Kargil movie review: After a point, the film becomes monotonous

Director: Shivaani Senthil

Cast: Jishnu Menon, Prerna Sadani

Debutant Shivaani Senthil’s film Kargil, boasts of first of its kind in Tamil cinema, which has only a single character throughout. But, films with a single character are not new to K’town. We have seen this attempt with a Jai Akash movie a few years ago. And again Kargil starts with a romantic song where the lead lady Prerna Sadani is featured along with the hero Jishnu Menon, though the former disappears from the scene later.

The title has nothing to do with war. Here Kargil actually is the war between two hearts. The entire story unfolds in a car where Arjun (Jishnu Menon) travels from Chennai to Bengaluru to attend an interview for a US project. Small conflict occurs between Arjun and his love Maha, which grows more and more with added problems from his boss, ex girl friend Sindhu and a local guy Beep Sahayam. And all these conflicts and conversations are through a stream of continuous phone calls. We hear only their voices.

Though you need a big hero with an amazing screen presence to make such a genre to work, credit has to be given to newcomer Jishnu for pulling it off easily. His earnest attempts to engage the audiences are praise worthy. After a point, the film becomes monotonous. Shivaani’s idea is laudable, but had he concentrated on infusing few more interesting elements, it would have made the right impact. Ganesh Paramahamsa’s cinematography is good.