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EDITOR'S PICK
Rating: *
After its earlier hit "Chennai
600028", Capital Film Works` new offering "Kunguma Poovum Konchum
Puravum" was hyped as the next blockbuster set to turn the turnstiles with
a vengeance.
Instead, it has turned out into a damp squib that looks like a cinematic
presentation of Rip Van Winkle arriving a further decade too late.
A village boy Kuchcha (Ramakrishna) falls like a ton of bricks for a poor rustic
damsel Thulasi (Thananya).
Circumstances and a crippling accident suffered by Kuchcha force Thulasi to wed
a layabout Dharman (Tarun) in the port city of Tuticorin to set the stage for a
violent climax by her avenging lover.
To compare this one to Bharti Raja`s seventies` hit romances would be insulting
the picture-postcard-style filmmaker despite the film being set in Muttom, a
scenic locale in Kanyakumari district (a Raja favourite).
All the actors with the sole exception of Thananya are loud hams.
Yuvan Shankar Raja`s music and Siddharth`s camera work, despite being good, are
too little to resurrect the silly movie.