A terrible misadventure

She is the proverbial millennial, individualistic and a successful business woman, who keeps men at arm’s length, as she has had a traumatic childhood at the hands of a violent father. He is the wanderer, with a father who is excessively indulgent and lets his son take his own routes to salvation in his life. Cupid strikes after the filmi introduction of both – Rakul Preet Singh and Karthi – leads up to each swearing endless love and affirming that they cannot stay without the other.

Rajath Ravishankar, the debutante director is at pains to give both his top notch stars a different orientation to their images. So, he packs in an easygoing chutzpah into the hero, who does not miss a chance to bash up the baddies when required. At the same time, he makes the heroine, a hard-to-get sizzler who carries the burden of being busy with her business and wants nothing more. 

The pacifists in both sides are the veteran stars – Ramya Krishnan telling her hotheaded daughter that it is okay to relax and fall in love, while the other side with Prakash Raj smilingly succumbing to the crazy passions of his son, assuring him of his total support.It could have been a good, watchable film with thoughtful posers on gender equality and rights of women to choose a life of their own even if it means staying away from love and affairs of the heart. 

But with an initially casual, loose approach despite the subsequent build-up in the second half, the film does not sustain viewing interest. Narrated in a flashback mode by a hero’s friend in the form of a comedy show performance, it irritates the viewers at places.  Karthi is shown doing quite a bit to lend a newness to his roleplay including a strenuous climb up Mt Everest to satiate his raging energy levels. Yet the story does not support him and the typical lovers’ tiff kind of a treatment to the romantic plot bogs it down totally.