Decades before, Visu’s Manal Kayiru, where the young educated man is chiselled by the girl’s family pretending to be a literate was appreciated with huge critical acclaims and still the film remains to be an evergreen entertainer. Closely based on the same theme, filmmaker LG Ravichandar draws a theme of education and Sidha medicine in Aindhaam Thalaimurai Sidha Vaidhiya Sigamani that marks the 25th film of Bharath. Nandita plays the female lead and others in the cast include, Thambi Ramaiah, MS Bhaskar, Karunakaran and many others.
Sigamani (Bharath) has never been to school from his childhood from the time his father (Kadhal Dandapani) had enounced that his son needn’t be beaten by teachers. After many years, he is an ineligible bachelor well versed in Sidha medicine, but not educated. He desires to marry an educated women and so his mother (Renuka). Sigamani decides to pretend himself as a doctor to Nandini (Nandita) and her father (Thambi Ramaiah) gets them married. But as everything seems to be picture perfect, there is a twist offered during the point of intermission.
Bharath has done what is required by his role for the script. There are some instances in the script, where he completely looks with the same image of Em Magan. His dancing skills, performance and humour sense are excellent and exert the best in action sequences as well. Nandita has a neat appearance and as usual dubbing with her own voice makes her role more convincing. She didn’t have a major scope for dance so far, but has done a neat job here. But Thambi Ramaiah keeps yelling throughout the film and he is too loud for the audience to enjoy his humour. Karunakaran does his part well and so are the actors.
While the theme of this film is appreciable, the same credits doesn’t belong to LG Ravichandar for his screenplay is unconvincing. One cannot expect the logic to fall right in places with commercial movies, but things aren’t so convincing here. How could a doctor in Siddha be so illiterate that he doesn’t even know to count the currency notes? This is too odd and unbelievable. There are so many actors in the film, but the director fails to employ a proper screenplay with scenes having them together. A complete disappointment to see them wasted. Musical score by Simon is okay and the songs are very well choreographed.
On the whole, Aindhaam Thalaimurai Sidha Vaidhiya Sigamani is a passable show that might impress single screen audiences, but when with such a good casting, the director could have turned this film into a huge comedy caper with his writing skills.
Verdict: This medicate treatment comes with less dosage of laughter.