Dhanush’s ‘Nilavuku En Mel Ennadi Kobam’ is a light, easy watch; the fun quotient makes you look past the flaws

This Gen-Z love story does better with the “com” portions than the “rom” portions, which needed to dig deeper. But overall, it keeps you smiling. The rest of this review contains spoilers.

In Nilavuku En Mel Ennadi Kobam (NEEK), Dhanush’s nephew Pavish plays someone like his uncle, the director of this lightweight rom-com. His character’s name is Prabhu, just like Dhanush’s given name is Venkatesh Prabhu. Like Dhanush in real life, Prabhu wants to become a chef. Like Dhanush in his early films, the chocolate-skinned Prabhu has to face a fair, “Hindi film hero”-type competitor for his love – basically, a “Selvaraghavan second hero”. And like Dhanush in many of his celebrated films, the middle-class Prabhu faces heartbreak. That, in fact, is what opens the movie – the visual of Prabhu dancing to a song about love failure. GV Prakash Kumar’s music is peppy, and it sounds like Dhanush really sat in on the composing sessions. They sound just like the songs you’d find in a younger-Dhanush movie.

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