Siren (I) (2024)
5/10
Siren: loud but underwhelming.
20 April 2024
Warning: Spoilers
We wait for the Kannana Kanne magic to happen again, where an estranged father unites with his daughter but the moment never arrives.

The takeaway seemed to be that criminals don't always get punished for the crimes they did, but sometimes, they are punished and then commit the crime...

Thilagan, an ambulance driver with unexplained, amazing talent for close combat, who falls in love at first sight with a hearing and speech impaired nurse. His high regard for lives in emergency pits him against casteist folk who ruthlessly kill the wife and frame Thilagan. How he comes back and avenges the death and his life sentence forms the rest of the movie.

In spite of some moments of brilliance, the punches never land in this movie. Keerthy Suresh as Inspector Nandhini seems a bit of a misfit for the role, maybe fleshing out her own character, drawing parallels between her and Thilagan, on what being wrongly framed for murder does to one, may have helped. The music in most parts of the story doesn't blend with the movie, and serves only to maintain the cliche. The daughter, Yuvina, shines within her limited screen time.
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