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Pyaar Prema Kalyanam Movie Review: A film that tries too hard to be social media content
On the day of her wedding, Pavi (Saanve Megghana) gets hit by a wave of epiphany. Why does the bride have to uproot her entire world and move in with the groom? Why can’t the groom move in with his in-laws? Anxious about this monumental lifestyle change and gripped by panic, Pavi runs back home and refuses to conform to gender norms. And now the stage is set for a wacky role-reversal where her husband Elan (Elan), in an attempt to woo her back, moves in with Pavi and her family.
Pyaar Prema Kalyanam has all the right ingredients to discuss a misogynistic social convention while also providing enough moments for a lighthearted relationship/family drama. Tamil cinema is no stranger to lighthearted films that also critique the conventions plaguing our family structure. Filmmakers like K Bhagyaraj, V Sekhar, Visu, and Pandiarajan have built entire careers off of such films. But in order to carry the duality of social commentary and lighthearted family drama, the central characters, despite their need to reflect the effervescence of the genre, have to feel like real individuals with complexity and depth. Pavi and Elan feel like caricatures, like someone’s vague idea of how “cute movie couples” should behave. There is a defiant plasticity to the characters, an issue which gets intensified with the film’s outdated attempts to be relatable to a contemporary audience. With an almost pitiable desperation the film tries to pander with memes and references that are severely outdated. At one crucial scene, the film almost hands you over the meme template and asks you to edit it in your head. Pavi challenges Elan to move in with her during a call that is being live streamed, and in the background, the famous interview scene from Mudhalvan plays out. Its not enough that they frequently cut to the visuals on the TV, every character recreates the scene, and reference the Mudhalvan dialogues as well.
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