Thenmavin Kombath (1994) :
Brief Review -
One of the finest Unoriginal Rom-Com with Love Triangle collapsed terribly in the Climax. I read some comments about this film on IMDb where people have called it a rare original film of Priyadarshan but it is not. It's highly inspired from old Bollywood film of 60s, 80s and even early 90s. Thenmavin Kombath is a typical love-triangle i have seen in many films. Srikrishnan and his best friend, Manickam falls in love with the same girl, a village performer, Srikrishnan turns out more intent on having her for himself. He spread rumours about his bad behaviour to defame him so that he can marry the girl. This was same love-triangle i saw in Bollywood films like 'Sangam', 'Ram-Avatar' and even in early 90s there was 'Saajan'. However, the subplot in Thenmavin Kombath differs from these films but simulates other Family dramas of 60s. Priyadarshan has written a good mix-up of 3-4 stories to make 1 story and it was enough enjoyable. It runs smoothly for like two hours and also gets beautifully emotional in the middle but then in the last 30 minutes it collapses terribly. That death scene of Sreekrishnan didn't make any sense, and people even believed it without any proofs. How? Not just those dumb people who had seen Manickam saving Sreekrishnan the same morning but even his Sister believed it too? And Sreekrishnan didn't even apologised at last. Utter nonsense that was. Well, the performances are fine. This wasn't an acting oriented film still Mohanlal, Nedu Mudi Venu, Sreenivasan and Shobhana have done nice. The screenplay is very engaging, music is good, dialogues are funny, cinematography looks okay, the rural humour is fantastic and Priyan's direction is satisfactory. The loopes in writing hurt the film otherwise it's a great family entertainer.
RATING - 6/10*
By - #samthebestest.
