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Prince is a romantic comedy film written and directed by Anudeep KV and produced by Suniel Narang, Suresh Babu and Puskur Ram Mohan Rao under the banner Suresh Productions. The film has Sivakarthikeyan, Sathyaraj and Maria Riaboshapka in the lead roles while Premgi Amaren, Sathish Krishnan, Prankster Rahul, Bhaarath and others play supporting roles. The film has music by Thaman and cinematography by Manoj Paramahansa.

Anbu (played by Sivakarthikeyan) is a social science teacher for a mid-grade school in Pondicherry and falls in love with Jessica (Maria Riaboshapka), an english teacher but the entire village is against their love because she's from a British origin. On the other side, Premgi plays the role of a cunning real estate person who grabs the land of people. What does this have to do with Anbu's romance and how Anbu deals with this problem and the conservative villagers form the rest of the plot.

The biggest positive of the film is Sivakarthikeyan's terrific expressions and his dance has also improved tremendously. His natural timing and chemistry with co-actors elevates the comedy scenes really well. Maria Ryaboshapka does what is expected of her. Among the supporting cast, Sathyaraj holds every scene he appears in with great control.

It is well known from his previous films that director Anudeep KV can handle humour extremely well and has a niche sense of comedy. His characters are usually innocent and realise the gravity of the situation very late. This innocence is where the comedy is derived from, and the same is the case with Prince as well.

Anudeep's sense of humour is niche. But a set of audience might not relate to this brand of comedy. At the same time, the nature of jokes and the plot are predictable. The initial school portion and the climax comedies work better. For instance, one of the killer lines is a voice over introducing Sathyaraj. The voice over goes, "Ivaru dhan enga appa, vayasula moothavaru" (meaning - He's my father, he's older than me).

However the issue with Prince is that the film leaves the story hanging just to get that extra laugh or clap. Till the interval, the film either moves at superfast pace or lags heavily. This means the scenes progress really fast and then stagnate for the next few minutes, but saved by consistent one-liner comedies that keep you entertained.

Overall, the writing of the film could have been better, which would have made the actors performances even better. The characters needed better sketching, but the clean nature of content will certainly entertain the family audiences and could also end up as a perfect Diwali treat.

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