Kullanari Koottam Tamil Movie

Kullanari Kootam abuses the same Tamil Cinema formula and overdoses on it. Mar 26, 2011 By Rohit Ramachandran

Guy (Vishnu) and girl (Remya Nambeesan) fall in love. - But, only after the first hour of the film is over. What happens until then? - A series of missed calls and flirtatious conversations. So that's it? That's what made these people fall in love? The first hour could've been used to develop the characters so that we know why they've fallen for each other. But it remains a mystery. The love affair is as complex as a job offer. It's just an, accept or reject situation. It is no smooth ride either. It has obstacles; one of them being the girl's father, who is hell bent on bringing a police officer as his son in law and another being that the boy's father doesn't like police officers. Don't ask me why. So for the sake of love, the hero decides become a police officer. He hasn't been doing any training but thanks to the cupid drug, he breaks every record in the selection process.

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e's no explanation given for so many things in the film. Director Sri Balaji can't be bothered with all that. He wrote a screenplay that has things happening and he directs the film just the same way. Storytelling here appears to be straightforward but it isn't, it takes abrupt turns. Not out of choice but because it doesn't know how to tie up loose ends. Vishnu Vishal does what he can but the film is too ordinary for you to be able to give it credit for anything.

It is such films that make me get sick of Tamil Cinema. It has no ideas of its own. The film, just like so many other films released this month tries to reinvent the same old crap. I wouldn't say Tamil doesn't produce good films. It does, but they're rare exceptions. Kullanari Koottam isn't one of them. The film has corruption, war against corruption, non-consensual marriages, obsession with social status and Tamilians drinking and dancing with their tongues squeezed between their teeth. Kullanari Koottam abuses the same Tamil Cinema formula and overdoses on it.