Arai Yenn 305 il kadavul - tamil movie review

I heard about this movie in the evening and watched it a couple of hours back. Till date, I've seen movies I loved, movies that were boring and movies that were OK but this is the first time I'm confused so much between the goods and bads in a movie. There were scenes that kept me spell bound and even before I could recover from the impact of the messages there'll be the silliest scene I could imagine, coming up. But despite all the oddities I should say the movie is a pretty decent entertainer.

Shankar has proven that he is a smart producer investing minimally and producing a good movie. Somehow he doesn't turn out to be an economical director and his budget never stays within 30 crores (300 million). The movie is a mix of philosophies, fantasies, absurdities, science and realities but the only problem is that all these don't form a homogeneous mixture. The director is confused by too many things and at one point, I could sense the movie's screenplay going out of control. Imagine Vieta's Formula (2/pi), purpose of God, man's greed, attitude problems with humans, the power of hard work, the poverty that grips mansions in cities, IT - non IT inequalities, a fantasy box that holds God's powers and a series of senseless incidents revolving around that box shown in the same movie and that too in subsequent scenes. That's what this movie is all about...

Even though Chimbudevan claims that this is his creation, to me it sounds like there are too many cooks that made this broth. Prakashraj with his philosophical magic and view of life could be regarded as the person behind the messages on life, God, theism and the practical advices. Shankar on the other hand would've contributed to the science and social portion of the movie (bank exams, Income tax, IT, etc). Chimbudevan (from the impression I got from 23 am pulikesi) would've invented the fantasy box on which the story revolves around. Putting them all in the same movie was a bad idea in my view and had it been just the philosophy, the comical and casual narration of serious things combined with some amount of science from Shankar; the movie would've been one of the best in the history of Tamizh cinema. After all it is not so impressive to see an excellent dialog like

"Life is like a journey... When we are out on a tour we ignore the minor disturbances on the way and keep enjoying the scenery outside the window, singing and dancing all the way. But in life's journey, we forget the window and magnify the minor things"

and a scene where God says He is helpless without a plastic box in the same movie. Height of absurdity is God fighting with a local rowdy to solve the problems of a woman in the locality just because his box is stolen. But things are not always at their best and that is what differentiates a picture-perfect movie like Mozhi from the rest. In short, the movie is a good entertainer and way better than the other movies that came in the recent past but it is also true that the movie could've been much better had Shankar or the director thought about cutting the crap out of it.