HERO : ARYA
HEROIN: ANUSHKA
SUPPORTING ARTIST:PRAKASH RAJ,URVASHI
DIRECTOR: PRAKASH KOVELMUDI
MUSIC : M.M KEERAVANI
CINEMATOGRAPHER:NIRAV SHAH
EDITOR:PRAWIN PUDI
Inji iduppazhagi has mostly been in the news for its leading lady anushka putting on the pounds to play central character.anushka does deserve credit for trying .she plays soundraya aka sweety a cheerful but overweight,young women and looks the part though there is at times a discernible inconsistency in her figure from one scene to the next.
Initially she doesnt seem right for the role especially when she has to act bubbly she has always seemed to be a some what mature presence. but gradually wins us over with the earnestness in her sweet-natured performance.
That is true of the film well to a certain extent.it takes us a while to settle down to its uneven rhythm.the plots revolves around sweety inability or rather her mother to find suitable match,and her falling for the hunky abhishek arya a documentrary filmmaker and one of the prospective grooms who land at her door step.
Initially she rejects him mainly to savour the idea of her rejecting someone for change,but the two develop a friendly releation ship.and just as she starts developing feelings for arya he falls for simran figured a slim social worker leaving sweety dejected.meanwhile her mother compels her to enroll in size zero,the new slimness centre that is the talk of the town
When her friend jyothi who also a size zero member ends up in the hospital sweety learns that it is due to the dubious practise that the centre used to help its claint slim down.with from arya and anushka starts awareness campagin,much to the chargin of size zero owner satyanand.does she win in this battle does abhi realize her love for him.
The problem with inji iduppazhagi is that the script exhibits a split personality and the tone fluctuates between the feel good and the over the top and for long secetions in the second half
The focous shift from anushka journey and film turns into a fitness commercial film starts.its a blatant attempt to sell us a message and the film spends too much time on the segmant.also because it has been shot is a bilingual the film is unable to get the milieu right.
The dialogues while witty in places feel like they were translated into tamil from another language while the line readings by the actors dont feel natural.given the large number of non tamil faces and the fact that even anushka voice dubbed deepa venkat there are times when we are unable to shake off the feeling that we are watching a dubbed film in the sense it reminds you of aaha kalyanam another tamil,telugu bilingual that didnt feel local enough.
And in the climax it falls into a cliche trap of its own making and gives us the umpteenth instance of a well meaning guy being cruelly dumped at the altar so that the leads can have their happy ending.
But despite these issues the film manages to be engaging enough.it also gets the feel good moments right.the fairytale ish segments and the moments that showcase swetty cherry and helpful nature are done right .like her emotional dependence on fortune cookie messages to cheer herself and spread love.
The senior actor prakash raj and urvashi and gollapudi maruti rao register in their supporting roles and help us instantly get their characters and for once it is refreshing to find the hero gamely playing second fiddle to the heroine. and refreshingly the film doesnt shy away from portraying him as the object of desire much like how heroines are typically presented in the other films…
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