Parandu Po - Movie Review

Movie         : Parandu Po 

Language  : Tamil

Duration   : 2 hours, 20 min

Year            : 2025

Actors        : Shiva, Grace Antony, Mithul

Mithul as Anbu is a stunning act in the movie. Loved the boy!  Shiva and Grace Antony were good and put lots of effort to keep the subtle plot balanced.

However, I truly felt, the script needs a lot more depth, a lot more emotions, a little more substance and focus on finer details. I probably expected much more from the movie and came out a little disappointed. What made me feel so is below.

1. Most of the scenes in the movie are phone based (calls, video calls, whatsapp chats) and after a while it becomes heavy for the audience to bear it when most of us are trying to keep it away at least during movie time

2. There is a little too much of chase. We can understand chasing once of twice but when the entire movie is about father chasing son, then it moves away from realism. It does bring some comedy, but not to the extend to defend all those chases!

3. The financial struggle from which all the chase starts and which the family continues to struggle with goes unanswered at the end

4. The repeated false and careless promises (on smoking especially) which we see throughout makes the promise the duo make at the end of the movie shallow. We need not have to necessarily consider it as true promise!

5. The boy is taken through two extremes - the village life and the other rich extravagant life style. What it teaches the boy is a question! How he can chose from those two? It confuses the audience as well. Why the rich life style was needed in the plot? It should have been restricted to village life alone which would have made much more sense to the overall flow of the script - that the boy wants to get connected with Nature

6. While the setting of the village life and characters are done well, the finer aspects are found missing. As an example, the costumes used by the character Vanitha is not suited for the village life and the surroundings. It should have been more down to earth.

And it can go on and on. Wished the movie could have been much  brighter, tighter and lighter for the sake of the good plot and the wonderful Anbu!