After churning hits like 12B and Ullam Ketkume, cameraman-turned-director Jeeva's latest film deals with relationships. While it's a dead-beaten subject one wonders whether Jeeva succeeds this time. The answer is yes. Jeeva succeeds to a large extent primarly because of the script and it's gripping narration. Ten minutes into the movie and you're a sucker for the film from start to finish. Another plus point is music director Harris Jeyaraj. Chartbusters such as "June Pona" and "Mudhal Naal" are hum addicting. But let's get to the plot shall we?
Karthik (Newcomer Bangalore model, Vinay) is a software engineer, who gets an opportunity to work in Austrailia for a long term project. As he travels to Australia, he encounters his old lover, Jhansi (Anniyan's Sada), whom the two had a fall out in the past year or so. The flashback explains their first meeting at a temple festival along with Karthik's friends (Raju Sundram and Sanath) She gets a liking to Karthik as they meet often, but due to Karthik's habit of flirting with other girls, Jhansi starts to feel jealous or rather obsessive with him and scolds Karthik to the maximum. The result was nothing but a seperation of their relationship. Back to Austrailia, Karthik, encounters the bubbly Deepika (Sarkar's Tanisha Mukherjee, Kajol's sister) who tries to reunite the estranged lovers but in the process falls in love with Karthik as well. The rest unfolds as any other story goes BUT WITH A DIFFERENT KIND OF CLIMAX *hint hint
As far as performances go, Karthik stands tall for a debut. Tanisha, who's last hindi film Neal N'Nikki was a bomb at B.O, regains her stardom with this film. Obviously dubbed, but definetly a hightlight. Ditto goes for Sadha, who steals the show completely with the Preity Zinta of KHNH look. Raju Sundram and Sanath provide you some best laughs in the movie (Watch out for the conversation with his lover, makes you fall down laughing.)
As I said before, HJ derserves kudos for the music as well as Jeeva's camera work. Give Unnale Unnale a watch, a real movie treat!
Rating ****
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