Kola Kolaya Mundhrika
Star-casts: Karthik Kumar, Shika, Jayaraman, Radharavi, Sarath Kumar, Anand Raj and many others
Production: Giriguja Productions
Direction: Madhumitha
Music: Selva Ganesh

From the ancient times of Tamil Cinema, films based on ‘Treasure Hunts’ have been one such genre that is liked by everyone as the story will have lots of twists and turns. Be it the very old ‘Pudhaiyal’ and the other film with the same title starring Mammooty and Aravind Swamy in lead roles, they were really interesting as it involved fun, frolic, adventure, romance and action as well.

‘Kola Kolaya Mundhrika’ is one such film that has ‘treasure hunt’ as its central concept and yet looses out the track with a flimsy screenplay. But the interesting part with the film is that it has lots of characterizations laced with funny elements.

Apart from the lead characters, M.S. Bhaskar, Jayaraman, Anand Raj, Vasu Vikram and others have played their best parts on rendering comedy liners.

The film starts in Madras during 1989, where a Zamindar family (Siva and Deva Darshini) is running out of money. It’s Krishna Jayanthi and they have dressed up their kid Krish as Krishna. Accidentally, the parents get killed by Anand Raj, the step-brother, who claims for the precious diamonds.

Immediately, the story is cut to 20 years later, where Krish (Karthik Kumar) and Veni (newcomer Shika) are playing con tasks against many people. They are contenders at first and later join hands together for the sake of hunting the treasure of precious diamonds hidden inside 4 chairs. But the step-brother (Anand Raj) and his sidekicks are also on the pursuit of this treasure. Each chair has a piece of paper that clues or the next chair that may lead to find diamonds. Meanwhile, there is cop Mathrubootham (Jayaraman) running behind a seashore slum goon Doomil Koppam Thulkaanam (Radha Ravi), who is carrying the details about black money deposits of various big shots in City.

Soon as the three gangs come across each other, it’s going to be a fun-filled ride of treasure hunt, which has some rib-tickling sequences and below average ones as well.

Karthik Kumar lives up to the expectations. But he has to come out of his preexisting linguistic skill of American accent over Tamil. Newcomer Shika is okay though she hasn’t got anything to brandish with. Her facial expressions are good and can look out for better offers in her upcoming films. Anand Raj as hilarious baddie steals the show with his sidekicks adding more momentum to this film. Though at many parts, they seem to be uttering overdosed Mokka lines, it’s okay to a certain extent.

Madhumitha terribly makes herself fail by adding unwanted songs. The film could have been better even without it as none of the songs sound better. Jayaraman’s comedy tracks are highlighting and Sarath Kumar’s cameo role is a special surprise.

The second half seems to be slightly illogical as the connections between each and every chair is ludicrous. There isn’t enough solidity to prove the connectivity; especially the last chair in prison is quite unconvincing.

Crazy Mohan’s dialogues are same-old type and at some time the sense of humor works out at best.

You can watch this film without any expectations built upon it.

Bottom - Line: Not so-interesting game, can be done better

Verdict: Below Average