Emotionally Resonant Love Story <3

On a train, a married man runs into his ex-lover. What follows is a succession of personal complications.

Theera Kadhal is a film that explores the concept of rekindled love in an attempt to elicit emotions. While the premise is not novel, the film contains moments that transport us back to the people we miss in our lives. Those looking for a more thorough and nuanced study of the issue, on the other hand, may be disappointed.

Since their break-up in college, life has taken its own path for Gautham (Jai) and Aaranya (Aishwarya Rajesh). Gautham is married to Vandhana (Sshivada), and the couple has a charming young daughter named Aarthi (Vriddhi Vishal), while Aaranya is married to a wife-beating sadist named Prakash (Amzath Khan) when they meet during their respective work visits to Mangalore. Rohin paints Gautham and Aaranya's life in stark contrast from the outset in order to justify their subsequent actions. In Mangalore, romance is reignited between the two, but before they go too far, they decide to never meet again and return to their lives. The past tends to follow you around regardless of how you want to look at it, and we realize that the word, 'Theera Kaadhal,' doesn't simply mean 'undying love,' but also a boundless and insatiable attachment.

From the start, you feel an emotional detachment from the proceedings that only grows. For starters, it's because of how phony the scene staging and conversation writing are. In the same way, Aaranya's abusive marriage life is revealed to Gautham through overt conversational exposition. Or how, just as they're losing themselves in a moment of closeness, they're interrupted by calls from their respective lovers - wouldn't something else, say, Gautam's awareness of hurting Vandhana, bring more complexity to what he's dealing with than this cliche?

The smallest of situations, such as when two like-minded people say the same thing at the same time, don't translate effectively on screen and only highlight how little effort is put into the drama's writing. You never completely comprehend these lead characters, and Rohin only adds depth to their features when the treatment and narrations suit his aspirations.

To ensure that his main characters are only the three leads, and to add more defenses to how Aaranya acts afterwards, he portrays Prakash as a one-dimensional megalomaniac narcissist who kicks and bashes his wife up in a frighteningly graphic exhibition. To begin, you may ask why Aaranya never goes to the authorities. Most women experience domestic abuse and do not report it to authorities for a variety of reasons, including fear, societal stigma, and something as simple as pursuing the image of the partner they once had. In Aaranya's situation, the only reason we're left to fetch is because she's all alone in this world, and leaving her husband may take away any security she has. Second, is it necessary to employ domestic violence to achieve this effect? Removing Prakash is a screenwriter's cop-out behavior, not merely another indicator of convenience.

The exceedingly handy set-up leads you to expect a normal romance drama with three characters, but the film takes an unexpected turn as a romantic thriller, and things quickly devolve. Rohin actually has issues with depicting human greyness, as evidenced by the way he writes a significant character and sets situations around them.

To compound matters, the film doesn't even care to dot the i's and cross the t's to complete its emotional arcs, such as Vandhana's relationship with Gautham and the future of a pivotal character, partly because Rohin adds so much heft to cheap thriller tricks and suspense-building that the pulse on which everything is built is lost. This is also why each of the characters comes across as bits and pieces, sometimes borderline idiotic and psychotic, sometimes as robotic as people can be; in any event, we never view them as anything more than that or care enough to grasp the critical emotional judgments they frequently make. Without the three talented performers and the soundtrack by Siddhu Kumar, viewing Theera Kaadhal may have become an even more frustrating experience.

Overall, Theera Kadhal is a good picture but falls short of being a truly captivating and emotionally memorable love story.

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