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What with my recent Tamil movie high, and the movies I’ve been watching consistently being really good- Siva Manasula Sakthi (SMS) and Masilamani being awesome (seriously, the cutest romcoms I’ve seen in a while) , and then Silambattam being reasonably fun if not for the excessive violence- I guess I expected too much of the next movie that I chose to watch: Manjal Veyil.

It’s actually sorta deceptively attractive on the surface. Come on, the leads are Prasanna, who was awesome in movies like Five Star and Kanda Naal Mudhal; and Sandhya, who I don’t really like all that much, but has gotten state awards and everything for her roles in Kaadhal and Dishyum. I’ve never heard of the director, and the music couldn’t be that bad either when you hear it’s by Bharathwaj- after all, he did deliver the hits for the movie Autograph.

Those are over two hours of my life that I will never get back. In addition to the mindnumbingly stupid movie, the horrible quality of the Sruthilayam DVD made me want to kill myself for choosing to watch this thing. Spoilers are gonna follow, so if you want to make the colossal mistake of watching this for yourself, don’t continue.

So you see these two leads going to college, lalala, having fun, cut randomly to first song. A few minutes later, cut to the meeting of the villain (RK, who the director apparently has a deep, deep hate for; why else would he cast him and give him a horrendous wig?) who upon failing to get the prize he wanted in a carnival game (One of those cutesy porcelain figurines. Yeah, you read that right.), oh-so-villainously breaks it when Prasanna wins it.

Cut to Sandhya’s house where her sister is getting married to her father’s friend’s son, apparently a HUGE favour because OMGSHEHASDIABETES AND HAS TO HAVE REGULAR INSULIN SHOTS. Yup, so Prasanna and friends show up to help prepare for the wedding and the groom shows up at the same time. Guess who? RK,who falls in love with Sandhya instead of the older sister makes some evil evil plans to off her sister before the wedding and force the family into marrying off Sandhya instead. Somewhere before the 20-minute mark in the movie, another song is sung and danced to. Don’t worry, this rate slows until the lack of songs are totally noticeable. So, with some evil flipping of the fake hair (Didn’t anyone think that maybe this guy is too old to be playing in this youth movie when they had to give him a FREAKING WIG?) and some malicious plans like electrocution and switching the girl’s insulin with something else, the family ends up being forced to switch brides the night before the wedding. 

Guess what Sandhya and Prasanna do? RUN! They run into their old professor who acts as the helpful adult figure. And he suggests “Alright kiddies! Get married! No one can hurt you then!” And here it comes…they’re not lovers like everyone thinks! (Then stop acting like it, you idiots.) Only close friends, so much so that they would do anything for each other! In fact, Sandhya is in love with someone else, an artist she met a while back. (TOTALLY MISCAST character played by some random dude named Bala. It’s hideous, this flashback, in its utter lack of chemistry). But oh, they can’t find him right now, cuz he’s sorta disappeared off the face of the earth, looks like. Cut to flashback (It’s been a while since I’ve seen one of those in a movie.) of the two meeting, falling in love in of course a remarkably short time and singing and dancing and all that pizzazz. And then he disappears just like that.

Back in the present, Prasanna gets a job at Subway and attempts to find Bala, while Sandhya…waits at home. Prasanna is chased and has to fight off RK, who’s still looking for Sandhya, who apparently isn’t good for anything but crying and telling Prasanna that she’ll give up her love (and then he’s all, no you can’t). Anyways, one day, Prasanna manages to find Bala who apparently was wrongly arrested that fateful day (CUE FLASHBACK) and lalala will get out tomorrow. At which point he and Sandhya will get married. BUT RK shows up and in a totally unreasonable fight, dies, leaving Prasanna mortally wounded. At the hospital, Sandhya (guess what?) cries and breaks up with Bala in the worst deathbed scene I have ever seen because they’ll have to take care of Prasanna for the rest of their lives, and won’t be able to be together. (Onoez). In response, Prasanna who was apparently conscious, rips out his oxygen mask and kills himself. Monitor flatlines while heart rate still reads 55. Sandhya cries. THE END.

In conclusion, if you value your sanity, DON’T WATCH IT.