Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi’s ‘Kadhalikka Neramillai’, with Nithya Menen and Ravi Mohan, is a fresh take on relationships
- Trinity Auditorium
- Jan 14
- 1 min read
The film is an easy watch, but it asks some difficult questions about making a relationship work. But there is no preaching, and there is no overt messaging. The rest of this review contains spoilers.
Kadhalikka Neramillai is a rare kind of movie for Tamil cinema. It is delicate. The filmmaking, the acting, the dialogues, the scene segues, the background score, the cinematography – everything is delicate. There’s no emphasis, no deafening explosion at the interval block or during the climax. Writer-director Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi has a light touch. When a man says “I love you”, the woman says nothing in return. She puts her head on his shoulder and smiles. She may not want to say those words at that point, but she likes hearing them and this is her response. In an earlier scene, when this woman reveals something to the man, he says, “Oh!” and then – a pause – and he, again, says “Oh!” The first “Oh!” is for the surprise of the revelation, the second, slightly sadder “Oh!” is for what that revelation implies for a man who does not want to bring a child into this world.
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