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JK Enum Nanbanin Vaazhkai may have worked if Cheran had stuck to his style. JK is in one of those quandaries where he has to support his parents, a younger brother who needs to be put through medical school, two younger sisters who need to be married off (one of the suitors asks for, and receives, a big dowry; a truly young, hip film would have given this smug jerk a kick in the rear). Then there’s a character with cardiac asthma, needing a heart transplant. There’s another character whose father is a struggling farmer in Usilampatti. There’s a fatal road accident. And there’s a character whose doctor gives him really bad news. Can you make a light, breezy film from material with enough melodrama to give A Bhimsingh pause? Maybe that’s why we don’t feel anything or care for anyone. Without the barriers, it isn’t a hurdling event anymore. It’s just a sprint.