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| AZHAGANA
PONNUTHAAN MOVIE REVIEW |
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by : Behindwoods review board |
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Starring:
: Raja Karthik, Namitha, Nizhalgal Ravi,
Mayilsaamy.
Direction:
Thiru
Music:
Sundar C. Babu
Production:
K cinema Presents |
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Maathi
Yosi is director Nanda Periyasami’s
second offering after his Oru Kalluriyin
Kathai. This time around the director
has plunged in with four new boys and
Shammu of Kanchivaram fame. The title
kindles one’s hope of freshness
in the film sans clichés. Unfortunately,
Periasamy’s unusual thinking has
adhered to the title alone.
Maathi Yosi opens with four waywardly
lower caste young men in a village who
spend their life in ineffectual activities.
While three of them have tattooed their
favorite actors on their back, one of
them tattoos the name of the daughter
of village head who of course happens
to belong to upper caste. Reacting to
the ouster of a girl from their caste
from the temple, the four bring the temple
chariot to the place where the lower caste
folks reside. Irked by this act, the village
president arranges to thrash the four
and discovers his daughter’s name
in the tattooed back of one of the boys.
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This leads to further flogging of the boy who upon
his friend’s insistence kisses the girl while
she is sleeping in her house as a retaliating act.
The backlash of this event results in the police inspector
(who is already exasperated with the boys for various
reasons) of the village to go on their trail but is
thoroughly humiliated by them. Realizing that their
stay in the village would be very dangerous, the four
leave for Chennai where they meet Shammu (who happens
to figure in the film after a long one hour). The
rest of Maathi Yosi deals with what happens in their
life after the arrival of Shammu on a highly predictable
and unexcited path.
It’s as though the director is not sure about
the premise of his film. When we think he is going
to deal with the caste issue, he meanders to poverty
and from there he ambles to a non-related subject.
It leaves the audience completely flummoxed about
his objective. It appears that he is inspired from
the current Madurai fad of Kollywood. But Madurai
Tamil, blood and gore without any sensible content
can never save a film. At a time when there are directors
who are on an untiring path to take Tamil cinema to
the next level, it is appalling to see films like
Maathi Yosi on a regressive journey.
The characterization of the four boys is fine but
what about Shammu? Where does she come from? Who is
she? Why does she trust these boys? Absolutely no
clues! The activities of Shammu who is portrayed as
an urban girl are an antithesis. She trying to have
a function organized for the kidnapped girl attaining
puberty and explaining it to the boys is one such
example. There are many many characters that appear;
they either kill or get killed. The boys are on a
killing spree and conveniently nobody bothers about
them! The director could have given some credence
to audience’s intelligence.
Performance of the boys is just adequate and so is
Shammu’s. The other members have done their
job and some of them are very infuriating. No one
stays in the mind. Ponvannan as a police officer does
a small part.
Few dialogues reveal some kind of sparkle in this
otherwise mindless film. The friends asking the jittery
boy to pray to Kamal Haasan when he is on a mission
to kiss the village headman’s daughter is one
such example. Another scene when the police inspector
chasing the culprits who looted the van, asking the
boys who appear to be defecating on an open ground
– did anybody go this way? And the boys replying,
the entire village goes here. Who do you ask? (Inda
Pakkam Yaarana Ponaangala? Inga Daan Graamame Poradu,
Neenga Yaarai Keekareenga?)
The efforts of technical team do not come to the fore
when the content cannot render them adequate support.
Nothing remains in the memory about the songs scored
by Guru Kalyan. The maamaama Maathi Yosi line that
appears quite often is such an aural sore. And so
is the screams of the ladies in the film for reasons
known only to them. There is not much work for costume
designer in Maathi Yosi as the boys are featured in
just drab shorts most of the time.
There is one character in the film which says ‘I
can’t see, I can’t see’ and commits
suicide. She could not have echoed the audience’s
sentiments in any other better way.
Verdict:
Maathi Yosi only in title
Star: 0
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Ponnuthaan, Namitha,
Nizhalgal
Ravi |
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