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‘Irugapatru’ movie review: A flawed but heartfelt drama with impressive performances

‘Irugapatru’ movie review: A flawed but heartfelt drama with impressive performances

The Hindu
Friday, October 6, 2023 9:49 AM GMT

Yuvaraj Dhayalan’s trio of interconnected trouble-in-paradise stories are flawed but admirable and are helped largely by performances from Shraddha Srinath, Vidharth and Sri

The proverbial saying that likens relationships to a string which snaps when strung too tight, but needs more than a feather-like touch might now seem clichéd. Such sayings are popular for how they tend to come back to your life with a renewed meaning; a fresh understanding that was previously lost in its simplicity.

Yuvaraj Dhayalan’s film Irugapatru (Hold Tight) feels like one such quote that tells us something universal, and gives the comfort of familiarity with a teeny bit more. The film takes the cases of three couples — conveniently from different age groups and economic backgrounds — with characters that are emotionally just where they need to be, for Yuvaraj to make his points and do a balancing act of sorts. The screenplay walks a tight rope with scenes from each of the three stories sequenced progressively.

For IT professional Rangesh (Vidharth), his wife Pavithra’s (Abarnathi) weight gain post-childbirth is a serious problem. He abhors the sight of his wife lying beside him, and since they have a nanny/maid, her laziness and overeating needs to be ‘blamed’. But what lies underneath all that, within the walls of their humble world, is a painful issue you might see in relationships all around you.

Arjun (Sri) and Divya (Saniya Iyappan) are a 20-something couple conflicted with each other’s differences in lifestyle, expression and love languages. Arjun struggles to wrap his head around his wife’s ‘falling out of love’ with him, while Divya is petrified to even come home to her husband, once the love of her life. Him losing his cool in an instant and her breakdowns are all symptoms of something that’s been going on for too long. 

So when it all comes crashing down, Arjun and Pavithra find their way to the clinic of Mithra Manohar (Shraddha Srinath), a marriage counsellor who calls a spade a spade, and imbues empathy in everything she says. She sends Arjun and Pavithra back to their worlds with a lot of pondering, but asks them to persuade their partners to attend a session as well; while Divya is ready to give it a try, how Rangesh is made to attend leaves you in splits.

But Mithra is a human, as imperfect as any of us, and so back home, we see a growing tightness at the heart of her husband Manohar (Vikram Prabhu) due to his wife’s constant ‘therapizing’ of him. Mithra holds her relationship with an iron fist, not letting even the tiniest of problems go unattended and conducts a weekly ‘honesty hour’ with her partner to boot. Manohar wishes his relationship was much simpler and easier, in which couples do as they like and fight if they want to. Now, does it all seem like its the men pointing fingers at women? Let’s come to that later.

Firstly, how Yuvaraj brings humour to the mix works largely (of course barring the jabs at the expense of a woman’s body). For instance, in the beginning, Arjun-Divya’s story is told as one with no space for comedy, but when we dig deeper into the other two, we find late comedian Manobala in a cameo as Arjun’s boss. This matters as Yuvaraj’s screenplay technique pays off, every character gets their fair share, and you see the earnestness throughout the film.

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