Movie Name: Pammal K Sambandham
Cast: Kamalhassan , Simran , Abbas , Sneha , Ramesh Khanna , Vaiyapuri , Manivannan
Music: Deva
Direction: Mouli
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Kamalhassan is back to his now-familiar routine of presenting a light, comedyouting after a serious venture. So its the turn of Pammal K Sambandhamto try to tickle us this Pongal after Aalavandhaanattempted to terrorise us last Diwali. With the ever-reliable 'Crazy' Mohanpenning the dialogs, Mouli handling the camera after a long gap, and Kamal'swell-known comic timing, the movie easily achieves what it sets out to achieve - making us laugh. Though the laughs occur oonly in spurts, they are hearty whenthey happen and ensure another success for the Kamal-Crazy combination.
Pammal K Sambandham(Kamal) belongs to a rich family and works as a stuntmanfor actors while Janaki(Simran) is a doctor. The only thing the two have incommon is that they hate words like love or marriage. But they are forced tocome in contact when Anand(Abbas), PKS' friend and Malathi(Sneha), Janaki's friend,get married. PKS and Janaki help the two get hitched and later, provide moralsupport when they get divorced. When Janaki accidentally stitches up PKS'stomach with her watch inside, she is forced to feign love for him to attemptto get the watch back without his knowledge. But PKS believes her and reallyfalls for Janaki.
It is difficult to upstage Kamalhassan in his movie but the real hero of PKS is undoubtedly 'Crazy' Mohan. His fertile mind comes up with line after line offresh 'kadi' jokes, one-liners and wordplays that manage to keep us doubled upin laughter. While just making us laugh is a success by itself, his new interpretationof oft-used, everyday words and phrases('Insure' and 'Keep Left' to name a couple)are genuinely clever and illustrate his comic genius. There are a few jokes(like Kamal's misinterpretation of Simran's name for her dog) that are his trademark, thereby making the punchline obvious before its delivered, but the majority of the jokes in PKS sound fresh. A large portion of PKS' successgoes to 'Crazy' Mohan.
PKS makes it very obvious within a few frames that comedy is its onlyintention and that logic or character development will find no place in theproceedings. There is no background, either for the friendship between Kamaland Abbas or the romance between Abbas and Sneha. We never learn why Kamalchose to be a stuntman inspite of coming from a rich family and his uniqueoccupation seems to be just a novelty since it serves no purpose in the story.Not much time is dwelt on the misunderstanding between Abbas and Sneha eitherand these portions seems haphazardly done - as though Mouli was plain impatientand wanted to get to the comedy portions.
PKS is unable to maintain the comic momentum throughout. The laughs occurin spurts with patches of comic drought, some long and some short, separating them.The scene where Abbas ignites Sneha's jealousy with another girl, the cinemashooting scene with Kamal as Lord Siva and the scene where Kamal is taken to thehospital are some such scenes where the laughs come fast and furious. On the otherhand, one feels that the sequences with Simran's watch(with its alarm) insideKamal's stomach havent been exploited enough by Crazy Mohan. The laughs aresurprisingly few during these places.
With the success of Tenali, Kamal probably thinks thatsome sadness and sentiments are not out of place even in a full-length feature.That seems to be the only reason behind the long and needless excursion intosentiments after he learns the truth about Simran's act. His outburst at hisgrandfather and the subsquent demise of the grandfather seem quite stretched outconsidering the nature of the rest of the movie. Thankfully, the movie recoversnicely with a hilariously slapstick climax. The conditions of the inspector andManivannan are very funny and 'Crazy' Mohan manages to extract a great deal ofmileage from the fact that 'pillai' denotes both the groom and a caste. The climaxensures that we come out of the theater laughing and that ensures a good opinion about the movie as a whole.
Kamal is at ease with the 'Madras' lingo and his talent for slapstick and impeccablecomic timing embellish the dialogs at several places. Simran shows a nice knackfor comedy in the scene where she tries to trap Kamal with a rope and reservesher usual glamour for the song sequences. Abbas and Sneha dont have much to do.Only Ramesh Khanna catches our eye among the huge cast of supporting actors.Gadodhkaja... is the best among Deva's songs with the picturistion,alternating between the engagement scene and foreign locations, matching thesong. Sakalakala Vallavane... and Dhindukallu... arethe other duets pleasing to the ear.
Cast: Kamalhassan , Simran , Abbas , Sneha , Ramesh Khanna , Vaiyapuri , Manivannan
Music: Deva
Direction: Mouli
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Kamalhassan is back to his now-familiar routine of presenting a light, comedyouting after a serious venture. So its the turn of Pammal K Sambandhamto try to tickle us this Pongal after Aalavandhaanattempted to terrorise us last Diwali. With the ever-reliable 'Crazy' Mohanpenning the dialogs, Mouli handling the camera after a long gap, and Kamal'swell-known comic timing, the movie easily achieves what it sets out to achieve - making us laugh. Though the laughs occur oonly in spurts, they are hearty whenthey happen and ensure another success for the Kamal-Crazy combination.
Pammal K Sambandham(Kamal) belongs to a rich family and works as a stuntmanfor actors while Janaki(Simran) is a doctor. The only thing the two have incommon is that they hate words like love or marriage. But they are forced tocome in contact when Anand(Abbas), PKS' friend and Malathi(Sneha), Janaki's friend,get married. PKS and Janaki help the two get hitched and later, provide moralsupport when they get divorced. When Janaki accidentally stitches up PKS'stomach with her watch inside, she is forced to feign love for him to attemptto get the watch back without his knowledge. But PKS believes her and reallyfalls for Janaki.
It is difficult to upstage Kamalhassan in his movie but the real hero of PKS is undoubtedly 'Crazy' Mohan. His fertile mind comes up with line after line offresh 'kadi' jokes, one-liners and wordplays that manage to keep us doubled upin laughter. While just making us laugh is a success by itself, his new interpretationof oft-used, everyday words and phrases('Insure' and 'Keep Left' to name a couple)are genuinely clever and illustrate his comic genius. There are a few jokes(like Kamal's misinterpretation of Simran's name for her dog) that are his trademark, thereby making the punchline obvious before its delivered, but the majority of the jokes in PKS sound fresh. A large portion of PKS' successgoes to 'Crazy' Mohan.
PKS makes it very obvious within a few frames that comedy is its onlyintention and that logic or character development will find no place in theproceedings. There is no background, either for the friendship between Kamaland Abbas or the romance between Abbas and Sneha. We never learn why Kamalchose to be a stuntman inspite of coming from a rich family and his uniqueoccupation seems to be just a novelty since it serves no purpose in the story.Not much time is dwelt on the misunderstanding between Abbas and Sneha eitherand these portions seems haphazardly done - as though Mouli was plain impatientand wanted to get to the comedy portions.
PKS is unable to maintain the comic momentum throughout. The laughs occurin spurts with patches of comic drought, some long and some short, separating them.The scene where Abbas ignites Sneha's jealousy with another girl, the cinemashooting scene with Kamal as Lord Siva and the scene where Kamal is taken to thehospital are some such scenes where the laughs come fast and furious. On the otherhand, one feels that the sequences with Simran's watch(with its alarm) insideKamal's stomach havent been exploited enough by Crazy Mohan. The laughs aresurprisingly few during these places.
With the success of Tenali, Kamal probably thinks thatsome sadness and sentiments are not out of place even in a full-length feature.That seems to be the only reason behind the long and needless excursion intosentiments after he learns the truth about Simran's act. His outburst at hisgrandfather and the subsquent demise of the grandfather seem quite stretched outconsidering the nature of the rest of the movie. Thankfully, the movie recoversnicely with a hilariously slapstick climax. The conditions of the inspector andManivannan are very funny and 'Crazy' Mohan manages to extract a great deal ofmileage from the fact that 'pillai' denotes both the groom and a caste. The climaxensures that we come out of the theater laughing and that ensures a good opinion about the movie as a whole.
Kamal is at ease with the 'Madras' lingo and his talent for slapstick and impeccablecomic timing embellish the dialogs at several places. Simran shows a nice knackfor comedy in the scene where she tries to trap Kamal with a rope and reservesher usual glamour for the song sequences. Abbas and Sneha dont have much to do.Only Ramesh Khanna catches our eye among the huge cast of supporting actors.Gadodhkaja... is the best among Deva's songs with the picturistion,alternating between the engagement scene and foreign locations, matching thesong. Sakalakala Vallavane... and Dhindukallu... arethe other duets pleasing to the ear.
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