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| Angadi
Theru means a Market.
And a heavily crowded market in Chennai
means Ranganathan Street. And that’s
where most of the movie unfolds. Many
would have gone inside Saravana Stores.
And how many of us would have thought
about the uniformed sales people working
there? Vasanthabalan just has not visited
Ranganathan street. But paused and thought
about it and made this touching script
mixing some hard reality too.
The movie shows the lives of Kani and
Jothilingam for a period of roughly 1
year. And that happens to be the first
year after they meet. They gain many things
but lose many too.
There is no hard lined story in this film.
This movie can be taken as a chapter in
a very big novel. But this chapter seems
to be the touching one in the whole novel.
Jothilangam a 12th standard school topper
from a village is forced to work for his
family due to the sudden death of his
father. He comes to Chennai and joins
as a sales person at Senthil Muguran Store
(S@r@v@n@ Stores). He meets Kani who is
also working there. What starts off as
a fight soon turns into love due to trust
which the pair develops on each other.
But life is not easy. The hard reality
is shown. From the heavily crowded living
area and the long and hard working hours
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the strict, abusive and molesting floor supervisors.
Although some things are over done in a cinematic
way, like the inhumane eating area where the workers
have their lunch.
The movie progresses forward showing the lead pair’s
lives, difficulties they face and then end with a
real touching and inspirational climax. There is no
big suspense, action or any commercial ingredient
in the movie. It is just like traveling on smooth
road without any speed breakers. But the road is also
not so very smooth that we fall asleep. So the director
has maintained that balance beautifully.
Realistically shot at the Ranganathan Street where
even taking a picture in your cell phone would be
a tough task during the peak time. The camera man
does deserve a huge applause for showing Ranganathan
Street as it is. Then comes the songs and BGM department.
The songs are all very well written with real good
lyrics. Vasanthabalan has picked the best from his
2 music directors.
“aval appadi ondrum alagillai
avalukku yaarum yinai illai
Aval appadi ondrum colour illai
Aanaal athu oru kurai illai
Aval perithaai ondrum padikka villai
Avalai paditheen mudikavillai
Aval uduthum udaigal pidikavillai
Irunthum gavanikka marakka villai”
Let’s talk about acting. The real appreciation
would go to Anjali who portrays Kani. She has done
a superb job from the bubbly naughty girl to the face
she portrays soon after getting trashed by the supervisor.
She does a job which is very close to reality. And
her acting will sure be awarded with numerous future
Tamil releases. The surprise package is director A
Venkatesh. Venkatesh hails from Tuticorin and his
Tuticorin accent is quite authentic and sure his teeth
and glasses make him a real frightening supervisor.
He has done a good job and I think he would become
a villain material in future movies. Mahesh as Jothilingam
has done a decent job and supported Anjali throughout
the film.
The editing could have been slightly better which
would have increased the speed of the movie.
One interesting fact I noticed in the movie is, it
has quite a number of beating scenes where literally
every character beat each other.
This movie is strictly for people who are against
commercial ingredients and who really love good cinema.
So if you are the kind of hard core Vijay fan then
give this movie a miss. Other wise if you skip this
then you miss out seeing a good movie.
My rating for this movie is a 4 out of 5. Vasanthabalan
scores.
Sabharatnam.
crsratnam@gmail.com
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Angadi
Theru, Anjali,
Vasantha
Balan, Vijay
Antony |
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