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SAMAVELI MOVIE REVIEW |
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by : Behindwoods review board |
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Starring:
Harish, Ghajini, Amala Paul, Ganja Karuppu.
Direction:
Saami
Music:
Sundar C Babu
Production:
Michael Rayappan
There
are good movies, there are mediocre ones
and then there are the downright bad ones.
But, we know that all these movies started
out with the intention of being good entertainers.
Some got there, some did not, but the
effort was never in doubt. But, there
are certain movies which make you feel
that even the intention of producing a
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good
and clean entertainer is not present. It seems to
be made only upon perversion and an inexplicable affinity
for socially unacceptable themes. The failure to make
a good movie can be pardoned – it is human to
err. But, the absence of intention
to make a good one cannot even be condoned. Sindhu
Samaveli falls in this unfortunate category.
Director Sami has never been the one to make films
that were clean family entertainers, like Uyir. He
has always treaded on uncomfortable themes that would
have made quite a few people squirm and it is not
surprising that he has courted controversy more than
once in his career. But, with Sindhu Samaveli he has
crossed all lines of acceptability and breached a
kind of unwritten code of propriety that has made
Tamil cinema popular with family audiences all these
years.
Incest is always dangerously uncomfortable territory,
both for the film maker and the viewer (if there are
any!). There is always perversion, profanity and questionable
morality involved. Things that can get more uncomfortable
than the explicit use of expletives. Yet, it is difficult
to explain how and why such themes find ways to be
made in mainstream commercial cinema with the backing
of a banner that has produced at least one highly
acclaimed product.
It is shocking and painfully ironic that when Tamil
cinema is poised to take flight to the next level,
courtesy some fabulous artistes and film makers, there
are still such regressive elements that threaten to
undo all the good work done by the others. Glamour
that borders on vulgarity is not alien to any film
industry and Tamil cinema too has its share of such
elements. Sindhu Samaveli is certainly not the first
movie to cross the line. But this is certainly one
of the very few products from the industry that have
been constructed solely on a perverse theme, which
makes it deplorable.
The censor board granted it an A certificate but one
hopes that a rating system is soon developed which
demarcates adult content from perverse content. At
times when movies like Dasavatharam have been dragged
to court because it ostensibly hurt religious sentiments,
one wonders how such a movie that hurts human sensibilities
got into theaters without opposition.
The movie carries a tag line ‘Situation makes
people bad’. One only wonders what was the situation
that prompted some people to make this movie. Let’s
pray that Tamil cinema not be marred with such instances
again.
Verdict – Perversion – as sick
as it gets!
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Samaveli, Saami,
Harish,
Amala
Paul, Sundar
C Babu |
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