TEASES A SMOOCH, SETTLES FOR A PECK

AKSHAY KUMAR

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In a mostly quotidian life, a fair share of adventure and risk mostly comes with falling in love and facing its unpredictabilities.

Debut director Sathish Krishnan’s Kiss convinces us that predictability in love life can be a big issue. The film uses the power of premonition to move its story, but it never goes the usual route of using it to show death. While it does explore heavier themes, the film does it with a lighter tone. The concept of premonition or extrasensory perception (ESP) is typically used in thrillers and action films to heighten tension. It is refreshing to see this aspect being used in a rom-com instead. Nelson (Kavin), son of a single mother, Daisy (Devayani), with whom he and his brother Jason run the Daisy Mart supermarket with, discovers a book with his name on its cover. From then on, whenever he sees a couple kissing, he can see their future and where the relationship will take them. Weirdly, he doesn’t see a happy ending in anyone’s story. He realises that this phenomenon began with him coming into possession of the book, but he is neither able to lose it nor the ‘power’ he gets through it. The mystery of the book and how that affects his love life forms the rest of the story.