Love is blind but marriage gives you sight! 10 contemporary tales of marriage that are based in different parts of Tamil Nadu. These 10 tales bring to life various characters with diverse age groups, economic backgrounds, locations etc. What unifies them is their desperation to get married for their own reasons. With a satirical approach, each story is bound to make you laugh your guts out but leave you wondering about the institution of marriage.

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Critic's Rating: 3.5/5

Synopsis: A girl trying to land a job in the IT industry and a gangster’s underling are neighbours. They gradually become friends. How long before they become lovers?

Review: An educated girl falling for a ruffian has become such a cliché today that we have even stopped rolling our eyes when this happens in a Tamil film nowadays. But with Kadhalum Kadanthu Pogum, Nalan Kumarasamy shows that in the right hands even a cliché can feel fresh and new. The film is a remake of Kim Kwang-sik’s 2010 Korean film My Dear Desperado. In fact, that film’s alternate title, Gangster Lover, is such a blatant description of its plot. But Nalan has localised the story (with quirky humor that is unmistakably his) so wonderfully that right from the initial scene, when we see Yazhini (Madonna) explain how she ‘ran away’ from home, we are in Tamil cinema terrain.

She is an engineering graduate (as she puts it in a later scene, who in Tamil Nadu isn’t?) who has come to Chennai from her small town Vilupuram in the hope of standing on her own. For a while, her dream seems to have come true. She gets a job, and does things that a single girl in the IT industry is expected to do. Until, one day, when this dream turns into nightmare. Her company closes down, and she becomes one of the innumerable job hunters in the IT industry. And the fact that she has studied in a namesake engineering college and her lack of experience ensure that she cannot land one soon. But she is too proud to go back to Vilupuram and admit defeat even if it means she has to downgrade her life from living in an apartment to living in a housing colony.