Paayum Oli Nee Yenakku Movie Review: Vikram Prabhu’s thriller has nothing new to offer

Paayum Oli Nee Yenakku Movie Review: Paayum Oli Nee Yenakku has an interesting premise. A youngster with partial low-light blindness gets entangled in an issue that’s much bigger than he expected it to be. But that alone cannot help keep the viewers on the edge throughout, no? Solid turns of events and conflicts are a must for any film, especially action thrillers, and Vikram Prabhu’s film misses them all.

The writing is so ineffective, and there is not even one good moment that’s worth appreciating in the film.

Aravind (Vikram Prabhu) suffers from partial low-light blindness following an accident in his childhood. He runs a software company that helps protect sensitive data from cyberthreats and illegal hacking. Arvind happens to meet Uthra (Vani Bhojan), a wedding planner, who helps organise his sister’s wedding. The two start getting along well and even express their love for each other.

Things take a turn when Arvind’s father, his only source of strength, gets killed by a group. He now embarks on a dangerous journey to find the reason behind his father’s murder, and unravels some shocking truth that involves many big shots, including Jeevan (Dhanajaya), who was once the right hand of an influential politician. Can Aravind fight against them despite his health condition or fall prey to them?

Vikram Prabhu is shown as a protagonist who is suffering from partial blindness. But we really don’t understand why the director even created a character with such disorder when he does everything conveniently. He takes on the goons like every other normal hero; in fact, he does this like a trained fighter, and he’s brilliant enough to walk through comfortably even in a low-light atmosphere.

We are given a justification that he has been trained since childhood to lead a normal life like others without worrying much about his condition. But if all the conflicts are easy for him to surpass despite the disorder, why even have it in the first place?

The romance between Vani Bhojan and Vikram Prabhu is better compared to the action sequences in the climax. Aravind, along with his friends, traps Jeevan and his gang in a forest with a few arrows and honeycomb. It’s an idea that might have worked in the 1980s.

We cannot relate to any of the main characters in the film or their plight. Both Vikram Prabhu and Vani Bhojan deliver decent performances, but with a weak narrative, they can’t help the film in any way. The promising initial set-up makes us believe that we are in for an intense thriller, but within half-an-hour into the film, things fall apart.