Name: 29
Genre: Drama, Romance
Duration: 2 h 29 min
Rating: 6
Cast: Vidhu, Master Mahendran, Preethi Asrani, Avinash

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A newly married couple’s relationship takes an unsettling turn after a mysterious incident changes the course of their lives. As fear and uncertainty begin to grow, hidden truths slowly start surfacing around them.

Times of India

Nothing concentrates the mind like staring down 30 with nothing to show for it. That's Sathya (Vidhu) in 29: no career worth mentioning, no romantic past worth a story, no real sense of self. Then Viji (Preethi Asrani) walks in, an IAS aspirant with focus to spare, dropping signals he's too anxious to read. They eventually get there, the relationship blooms and wanes through the expected ups and downs, and Rathna Kumar hunts for emotional currency in the push-pull between his clinginess and her ambition.
Set around 2010, the film leans into period texture: the clunky smartphones, the texting rhythms of the era, the contrast between a young man's aimless bachelor space and an ambitious woman. Some of this nostalgia lands, particularly for viewers who lived that exact stretch of late-2000s adulthood. The relationship beats register too, occasionally with humor, sometimes with real ache.
The trouble is how plainly much of it plays out. Sathya and Viji's everyday rhythms settle into a well-meaning ordinariness that doesn't quite justify a couple of hours plus more. The film is broken into several thematic chapters, which gives it a bits-and-pieces quality where individual segments work better than their sum. Then comes the Salem detour, where a heartbroken Sathya reinvents himself as an eco-warrior. The pivot is abrupt, and certain stretches of activist posturing tip into unintentional comedy. The part where he gets a makeover after 180 days and acts like a hero in jail is hilariously terrible.
None of this is to say the film is incompetent. The ordinariness carries enough craft to hold attention. Rathna Kumar leans into rain to set the mood, and the framing and dialogue in the more intimate stretches show real aesthetic intent. Sean Roldan's score finds its moments too, drifting into fleeting beauty, and a genre like this lives or dies on the strength of its music. A couple of passages even brush against something close to magical realism. So it isn't bad, exactly. It's that the content keeps inviting a "who cares about this beach moment, or this conversation?" shrug, a slightly out-of-time feel that pulls it back for every step forward it takes.
Vidhu and Preethi share enough chemistry to keep you invested through the choppier patches. Avinash as Sathya's roommate land some comic moments, and master Mahendran in a cameo villain starts strong but fades away. The parental subplots never grate but never stand out either. Madhesh Manickam's palette makes some scenes look good.
For a production with Karthik Subbaraj and Lokesh Kanagaraj's names attached, you walk in expecting more punch. What arrives is decent enough, but unlikely to stick.

29 Official Trailer | Vidhu, Preethi Asrani | Sean Roldan | Rathna Kumar | In Theaters from May 8th

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