This is not going to be a film review. Instead, I just listed the observations.

* No com­puter graph­ics were used in the entire movie.. Mysskin [ Mys ] asks why do we need CG for a movie.. Fourth-wall blinks with­out answers.

* Naren’s char­ac­ter gets intro­duced with­out any footwear [ to sym­bol­ise that he is such an irre­spon­si­ble rogue ]. His trans­for­ma­tion hap­pens after the “paati” episode. Once they know that the guy has died in the bike, cam­era trav­els away from the char­ac­ters. [ Nor­mally they go closer to the happening/victim ].

* Pan­di­ara­jan — A char­ac­ter which always be in a fright­ened state, being in the wrong occu­pa­tion. Even in the beau­ti­ful scene with only legs shown on screen, he wears the wrong set of footwear. He sings in Kat­haza kan­nala song because to hide his fear and plan to close Dhaya.

* Mys was so keen not to expose vul­garly the lady who danced for K.Kan­nala song. Mys gives a lead to this song.. innaiku nadakura partyla.. kind of dia­log.. audi­ence were reluc­tant to have a song in that part of an inter­est­ing story. With this, he breaks the cheap image of “gaanaa” fame :)

* The mother char­ac­ters were selected appro­pri­ately and used it at the right time. Kirupa’s mother scolds Sathya’s fam­ily with local lan­guage.. Sathya’s mother is fair and calm.

* Sym­bols are cool.. In a hos­pi­tal scene Kruba walks from light to dark .. mean­ing get­ting into evil. The Mot­tai is a sym­bol of evil [ metaphor ]. He dies at the end and evil ends there. Money lies along with the body of any­one who dies in the gang. To sym­bol­ise wrongly earned money and the path they chose.

* Mys jus­ti­fies even the ori­gin of the gun Dhaya has.. It’s got from black mar­ket of Bihar.. H explained how can a nor­mal guy gets a gun in a movie. Nobody thinks about that.

* Check the BGM.. a lot of cello has been used to increase the inten­sity of the scenes. They based the BGM basi­cally meant for haunt­ing thriller ini­tially but altered to add sympathy.

* The girl dur­ing the inves­ti­ga­tion wraps her up with blan­kets — shows the shock of her exposed body in the kid­nap event. The girl’s father [Bose ] in ten­sion doesn’t even know his own home phone number.

* The phys­i­cally chal­lenged sap­pai char­ac­ter is also well depicted.. he has a fam­ily. nor­mally row­dies in film don’t have a fam­ily :) [ Remem­ber a Mathan’s joke on a rowdy hav­ing a pair of glasses — Vellezhuthu ].

* The child­hood photo rudra car­ries [ after the man­a­sukkul song ] shows that she looks naren on side.. Krupa is tall in it.

* First time a police sta­tion is shown as a police station.

* The hos­pi­tal fight scene is an exam­ple of using Takeshi Kitano’s stunt styles. Takeshi shows the impact of a fight not the actual fight.. remem­ber Udhiri pookkall — they show the furi­ously run­ning river for a fight sequence. and then the post fight scene.

* Cli­max was clev­erly con­ceived.. the hand fight hap­pens even they carry the gun. it was shown in “face off”. The entire police is diverted towards South and the kid­nap­per travel in north. This piece comes in ‘Bro­ken Arrow’ movie.

* The char­ac­ter kuruvi always deliver dia­logues with a shock.. 5 rubaa kudu, endaa avan ennai sut­tan. Char­ac­ter biog­ra­phy plays a big role in pen­ning any screenplay.

* Mys sang kan­nadasan karaikudi song and lent voice to pon­va­n­nan(keerthivasan). Keerthivasan is from AGW of Police dep. AGW ??

* Anjaathey was writ­ten in an angry mood. Uthra was not in script in the first draft.

* 70–80% were long shots / mid long shots. Close-ups were less. Also, lengthy scenes. Mys sets the audi­ence in the very first beau­ti­ful blue sky shot. Let give a break to Antony style of fast cut editing.

* Skater — used to cap­ture the entire lengthy scene with only legs.

* Edit­ing — They fol­lowed Takeshi Kitano’s style.. unpre­dictabil­ity is the key. when you expect the scene to be fin­ished, it won’t.

* There’s a shot after Sap­pai character’s death. The cam­era revolves around a qualis with char­ac­ters in it.. Police approach the vehi­cle .. Nobody is in [ actu­ally, these 3 events hap­pen at dif­fer­ent tim­ings ]. But these 3 dif­fer­ent events were shown in a sin­gle shot as if it hap­pens simul­ta­ne­ously [ cut twice ]. Time and Space !!

If you want to really expe­ri­ence, MOSERBEAR has released the DVD for Rs.50/ -. You can have a sec­ond look and the DVD has a bonus inter­view of Mysskin talk­ing about the movie. [ Some of them are given here ].

:)

Toto.

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