Pradeep Ranganathan’s ‘Love Today’, written and aimed at young adults and college peers, is mostly entertaining and achieves what she sets out to do, even at the cost of simplicity in writing and performance. But also.
Pradeep Ranganathan’s ‘Love Today’, written and aimed at young adults and college mates, is mostly entertaining and achieves what it sets out to do even in written and plain performances at the cost of it.
Have you ever really known anyone? Don’t we all have a side that we’re always protecting from the outside? Trust is the foundation of any relationship; It is the DNA that binds a romantic relationship. But how much are you willing to trust? You can get to know your partner a little very Well. Nevertheless, the curiosity to know more is always there that sometimes it falls within the limits of false trust. In the age of smartphones, don’t we all fall prey to knowing? very little? This curiosity to know more takes the form of a dramatic plot in the story of Pradeep Ranganathan. love today. Although I would strongly argue that his short film on which this film is based was a better film.
We see a boy sucking the sweet juice of a mango in the opening scene, which ends with the boy planting the seeds, waiting to sprout into a full grown tree. It cuts video of a smartphone being manufactured in a lab before it arrives at the retail store. Now we see the smartphone lying in the store, yet to be picked up when a customer asks for it. The customer opens the selfie camera and only now we get to see the man’s face. I liked the idea behind setting up the ‘seed’ of love today, The man is Uthman Pradeep (Pradeep Ranganathan) and the smartphone is a gift to his girlfriend Nikita (Ivana).
love today
Cast: Pradeep Ranganathan, Ivana, Sathyaraj, Radhika Sarathkumar and Yogi Babu
Director: Pradeep Ranganathan
Story: A young couple takes a love test when they are asked to exchange their phones to find out their ‘real’ selves
The film moves on when Nikita’s father Venu Shastri (Satyaraj plays Cupid, but turns out to be a matchbreaker). Shastri gives his consent to the marriage only if he agrees to a test: to exchange his smartphone for a day. You get the flow of what happens. Old flames resurface and old wounds reopen. Like Pradeep’s first film komali, love today It is also enigmatic at the thought level. about I wrote In my review: ” komali There is a wacky idea that not only needs better writing, but better staging is also needed. The writing is uneven and it matches Pradeep’s simplistic way of extracting humor from simple things. ,
When it is running, that is, in the first half, love today Quite fun to watch and backed by an energetic score from Yuvan Shankar Raja. This film can be taken as an example of screenwriting that is devoid of any form, but is punctuated by a series of scenes that are so silly that you like them. Even in order to satisfy the consumers of these memes in the first place, the writing also comes across as a string of memes painstakingly collected and stitched together. But you can’t question all this. 2K Kids are loving it.
There is an inexplicable sense of plasticity in the idea of Uthman and Nikita’s romance; They talk and behave like strangers on Smule. Pradeep draws humor from awkward situations when he comes to know about juicy things he might have done in the past. Lies about some works, like Jayam Ravi and Revi. Most do not; Women are ridiculed for the sexual and non-sexual advancement they receive from men. When the role is reversed, it is presented as gethu, But that’s not all you should say – 2K Kids are enjoying it.
There are two spectacular moments that show the traits of a director over the top: one involves Yogi Babu and the other mirrors Uthman’s childhood as a boy, when he digs deeper with curiosity.
love today There is one film that comes from a place of convenience: Uthman and Nikita both have a past of their own. And yet, it seems they are beautifully sexless in them. Director Pradeep easily dodges this aspect of the relationship and the film suffers from its own naivety. Ok I get it. you don’t go in love today Hoping for answers to these questions, as long as its purpose – as a harmless comedy – has been served. but does he very much expectation? For a movie that claims to be about Today’s Relationships, you scratch your head wondering if there’s anything trendy. But you can’t complain – 2K Kids is kept entertained.
Love Today is playing in theaters