KARGIL MOVIE REVIEW




First thing first – a huge shout out to debutant director Sivaani Senthil for coming up with a film that shows on camera just one character, while the others (okay, the girlfriend was part of one song) are just voices. The concept is applause-worthy, but the execution?

The film opens with a song, and we are told that Arjun (Jishnu Menon) and Maha (Prarna Sathani) are madly in love and she asks him to pick up her father from Chennai airport the next noon and head to Bengaluru, where she will be meeting them all. While Arjun is all set to impress his prospective father-in-law, he is asked by Sindhu - his MD and boss’s live-in partner - to head to Bengaluru for the US project interview – which he failed the last time, but lied to Maha that he got through - by afternoon. Left with no choice, he asks his uncle to pick his could-be father-in-law up and sets off in his car. All could have been well, except that on his way, he gets numerous phone calls from his uncle, Maha, her father, Sindhu, a credit call salesperson and even a certain Beep Sagayam, that what began as a pleasant journey ends up frustrating not just him, but even us.

To watch a film in which there’s just one character in the frame could be tiresome, but Jishnu makes it a tad easier for us. His dialogue delivery is neat, and he genuinely looks irritated when his phone constantly rings and things start going wrong for him. While Maha’s character is shown to be a typical girlfriend, Sindhu’s voice adds a certain gravitas to the story. And the rest are just voices that drown in the background. Kudos to Sivaani for choosing an interesting concept to debut with, but he should really have spent some more time in fine-tuning the script. While the cinematographer Ganesh Paramahamsa gives us some great aerial shot of the highway, there really is nothing much that can add to the visual appeal. The message that one shouldn’t lie also looks like a forced fit. Kargil - because it’s a war/fight between lovers – is set on the Chennai-Bengaluru highway, and is one helluva long drive.

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