Can a film survive on hype alone without a proper script? That’s a question that comes to mind after watching Enna Satham Indha Neram, a film that grabbed headlines as being the first Indian film to feature quadruplets.
With a title that piques your curiosity, Enna Satham Indha Neram, touted as an emotional thriller, fails to live up to expectations.
Four children with hearing and speech difficulties get lost in a zoo while on a school excursion. As their teacher searches for them frantically, the zoo watchman informs her that a huge snake has gone missing from the cage. With this basic plot, the story could have grown into an interesting thriller, but director Guru Ramesh got lost in the idea itself.
How do you expect viewers to react when, as the anxious search for the kids goes on, they are interrupted by silly scenes? Zoo keeper Kathir (Nithin Sathya) comes up with comedy lines at the most inappropriate times and they do nothing to tickle your funny bone. As if that was not enough, you have comedian Mano Bala and his friend, dressed outrageously, (for laughs supposedly) who are petty thieves in this story and are planning to kidnap the quadruplets. Their jokes fall flat on their faces. Probably, it has to do with the ready-made mould established for commercial stories in Tamil cinema which are dictated by the number of must-have comedy tracks.
The snake looks magnified but not in the least menacing, and viewers have the last laugh when it is put to sleep by a large dose of sleeping tablets. Completely lacking in conviction, Enna Satham Indha Neram makes a lot of noise but is a case of empty cans.
