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But it’s impossible to digest the overall preposterousness. Like Raja Rani, Romeo Juliet just cannot make up its mind whether it wants to be a screwball comedy or a melodrama — the tone is all over the place. And the writing is painfully inconsistent. Karthick’s self-proclaimed love for T. Rajendar is just a lead-in to D. Imman’s chartbuster, ‘Dandanaka’. We see romantic clips from older films over the opening credits and during a jogging scene, but soon this conceit disappears. It’s a new kind of screenwriting. Everything’s a bit, just for that moment — who cares about consistency and narrative arcs?