Though we have mul­ti­ple gen­res of cin­ema, we also some­times need “no nonsense” cinema with­out vio­lence, vul­gar­ity, big star cast, unnec­es­sary hype [ mainly Sun pic­tures :) ] etc., The last “no non­sense” movie was Pasanga in Tamil cin­ema. The sim­ple pur­pose of a movie should be engag­ing the audi­ence and of course, enter­tain­ing. This movie does.

The equal char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of Kallavaani I have seen is Abag­nale of “Catch me if you can” — A char­ac­ter which can tell any kind of lie and act accord­ing to the sit­u­a­tion, in an extreme self­ish man­ner. Such a char­ac­ter is our hero and the story is one another job­less young chap lov­ing a school girl — an avoid­able theme :( .

Story

 Hero “Arikki” is job­less and gets money from his fam­ily which con­sists of affec­tion­ate mother, school going sis­ter and father work­ing in Dubai, dream­ing about the fam­ily future. Arikki falls in love with Mageswari, a school going girl. Both of their vil­lages have some enmity. What hap­pens in their life is the story.

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 Fresh ideas and inter­est­ing pack­ag­ing makes a sim­ple story to enjoy the movie. [ Remem­ber, “Thooral ninnu pochu”, Aan paavam ]. The fore­most thing is the area where the story hap­pens. Thank God ! It’s not Madu­rai or Thirunelveli. It’s Than­javur. It’s very enjoy­able when you see the town names where you have been and know the peo­ple.. Pat­tukot­tai, oratha nadu, man­narkudi and their dialects. Right from the first scene, the direc­tor wants to make use the best of the avail­able peo­ple, loca­tions and ideas. Small sequences which traps the char­ac­ters and get­ting them out of those traps [ like Manohar with Divya call­ing Chan­dra­mouli for a coffee ! ].

 After the script, it’s the cast­ing — you have right peo­ple in place and it will take up the bur­den eas­ily. I couldn’t even think of any other hero or hero­ine doing these roles. Though the movie slightly trav­els in a slow pace before inter­val, the grip­ping cli­max takes the full credit. I like the way songs are used in this movie. SSKu­maran [ MD of Poo ] has done a neat and won­der­ful job which is very apt to this movie. Short songs and sooth­ing BGM [resem­bling IR ! ] are his strength areas.

 Inter­est­ing aspects — uneven shirt but­ton, Bike bar, flex ban­ner, bro­ken items at home, LC112, trav­els car, hid­ing in a bus, fer­til­izer bot­tle, hijack. I just named a few to avoid spoil­ers and you can enjoy sim­i­lar aspects while watch­ing the movie. The com­plete credit goes to Sarku­nam and his team [ Om Prakash, Raja Moham­mad ] for mak­ing this clean fam­ily enter­tainer, watch­able with kids.

Sim­ple n entertaining.

 A beau­ti­ful snap of Frangi­pani. Photo cour­tesy : Krishna .

Happy watch­ing

:)
Toto.

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