Thursday, April 26, 2018

A review on Kaatru veliyidai and its auteur director

Breezy expanse kannamma review. Spoilers ahead. 

Bharathwaj rangan says this material is a little boring when seen as a movie but its a remarkable achievement as a film. 

Aditi rao hydari , a tamil girl goes to sri nagar, there's a mallu nurse there, shot cuts to a tamil guy karthi in conversation with a telugu higher official so and so. Maniratnam is pulling the entire length of india inside his film and the glorification of the airforce & defence Dept is interesting. 

The soldiers and weaponry are glamorous, the actual problem going on in kashmir, ie the stone pelting and the riots are not shown in the movie, instead director Mani ratnam focuses on "love in midst of war" like his other films Kannathil muthamittaal, Roja, Bombay etc. 

The passionate pilots and their happy life, the heroine’s friend (Rukmini) who dances with the  army men (everyone under the influence of drinks), the songs and everything keeps us engaged for sure but the rich and elite lifestyle shown in his films seems to be intended to leave the audience desperately longing for such an instragam filter added perfect life. 

This is anyways better than his over melodramatic movies like Bombay for example which Focussed on the difference between Hindus and Muslims,  the problems in an inter religious marriage and how distant the both cultures feel about each other. 

OK kanmani was an attempt to showcase Mani ratnam's amateur ideas about the modern youth . The film's hero likes to  approach the girls casually and speak lines out of classic literature. There's a fake hollywood overtone in the film because the characters do not speak naturally. They unnecessarily pause between sentences pretentiously like whatever they are speaking is of prime importance. 

The director wishes to impose cool english words in the dialogues but he also wants to pretend like its the normal tamil slang which is so annoying and spoils the movie experience. This art of hiding the fetish for english vocabulary by lethargically mixing it in common tamil has proven to only deliver dead performances. 


While Aishwarya rai survives a fall into a river in Ravanan , the droplets of water over her face gets more attention than her argument against vikram because the argument is made of unrealistic flashy dialogues.

Karthi shouts "i love you" and "sorry" every time he gets emotional which reminds us of dandandandandanakka roaring of vikram in raavanan. Despite hiring the best technicians, presenting bourgeois characters on screen, Rahman's music and everything, it becomes a joke in the end because of karthi's characterisation, it feels like it was a deliberate copy of the Tom hanks character in Top gun. Is this movie a  "rip off" of Tony Scott's Top gun?

Mere beautiful visuals, Life style portrayals, fashion statements and 
Interior designing doesn’t equal to film making. 

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