KALOORI - FILM REVIEW

N.Thyagarajan


Director Balaji Sakthivel's Kalloori is no exception for emotional love and sentiments attached. It is about a group of school friends in a village in Madurai who join the same college and the emotion shared by them forms the crux of the story. A modern girl, (Tamanna) highly qualified also join in the bandwagon of the village friends. The film is bereft of comedy but it revolves around the story that happens inside the campus of the college. The film is catapulted to the success ladder with the matured performances of the new entrants as actors in weighty roles. Even small characters like hero's sister, moslem girl who lost her father, and the hero who though not making friendship with the idea of loving the girl, and incourse of thick friendship, there is every chance that friends become husbands and wives are shown beautifully in the film. Balaji has pinpointedly had shown where the neck of the bottle for love and intercaste marriages.
However, it is sad on the part of the producer to remind the Dharmapuri bus burning incident in this film, has given restlessness while the film was viewed. Aftermath there was no sympathy for the Tamanna who dies in the bus burining incident and the story there stops with the pledge taking ceremony of other students including the fellow who loved her.
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Newcomers Akhil, Hemalatha, Balamurugan and Tamanna had essayed their roles with credibility. Being newcomers, the lead characters do not carry an image tag with them. They simply live the characters. Hemalatha as Kayal stands out.
Muthu (Akhil), an aspiring athlete, along with his school friends Kayal (Hemalatha), Ramesh (Balamurugan) and few others join Government Arts College. The new entrant to their gang is Shobana (Tamanna), who hails from a rich family. The friends help each other during times of crisis and live a happy life until Shobana develops a soft corner towards Muthu.
Totally, though the film portrays the true friendships of the college students, it never left our film producers, that once a close friend might be a life partner. But, unfortunately, the heroine dies even before she comes out of her mind the love she has for Muthu.
Muthu too loves her but he is an unlucky fellow to marry the white skinned Tamanna.