Pyaar Prema Kaadhal Review

Cast: Harish Kalyan, Raiza Wilson

Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja

Direction: Elan

Pyaar Prema Kaadhal is a regular rom-com film that comes every year, but there is something that makes this film an enjoyable watching experience. That's direction. Elan, the director, shows the regular scene in an interesting way. Look at the opening scene where Sree's( Played by Harish Kalyan) parents are registering him for a matrimony site. Her mother is curious to know whether the girl registering for them is married or not. When she asks, the girl replies love marriage. Elan establishes Sree's mother is against love in just one shot. He portrays the dramatic scenes, more subtly. The scene that comes in later half, where Sree and Sindhuja (played by Raiza Wilson) breaks up is beautifully staged during a dance show. The parallel of their story and stage dance with Yuvan Shankar Raja music makes the scene beautiful.

Yuvan Shankar Raja’s background score enhances Elan’s direction in making this cliché middle class hero falling in love with an upper class girl movie aesthetically. I enjoyed the way Yuvan used Illayaraja’s songs as background in a few scenes. The best scene is when Sree, who is in a fight with Sindhuja, enters her car to convince her. After hearing him out, she just switches on her radio and we hear instrumental version of ‘Mandram vantha thendraluku’ song and the lyric ‘Medai yai pole, Vazhkai illa…mudintha pin vilagi sella’ (Life is not a stage play to move on after it ends). These kind of ecstasy sets this film apart from regular rom-coms.

This is probably the first Tamil rom-com where there is no song abusing the heroine after she breaks up with the hero. The film does not have a friend character who constantly gives tips to hero to lure the heroine. Though the film has two friend characters (one played by Ramadoss), but they don’t play a major part in their relationship. Sree and Sindhuja’s relationship, who are different in ideologies with Yuvan’s mesmerizing songs and background score, makes this a must watch rom-com of this year.

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