Coming together after four years, with chartbusting music and amidst a lot of hype, Selva and Dhanush try to capture your attention to an extent. I believe its the latter who finally succeeded.

“Mayakkam Enna” is a worth-seeing picture which might not be liked by a majority of Indian audience (who still need to grow up to a movie like this). Its not a path breaking movie like many of Selva’s earlier attempts  but its definitely a decent effort. The problem is that we tend to expect something extraordinary from a director like Selva (just like we did with A R Murugdoss unfortunately).

Mayakkam Enna is a story of Karthick (Dhanush) who is an aspiring photographer and Yamini (Richa), and his friends for the first half. Yamini is introduced as the girlfriend of Sundar(Sundar) , a friend of Karthick. The lead starts off with some tussles eventually turning into a forbidden love. Even though it begins as a love triangle (clichéd) story eventually it takes a deeper dive into the emotions of human kind post interval. These post interval scenes are the strong points as well as the weak ones for the movie. The narration takes through the journey of Karthick in his quest of success (in photography) in his life and how Yamini stands a strong support in his rough times. It ends with a clichéd climax ( I didn’t expect this from you Selva

The lead pair is a revelation in the acting department. Dhanush gets gelled well into the character that we at times forget he is just acting (but sometimes it reminds us of his older acts too). Richa is the actual protagonist in this movie. I’d say that it was Richa who blew me off with her expressions more than Dhanush. The supporting characters are where Selva seemed to have gone wrong. While some were really good others didn’t just grab my attention.

The storyline is good but it has been stretched to an extent that it tires us after a point. This could have been easily narrated in less than an hour. Dialogues seemed forced at places and are not spontaneous at all (The artists take their own time in speaking their dialogues). Some songs are misplaced and others seem forcibly added. Kadhal En kadhal was a disappointment on screen. Voda voda was creative but falls short coz of bad CG. This reminds me of how much I hate Selva’s newfound habit( a bad one too) of using unnecessary CG (computer graphics) – note: amateurish – in many a scenes.

On the whole, not a bad movie, but considering the hype and buzz that it created before its release, and track history of Selva-Dhanush, I expected more ( ps: a lot more). Watch it for the lead pair’s acting nothing else.