Premalu Movie Review By Baradwaj Rangan | Naslen | Mamitha Baiju | Girish A.D.

GT holidays South India's number one travel brand gooy a vernacular edutech brand Skilling everyone everywhere hello and welcome to Galata Plus in this video review episode we're going to be talking about Girish ad's premu the film infuses a familiar story with magical writing and gives us one of the most joyous movies of the year so this is a scene right for 4 years in his college in Tamil Nadu Sachin has been in love with a student named aneli to be precise the love is only from his side she is vaguely aware of him but because he has said nothing to her she has had no reason to say either yes or no it's close to graduation time and Sachin decides it is time to tell Angeli that he loves her if not now then when he meets her and he pours his heart out while we wait for the scene to play out we get out of the blue tangents a bunch of students race past Sachin and analii excited that they have the key to the secret Chamber Something like the one we saw in km suchin confesses that a call he made to Angeli was actually a call supposed to have been made to someone called ananan from mechanical the scene ends with vomit Girish ad may be the most lowkey writer director of love stories in India today the genre is typically filled with big Larger than Life romantic moments right that's what a love story is but pru is filled with hilariously down toor practical things like well the very understandable call to Angeli instead of ananan you can say this of his earlier films too tan Madan dangal and super Shara they can all be lumped under the genre that I like to call coming of age as seen through the prism of a romcom but there's a gradual progression of the milu girish's first film was about school dangal the second one is about college days and pru is about Sachin and Renu who have just graduated and are finding themselves away from home she is pursuing an IT job and he's looking to do higher studies in the UK the utterly Charming naslin K gafur and Mamita beu play Sachin and Renu in a way that erases the lines between actor and character had this casting not worked the film might have fallen apart because pru unlike other stories about love is not about Mutual chemistry but about individual India synes we are kept on our toes trying to read these characters one of the best aspects of the superb script by Girish and Kiran josi is trying to figure out what point at what point Renu begins to Harbor feelings for sain is it the fact that his amiable loser Dum is a contrast to the hyper achieving Alpha Ness of her colleague ADI is it the strange things that Sachin does like getting her aurvedic medicines is it the fact that he's so chilled out that he doesn't even have a usable resume is it that she likes taking care of his Manchild is it due to the emptiness created in her life when her roommate and best friend close friend moves to another city is it the realization that she might have inadvertently LED Sachin on through her actions there is no single answer and that is the beauty of the writing in sachin's case it's always love at first sight he's a simple guy who studied in a stateboard school and speaks only Malayalam and perhaps this is what the movies have taught him but for Reno love is a more calculated Affair it involves conditions like the man must be mature things like that she's an English educated person and she lives in a posh flat as opposed to such in scamed quarters sain shares the space with his friend Amal Davis note that man's initials ad they're the same as the director's initials is it a coincidence or did Girish want to leave a stamp on the film's most memorable character sangit Pratap is outrageously funny and enormously likable as Amal Davis and some of us will be left wishing for a movie written entirely around Amal and Sachin so how do you describe the writing why is it so special why is it so original let's look at the stretch that begins when suchin is caught sleeping in a gate coaching class the way I have described the scene it's a cliche a loser guy is dozing off in class what's new right but the way the teacher's character is shaped in the scene that just follows afterwards we are surprised and see how one thing leads to another the teacher invites Sachin namal to his wedding this introduces a new character a crazy car to the mix and the wedding is where Sachin meets Reno how many boy girl meets scenario have we seen and yet how crazily unique this one is or consider the bit where Sachin says he does not know how to behave in an AC compartment of a train what could have been a big point about class is transformed into the sweetest of comic situations in fact when you dig deep and despite the boyant songs by Vishnu Vijay there is so much dysfunction in this movie nothing is going right with sain's life his parents are always fighting he's not getting that UK Visa he wants so badly his love life is a disaster his money situation is a disaster even his underwear are filled with holes as for Renu the confidence and Independence that she projects is at odge with what she seems to want to be taken care of by a mature man and from this material Girish Minds the loudest of laughs I doubt I have cracked up so much at the mere mention of words like cbsc or stalking a couple of gags involving guest star Matthew Thomas don't work the oddly one unnote character gets no room to breathe but almost everything else works the telescope joke the bit with a statue Sachin and aml's reaction shots during a Krishna Radha dance the Yuan Shankar Raja reference or the part where renu's colleague ADI takes prison type pictures of sain and Amal 's character is another standout the control freak SL toxic man is written like a liveaction cartoon he even gets his own cartoon music and Sham moan captures that vipe perfectly the chase towards the end of the film involving ADI and a bunch of goons is an instant classic again a very problematic character is turned on its head and we are made to see how ridiculous these behaviors are the film goes all over the place a birthday party a trip around Hyderabad a pub a wedding a fast food restaurant and it's magical to see how what we think will happen is always subverted with what actually happens the other magic about the movie is how all this out of the- boox thinking is streamlined in such an org mechanic way like the brilliant payoff with a peer spray nothing sticks out and even the dreaded airport climax is given such a fresh and innocent spin that the writer in you keeps wondering just how did they pull that off whether you are a student of Cinema or just a viewer with a box of popcorn pru is a treasure of small things it's one of the most joyous movies of the year and that's it about PR if you like this video review do subscribe to Galata plus and see you soon at the movies GT holidays South India's number one travel brand gooy a vernacular edch brand Skilling everyone [Applause] [Music] everywhere

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Length: 7min 14sec (434 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 07 2024