There is the relative for example who suggests that the wedding shouldn’t happen in an air-conditioned hall in Chennai but instead in the family temple, back in the village. We see the contrast between the traditional thought process and the new generation during the entire duration of the story. The film in a way falls under the Vicky Donor zone thanks to the topic and the manner in which it has been handled. This by itself ensures a moral victory of sorts for the film. Keeping these points in mind it is reassuring to see that Prasanna R.S has managed to walk the tight rope fairly well. And the filmmaker has the added responsibility of ensuring that the narration doesn’t get too serious, doesn’t make fun of the topic and yet ensure that the proceedings remain entertaining. To highlight upon topics like impotency/erectile dysfunction is by itself no mean task. How does Raghu handle the situation and does he manage to have a smooth wedding with Meera is what the rest of the film is all about. To top it at all he has to contend with his friends, all of them suggesting multiple solutions on one hand and with both the families going ahead with the wedding preparations on the other hand. Raghu goes into a tizzy and though Meera supports him all the way, he is confused about the next course of action.
With a month to go for the wedding, they decide to get intimate on one occasion and that’s when disaster strikes with Raghu not able to “get it up”. Slowly but surely things seem to be falling in place as they genuinely get friendly and start liking each other.
Within no time their wedding gets fixed and with the D-Day being 8 months away both Raghu and Meera try to get friendly with each other and understand the other person better. Busy with their careers they allow their parents to find their prospective life partner and thus they first get to know each other and their families through a matrimonial website. Raghu Viswanathan (Prasanna) and Meera Chandrasekaran (Lekha Washington) are both techies who are doing well professionally and hailing from like-minded TamBrahm (Tamil Brahmin for the uninitiated ) families. But with an ever growing market for such films among the Tamil audience and with a more than certain need to tackle topics like the one addressed here, it is good to have such films coming out more regularly these days. KSS continues the trend of urban centric films catering to the slightly classy audience for whom traditionally such outings have been limited to the occasional new age Bollywood film or International films. But that seems to have done some good as the film has now managed to get distributed by Abi Pictures and C.V.Kumar‘s Thirukumaran Entertainment, hence ensuring a good release.
Though the film originally was a planned for a release much before Diwali it got delayed for certain reasons. The first look poster, the music video of the song “Mella Sirithai” and of course the trailer all promised a good treat to the audience. Produced by Arun Vaidyanathan, director of the thriller Achchamundu Achchamundu (2009) and Ananth Govindan, Kalyana Samayal Saadham (KSS from hereon) caught the fancy of the target audience with a refreshing lead pair of Prasanna (the actor & not to be confused with the director of the film Prasanna R.S) and Lekha Washington. So with Prasanna R.S announcing his debut feature film with the same title the expectations were on similar lines. Hence the typical expectation is that the movie is likely to be a rom-com with the emphasis on a big fat Indian wedding. When you hear of a Tamil movie with a title like ‘Kalyana Samayal Saadham’ two things come to your mind immediately- any typical wedding feast with its variety of delicacies and the famous song from the Telugu-Tamil bilingual film, Mayabazaar (1957).