The number of films watched in a cinema hall is a good indicator of how one's vacation/break has been. The scorecard goes like this: On a normal vacation time - without any festival releases - an average of three films a fortnight is supposed to mean a peaceful vacation, where one could do everything planned, at one's own relaxed pace. Going by that this has been my most hectic break. Considering the festive mood spanning across Christmas and Pongal for about a month - I have managed to see just four movies in cinema halls. The first one being Kallori, while the finishing touch was given by Pirivom Santhipom, a Pongal release.
Directed by Karu Pallaniappan I think this film tries to explore the plight of a gregarious girl when she is made to sit at home by her husband, who spends most part of the day at work. Complicating the matters is that there are not many neighbours in their area, also the fact that the girl got used to the happy joint-family of her husband before the couple got shifted to the new location devoid of friends. This concept has the power to create a psycho thriller or a new look at life style issues or a captivating family story. Even films like Chandramukhi can be made out of this theme. Caught between some of these ideas and that of making a realistic family drama the director ends up giving us nothing that stays with us.
For more than two hours of watching the film I was expecting some thing to happen - a twist here and there or an intelligent sub-plot somewhere or a refreshing song or some fine comedy that does not stand apart or an interesting screenplay - but what I got to see at the end was closing curtains. I think this film was made with the sole intention of making a contra film. With films like Paruthiveen/ Mirugam/ Polladhavan etc going rounds the producers thought it was the best time to make a family drama with no single negative character, thus breathing a new life into the Tamil cinema world. In short you feel like coming out of watching a few episodes of a typical mega-serial at one go. However this film does not exaggerate life. I also liked the novel way of the initial title rolls. The song sequence that shows the Chettinad marriage is well-done.
Bombay Theatre - this is the only DTS/AC cinema hall in our city. This was my main criterion while deciding on this film. The other one being the proximity to my home. My next choice was Vikram's Bheema.
8 comments:
why invariably we nellaikarars choose any movie for Bombay theatre...Even i have the habit..I watched pokkiri the day before pongal :) only for the theatre.some how we feel so comfortable there than the multiplexes:P
..adappaavi!!! i too had been to that damn thing called as Pokkiri in the same theatre two days before Pongal!!
Yep, that's true. It's a good indicator. But nowadays I've started hating to realise this truth. I do feel that cinema is dominating every moment of our life. You go to office on a Monday morning and a colleague starts talking to you, saying that he has watched a new release on Sunday and he starts to express his wonder at the way the hero has acted in the movie, the way the story is handled in the movie. At the lunch people next to you talk about one of the forthcoming releases of a famous director. When you come back from the office, your son watches a TV programme "Super Scenes". You then get bugged with all these and start looking for some alternative, flashing in with idea of reading some magazine and reaching to it. Good God, the magazine is a Pongal Special with every second page of it containing news about cinema. Cinema doesn't spare you, wherever you go. We learn to live in this world appreciating its so called greatness. It has a special power of blinding someone from seeing every other amusement existing in the corner of this atlas! That is quite an amazing power indeed! I hate to realise this. I wonder how I come out of this net:-)
Dei, why don't you write a blog giving some ideas that stop me from thinking of the movies.. would be helpful for some of the pavappatta jenmangal like me?:(
Point taken da.. Actually! I too have been thinking about this all-pervasive cinema in our lives.
Padikka leave eduthukuttu padam paakkara....
Where is DVD?
i am just seeing this movie now... coming from the chettinadu area, can't think of any other movie that better portrays lifestyle... but no negative characters is quite impractical, so far have seen the first half till pirivom, yet to see santhipoom... a ok movie on the whole
@Siva:
..ya, you know better abt that da! But was a total let down in terms of twists etc...was waiting for something to happen in the film!
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