Cuckoo – Movie Review

Cast : Attakathi Dinesh, Malavika Nair, Murugadoss & Others

Cinematography : PK Varma

Editing : Shanmugam Velusamy

Music : Santhosh Narayanan

Written & Directed by : Raju Murugan

Produced by : Fox Star Studios & The Next Big Film

Movie Run Time : 1st half – 1hr 22mins (82mins) ; 2nd half – 1hr 20mins (80mins) ; Total: 2hrs 42mins (162mins)

Movie Release Date : 21-03-2014

Film crafting is always an art, to script a plot is bursting out emotion and to direct the script is pure guts, if this is fact then writer/director Raju Murugan has made the emotions to travel through the audience getting the reward with the claps and pinching the tear glands by getting output from all the cast and crew.

Cuckoo is total emotion of fear, friendship and sense of touch adding with the tender of love. Its the complete travel of Tamil and Kodi two people seeing the dark side of life with the blindness. Keeping the pace slow with the narrations the director gets enough time to induce the pain into the audience. The lead cast done by Attakathi Dinesh, Malavika Nair along with Murugadoss, Ilango (character name) and with many new faces. The first half starts with Raju Murugan seeing a poster mentioning an advertisement to find the missing people in the railway station which has Dinesh as the missing victim. Then the flash back starts with Raju Murugan detailing how he met Dinesh and narrates the lifestyle of visually challenged people and their daily earnings in the local trains. We as a normal people would have come across so many people in our lives but wouldn’t have imagined their life and the pain that they carry in their daily activities.

Malavika Nair as Sudandhira Kodi has done it the hard way and she comes from a normal family searching the proper guidance from her brother who never fulfills her ambition but instead plans to get the living using her deficiency of sight. But Malavika gets the love of her life from Dinesh who is also visually challenged by birth. They travel with love in belief that life will bring all happiness, meanwhile Malavika’s brother looks in for alliance who wishes to pay him money in return to get married to the actress. With the opposition and fear of what happened to the Dinesh and Malavika ends the first half.

Raju Murugan finds Dinesh in a railway station and deciding to help him all the ways gets to know what happened to Kodi who was last seen when Dinesh went missing. The second half is the complete show of performance from the hero and being visually challenged, how he find Kodi what happens next is narrated in the cinematic & emotional manner is all that cuckoo silently tells the audience. The climax is beautifully crafted with making the audience to keep lashes widely open. The director won in his narration with making use of all the cast quite appropriate to what the script really required. All the artist touches the audience with their performance with Murugadoss being the only person who looks familiar has done it well being a care-taker and friend of Dinesh. He also gets the audience to giggle at times with his realistic dialogues. Santhosh Narayan can split his hand open to collect all the wishes and applause with his immense touch of music scores and BGM. Cinematographer PK Varma has kept the lens close enough to get the sight of performance from the casts and it certainly needs applause from the audience.

Not to forget, Maestro Ilayaraja is still carrying all the credits that youngsters need to express their love with his explicit music. Dinesh in this flick also takes the chance to earn and shows his love with the definition of music from the legend.