Laugh riot specialist M. Rajesh and the youth favorite Virgin boy coming together for this ‘Kadavul Irukkaan Kumaru’ is the main reason one makes a theater visit in these times of economical strife. GVP with his antics does keep his crowd interested but it is altogether a different story for the director's fans.
Kumaru (GVP) an ad filmmaker whose familial background is unknown (till the very end!!!), is getting married to a rich girl (Nikki Galrani) and on the eve of the marriage, he receives a bouquet from his ex-girlfriend Nancy (Anandhi) carrying a card "I miss you" and one to the bride too "I am jealous of you". What we set ourselves for is an interesting modern day love triangle (Its GVP) laughathon (Its Rajesh). What we get is an absolute mishmash of hangover, road thriller, horror and a migraine. Yes Kumaru and his friend (R.J. Balaji) set out to Pondy for a bachelor party to return in time for the wedding (???) the next day. On their way back they fall into the hands of a cop Manimaran (Prakash Raj) who tortures them for money, venture into a haunted house and how they escape from all these obstructions and get married and to whom forms the rest of the story.
GVP shows a marked improvement in his dialogue delivery and acting, but wonder why all his directors instead of molding him to suit their characters just allow him to dabble in his ‘TIN’ template. Anandhi as Nancy has the looks of a Christian girl but does not make a mark due to an underwritten character. Nikki Galrani’s voice (dubbing artiste’s) is heard talking to GVP on the phone more than her screen time. Prakash Raj, Robo Shankar, M.S. Bhaskar, Singam Puli, Mottai Rajendran and Urvashi try to tickle our funny bones in vain. It is R.J. Balaji who manages to keep afloat with his now familiar counters and old lady screech.
It’s an M. Rajesh film and the hero and his friends are not shown drinking liquor anywhere. Cheers! The hard hitting line that "When a State Administration does not listen to the Supreme Court an individual wont respect it" gets a thunderous response.
GVP’s songs have no recall value and one must thank God that the unimaginative placement and crass picturization of "Iravinil Aatam" remix will do no harm to the classic Sivaji Ganesan version. This film will just serve as one more addition to Shakthi Saravanan and Vivek Harshan’s body of works. M. Rajesh is a master at weaving interesting situations on a wafer thin line as evidenced in his first three films. But from there on there has been a steady decline and sadly in ‘KIK’ his forte comedy seems to have completely deserted him. He has tried to incorporate the Christian conversion issue, the functioning of Television reality shows (Solvathellam Unmai), etc into the proceedings which mostly fall flat due to very ordinary writing and characterization and a wayward screenplay. Time for a rethink.
Verdict : Venture into ‘KIK’ if you are a the Virgin Boy fan and if satisfied with a few laughs here and there
