Nilavuku Enmel Ennadi Kobam (NEEK), Dhanush's third directing effort, is a flimsy attempt to depict love in the Gen-Z manner, with humor that rarely stick and emotions that hardly stir up any strong feelings.  The power of a narrative or film to move you is what makes it unforgettable.  It would have been easy to improve the plot and casting of an apparently complex love tale like NEEK, which was based on the Gen-Z relatability assumption.  What a tragic miss!
 
The conclusion resembled an intolerable joke.  There was considerable room for improvement in the writing.  It seems as though the finale, which is supposed to move or disturb you, wasn't given enough attention.  There are two things: being facetious and being amusingly foolish. The last act of this movie is the latter.
 
A terminally ill father who has only six months to live and doesn't get along with the hero, thinking their relationship is a ruse by Prabhu's character to embezzle his wealth, Nila (Anikha), who has generational wealth, and an entrance song for the hero Prabhu (Pavish), who comes from humble beginnings, are all features of a typical meet-cute romantic story.  When the "sacrificing" hero unintentionally finds out about her father's disease, he ends their relationship because he wants the father to die peacefully. The girl is not aware that her father is dying quickly.
 
Although there is room for some drama in the part about the father who is terminally sick, there isn't enough emotion in the story to make you care about the people.  The viewer and the hero maintained a certain emotional distance throughout the movie.  Pavish's facial expressions were uninteresting, even during a significant breakup scenario that was meant to be dramatic.  Although I couldn't feel the anguish, I could hear it.  The pain was not visible in his eyes; rather, it felt hollow and insufficient.
 
After accepting an arranged marriage, Prabhu encounters Preethi, a girl who happens to be a buddy from school.  It's still unclear how much the tale benefits from this happenstance.  Even if she had just been the girl he originally met that day, the narrative would still have been the same.
 
 When Preethi finds out that Prabhu still has feelings for his ex-girlfriend Nila, she invites him to her wedding so he may have one more look at Nila and then hear what his heart has to say.  It seems unrealistic that someone would consider this in an arranged marriage.  Why would Preethi still desire to wed someone who is deeply in love with their former partner?  Just not strong enough, is it?
 
There are several ridiculous parts in the movie that clearly need better scripting.  For instance, it is revealed in a scene during Nila's wedding that the groom's parents chose not to attend their own son's wedding because they were "concerned" that their daughter-in-law, who was an orphan when she got married, might begin to miss her deceased parents.  Totally absurd, isn't it?
 
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G GOWTHAM

24/02/2025 12:25 PM