Pasanga

Pasanga 2 - Haiku

Direction: Pandiraj

Cast: Surya, Amala Paul, Nishesh, Vaishnavi

Pasanga 2 is National Award-winning director Pandiraj’s third film in the children’s series.

Kavin and Nayana are two children who get pushed out of schools because of their hyperactive activities. Their parents are not able to bear the attitude of their children and transfer them through many schools. Accidentally, they end up with a child psychiatrist, Tamizh Naadan (Surya) and his wife, Venba (Amala Paul) . They help the parents understand their children.

Pandiraj’s Pasanga 2 has a novel core plot — Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) — but the film takes an awfully long time to get to the point, and when it does, it spins out of focus, weighing us down with inane incidents and slapstick humour. It is once again a classic case of Tamil cinema starting with a remarkably interesting storyline, but messing it up with bad scripting and ideas liberally borrowed from other movies. One can see bits and pieces of Aamir Khan’s Taare Zameen Par and even Mani Ratnam’s Anjali.

Suriya and Amala Paul play more than a cameo in the film. Suriya is a child psychiatrist and Amala, a patient and understanding teacher. Suriya seems in his comfort zone and has a great time with the children. Amala looks gorgeous in her simple sarees and is equally impressive.

Both Bindhu and Vidhya are apt in the roles of young and educated mothers.

Like his previous two films, Pasanga 2 has its fair share of fun, laughter and emotions, along with valuable lessons to be learnt and understood. There, however, does seem to be a tendency to overstate and dramatise the obvious. 

Nevertheless, there are several innocently uttered dialogues from the mouth of little children that hit you hard and leave you feeling guilty.

This is Suriya’s second production after the successful 36 Vayadhinile and he definitely has another winner in his hands.