‘Enna Satham Indha Neram’ a damp squib

Can a film survive on hype only without a proper script? That’s a question that comes to mind after watching ‘Enna Satham Indha Neram,’ a film that grabbed headlines as being the first Indian film to feature quadruplets.
With a title that piques your curiosity ‘Enna Satham Indha Neram,’ touted as an emotional thriller failed to live up to its expectations.
Four speech and hearing challenged children get lost in a zoo while on a school excursion. As their teacher searches for them frantically, the zoo watchman informs her that a huge snake has gone missing from the cage. With this basic plot, the story could have grown into an interesting thriller, but director Guru Ramesh probably got lost in the idea itself.
How do you expect viewers to react when they are anxiously following the search for the kids to be interrupted by silly humour. Zoo keeper Kathir (Nithin Sathya) comes up with comedy lines at the most inappropriate times and they do nothing to tickle your funny bone. As if that was not enough, you have comedian Mano Bala and his friend, attired outrageously, (for laughs supposedly) who are petty thieves in this story and are planning to kidnap the quadruplets.   Their jokes fell flat on their faces. Probably it has to do with the ready-made mould established for commercial stories in Tamil cinema that are dictated by the number of must have comedy tracks.
The snake with graphics looks magnified but least menacing. And viewers have the last laugh when the snake is put to sleep by a large dose of sleeping tablets. Completely lacking in conviction, ‘Enna Satham Indha Neram’ did make a lot of noise but is a case of empty cans.