Rajesh M’s ‘Brother’ is a tearjerker that wants to be a comedy and ends up being neither

Jayam Ravi plays a ‘Rules Ramanujam’, always bringing up legal points and trying to do the right thing. After a point, this mega-serial level of superficial drama becomes awfully hard to take.

The best news about Brother is the semi-comeback of Harris Jayaraj. Over the opening credits, we get a lovely tune that goes “En kooda porandha thangame..” Then, of course, there’s the super-catchy Makkamishi. The song would have worked even better had it come later in the narrative, after two or three instances of establishing Karthik’s (Jayam Ravi) character. He is a law student and he is a bit of a ‘Rules Ramanujam’, always bringing up legal points and trying to do the right thing. As he says later, he does what he feels is right, but he doesn’t think about how his actions could affect others. His father has a heart attack, his sister (Bhumika Chawla) has marital issues in a super-disciplined family where everyone’s into prestige and fame – and Karthik is at the centre of it all.

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