Recommended
You have to wonder if there has been one Tamil film in the last decade or two that has limited itself to just being a warm tale of a family and their pets: something like ‘Marley and Me’. You wouldn’t perhaps begrudge the makers their ‘influences’ if the result was a film we generally don’t see a lot of, but ‘Naaigal’ reneges on the promise of its first portions. Oh, and about the opening scene when the dog becomes Karthik’s responsibility, after the death of its owner, and the climax… have you watched Turner and Hooch, a film that ironically was made again in 1989?