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Director: Pandiyarajan Cast:Prabhu Deva, Meena, Sangeetha, Vivek, Manivannan, 'Kovai' Sarala
Doubles...
Pandiyarajan seems confused about how to handle Doubles.
The ultimate moral he has tried to convey through the movie is
that one must be faithful to one's wife. But he doesn't seem to be
clear on the story to convey it through, the tone to adopt or even
the character of the hero. So we get a movie with a one-line story
that is chockful of double entendres for the most part
but ends with an attempt at cheap sentiments.
Prabhu(Prabhu Deva) is the happy-go-lucky owner of a toy store.
He has all the vices like smoking and drinking but as far as
women are concerned, his policy is 'look but don't touch'.
He gets married to Meena(Meena) and loves her but his roving
eyes never really stop. Meena's friend Sangeetha(Sangeetha)
arrives to stay with her. Having had an encounter with Prabhu
in a bus, she is determined to unmask him for the womaniser he is.
With Prabhu Deva marrying Meena within a couple of
reels and Sangeetha not making an appearance until
the intermission, there is not much that happens in
the first half other than the playful interactions in Prabhu
Deva and Meena's marital life. But there
are a few indications that Pandiyarajan hasn't lost his comic
touch completely. The honeymoon scenes of Pandiyarajan and
Meena in the under-construction hotel are the funniest scenes
in the movie and a couple of 'kadi' jokes do
hit home. Meena's complaints to her parents about Prabhu Deva's
vices while they are immersed in the same, are also funny. But
most of the other jokes are vulgar and cheap.
The movie is nothing but a string of jokes put together.
The scenes are so disjoint that it looks like
Pandiyarajan's MO was to find a joke and then create a
situation to insert into the movie, regardless of whether it fitted
in or not. A prime example of this is Manivannan's encounter with a prostitute.
Until then, he shows no sign of straying but the need to introduce
a stale joke forces him to negotiate with a prostitute! Worse, the
scene is poorly presented and raises no laughs (in contrast, there
was a similar scene in Ennammaa Kannu,also involving Sarala, that was
very funny). Infact, all of the Manivannan-Sarala sequences would fall into
this category though a couple of them(like Sarala's dealing with his
cycle of drinking followed by a trip to the bathroom) are funny.
The movie is nothing but a string of jokes put together.
The scenes are so disjoint that it looks like Pandiyarajan's
MO was to find a joke and then create a situation to insert
into the movie, regardless of whether it fitted in or not.
A prime example of this is Manivannan's encounter with a prostitute.
Until then, he shows no sign of straying but the need to introduce
a stale joke forces him to negotiate with a prostitute! Worse,
the scene is poorly presented and raises no laughs (in contrast,
there was a similar scene in Ennammaa Kannu,also involving Sarala,
that was very funny). Infact, all of the Manivannan-Sarala sequences
would fall into this category though a couple of them(like Sarala's
dealing with his cycle of drinking
followed by a trip to the bathroom) are funny.
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