While the end product has it's share of shortcomings, the honest intent is evident throughout the film.

Verdict:

2.75/5

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