![]() ![]() This last subplot is all that's needed - that’s the Kathirvelan has to end this animosity if he wants to marry Pavithra. Then there's the long-running feud between Kathirvelan’s brother-in-law and the latter’s neighbour, who happens to be Pavithra’s father (Jayaprakash). In a third subplot, we have Kathirvelan falling for Pavithra and discovering that she's in love with a cad - he has to prevent that union (because that’s what true love is, looking out for your “figure” even if she’s expressed zero interest in you). ![]() In another, Kathirvelan attempts to patch things up between his sister and her husband after they fight and she returns, crying, to her parents’ home. One of these subplots is about Kathirvelan’s estrangement with Mayilvahanan. And the rest of the narrative is filled with disposable subplots with mega-serial levels of melodrama. Situations, he settles for sometimes-funny one-liners by Santhanam (who plays Kathirvelan’s best buddy Mayilvahanan). The director of this film, SR Prabhakaran, seems to be after a similarly light-hearted romp, at the close of which Kathirvelan (Udhayanidhi Stalin) ends up with Pavithra (Nayantara). Galatta Kalyanam, which, forty-five years after its release, is still unparalleled in its fabrication of comic obstacles on the way to happily-ever-after. Idhu Kathirvelan Kadhal, I wondered if anyone attempting to make a romantic comedy these days should first be handed a DVD of ![]()
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