Triples review: All of Tamil cinema can’t save this bummer of a web series The biggest shame with Triples is that it had potential. A sharper commentary on the world and a cleverer dialogue writer could have made Triples an absolute delight of a show. Ranjani Krishnakumar December 14, 2020 14:05:12 IST
Language: Tamil
It is not uncommon among Tamil filmmakers in general, and the Karthik Subbaraj production house in particular, to want to pay homage to the past.
Triples chooses Crazy Mohan’s oeuvre. Ram, played by a surprisingly adept Jai, is on the verge of marrying Mythili (Madhuri MJ), after a heart-breaking divorce from Meera (Vani Bhojan). Situation has it that Meera wants to reunite with Ram. His friends Cheenu (Rajkumar), Maadhu (Vivek Prasanna) and his wife Janaki (Namita Krishnamurthy) decide to play cupid.
Jai and Rajkumar in ‘Triples’
Writer Balaji Jayaraman and director Charukesh Sekar deserve credit for conjuring up quite a few funny situations, and the actors revel in them
The Crazy Mohan connection to ‘Triples’, which is playing on Disney + Hotstar VIP, is unmissable. The lead character is named Ram and there’s a girl called Mythili in the scheme of things. No, we weren’t thinking about ‘Panchathanthiram’.
Much later, the lead pair stealthily wanders around with a newspaper covering their faces. No, we weren’t thinking about ‘Michael Madana Kama Rajan’ at all.
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