Jithin K Mohan This is the kind of film that gives the outlook of women empowering movie against social stigma like the trailers promised and maybe the makers even believed that, but the film is plagued with the patriarchal outlook of the men who made it that for the most part, it satisfies the usual stigma and works pretty much against any women empowering. Even though the problems exit a lot of valid points are raised and considering the general mellowing for the society at least those points will come across to those people rather than completely avoiding the film that goes against their beliefs. The plot is weird, the narration is weirder and the metaphorical indulgence was just trying too much and failing. Andrea was good as the lead and the best part of the film are probably the weird narration when it had nothing to do with the central plot of the film.

Arun George Ram's "Taramani" doesn't exactly have a new story to tell: in fact, it's the most told tale in the history of cinema..the depth of relationships between the male and the female gender. "Taramani" feels more like a series of incidents than a narrative with proper beginning and closure..but this is definitely in a good sense.Andrea plays an Anglo-Indian single mom who works as an HR manager in an I.T conglomerate while Vasanth Ravi (in his debut) plays a frustrated call-center employee with a rural background. Both performances are in good hands but Andrea has done a sensational job in portraying her character Althea in a highly-convincing manner. She is bold as hell, responds slyly to remarks made on her body, smokes, goes out partying, wears short skirts and does pretty much everything a typical Indian woman is not "expected" to do. Ravi's Prabhunath is a woman-hater primarily because he was dumped earlier (by Sowmya, played by Anjali in a guest appearance) by someone he put complete faith in. When these two contrasting personalities collide, the results are mighty exciting. Prabhunath's relationship with Althea's son Adrian is what initially binds them together but things soon get out-of- hand. Prabhu's misogynist side takes over and he starts to get overly suspicious of Althea's relationships with other men and questions her on several occasions, much to her dismay. These portions are written and acted well; the dialogues are especially good - a clear indication on how good an observer writer/director Ram is. Although the practicality of the proceedings remain dubious (such as Althea letting someone move in with her so quick, Adrian's grandmom telling him that his mother is a b*tch and so on), director Ram tries to enliven such bits with his own voice-overs which carry the harmless yet relatable vibe of a radio-jockey (he refers to those as his timely 'status updates'). Yet, with everything that you see unfold on screen, even with the backing of an above-par Yuvan score, something does feel amiss. Certain segments are just too random to be treated seriously. Like Althea's composed reaction when she gets to know of her husband's sexual orientation, or her decision to spend a night at a train station instead of a hotel, or Prabhu's rather hasty decision to seduce/blackmail married women and such and such. If there's one thing that you gotta love about "Taramani", it's the way in which Ram has woven a stretch of incidents almost completely revolving around the two leads and yet manages to retain viewer attention throughout. Sreekar Prasad's uncluttered editing makes sure there are a bunch of stand-out portions. Director Ram is a sure-shot advocate for the "live and let live" motto but seems to relish addressing issues from the female standpoint, a bit more. Both Althea and Sowmya tell Prabhunath (on different occasions) that they loved him because he was the only genuinely kind-hearted member of the male gender they'd known. Whatever happened to all the 'good men' in movies that love propagating equal honor for genders. The quintessential happy-ending seems forced, but as Ram narrates in his voice-over "Not every WHY needs to be answered" I suppose. The randomness of it all is actually why I enjoyed watching "Taramani".Verdict: Worth seeing for Andrea's strong depiction of the urban Tamil female!

FraserJDaniel The spots were intelligently placed. At the beginning of the movie, there is a shot of two parts of the city; one very poor & the other is the corporate world. The Taramani station is at the center, separating both these two worlds. It's interesting that when the first meet, they meet at the station because Ram apparently wants to tell us that these two worlds meet. The progression of the story is sort of a class difference. The story took various unexpected turns, but the flow of the movie wasn't steady, but more random."Feminism" is seasoned all over the movie. Every man in the movie is dumb, unfaithful, & terrible. That's how men are portrayed in the entire movie, which is basically man hating & therefore, a feministic movie! Since smoking & drinking is a virtuous thing for a society, Ram fights for women by telling us how the society is terribly guilty of not giving this virtuous privilege to women..Anti-capitalist message is all over the movie again. At the beginning of the movie, there's a shot where the hammer & sickle flag is flying high. When Andrea is fired in the movie, somehow Ram thought it was very important to whine about how great labor unions are & how the capitalist system mistreats workers & that's obviously not true.

hetlar-87434 One of the worst movies in Tamil industry. Sorry correction.The only worst movie. A crap movie with a pointless story line. so many clichés. if I had a chance to meet the director I would have personally told him about how disappointed I was. seriously disappointed after watching this movie. Andrea could have picked a better movie than this. I personally think that the movie could end within half an hour rather than stretching it to 2 and half hours.I think the actor is a new face in Tamil industry.I feel pity for his first movie. It ruined my sleep!