Endrendrum Punnagai

Director I Ahmed's Endrendrum Punnagai starring Jiiva, Trisha, Vinay, Santhanam and Andrea Jeremiah is a beautiful film that deals with friendship, romance and the special bond between a father and his son.

There is loads of fun in the first half as we get to know the three friends, who complement each other perfectly with their different personalities.

Jiiva as a bitter and obstinate young man is quite competent and seems equally comfortable expressing anger, scorn and love.

Trisha looks absolutely gorgeous in simple kurtis and jeans and gives an excellent performance as a middle-class working woman.

Santhanam is in his element and keeps the audience in splits with his witty one-liners.

Andrea, as an egocentric international model and Vinay as a playboy, too, have done their bit.

Good background music by Harris Jayaraj and some spectacular visuals of Switzerland beautifully captured by cinematographer R Madhi make this film even more enjoyable.

There does, however, seem to be too much drinking-- having fun is synonymous with drinking these days --and lots of risqué jokes on marriage and women.

There are no sparks flying and it is definitely not love at first sight for Goutham and Priya, but the end still seems quite obvious.

Whatever the reason, the film certainly succeeds in entertaining the audience.

Endrendrum Punnagai is worth a watch.

After Jiiva's lengthy Dialogue Trisha: You said everything but the word "sorry". That's why life with you is tough and impossible. Audience: Say Sorry Dammit. We will leave soon. Jiiva (To Trisha): I Love You Audience: You could have said this before interval. We could have, at least, left early.

If you are not a big fan of reading, the above lines will sum up the movie, in short. Ahmed's "Endrendum Punnagai" is the story of a man, with ego on a garangutan scale, refusing to budge for others even if it is for his best buddies of 20 years or his father or his new-found love. It is this ego stretched in 150 minutes that is both cause and loss for the movie.

Jiiva excels well in his role despite one of the characters remarking, "You can't act, why try unnecessarily?". Vinay and Santhanam gel with Jiiva and create a laughter riot out of the first half. But the bromance ends in first half. The second half leaves you in South Pole. You will feel cold deserted and, for a lack of better word, boring.

The second half is, the 60 years of Tamil Cinema revisited again. Heroine walks in the middle of snowfall in a white gown when the hero sees an angel out of her, a romantic number with the Alps behind, hero realising his mistakes and then comes the first few lines of this review.

Trisha bonds with her character and one expects her to see on screen more often. Andrea is a one-song girl with three extra scenes where she is nothing but a catalyst between the lead pairs. Vinay is good and Santhanam is excellent with his ridicule-humour. Harris is very badly missed when the audience exit the hall for a fresh air during the songs.

Buddies will revisit their life in the first half only to accept the harsh reality in the second.

A very generous 2.5/5

Endrendrum Punnagai is a light hearted movie which works and achieves its purpose for the intended audience. The first half is superb and revolves around Gowtham(Jiiva), Baby(Santhanam) and Sri(Vinay) three best friends who are inseparable, with Santhanam rocking and coming back to form so to say after some lackluster performances in his recent movies. Second half is romantic and breezy filled with beautiful locations and revolves around Gowtham and Priya(Trisha). Though Thamizh cinema has always given importance to Friendship I think this is the first time Bromance is given importance and romance takes a back seat! On the whole a good way to end the year and a good movie to take your family to this holiday season!

Gowtham(Jeeva), Sri(Vinay) and Baby(Santhanam) were close friends. As they had a get-to-gather with their old friends on a bachelor party, Gowtham, Sri and baby promises that there won't be any place for a girl in their life. then story moves from that scene onwards. Nasser who plays the role of Gowtham's father had a good role towards the end. Priya(Trisha), a colleague of Gowtham works together in a ad designing in company along with Sri and Vinay. Gowtham, Sri and Baby had some disagreements, from that point onwards the film moves on. Soniya(Andrea) comes in as a ad designer had a very short role to play and failed to excel in that.

Jiiva once again proved his acting.Trisha is very beautiful in this movie too. Vinay and santhanam done their job well. Santhanam timing jokes also very nice.First Half went very fast. Other characters like nassar, Andrea,T.M.Karthik and Swaminathan done their job perfectly.Harris jayaraj music is better. Normally in his film all songs will be very nice to hear for the first time but in this movie only one is nice to hear at first.Only thing is we expected a big and valid flash back from nassar but it is very small and unreasonable.Overall the film is worth to watch with your close friends.