Saturday, April 09, 2022

Hey Sinamika

Starring:Dulquer Salmaan,Kajal Aggarwal,Aditi Rao Hydari.  An unhappy Mouna  (Aditi Rao) plots to divorce her talkative husband Yaazhan (Dulquer) , and asks therapist Malarvizhi (Kajal Aggarwal)  to woo him — but faces a dilemma when love blooms. It's the directorial debut of popular choreographer Brinda, like that  of Mani Ratnam (OK Kanmani) and Gautham Menon (Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa).

The movie opens with the hero sitting at a coffee shop located at the beachside. Heroine walks in they look at each other and are transfixed. (Dulquer Salmaan) plays a man secure in his skin. He doesn’t have any qualms about taking care of household chores as his highly-paid wife Mouna (Aditi Rao Hydari) takes care of the bills. In one scene, Yaazhan is comfortable going to a wedding in his wife’s dress and holding her handbag.  Mouna claims she is tired of Yaazhan’s clinginess  and cannot fill the void of a companion in his life anymore.  She goes to her neighbour to seek help, who has helped many couples break their marriage. Malarvizhi tries to understand Yaazhan's likes, and start meeting him gradually. They become good friends. 

Yaazhan's interest being cooking and talking, Mouna finds him a job of RJ - where he excels, and gets a better offer from Chennai. In the beginning of the movie, they move to Pondicherry - where colleagues argue, that he needs to be in Pondi, as he s recently divorced and liquor is cheaper in Pondi. Before moving, he gets to know that Mouna wanted him to be away, hurt, he decides not to return, untill she calls. But then she drops by on buying his own car, but end up giving lift to Malarvizhi and not Mouna. When they meet - Malarvizhi tells Mouna, how meeting Yaazhan broke her myth of all men being bad. She too decides to go to chennai. AS RJ - Yaazhan is trying to unveil false claims of fraudsters, first of a sadhu, and next the plan was a Psychologist - that turns out to be Malarvizhi, and he realises the prank of Mouna and love of Malarvizhi. 

He decides to quit his job, and divorce Mouna. Before departure - he ask last question to his audience - if he should divorce Mouna or not - and most say to leave Mouna. What happens next is the climax - I should not give away everything, right?


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