Produced by –Dream Warrior Pictures
Written and Wielded by-Sree Karthik
Cast- Sharwanand, Amala, Nasser, Sathish, Ramesh Tilak, Yog Japee etc
Censor Rating-U
Running Time-154 Minutes
Rating-***1/2
Life is certainly a limited period offer and it neither gives any guarantee for living forever nor does it offers any promise of fulfilment whatsoever the reasons are!
Assume a situation where an aspiring musician, Aadhi (Sarvanand) who lost his Mom (Amala Akkineni) through a car accident is thrown an opportunity to get back in time, travel to the past, meet his Mom, prevent the accident from happening, so on and so forth!
This is exactly the premise of the plot of Kanam (Oke Oka Jeevitham in Telugu) conceived and crafted by Sree Karthi who has experimented with rather an unusual combo of a sci-fi with mother sentiment that deliberates on the emotional attachment between a mom and her non!
The point to be pondered in this context is –it is but ethical not to let the characters which undergo Time Travel, especially into the past, to ‘meddle’ with the characters of that time frame, in particular, when those characters see themselves in the past!
R. Ravi Kumar’s Indru Netru Naalai (2015) stuck to that ‘postulate’ in full whereas Vikram Kumar’s 24 (2016) deviated from that postulate and started changing the past after having travelled from the present with a view to start afresh!
The logic behind sticking strictly to this postulate is that once an individual who undergoes time travel exercises the option of making changes so that it is more convenient and advantageous, then it becomes a never ending story and the process has to be continued to be implemented forever!
Moreover, the objectivity of human creations by the powers that be (God or otherwise!) may take a severe beating if humans exercise and execute such changes that would find their favour as it may eventually prove unfavourable to few others and the overall balance of human life in this world would topple!
Filmmakers do have the choice to take cinematic liberties while toying with their scripts and this is a classic case that is suggestive of altering the past through time travel and adjust the present, accordingly, to their whims and fantasies!
As the narration unfolds following a noteworthy start, Aadhi is approached by a Quantum Physicist (a scientist, to be simple!), Rangi Kuttapaul (Nasser) whose experiment with time travel 2 decades earlier had ended as a flop show as he couldn’t facilitate his partner Michael (Yog Japee) to undergo the time travel.
Rangi sends Aadhi accompanied by two of his friends-Kathir (Sathish) who is desperate to get knotted and Pandi (Ramesh Tilak), a not so successful house-broker! The rest of the narration is about their experiences from the present to the past in their respective attempts to change it all from their respective perceptive!
The film has a good number of noteworthy moments with respect to the period setting, the Nirma ad, to quote!
Last seen in M.Saravanan’s Engeyum Eppodhum (2011) successfully and not so successfully in Cheran’s JK Enum Nanbani Vaazhkai (2015), Sharvanand scores reasonably well with adequate support from both Sathish and Ramesh Tilak.
Ritu Varma suffers from want of sufficient scope.
Nasser is in his usual elements while Yog Japee maintains his moron image!
Amala as the Mom bears hardly any resemblance to her radiating presence in films as Mappillai with Rajni and Sathya with Kamal!
Sree Karthik deserves kudos for the novelty in his thought process that blends elements of a science fiction with human emotions!
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