Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kanom - NKPK - Movie Review

Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kanom NKPK - Movie Review

One truly enjoyable movie it has been. It happened to come out in 6 words for me. That's sweet...!!  If that is all I had to say, I would have rather posted on my FB wall. As I keep maintaining, FB is the death nail on my blogging....I used to blog instinctively in the past, now I FB for instinctive aspects. I AM AN OLD SKOOL GUY and still love blogging, just I don't follow my passion....

I'll stop drifting off topic and steer back to Review land...!

NKPK - Started off with an intriguing title. Many a films have had interesting titles, but there ends interests in most films (like KSY - Kathalil Sothapuvathu Yeppadi)...this wasn't to be so.. The title is as intriguing to me as the interpretations of Matrix and Inception. I still have atleast 3-4 versions of justification that churn up in my mind even after watching the movie. FYI. I had atleast 7 versions before the movie.!

The introduction of the characters via the title song, was by far...standard....just that the hero (s) of the movie each had their intro songs..!!! Nice touch to talk about all the protagonists of the movie upfront (reminds me of Thalaivar Sujatha's definition of nice screenplay - in Thiraikathai Yezthuvathu eppadi)....

I strongly believe in Director Cheran's words in an interview...சினிமாவை வெளியில தேடாதீங்க, உங்க வாழ்கைல இருந்து எடுங்க ...the director seems to have drawn more than a leaf from this. Very evident from the Cricket Match scenes. Very much a possibility. A very nice plot to actually enthuse and draw the attention of the audience...! (Lets forget the last scene revelation of the director for sometime..!!)

The main stay of the movie seems to have landed plum roles in offbeat stories one after other. Thenmerku Paruvkaatru, Pizza and NKPK....a decent actor with good restraint....

The subject, Medula Oblongata and temporary memory loss...seems to have received a make-over after the Sanjay Ramasamy era....a completely feel good flavour which has grim realities otherwise. Mr. AR Murugadoss, ippadiyum edukalam antha kathaiya..!!!

Goes to show that...its all in the making ( I mean the pudding called movie..!) The movie at times made me feel I am in a goods train...slow...real slow....but makes you relish that by serving dishes of comedy one after the other to keep you busy laughing while taking its time to establish the real plot of the movie, which you kind of keep guessing all through that initial 30 mins or so...

A good % of the movie was predictable, might have been a spoiler in a Thriller movie, but not here...the more and more you predict, you keep getting drawn to the story and its characters...

Slowly but steadily, by the time the guys freak out of GH, you get into the characters, their differences, their nuances...their fallacies, their bonding and ultimately the plot...

The firm base for the movie's success is in its script. I can imagine how much of hard work should have gone in to make a flawless logic based script...excellent work! I only see a Hard Working Director / Screenplay Writer stand out for me...that's me...:D...

I hear that the dialogue writer for the movie was required only part-time ?!!! Dialogues in majority were only repeats....Enna aachu; Peyu mathiri irukaa, Sathiskku kalyanam...hahaha...hilarious track of plot lines..!!

IMO, the guy playing the Bajji character deserves the maximum applause, next comes Saras (though Saras is the hero of sorts!!), then Prem...!! Bajji character had streaks of realism, naivity, stupidity, comic sense, presence of mind, blinking(!!!)....probably the director chose the right guy to play his part..?! much like ARR and Illayaraja, picking the best tracks of their album for their voices...!!!

Mid-way through the movie, I was very firm that the inspiration for the movie must have been real life characters, lest the thoughts of Saras, Baks and Bajji would match if it was a conned story...they having individual thought lines on how to handle the situation at the GH on the day of the incident is ample proof...I was telling my wife that this should have been an inspiration of some sort for a wonderful output like this...Little did I realize that the end title card of the movie would clear that like Mr. Ramanan's Prediction for Tamil Nadu Weather...!!!

One very good aspect of Screenplay I loved watching was - when Saras leaves the Reception dias and Bajji takes over and as expected the commotion rises on the dias and in our senses, Prem suddenly corrects the course with a ullolalaikku dialogue and we are stunned...the screenplay deftly teases and suggests in a figurative manner when Prem looks up his head to ask his friend something....suggesting that Saras has come back to the dias and Bajji stepped back...this is only for a moment before Saras is shown on screen standing between Bajji and Prem....i thought this was a nice touch to Screen Writing..!!!

By now, you should have realized that this was more of my outpour on what I loved in the movie in a review like un-review...but I strongly believe that the makers had great passion about the story and its impact on their personal lives..! As goes the famous saying, *If you love what you are doing, you will not be 'working' even for a day*... the makers, am sure wouldn't have felt the burden of the daunting task of a commercially viable movie, as their output clearly shows their passion and their strong belief in the story / Screenplay.

Good Luck guys!!! We want another movie like this...but you don't have to pelt a stone on somebody's head   next time for a realistic story line...hahaha...!!!

-Rajesh