When my cousin told that she couldnt get the tickets for the malayalam movie and got tickets for a tamil movie to tell frankly i told Oh God . Not that i dont like tamil movies and the pretty heroines dancing and thin heroes(some of them ) bashing up guys three times their size . But i cant watch it for 2 hours ...
Few spoilers ahead .....and little graphic (you are warned )
The film starts with a man on a rainy day visiting a prostitute in a fishing village . He tells her kid to go out and the boy is standing in the rain . Within minutes the man comes out and tells the boy her son --"Look, she has been dead for hours" . The boy crying when she is not taken to be buried in the churchyard ( still indecent people have no place in the churchyard ) and she is buried by the sea by a group of drunk gravediggers and when her leg sticks out one of them breaks it and puts ir into the makeshift coffin .
Two random thoughts .....Can this scene happen in real life to some child ? Yes , it can ...Because even prostitutes frequently give birth
Who has taken this serious movie? ( movies are supposed to make you laugh , oogle at pretty women etc ).. Any third rate director ??? Or a sleepy award winning director ?? Its none other than our dear Manirathnam Sir who needs no introduction and most importantly knows how to take good commercial cinemas with value .
Dont get me wrong by this first scene the movie has all the elements of commercial cinema even has two three beautiful nicely choreographed dance sequences , a nice romance (with pretty girl included ) and even beautiful music score by A R Rahman . The story is good a different theme though based on the classic good vs evil theme but a really different way of presentation .
The cinematography is superb and the backdrop is the beautiful Andaman and Nicobar islands . Our Roja Arvind Swami is back in action with a great role and he has acted really well . So is the villain Arjun .
When we parked our car for first time in my life the parking lot was empty . I thought we were very early . When we went out it was near empty . The "thara ticket " i mean the non -balcony seats were near empty too . I agree this was a commercial cinema with a serious theme . But considering the "intellectual " malayali movie goer i take it that the movie goers standards have decreased . Because i dont think it deserves the kind of reception that it received .
This is one movie i liked because it is really deep (just like the name suggests ) . If you like serious cinema watch it ...Kadal (tamil ) by Maniratnam
Few spoilers ahead .....and little graphic (you are warned )
The film starts with a man on a rainy day visiting a prostitute in a fishing village . He tells her kid to go out and the boy is standing in the rain . Within minutes the man comes out and tells the boy her son --"Look, she has been dead for hours" . The boy crying when she is not taken to be buried in the churchyard ( still indecent people have no place in the churchyard ) and she is buried by the sea by a group of drunk gravediggers and when her leg sticks out one of them breaks it and puts ir into the makeshift coffin .
Two random thoughts .....Can this scene happen in real life to some child ? Yes , it can ...Because even prostitutes frequently give birth
Who has taken this serious movie? ( movies are supposed to make you laugh , oogle at pretty women etc ).. Any third rate director ??? Or a sleepy award winning director ?? Its none other than our dear Manirathnam Sir who needs no introduction and most importantly knows how to take good commercial cinemas with value .
Dont get me wrong by this first scene the movie has all the elements of commercial cinema even has two three beautiful nicely choreographed dance sequences , a nice romance (with pretty girl included ) and even beautiful music score by A R Rahman . The story is good a different theme though based on the classic good vs evil theme but a really different way of presentation .
The cinematography is superb and the backdrop is the beautiful Andaman and Nicobar islands . Our Roja Arvind Swami is back in action with a great role and he has acted really well . So is the villain Arjun .
When we parked our car for first time in my life the parking lot was empty . I thought we were very early . When we went out it was near empty . The "thara ticket " i mean the non -balcony seats were near empty too . I agree this was a commercial cinema with a serious theme . But considering the "intellectual " malayali movie goer i take it that the movie goers standards have decreased . Because i dont think it deserves the kind of reception that it received .
This is one movie i liked because it is really deep (just like the name suggests ) . If you like serious cinema watch it ...Kadal (tamil ) by Maniratnam
Thank you for this post. I always wonder- there was a time when the malayali audience would rise up to any degree of intellect in a film- be it humour or a serious theme, they demanded a certain standard. What happened to that class of people? Have they all churned out a generation with no insight into movies? Just like the fast food they have turned to, they want an easily digestible movie with slapstick comedy.
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dear anonymous , i liked the comparison to fast food culture . Though i am pessimistic about the movie goers standards i am happy that good movies draw only serious movie goers . In that way we can watch it in peace :) thanks for the comment and reading
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