Enakku 20 Unakku 18
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Tarun, Trisha, Shreya, Archana pooran singh, Vivek, Devasarshini.
Director: Jothi Krishna
 They meet in the train. They are reading the same book by Erich Sehgal. They’ve got the same message - about finding their life partner - in the card from the weighing machine. They drop their cards down at the same time, heads clashing when they bend to pick it up. He’s thirsty, she hands over her bottle. She gets the hiccups, and he gets down at the station to fill his bottle. By the time they realize that they share something more than the book-card-water-, it’s destination time!
And then it’s the searching for each other, and the narrow misses. She stays in a house just behind his, interacts with his family, and even saves his mother’s life. But of course the guy is oblivious of all this, the duo still continuing the search for each other. But mercifully it has to end at one time, and they do encounter each other. But now it’s the misunderstanding that crops up, each believing the other doesn’t care. Finally of course everything is sorted out!
The first half is colourful and lively, the takings slick, and stylish, though there’s a sense of Déjà vu throughout. But in the second half the script meanders, loses focus, is disjointed, straying to the mother – sister sentiment. This is Tharun's second Tamil film as hero and he has acquitted in film creditably.
Trisha has been projected extremely well, her chic dresses suiting her trim figure. Cute Shreya, in her first Tamil film, is there for more adornment, her role of the new coach for the boys football team, not convincing one bit! Vivek does pep up the narration to some extent.
Rehman’s music is a let down, though a couple of songs have been
picturised well, like the one at Venice, Ganesh’s camera a plus point. Finally, how many more times should the audience be subjected to watch the same theme and similar situations, of love, separation and narrow misses? ‘U 20 me 18’ is one more on the list of nearly a handful of such films released recently. But to debutant Jothi kirshna’s credit (its his home production) it should be mentioned that he’s begun the film nearly two years back, much before the rest of them got down to it.
Malini Mannath
Published on 16th Dec, 2003
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