The readily identifiable story is about moving out of rented houses and buying a home. And despite the many issues faced by the family, the director ensures that the film is an easy, pleasant watch. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.
Sri Ganesh’s 3BHK revolves around a middle-class family of four. Sarathkumar plays the father, Vasudevan. He is a bookkeeper in the kind of import-export company you’d find in the K Balachander films. He wants a big house, but the rents keep increasing, and so the houses he moves into are small. Devayani plays his long-suffering wife, Shanthi. In one of their rented houses, she is disappointed that there is so little natural light. Later, this character trait – this want – comes back. In yet another house, the light is better. She smiles. The movie opens in 2006, when their two children are still in school. Siddharth and Meetha Raghunath play Prabhu and Aarthi. The girl is the better student but this being a typical middle-class household, she studies in a government school to ensure that the boy gets to study in a good private school. He comes first. Under the film’s calm exterior, writer-director Sri Ganesh keeps jabbing us with these very pointed points.
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