Director Ezhil takes the crux of Peter Segal’s 50 First Dates (2004), irons out the implausibility (everyday vs three years!) and dishes out an entertaining masala. Ravi and Bhavana are totally believable, while Yuvan’s tunes pitch in well too, though the background music hams. The only grouse is that Ezhil sticks to a conventional hero-worshipping template that seems to be the bane of recent Tamil movies. Its almost as if 50 first dates starts where Deepavali ends – for all the romanticism that we saw in the Adam Sandler – Drew Barrymore version, Ravi’s task begins just as the film ends!
Keywords: Deeppavali, Jayam Ravi, Bhavana, Vijay Kumar, Yuvan Shankar Raja
