ஒரு ந‌ல்ல‌ திரைப்ப‌ட‌ம் முடிந்த‌வுட‌ன் துவ‌ங்குகிற‌து ‍ ‍‍: ஒளிப்ப‌திவாள‌ர் செழிய‌ன்.

Do you know why Tamil kings built tem­ple ? [ Review-la engadaa King-um Temple-um :) ] One Dis­cov­ery chan­nel video of South Indian tem­ples stated that Kings built tem­ple to repent their sins of killing 1000s of peo­ple in the name of war and thus avoid­ing rein­car­na­tion. Shankar repented his sins of mak­ing stereo­typed robin hood movies by pro­duc­ing his films under S pic­tures. [ eppadiyo join pan­nite :) ]. Kad­hal was pro­duced in a bud­get, where nor­mally Shankar shoots a song for his films end­ing in ‘N’ :). The good thing is that he mar­keted the movie well.

Almost, all films in Tamil deal with love but very few unfolds the view of the parent’s and the con­se­quences of elop­ing away.

Film : Kad­hal [ 2004 / Drama ]
Cast : Muru­gan, Aiswarya, Rajen­dran, Vel­laiyan, Karat­tandi, Ste­pe­hen
Cin­e­matog­ra­phy : Vijay Mil­ton
Music : Joshua Srid­har
Writ­ten & Directed by : Bal­aji Sak­thivel

Fine points

- Open­ing title sequences and the theme song [ Haricha­ran — just the words kad­hal, hum­ming and a gui­tar n flute ] was fab­u­lous. Most of the cam­era work in the title is done as a can­did work.

- Muru­gan asks the same ques­tion to Aiswarya in dif­fer­ent sit­u­a­tions to reit­er­ate that they know about what they do.

- Watch out for the minute detail­ing like ‘Singamle’ in the Sumo of Rajen­dran, Aiswarya illam, wine shop, work­shop,
chris­t­ian school.. even the direc­tor uses the lines writ­ten on the school wall, When they elope one more scooty is shown as some other pair started their love :).

- The beauty of the nar­ra­tion is all the faces are new and they fit just like a glove .. even with their voices. [ Enpaa.. Paa­pavuku oru Jigard­handa kudu..].

- The scene where the tif­fin box and purse were about to meet by scooty’s vibra­tion was a good metaphor whereas the tap sym­bol was an ugly metaphor.

- The body lan­guage of a mechanic , school girl, wine shop owner and almost all char­ac­ters were awesome.

- The mon­tage song ‘Dhan­datti karup­payi’ needs a spe­cial men­tion. I just depicts the hap­pen­ings in a func­tion hap­pens in Madu­rai area. Drunk rel­a­tives, fight for a leg piece, play­ing cards, police offi­cials attend­ing the func­tion, school friends accom­pa­ny­ing her.. I like every inch of that song.

- The Karat­tandi char­ac­ter is new to Tamil cin­ema who is an assis­tant mechanic in the shed. Even when Muru­gan was about to say farewell silently, the boy pre­tends to get beat­ing. When Muru­gan leaves, the boy runs and ends up in a con­fu­sion.. may be his work. That scene was poetic.

- Sand­hya — She por­trays the child­ish, rich school girl who hap­pens to live between a poor lover and an affec­tion­ate fam­ily. Her brah­min friends per­fectly matches a typ­i­cal school friend who accom­pa­nies a gir almost everywhere.

- Joshua Srid­har.. He is one of the few debut music direc­tors who makes an impact in the first film. The theme music is the most lov­able one apart from Thottu thottu, Dhan­datti karu­paayi, Ivan dhaan.. The voices are fresh as flow­ers espe­cially the hum­ming of Shalini singh, Haricha­ran, Sruthi.

- In the first half, songs are used just like BGM and the audi­ence don’t sep­a­rate them. Also, he had used west­ern music for a Madu­rai back­drop film and it worked out !

- The dialect was so new to Tamil peo­ple apart from Madurai/Din­du­gal area [ Ind­haaru… Tharsaaiyu­ruve ].

- I would have hap­pier if they ended the story like the girl’s father stops them while elop­ing, itself. Chen­nai seg­ment [ 2nd half ] of the story is very weak by all means. The story looses its fine touch here.

- The story doesn’t have a Vil­lain.. How can you call a father who looses his school-going daugh­ter elop­ing with a mechanic ? The father char­ac­ter is accom­pa­nied by an one handed brother who traces this pair. The end leaves the movie to be thought about.

- Direc­tor por­trays the time along with the school [ 10th exams, prac­ti­cal note­book ]. The tech­ni­cians Vijay Mil­ton, N.Muthuku­mar put a wor­thy effort.

–Toto.

Related Posts B

No related posts. B