‘Parandu Sella Vaa’ is Director Dhanapal Padmanabhan’s second film after ‘Krishnaveni Panjaalai’ that released in 2012. It is also the first for actor Nasser’s son Luthfudeen as a hero. Will the film help them cement a strong footlhold in Tinsel town? Check out the review:

Sampath (Luthfudeen) , a flirt, goes to Singapore for job and stays with his friend Mani (Sathish) in an apartment shared by a few other people.

Sampath’s apartment mates keep on teasing him for his inability to win a girl’s heart. On his request, Sampath’s friend Mark (RJ Balaji) creates a fake Facebook profile of a Chinese girl Mini Yuvaan (Narella Kheng) and starts updating feeds expressing love for Sampth under her name. The plan works out as others start believing that Mini is the lover of Sampath.

At this time Sampath meets Madhavi,as their parents have forged a wedding alliance between them. The duo start liking each other.

When things look smooth, Mini enters Sampath’s life and she is head over heals in love with him.

What happens next? Who does Sampath end up marrying?

The storyline - a flirt yearning for a relationship with the opposite sex gets into a soup when he gets it from more than one person- is pretty intresting. Though the basic plot is the age old triangular love, it has been packaged with the flossy ingredients such Singapore locations and lifestyle of well settled men and women, which is new to Tamil audience. Peyon’s dialogues come in handy in effectively capturing this aspect.

The characterisation of the liberal divorced woman (Suganya) roommate of Sampath who really cares for the young guy, deserves a special mention. Seeing such a subtle relationship between a elder woman and a young man - that is devoid of sentiment, love and sex - being handled in a Tamil film gives a pleasant feeling. Even Aishwarya Rajesh’s perspective about love and marriage are something that we won’t get too see in a Tamil film heroine.

But these are not enough to sustain the attention of the audience throughout the film. Dhanapal has failed to load the script with interesting incidents and engaging factors. Despite the presence of RJ Balaji, Sathish and Karunakaran, the real laugh evoking moments are too far and few. The side-track of a a media company ‘snooping’ Sampath and his apartment mates doesn’t serve any valid purpose in the script. The placement of songs just add up to the woes of already tedious narration.

Luthfudeen is okayish for a new hero. But there is no big challenge for him in terms of histronics. Aishwarya Rajesh looks stunning in urbane costumes which also suit her like T, and for the performer she is, this role is just a cakewalk. Narella Kheng is a promising find as she impresses with her looks as well as performance. But the idea of portraying her as a Tamil speaking girl causes severe botheration due to lip-sync issues. RJ Balaji and Sathish raise a few guffaws here and there. Anandhi (as Sathish’s girl friend), Joe Malloori and Suganya as the hero’s apartment mates fit the bill.

Joshua Sridhar’s songs lack recall value while re-recording is adequate. ‘Nammavooru Singari’ from the 1979 K.Balachander classic ‘Ninaithaley Inikkum’ has been re-used with proper credits to Kannadasan and M.S.Viswanathan.

Cinematographers Vijayakumar and Prabhakaran have captured the beauty of Singapore with many top angle shots and it is a cynosure to the eyes.

Verdict: ‘Parandhu Sella Vaa’ is a flossy triangular romance flick that carries some appreciable liberal values. But as a film. it fails to adequately engage and entertain the viewer.