Mysorean

No! I take back my words! It is not a gender-changed remake of HDDCS! I don't want to insult HDDCS. Not that HDDCS was a classic, but "Silly"ana oru kadhai oops sorry "Sillunu Oru Kadhal" is not even anywhere near it. HDDCS and Silly (Short for "Sillunu Oru Kadhal") have only one thing in common - legendary music. Period.

Not only was my evening ruined, I ruined it for my in-laws too. Is there any provision under the Indian judiciary to sue the film-makers for attempt to mass extreme mental torture? "Silly" will be first movie to go into that list whenever they make the provision. When the movie ends, there is a slide "Written and Directed by Krishna" as if he has made "Titanic" or something. Bugger Krishna, you better stay indoors for a good amount of time, atleast till Kollywood has a hit and forgets this divine offering of yours!

The story: Surya(Gowtham) marries Jyothika(imaginatively named Kundali) in a village. They move to Mumbai after marriage. And we are 6 years fast forward into the future where Gowtham is a chief mechanic at the Maruti Suzuki plant while Kundali works in a jazzy office with well-done-up-interiors and females running around everywhere. They have a daughter, Ishu, who is 5 years old - that cute kid who is the brand ambassador for all the silk shops in Pondy Bazaar. Gowtham daily drops the kid at school, Kundali at office and head to Gurgaon Haryana and back in his Maruti Swift! Shocked? Check this out, Maruti Suzuki's only manufacturing plant is in Gurgaon!

Well, if I continue with my nit-picking in the movie, then this review can never end. So, I will let them pass. Let me get on with the story. Kundali reads Gowtham's diary (bad manners?!) to take the story further. Gowtham was in love with a girl called Ishwarya aka Ishu (Bhoomika) during his engineering days (@ PSB Engineering College, Coimbatore. Probably PSG Tech, the original, didn't need a product placement ala Maruti since they are already a force to reckon with in the Country!). Ishu was the daughter of an MP - docile and studious while Gowtham was the typical LLB (Lord of Last Bench) at college playing football, driving fancy bikes and drinking beer like water (or was it water itself?!). The way and the context in which she discloses her love for him is so out-of-place and out-of-imagination that I wanted to literally go and shout carefully chosen expletives at the director. Then, what happens? Even that kid Ishu will tell you. Big Ishu and Gowtham get married at the registered office and right there, Big Ishu's bigger father comes and you have a fight scene where Gowtham is beaten till he is almost dead.

But guess what? The healthcare services in Coimbatore are so good that within days there are no scars on Gowtham's face where he was beaten with a hockey stick or something similar(that I remember this much is a credit to me!). Just when Gowtham was about to recover and charge to search for Ishu, his chitappa (uncle) falls from the staircase. Probably he had also had enough of the movie. So, he decided to take a fatal fall. But before dying he takes a promise from Gowtham (like all good characters) that he will live a noble life ever after with that girl called "Kundali" from the village.

If you haven't smashed your monitor to pieces, I shall dare to continue. Maybe I need to call for insurance. Thinking of insurance, I can suggest a new product to the insurance companies. They can insure movie-goers like us against bad movies like these. But yeah, there's every probability they might go bankrupt if one person like Krishna decides to take them on!

Anyways story is story. I have suffered for 3 hours plus commuting time also, please share my suffering like good friends! After reading all this from the diary, Kundali lands up in Coimbatore in search of Big Ishu. She arranges for Big Ishu to come to Mumbai to spend a "Day" with Gowtham. You know why? In that diary Gowtham would have written, "Even if I had spent a day of my life with you, I would have had the pleasure of having lived for ages. But that was not to be."

Now what happens in that day? How does Krishna The Great manage to waste your time completely? I forgot the name of the producer, but very soon we will hear of someone going underground unable to bear the wrath of audience and I will know who is the producer. This producer hasn't paid anyone except Krishna. A R Rahman would anyway deliver. Money or otherwise!

Surya and Jo wanted to give their audience a memorable movie before they enter into wedlock the day after tomorrow. Well, they have achieved their objective. This movie is memorable in more ways than one.

Memorable way #1: The guy sitting in the row in front of me, at one point during the movie, shouted, "I could have rather thrown this Rs. 100/- down the drain!". The sheer hopelessness of the situation was evident in his voice.

Memorable way #2: Another guy, at a considerably important scene in the movie, "Vaaak Thooooo!!". I don't think he only spat anger out!

Memorable way #3: Two intelligent people, 15 minutes before the ending, walked out of the theatre so that they could take their vehicles away easily out of the theatre. I did have a brotherly feeling toward them!

Finally, since my wife fervently pleaded with me that I shouldn't give a single star rating on my blog for a "Surya" movie, I am going to rate it mathematically. Paapi pet ka sawaal hai yar, samjha karo!

My rating: ***** - **** (That's 5 stars minus 4 stars)

Legend:
*Stay at home
**If you have the time to kill, go ahead, but not recommended
***Watch if you are a film buff!
****Go watch it on the big screen!
*****Don't miss watching this one on the big screen! Avoid piracy!