Co-written, Edited, Shot and Directed by: Balu Mahendra
Starring: Ramesh Arvind, Kalpana, Kamal Hassan, Heera
Streaming on YouTube.
It's a simple, focused, straightforward film. The premise revolves around a man who has extra marital affair and learns his lesson. The film has a clear worldview that it presents, unlike Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona which is a lot more complex. Although this film too doesn't shy away from exploring anything within this territory - it blatantly talks about why these things happen. About a lot of women not ageing well after motherhood. The beautiful thing the film does is, it makes him learn a lesson with love. His wife is his family, his home and he steps away from it for a while to explore something different, but realizes that it's not him. The new stuff is not him. The way kids are being treated, or his family is being treated. It just doesn't feel like home.
I think about why people cheat, especially married people - as much as desire and lust, there's also an element of wanting a sense of excitement and unpredictability in life. I sometimes think if you have an otherwise exciting or an adrenaline filled life, you would embrace the beautiful rut and predictability in your personal life. The film here and there steps into the adult comedy space, but it doesn't go there too much to a point where it'd get annoying. The ending where Kovai Sarala doubts Kamal Hassan was a terrific joke, but the action sequence post that felt like a post credit scene.
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