Synopsis
A young couple is made to exchange their phones for a day. What follows is a hilarious and emotional sequence of events that puts their lives in misery.
A young couple is made to exchange their phones for a day. What follows is a hilarious and emotional sequence of events that puts their lives in misery.
లవ్టుడే, లవ్ టుడే, 手機換換愛, 手机换换爱
A wildly entertaining quirky romcom, loaded with hilarious laugh out loud situational-observational humor n decent emotions. Pradeep takes his wacky short film idea and stretches it out into an crowd pleasing feature narrative with smart creative edit choices, exploring the dynamics of contemporary love in the ‘dark secret’ social media era, mostly from an even handed perspective. Though it treads at a surface level with few flat n exaggerated scenes, it manages to stack up one relatable event after the other in a bizarre yet refreshingly enjoyable manner and wraps things up with an effective finale.
Another major impressive element were the good setups and satisfactory payoffs during the third act. Yogi Babu strikes at a perfect emotional high point.…
Pandrathulam pantu, nambunga boombunga nu vere mudikran kidhuku kootie.
Sorry but this movie gave me more trust issues and insecurities despite the climax. Adivaangunadhu naaanuuuuuuu.
Being said that, i liked the screenplay, creativity, editing and music. The metaphor of mango tree, Radhika’s final act and Yogi babu’s storyline was a great touch. Also Yuvan was amazing ♥️
liked:
- yogi babu’s character
disliked:
- if they had literally sat down and had a mature conversation they could’ve cleared up a lot of the issues they found with each other 💀
- what is that girl’s phone case- genuinely the ugliest thing ive ever seen
Take out the quirky editing and you are left with a cautionary tale of incels youths trying to normalise cyberbullying and Bois r Bois bro messaging.
You can really see that based on how the difference between 'thappu' justification for both genders are being portrayed.
If juvenile comedy and ott expression of being incel is taken as peak humour in Tamil cinema, I really don't know what to say.
A good and laughable feature length meme. The humour works big time because it is in perfect sync with our pop culture. Maybe, that’s why it feels like you are watching a YouTube channel that’s hilarious, but still YouTube. Sk na, learn from Pradeep.
68/100
NGL, I went in expecting this movie to be bad, but holy shit... This was bloody amazing.
Yes, it's got it's flaws. It's predictable, a few jokes were corny, it's a little bit misogynistic and tries to justify it all towards the end, but we are talking about an audience that has lapped up stuff like SMS and OKOK, and Love Today is 1% of what M Rajesh films are, in terms of being problematic.
Despite all this, as an overall film, it works and that's because Pradeep is a clever writer, a terrific director and an amazing actor. Where he lets down his guard on one aspect, he lets one of his other roles shine, and I think that's…
so now Tamil cinema is normalising cyber sexual harassment and being a sex offender in general. embarassing how this is such a big hit. never seen a more incel movie. everything in this movie is what an incel's wet dreams and nightmares are like. the worst thing an incel can imagine on his girlfriend's phone is chats of her flirting with her ex which scares him to think she's not virgin bc ofc he would never get back with a girl who's not virgin. only pure virgin girls for marriage. the film even goes out of it's way to prove she's never had sex and that the leaked sex tape is actually a deepfake before they reconcile. what if she…
Amazing. Just Amazing.
It is funny, and problematic in parts... yes...., but it is meaningful, heartwarming and relatable af.
Pradeep Ranganathan is superb as a writer, director, and actor in this film.
Please watch it.
This was actually good and entertaining. Pradeep Rangathan deserves all the hype for his passion project. Here's to more underdog filmmakers.
‘Love Today’ has solid directing overall and a hilarious first hour. Pradeep Ranganathan enhances already well-written scenes with great staging and uses editing, cinematography and music to make them feel fresh. When so much effort is put into the first hour, even little things like Uthaman Pradeep having an Ilaiyaraaja song as ringtone and Nikitha having an AR Rahman song as ringtone goes unnoticed. The title animation too was wonderful in setting up the mood for the film. Yuvan’s score immensely lifts the scenes and gives the film vibes similar to ‘Siva Manasula Sakthi’.
But, once the main plot kicks in, the film loses focus due to the poor, clichéd writing. The scenes becomes flavorless. Emotions that felt natural in…