Sakkarakatti - Movie Review

V Creations Sakkarakatti has got lot of surprises for the viewer.

First Surprise : After completing film studies in the US how did the debutant director Kalaprabhu chose this story as his first film

Second : How did Bhagyaraj and Dhanu zero in on this script as a launch pad for their kids

Third : First 50 mins into the film comes Interval with two songs in it and the second half which is also for 50 mins has got four songs.

On the whole a movie with 100 mins (1 hour and 40 mins) running time out of which the 6 songs occupy close to 30 mins and the rest 70 mins is what the movie is all about.

The movie begins with Yuvraj called as “Raj” (Shantanoo) who is about to join college with a group of four friends begin their go happy life. As the “Elay” song comes to an end we hear in the background the voice of the hero that the jolliness in their life is to be disturbed by love. And in the next scene we see Deepali (Ishita) get down from her car and the hero immediately has the “love at first sight” feelings and with thoughts of her all over his mind goes home and knocks at his house when we get introduced to Reema (Vedhika) who happens to be the relative of Raj and they have come from coimbatore to chennai for Reema to do her college.

All three Raj, Deepali and Reema go to the same college and with in few scenes the lead Raj and Deepali express their love towards each other and immediately the song “Chinnama” plays on where the hero and heroine jump from one building to another with a group of graphic mummies also following them. When all these things go smoothly and we expect some twist in the story, Reema who wants to talk with Raj in a coffee shop (They go to Marrybrown to have a coffee!!!) and tells him that she is in love with him though she admits knowing that he and Deepali are in love. Raj convinces her and when they part Reema gives him a rose and a hug which is seen by Deepali and thinks that she is been cheated.

Minutes later the audience in the theatre are in for a big surprise when “Interval” appears so soon.

Post Interval Raj convinces Deepali that he truly loves her and she also gets convinced that he is not a cheat and immediately she visits Raj's home and finds Reema there with Raj's mother where she comes to know that they are both related. Its surprising to find that when the son is in first year of college the mother tells to a girl who comes to visit him to go to his bedroom!!! and find him there. And after the usual lovely dialogues she again comes back to see Reema in Raj's Hand.

When we get bored of the same sequences again and again the director decides its time to finish the movie as his 100 mins deadline is coming to a close we find some silly scenes which the director thinks would be apt for the ending and finishes the movie.

Shantanoo in his debut films fails to perform as he remains stiff in most of the scenes and newcomer Ishita also fails to perform. The only performer to a certain extent is Vedhika who comes for 7 to 8 scenes in the movie.

The movie has got good songs by A.R.Rahman and except for the “Taxi Taxi” song all other songs picturization with lots of amateur graphics or sans graphics is a big disappointment.

The Hero and Director who wanted to know the reaction of the audience were present for the first day first show at Sathyam Cinemas must have known at the end of the show what would be the fate of their debut product.