S Sashikanth’s ‘Test’ tries to examine shades of grey, but the filmmaking is too flat to make an impact

This story of a cricketer stars Madhavan, Siddharth, Nayanthara, and Meera Jasmine. Their characters are all entangled in serious problems, but everything stays at a distance. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.

Arjun (Siddharth) is India’s most successful cricketer ever, but after a series of innings where he has been struggling for runs, his place in the Indian team is uncertain. He’s even asked by the board to retire. In other words, “test” is not just something Arjun wants to play on a pitch. It’s also something he is going through. Saravanan (Madhavan) is undergoing his own version of a test. His wife Kumudha (Nayanthara) wants an expensive IVF procedure, and Saravanan himself needs a lot of money to push his alternative energy project through to the various deciding authorities. You could say that the title applies to Kumudha, too. She desperately wants a child, and the doctor tells her that she needs to stay away from stress, but almost everything Saravanan does is a test of her patience. And in between, we have Arjun’s wife Padma (Meera Jasmine). She is tested when their young son is kidnapped.

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