Q : Do you know the mean­ing of the name ‘Mysskin ’ — Find the answer at the end of the post.

Chithi­ram Pesud­hadi was the first film writ­ten and directed by Mysskin. Pre­vi­ously, he worked as an asso­ciate with Kathir and Vin­cent Selva. With kathir he didn’t work in a film but spent some months on story dis­cus­sion. With V.Selva he worked in “Youth” and “Jithan”. Though the work­ing style of the direc­tors are dif­fer­ent, it helped him to grasp the coor­di­na­tion work in the field.

CP is a very reg­u­lar story of Tamil cin­ema; a love story between a thug and a beau­ti­ful girl with a small ele­ment of sus­pense in it. Let us see the nuances of this sim­ple n neat cinema.

- Char­ac­ter biog­ra­phy was intro­duced to me in this film. The hero intro­duc­tion was nicely planned and in a sin­gle dia­logue with his mother he tells his back­ground. Nor­mally hero has a flash­back either in an intro­duc­tion song [ steal­ing vada ! ].

-  Naren’s char­ac­ter directly enters into the script by a sim­ple dia­log ” 10th cer­tifi­cate kekkaraan.. un kitta irukaa..Un purushan sethutaannu ennai 8th-oda niruthitta..” This is the back­ground of our hero which is depicted by just one line which usu­ally doesn’t hap­pen in Tamil cinema.

- The Annachi char­ac­ter was aptly por­trayed. He is not a Boss sit­ting in an old build­ing with cartons/barrels [ usu­ally a ration shop godown ! ] arranged every­where. He is just another busi­ness man and he owns an ambas­sador car. [ Dadha with­out a sumo/scorpio ! ]

- Heroine’s father char­ac­ter was a nice por­trayal [ with white cos­tumes mostly — metaphor for out­side purity] of a per­son with some unex­pressed feel­ings. He always cleans some­thing — psy­cho­log­i­cally clean­ing his mis­takes. First, Sivaku­mar was con­sid­ered for this role and they dropped the idea, later.

- Hero keeps his head always, low because of the com­plex on his hench­man pro­fes­sion. Also, he walks fast to come out of a crime scene or loca­tion to detach himself.

- Heroine’s father utter a dia­log in the begin­ning scenes which looks like an advice to his daugh­ter but not.. ” Namma pala samayam enga porom edhuku poromnu yaarkum theryama irukaradhu nal­ladhu ”

- One of the friends always eats in all the frames or sleeps [ lit­er­ally ]. Even in the ini­tial hos­pi­tal scene the char­ac­ter con­cen­trates on the fruits bas­ket, takes an apple and just munches.

- The hench­man Gaja always stam­mers except in the cli­max where he hes­i­tates to stab the hero. The rea­son is stam­mer­ing doesn’t hap­pen when a per­son speaks emo­tion­ally from the heart. [ Do you know the singer Mad­humitha stam­mers when she speaks but once she starts singing she’ll change her­self — Mud­hal mud­ha­laai : Lesaa Lesaa ].

- One of the fine scenes, is ..the hero and friends come out of the auto, talks about the 20K, they fight and join for tea. It was taken as a sin­gle steady cam shot.

- Blind woman — She rep­re­sents the audi­ence. The blind thing also sym­bol­ises the hid­den truth in the movie.

- Every­thing was exper­i­men­tal. For ex the hero refuses to accept money from the Mahade­van and asks him to get out of the scene. After this, the cam­era goes behind him and stays for 10 secs cap­tur­ing the breathe of the hero. Edi­tor did want to cut this shot early but Mys refused.

- My favourite scene.. A scene explains the come back of Naren [ Thiru ] as a hench­man. In sin­gle steady angle, the shots are shown in long, mid­dle and close ranges. The scene includes the exer­cise bar and the bar is used to bang one on it, at the end of the scene.

- Though the movie con­tains vio­lence, less blood is shed or shown on screen.

- Thiru uses a sim­ple defense tech­nique in fight sequences.. Stand­ing before a wall — so that he doesn’t need to watch his back while fighting. :)

- There’s a sequence that after turn­ing soft, Naren has to chase some­body on road. He comes across school kids on the way. The hes­i­ta­tion is shown in his legs and then he runs towards the vic­tim. Look for the apt BGM, there.

- No graph­ics, No for­eign songs, No com­edy track. The first half con­tains sub­tle humour. [ Van­ntaan­gadaa Sowkar janaki :) ]

- Sun­dar C Babu com­posed the song .. Vaala meenukum with addi­tional west­ern instru­ments. Mysskin cor­rected it like this..’ It’s a song hap­pen­ing in slum ; where do u get west­ern instru­ments in the slum — use the bare min­i­mum instru­ments”. He chore­o­graphed the Gana ulaganathan’s man­ner­isms, also advised Shobi [ dance mas­ter ] to have sim­ple move­ments and not as trained dance professionals.

Mysskin is a per­sian name mean­ing sim­ple man. It’s taken from the Russ­ian novel ‘The Idiot’.

–Toto.

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