REVIEW

Hara Hara Mahadevaki is directed and written by Santhosh P Jayakumar. It features Nikki Galrani, Gautham Karthik, Karunakaran, Rajendran and Sathish in the lead role. It is produced under the banner of Thangam Cinemas and the Studio Green productions.

The viral ‘Whatsapp Swami’ that everyone was talking about a few months ago has now inspired an actual film that takes its title from something he says in the beginning of every audio clip – ‘Hara Hara Mahadevaki’.

STORY

A young couple (Gautham Karthik and Nikki Galrani) decide to breakup by returning back the gifts they bought each other when they were madly in love and the meeting is all set to happen in a resort named Hara Hara Mahadevaki. The gifts are packed in a free bag given by a political party.

Meanwhile, a politician (Ravi Mariya) hires two henchmen (Rajendran and Karunakaran)  to fix a bomb in a gathering to gain sympathy votes and coincidentally, the bomb is kept in the similar free bag given by the political party. Then there is a criminal who kidnaps a child and blackmails the parents. The ransom money is kept in another free bag of the same political party. We also have a guy who wants to exchange One Crore counterfeit currency notes (Balasaravanan) kept in a similar bag. All of them meet at the Hara Hara Mahadevaki resort as their bags get exchanged. So will they get back their bags? What happened to the bomb? The answers for these questions form the crux of the story.

PERFORMANCE

Gautham Karthik is comfortable as the happy go lucky guy, Nikki Galrani looks pretty and delivers what is required for her character. Though at many places, Rajendran and Karunakaran pair irritates while Sathish with his trademark  comic one liners scores.

Hara Hara Mahadevaki does stand true to its claim of being an adult comedy film, in the sense that the comedy here involves a few double engenders and sight gags. But take those away, and the film feels no different from the mindless comedies that we have been seeing of late.

Director Santhosh P Jayakumar 's adult comedy works  but the normal comedy scenes fall flat. Unfortunately, for the most part, director Santhosh is content to peddle silly stuff that one might be embarrassed to call as jokes. He seems to have decided that having a narration in the voice of the WhatsApp Swamiji is enough convince his target audience that they are watching a raunchiest. Even still, the film cannot think beyond generating laughs out of the tumescent male member; it even repeats this same idea thrice! The actors gamely try their best, but the weak writing never lets the film get into a rhythm where the jokes flow seamlessly.

In short, more than the script writing, what works in favor of the film is the packaging.

PLUS

Gautham Karthik Performance

Nikki Galrani’s Screen Presence

MINUS

Comedy

Screenplay

Predictable Climax

Verdict : A Dreadful “Adult Comedy”

Stars : 3/5