
With intelligence and logic going on a holiday, the second half would have been a punishing experience but for Dhanush. Also, which educated wife would not suspect that her husband might be suffering from a depression when he starts behaving abnormally? One feels that by letting an almost demented patient have his way, his friend was indirectly responsible for his suicide. Does the director expect us to wait to know what the disease is? There was no reason why Ram's friend (Sunder Ramu) should not have talked about Ram's condition to his father.

One knew that 3 was not a murder mystery, so the (informed) audience would easily grasp that there is a psychic side. It seemed a bit unwise for the writer to have revealed Ram's death in the beginning. The second half delineates the haranguing experiences Ram had before committed suicide unable to live with his serious mental disorder.ģ suffers from several weaknesses. However, least does Janani know everything about Ram. Ram and Janani marry even though their parents do not make peace with their decision. How many times do we get to see a film where the heroine can't stop herself from heading into a telephone booth to call her boy as soon as she lands in Tirupathi or where she clandestinely keeps some prasadam for her boy? The beauty, he says to his friend, is that even she loves him. While Janani longs for small joys like going on a ride with her boy, Ram goes all the way to Tirupathi where Janani's family has gone to pray, just to catch a glimpse of her eyes! Watch him in that classroom scene where he wonders at the way he has fallen in love like those heroes in films. "I will wait", he replies with a pleasant smile on his face. On the very day Ram (Dhanush) confesses his love, Janani (Shruti Haasan) warns him saying that her mother has been planning to shift base to the US and that he will have to suffer.

The first twenty minutes felt like watching the same old story nth time, but from that point, the film entices us with a sensible and sober saga of love.

Above all, 3 is Dhanush's one-man show - the actor walks away with one of the most intelligent acting performances by a South Indian hero in recent times.ĭirector Aishwarya's strength doesn't lie as much in frightening or moving us to tears as in weaving a beautiful romance drama. The second half is another film, a psychological thriller which scares us whenever it journeys into the dark chambers of Dhanush's dangerously unhealthy mind. The first half packs a realistic love track, full of the elements like love at first sight, slapping by parents, the girl showing more guts than her boy, et al, all dealt in a typical Tamil filmi style.
