Love Today is a 155-minute long meme on romances in the social media era. When it's funny, it's laugh-your-guts-out funny. When it's not, it's trying to be a bit messagey - to forego the temporary flailings of the mind, not to give up but to trust and keep going. I'm not sure I dug either of the leads all that much - they're painted with the typical, committed pasanga tropes of the current generation yet hard to get behind. The performances by the leads (Pradeep Ranganathan and Ivana) are also okayish.
Ranganathan has a bunch of ideas and he wants every scene to look meme-ish but it works only when he's conceptualizing them inventively (like the "Instagram episode") and not simply sticking to the expository male gaze. Yeah, the script is obviously a lot more forgiving towards Pradeep than it is to Nikita - which could also be one of the reasons it worked with larger crowds. Nonetheless, it is miles ahead of Ranganathan's previous venture Comali. Yogi Babu also gets a meaningful role after a while, and he aces it. Others like Sathyaraj and Raadhika pitch in when necessary. Yuvan's music effectively drives the humorous and earnest moments.
Ranganathan has a bunch of ideas and he wants every scene to look meme-ish but it works only when he's conceptualizing them inventively (like the "Instagram episode") and not simply sticking to the expository male gaze. Yeah, the script is obviously a lot more forgiving towards Pradeep than it is to Nikita - which could also be one of the reasons it worked with larger crowds. Nonetheless, it is miles ahead of Ranganathan's previous venture Comali. Yogi Babu also gets a meaningful role after a while, and he aces it. Others like Sathyaraj and Raadhika pitch in when necessary. Yuvan's music effectively drives the humorous and earnest moments.