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| Mayandi
Kudumbathar Movie Review |
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by : Behindwoods review board |
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Starring:
Tharun
Gopi, Manivannan, Rajkapoor, G
M Kumar, Ponvannan, Seeman, Singam
Puli, Ravi Maria, Nandha Periyasamy,
Jaghannath, Thamizharasi, Poongodi
Direction:
Rasumadhuravan
Music:
Sabesh Murali
Production:
United Arts |
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In
the age of nuclear families
and live-in relationships, Mayandi
Kudumbathar attempts to emphasize
the significance of familial
bonds still symbolized by India
and entwined in the lives of
people in rural Tamil Nadu.
Since families and their intimacies,
egos and misgivings are in the
focus, there is plenty of room
for sentiments, which of course
means heaps of wet-tissues for
the viewer. And Mayandi Kudumbathar
does just that - makes you whimper,
sob and attempt to contain tears
in between the scenes. That
is not to say that the movie
is completely unwatchable. It
is. Only if you fancy watching
a gloomy tale of a yearning
younger brother’s attempts
to get love from his family,
after losing his father.
Although Mayandi Kudumbathar
boasts of 11 directors, including
the one behind the camera, only
Rasu Maduravan has handled the
story and the screenplay. We
assume that he must have had
a hard time writing the story
interspersed with depressing
monologues and tearjerker scenes.
The layered story also reminds
us often of the sitcoms that
has the never-ending-miseries
of human beings on their focus.
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Manivannan and G M Kumar are brothers whose
families, erstwhile together and happy,
split owing to a property dispute. They
harbor revenge at each other which results
in endless scuffles between the families.
Manivannan dies of electric shock leaving
his four sons of which the younger one,
Tarun Gopi. Tarun is particularly the favorite
of Manivannan since he raised him from the
time of his wife’s death, after Tarun’s
birth. Tarun is now left to fend for himself
with the unloving wives of his brothers
Ponvannan, Seeman and Jegan. Adding salt
to the already sore wound is his girl friend’s
unexpected wedding with someone else.
Thus, left with no choice but loneliness
in the big bad world, Tarun sets out to
earn love from his family. His brothers,
although loving, could extend little help
since they are henpecked. Tarun finally
wins the love of one of his sisters-in-law
and things start to get better after that.
Now the question remains whether he can
bring back the love of his uncle G M Kumar
as well.
The often disheartening saga is also sprinkled
with a comedy track, tolerably executed
by Singampuli and Mayilsamy. All the director-actors
have done complete justice to their roles
while Tarun Gopi seems to have ‘tried
his best’. That is comprehensible,
as acting and directing are two different
things - what they say about things being
‘poles apart’. And the girls
in the lead Tamilarasi and Poongodi are
convincing.
The Kalavani song glimmers in Sabesh Murali’s
music and has the potential to be a hit.
Besides, Vijay Jesudas’s song moistens
many eyes, just like the proceedings of
the movie. Dialogues are sentimental and
some of them hard-hitting – like the
ones where Seeman expresses to a friend
his inability in helping his brother.
Mayandi Kudumbathar is not probably for
those who are city-bred. But if you appreciate
the so-called ‘family movies’
that could be watched with families and
do not mind a heavy dose of tearjerker sentiment,
then you might just like this one.
Verdict:
Of relationships and bonds
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