The title of the movie Ethir
neechal(Sailing against the odds) is the characteristic that expected among the
audience to sit through this excruciatingly painful two and half hour movie.
The movie begins with Siva’s ordeal for bearing the name Kunjitha Patham after
his family deity. The first ten minutes director convinces us the real meaning
of the name through an assortment of characters that breaks the monotony of
hearing the same dialogue through different deliveries. The veracity of the
situation is highlighted when Siva’s first love break up happens due to his
not-so-good-to-hear name.
After the change of name to
Harish, the hero meets the typical kind-hearted Tamil heroine, Priya Anand who
is ambitious in life donning several hats like nursery teacher, LIC agent, and also
an aspiring MA student. She falls in love with the hero when he reaches her to
the examination center in a politically volatile day.
In a friend marriage, the old
characters that broke the monotony in the beginning of the movie meet
accidentally in a marriage hall and reveal the not-so-good-to-hear name to
Priya. The new twist in the movie arrives when priya confides the aimless Siva
is the reason for her disheartenment and not the name. This instigates the hero
to enroll for a world famous marathon event in the city. The random cut to a
soup song, Dhanush and Nayanthara dancing in a bar, to bring solace to the
twice-heartbroken hero is the heights of testing the patience. Thus, the first half ends with this new turn encapsulating
a total of four songs-two duets and two soup songs, and the random cuts to
scenes without any sequence.
When the audience wonders what
could be waiting in the second-half of the movie, the director leaves everyone
speechless with the furling of master twist in the story. The ambitious Siva
decides to join a coach for the training but ends up getting trained under his
student, Nandita. The mysterious Nandita takes the hero through the innovative
methods of training and finally arrive in Chennai to complete the final lapse
of training. The sudden inquisitiveness of the hero on the mystery surrounding Nandita
takes us through a very long and boring flashback.
In the flashback, the doting
Nandita’s father sacrifices his life and property to live his daughters’ dream
of winning gold medal in Asian games. As expected, an evil- thought coach plays
a spoil sport after questioning the gender of Nandita. Subsequently, this issue
disqualifies Nandita from participating in the Asian games and also leads to
the death of her father.
The flashback changes hero’s mind
and decides to run for Nandita instead of Priya. This noble cause steers hero
to the finish line in a record time by pushing back the famous international
athlete, like Usain Bolt in stature, and an Indian athlete trained by the
evil-thought coach. The winning speech of the hero after the marathon race that
confesses his not-so-good-to-hear name in the public and solving the
controversial (Pinki) gender issue through a two minute media advocacy is the
real highlight in the movie.
Beware of the series of illogical
twist and turns that confound us throughout the film.
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