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| THAMIZH
PADAM - A MUST WATCH |
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| By
Behindwoods Visitor Gogul |
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First
of all, a big round of applause
for the director for introducing
a new genre in Tamil film. Hollywood
had it since long with movies
like Hot Shots Naked Gun or
Scary Movie series and Tamil
television has beaten them to
death. But a full length spoof
running for more than two hours
on big screen is really difficult
to make considering the sensitivity
of the industry people. Even
Bollywood hasn’t tried
a full fledged parody yet.
Thamizh Padam has done it nicely
without hurting the sentiments
or feelings of any body. Though
only regular movie goers will
identify every spoof, still
they will enjoy it even if it
is of their favourite heroes.
Director Amudhan has walked
the tight rope very effectively.
The film starts with a mother
giving birth to a child –
our hero Shiva- on a rainy night
in a typical village which detests
male babies being born in the
village. The ‘Nattamai’
of the village had already passed
a decree to kill any male child
born to any body in the village
for a peculiar reason. The male
children don’t stay in
the village when they grow up.
So the father asks his mother-Paravai
Muniamma-to kill the baby. When
the old lady is about to feed
the baby with branded cactus
milk in tetra pack, the infant
pleads with the grand mother
to put him in a goods train
so that he can reach the city
an
become a big man. Why a goods
train? Because the infant knew
all goods train leaving a village
is destined to reach Chennai
city.
Each and every frame of the
film is captured with unusual
camera angles in desaturated
color; dark shades of black
grey. This alongside the ‘higher
then usual’ contrast levels,
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something new to Kollywood or in fact, Indian
Cinema. The choice of locations and sets
prepared are apt for the darkened visuals
the director intended for the viewer to
see. Be it the residence of the protagonist
or the market place in Chennai or the narrow
streets or beachside of Andhra. Fine attention
to detail can be observed in each frame
and due credit must be given to all those
involved. At times however, the
continuous variation in color/angles stresses
ones eyes and at points, the visuals override
the essence of the story which is a drawback.
Touched by the aspiration of the infant
the old lady takes the baby herself to Chennai
to help him achieve his dream. In Chennai
Shiva grows at the spin of a cycle wheel
up and spends time with his college going
friends Nakul, Siddharth and Bharath –
MS Bhaskar, Manobala and Vennira Aadai Murthy.
Shiva who appears to be a spoiled child
actually is an undercover cop like Pokkiri
Vijay. He eliminates the city rowdies like
Thirupachi Vijay using techniques of Ghajini
Suriya, Anniyan Vikram and Apoorva Sahodarargal
Kamal Haasan. Meanwhile on the other side
of his life Shiva sees Disha like Kadhalukku
Mariyadhai Vijay and love strikes like Mozhi
Prithviraj. Shiva expresses his love to
her like Maounaragam Karthik. But Disha’s
father doesn’t approve their love
because Shiva is poor and doesn’t
know who his father is. Humiliated Shiva
decides to become rich and find his father
in the village. He becomes rich in a jiffy
like Annamalai Rajini and Sivaji Rajini.
The love finally succeeds. Then in search
of his father, Shiva lands in his ancestral
village Cinemapatti like Winner Prashanth.
Its a village where couples go to bed only
when Vaidegi Kathirunthal Vijaykanth starts
singing ‘Netru rathiri yamma’
at night. He searches his long lost father
in the neighbouring villages Serialpatti
and Thangachipatti and Sentimentpatti in
vain. Finally with very little help Shiva
finds about his father from one of his associates.
The associate gives him a CD of his family
song which incidentally is the ‘Michael
Learns To Rock’ number, ‘Someday
someway’. Armed by the CD Shiva croons
the song in public and he is united with
his parents and sister.
Now back to the city. Siva is entrusted
with the tough job of finding the main switch
of the rowdy gang called ‘D’
gang Chidambara Rahasiyam Delhi Ganesh.
The thrilling, breathtaking tasks he undertakes
to accomplish his mission and the real identity
of the dreaded underworld boss of the ‘D’
gang in the climax sequences are going to
be the shockers. When you see the film please
don’t reveal the climax to others.
When you enter the theatre knowing the film
is a spoof you don’t expect anything
logical. The movie has followed every rule
of a parody. It has sarcasm, typecast, making
fun of scenes from serious movies, violence
with no major onsequences, obvious references
to actions or names, lampooning with no
purpose, casual scenes with many layers
etc.
Siva, introduced as Chandramukhi Rajini
plays his part to his known character. His
timing and dialogue delivery sets him apart.
The rip offs from Thalapathy, Kaakka Kaakka,
Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu and many more don’t
fail to tickle you. Shiva over shadows all
other characters just like that with his
witty presence in every frame.
Music
by Kannan is another fine element in the
film. The cryptic ‘O Maha Zeeya’
is very watchable on screen. Other songs
also match the mood and genre.
Director
CS Amudhan is welcomed with open arms. He
has revealed that there are some facets
of cinema still unknown to many. A brave
new attempt for which there will be many
followers in the future
Verdict:
A must watch film
Gogul
gogulaneshwar@yahoo.com
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