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THENMERKKU PARUVAKATRU MOVIE REVIEW |
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| Review
by : Behindwoods review board |
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| Starring:
Saranya, Vasunthara, Sethu
Direction:
Seenu Ramasamy
Music:
Raghunandan
Production:
Kathiresan
Director
Seenu Ramasamy’s oeuvre specialises
in village subjects; his earlier movie
was Koodal Nagar – set in the backdrop
of Madurai. His Thenmerkku Paruvakaatru
goes a little farther to Theni and its
surrounding villages, while he brings
us a tale of love and longing. Since there
is no dearth of such movies in the recent
past in Tamil,
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Thenmerkku
Paruvakatru risks being stereotyped. And the fact
that it feels like a regular village drama –
with a doting mother, an uncontrollable son who falls
in love with a girl belonging to the family of thieves
and the hurdles the love face – doesn’t
help much either.
While the opening scene makes one sit up and take
notice, the movie pales into insignificance soon after
with nothing much to hold the viewer’s interest.
In a movie marked by sketchy characterization of its
actors, Saranya takes the cake with her adroit performance
as she usually does. Sethu and Vasunthara play the
lead: while Vasunthara shows some potential, she’s
completely stripped of her boyish exuberance of Peranmai
and plays the sly, thieving dame whose family lives
on thieved goats from the neighbourhood village.
So Vasunthara falls in love with Sethu when she is
caught red handed by him in one of her thieving expeditions
(the opening shot, which is shot intriguingly). But
love with a girl belonging to a family of thieves
is obviously seeking for trouble. In the end, Saranya
realises the girl’s true love when she comes
home to her requesting his son to stay away from her
since her brothers are after his life. The doting
mother jumps into action and single-handedly stands
up against the rancorous brothers to save the love
of his son.
Essentially,
Thenmerkku Paruvakatru is a regular village drama
and can easily be written down as one of those small
timers aspiring to make a fast buck or two. Neither
Vairamuthu’s lyrics nor Raghunandan’s
music leave an impression with you. So much for a
lyrical title like Thenmerkku Paruvakaatru, which
was, in fact, penned by Vairamuthu for Karuthamma
in 1994.
Saranya remains the saving grace of the film with
her convincingly luminous performance that breathes
life into her character making it believable with
her earnestness.
Verdict: Not as lyrical as it sounds!
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: Thenmerkku
Paruvakatru,
Saranya, Vasunthara,
Seenu
Ramasamy |
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