Recommended
The film appears to be an attempt to tell a story whose beats we are familiar with, the only difference being the setting – the tsunami of 2004. (It’s quite nicely rendered. For a change, they seem to have spent money on the special effects.) The elements, destiny, even God (manifest as the sun peeking through a cloud) – all have a part to play. And if we’re being really charitable, we could say that this near-mythical structure accounts for the too-easy contrivances – despite being separated, Kayal and Aaron are always just an accidental meeting away. But that still leaves us with an enormous problem. The central emotion that’s supposed to drive all this, the great love between Aaron and Kayal, is too wispy to warrant all this drama, which is constantly underlined by a score that just won’t stop. We’re meant to feel their pain, their pining, but all we feel is the film straining to be an epic.