MOJITO

This is not a review.

Nadodigal is yet another movie about friendship. In fact, it goes a level above to say that even a friend's friend is a friend. The story is about 3 friends(Sasikumar, one guy from Ch-28, one guy from Kalloori) and the problems they face after helping the hero's friend to marry his girlfriend. As expected, in many scenes, someone explains what is friendship and what is not friendship blah blah. But, those didn't seem forceful only in some places. The entire sequence before the interval when Sasikumar's friend's girlfriend is kidnapped was very good. Overall, the movie is worth a watch.(I will save you the burden. The word "*friend*" comes 11 times in the paragraph)

Talking about portrayal of friendship in Tamil movies, it is always exaggerated or more cinematic. At the moment i can remember only 2 films which showed friendship in a likable and convincing way for me. One is Chennai-600028. The best part about Ch-28 is, the movie itself is about a gang of friends, but at no point it gets preachy with dialogues like "natpu romba punithamaanathu, friendship'na ennanu theriyuma?? velakkennainaa ennanu theriyuma??, " kind of dialogues. Ch-28 shows friends the way they go about it in real life. For me, Ch-28 is the most realistic movie i have seen for a long time. It is a classic in its own way.

Second movie is Thalabathy. Whatever i listed as unconvincing exists in this movie. Yes, it has exaggerated dialogues about friendship, too cinematic. So, what???? I like everything about this movie. But then, do you really need a reason to like this movie. And, about the lead actors, don't even get there,. the post is already long.