Spoilers ahead…
The film is so eager to hammer us with Big Moments that I began to yearn for a small emotion that I could carry for a while, something that would make me root for the central relationship.
“Everyone in this world is with the person they love. Why am I not able to get this good fortune?” I am paraphrasing a little, but this is the most poignant line in Radhamohan’s Bommai, which has SJ Suryah as Raju. He’s the one who says the line. He wants to be with Nandhini (Priya Bhavani Shankar). The story has all the things you expect in a love story. Two people meet. There’s instant chemistry. But due to circumstances, they get separated. There’s much sadness. They meet again, by chance, after many years. This time, they decide to elope and get married before anyone comes between them again. Small difference: there’s a mannequin involved. The film oscillates between dreams and reality, between sanity and insanity, and between Lars and the Real Girl and Guna.
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