Cast: Dhanush, Sruthi Haasan, Siva Karthikeyan
Director: Aishwarya R Dhanush
Music: Anirudh
Genre: Drama, Romance
"Hey it is our guy ya", "the songs were cool", "how is kolaveri screened?"
Are some of the loudest chats you get to hear in the theatre threshold before the film.
After the film,
Parents “Should not leave our girl alone that too with a phone, never."
"Is Aishwarya Rajinikanth trying to spoil our culture?"
And not to leave the famous punch...... "the youth these days!"
Kids “sob... sob..."
Some "Machan take out the parking ticket lets get home and sleep", "don't talk to me now."
Some elite critics over the phone "Ya I liked the acting and I swear I will never write anything bad about him, what if he makes another one like this."
Some of the rest, “Will I get a ticket in black, for the next show?"
And of course "This is the movie of the year."
And you also might see these ones " "
<no expression, no comments just wide open eyes>
Ok you would have got it. Yes we are talking about 3, the most awaited film. And those comments above, none, can be blamed.
The movie opens with the camera rolling into a porshe apartment house, a death house, with wonderful tragic music. Sruthi is on the couch lying down crying and the rest standing and crying. The whole movie starrers are there except some side actors. You finally notice that, you had not got the privilege of seeing the corpse, also suddenly something hits you, "Where is Dhanush?"
Debut Director and music director Aishwarya and Anirudh both know what it is to handle a movie. And our guy Dhanush has once again showed that he sure can act. Sruthi Haassan with those innocent looks and I am not from north style Tamil has rocked the screen.
Prabhu's usual grace, Siva Karthikeyan's witty comments and his surprise presence itself, succeed to add the expected colour.
Aishwarya Dhanush marks her debut with a mature rather different movie. She had risked enough directing a tragic flick, and she sure must be congratulated. The films describes three stages of our protagonist, Ram’s (drove by Dhanush) life hence the name “Moonu” (3). Or it can be taken in a different way the ‘happiness’, ‘sadness and difficulty’, and this ‘3’rd one is ‘sorry suspense’ of our hero's life.
Ram who is the son of a rich businessman (Prabhu) is a carefree youth. He falls at the first look of a school girl Janani (Sruthi Haasan), of his age, trying her hands in putting the chain of her cycle, which goes down in the rain. He traces her school by her uniform, which involves a wonderful conversation among his friends, gradually her name then her address. Follows her everywhere, joins her tuition, giving great time for quality comedy. Finally our girl also begins to love him.
The second split involves family negotiations, about their love for each other. This goes smoothly in our hero’s place but ends badly in Janani’s place and she is out of her house. Shiva Karthikeyan goes off the screen suddenly, which is later explained. Prabhu give the newly married couple a apartment. They live happily hero manages to dump the gap and makes the heroine’s family to forgive her. All goes well. The audience begin to think why the movie was not named 2.
Why is he dead? This is answered in the third split. The hero faces sudden depression, fluctuating sadness and euphoria, which all get either explained or left to the audience for good. Here comes real acting and a single awesome fight sequence and a great load of Sruthi Haasan tears.
Dhanush as usual does a good job and fits in well as Ram, he does laugh demanding comedy and decent sentiment. He manages to make the audience react how the makers want them to. The fight sequence and serious looks in the second half are sure to be praised. Sruthi Haasan’s character which doesn’t require great acting, is maneuvered well. She sheds great amount of tears towards the end for which her fans would pray that it must not have took many shots. Siva Karthikeyan who is present in the first one and a quarter chronological splits, did a wonderful job. With perfect punch lines, slap sticks and timely comments he wins high decibel applause and whistle. And Sundar fits in well as a loyal friend and does justice to his role.
The scenes which involve school and tuition are written well armed with perfect dialogues, to which many fall acknowledging the striking resemblance with their own lives. The son-dad conversations during hard turns in hero’s life though seems old, appears good and warm. Our heroine’s younger sister acts as one with hearing impairment. She does not speak owing to this. The kid did her part well, but the scene in which she suddenly starts speaking being under a heavy load of sentiment, looks a stunt and seems a bit childish. A doctor who is consulted by Sundar in the film seems to have acted a bit more than needed. The romance scenes between 12th grade students seem misleading. Some mostly the elders may not like the marriage scene in a discotheque, but its not much noticed under the cover of Anirudh's peppy music.
Every scene is crafted well and the music hugely supports it. But the film as a whole lacks some explanations which are loosely tried to explain. Overall this is a good attempt in all ways, with a message which though does not need hours to convey. Watching once is worth.
This one may win awards (for the acting or music) but not young children and parents’ thumbs up.
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