Regressive "Jokes" Overpower This Supposedly Progressive Film

Vineeth Sreenivasan is delightfully over-the-top in this film, which resorts to a brand of humour that the industry has collectively been trying to run away from

- VIGNESH MADHU

INEETH Sreenivasan's Oru Jaathi Jaathakam attempts to convey a progressive message on finding a compatible life partner, but the makers take a terribly bumpy route to drag through to the destination. Why would the supposed progressiveness in the end matter if 3/4th of the film stinks with obnoxious "jokes" that leave a poor aftertaste? The damage is already done.

Vineeth Sreenivasan plays Mambrath Jayesh, a man in his late 30s, who has been desperate to get married for the last eight years. Right from his intro scene where he has a dream of his marriage getting called off, we see Jayesh frustrated and sulking about finding the "perfect" life partner. Settled in Chennai (yes, Vineeth Sreenivasan), Jayesh visits his hometown every week in the hope of finding the right match, but his conditions are so silly that his boss often jokes, "Finding a girl who meets all your conditions is like searching for a dinosaur in the 21st century."