Is this some kind of a mid-career crisis? What has happened to Siddharth? Not too long ago, he was one of Tamil cinema bright spots. He chose his projects well, and he plunged into them judiciously.
Apart from Chittha all his recent films Mahasmudram, Takkar, Indian 2 have proven themselves boxoffice bummers.
Siddharth’s latest Miss You is an abomination. The writing is so ridiculous, I wonder what Siddharth was thinking while listening to the script. Or was he narrated one thing and did he shoot another? No rational actor would plunge into this trainwreck knowingly.
Every dramatic punctuation in the storytelling lands with a thud. I would hate to subject anyone to this experience unless he or she is keen to suffer for sins committed in the past life.
The film casts Siddharth, surprisingly lacklustre but then maybe not so surprisingly considering the script is a witless mess, as Vasu a man who keeps running into Subbulaxmi (Ashika Ranganath) in public places. They altercate, they growl at each other, they finally get married as the girl’s father has a cancerous tumour.
However the tumour just turns out to be rumour. Papa lives, the marriage dies… the ordeal ends? Far from it! There is much more to come from where that came from. In the second-half Vasu loses his memory and falls in love with the same woman he hated in the first half.
The screenplay groans under the weight of absurdities. Sample this: Vasu meets Bobby (Karunakaran) and decides to impulsively accompany his new best friend to Bengaluru. Who in his right mind who do something so foolish even in a corny potboiler which this one most assuredly is.
The film is cut with the bluntest of knives, with one episode hurtling into another without a moment of respite. While the principal performances are stilted to the point of being embarrassing, the supporting cast only adds to the cretinous chaos. Miss You is well worth missing.
