Dikkiloona Movie Review Rating: 3/5
Production: KJR Studios, Soldiers Factory Cast: Anagha Maruthora, Anand Raj Anand, Arun Alexander, Chitra Lakshmanan, Harbhajan Singh, Itis Prashanth, Motta Rajendran, Munish Kanth, Santhanam, Sha Rah, Shirin Kanchwala, Yogi Babu Direction: Karthik Yogi Screenplay: Karthik Yogi Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
Tbut even the screenplay looks written in a hurry. It lacks coherence at various places and this severely affects the engagement in the middle. There is a lot of predictability which also doesn’t help the film’s cause. The characters too could have been fleshed out better.
Apart from Santhanam, Munishkanth, Yogi Babu and Arun Alexander perform extraordinarily well. The female leads, perform decently well within the limited scope of their characters. The director has tried to convey a message at the end, which doesn’t go well with the theme of the film.
On the technical side, Yuvan Shankar Raja’s background score is the biggest plus of the film. The songs are peppy in nature, and the remix of Ilayaraja’s Paer Vetchalum from Michael Madana Kama Rajan is a earworm. The choreography of the song is also done well. The cinematography by Arvi and editing by Jomin are up to the mark.The Per Vechaalum song from the legendary Michael Madana Kama Rajan seems to be reused as some sort of a tribute. In this version too, a guy is carrying a piece of log to knock another man out. Maybe they should have instead thrown in four time-travelling Santhanams trying to get rid of one another? The original is rife with comical events accentuated by superb acting and brilliant choreography. This one too tries to be funny, but falls short.Director Karthik Yogi deserves an appreciation for taking up such a complex screenplay for this comedy drama, and has succeeded to present it well without much confusion. he director Karthik Yogi for coming up with an apt title for his film. It’s from a game that Babloo (Senthil) invented in Gentleman. When he tries to play ‘Dikkiloona’ (where you have to move backwards and collide another person’s butt with yours; if you know, you know) with Mani (Goundamani), he gets a kick in his rear. Yogi, in his film Dikkiloona, also talks about the ramifications of a guy who moves backwards… in time.
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Unfortunately, there’s little else to applaud about the film apart from its title. The setup is excellent for a madcap comedy: a man, who’s frustrated with his life (especially with his wife) gets an opportunity to go back in time to stop his marriage. The resultant absurdities and conflicts are supposed to spark, burst, and produce brilliant flashes like fireworks in the night sky. But they merely flicker like a tube light on low-voltage electricity.
Mani (Santhanam), who works as a lineman in the electricity board, causes an accident that gets a time machine working in 2027. The scientists developed it to prevent crimes. Mani, who probably thinks his marriage to Priya (Anagha LK) is a crime he committed upon himself, goes back seven years to stop it.
