Miss You Review – A Costly Miss for a Cultivable Content!
Miss You Review – A Costly Miss for a Cultivable Content!
Miss You Review – A Costly Miss for a Cultivable Content!
Ashwin Ram
Miss You is a romantic drama starring Siddharth and Ashika Ranganath in the lead roles. Directed by N.Rajasekar of Kalathil Sandhippom fame.
Premise:
Siddharth has no memory of his recent past after a road accident. He meets Ashika Ranganath and falls in love with her. When he proposes to her, he gets to know that they both were a thing before, what happens after that forms the crux of the story.
Writing/ Direction:
The starting and ending of the film is coherently linked. There is a valuable story with convincing character arcs for the leading pair. The last 10 minutes is genuinely good as the curiosity whether Siddharth and Ashika Ranganath are going to reunite or not is very alive. But the basement of the bridge is built extremely weak that the majority of the film is notorious. Siddharth losing memory feels irrelevant even when the big reveal is made at the interval point, yet the climax changes it all. With such a worthy core idea, the route to reach the point is disappointingly dull. The co-incidences showcase some lazy writing, Karunakaran’s character who acts as the bridge is introduced in a lame manner. The plot twist at the interval is so predictable at the very first instance, dragging out that part failed miserably, the flashback also has many age-old scenes to kill time. For us to feel happy for a reunion, the breakup needs to be impactful, for which the key is to display reasonable situations that resonate with the audience. The factor is a big blow here, most of the crucial scenes between the couple are so childish and generic, they never fit well for the cinematic language. Hence the flat impact, also the whole politician angle is hard to buy and the action payoff is a needless one.
Performances:
Siddharth does a tidy job, his act improvises the evolution of his character, one drawback is that he struggles to dance and unfortunately there are a couple of numbers that demands him to be gracious. Neat work by Ashika Ranganath in terms of keeping things subtle that goes well with the core of her role, sadly the lip-sync goes for a toss. Maaran entertains with his one-line counter comedy timing punches. But Karunakaran and Bala Saravanan fail to evoke laughter, the film could have been more engaging if they had contributed better.
Technicalities:
Unexpectedly horrible music by Ghibran, he has completely gone out of the meter the film seeks. Very bad songs with lyrics being the biggest letdown, the background score is as amateurish as it can be, to the low level where the situation is musically presented through vocals. The visuals are overall decent, but the poor production quality is evident when even some simple road travel sequences are opted to be shot on green mat with faulty VFX output. Excessive lags in many scenes especially in the first half, the editor could have concentrated more on trimming those needless extras.
Bottomline
The intended plot is neatly laid that has its basics right, the development backfires that is filled with silly situations with old-school treatment. Maaran’s humor is the saving grace in this flick that misses to captivate the feel-good emotions.
Rating – 2.25/ 5
