rk-pscse Reviews

Modern Love Chennai: Ninaivo Oru Paravai (2023) Season 1, Episode 6

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind ?

[6/10 · 7 June 2023]

Thayagarajan kumararaja , seems to have gotten inspired so much by international films, this one does not feel rooted to Chennai! And it seems like an alternative storyline of 'eternal sunshine of the spotless mind' mixed with 'a beautiful mind'!

Hmm, chennai is much more rooted than this and it fails to be rooted like super deluxe or aaranya kaandam.

As I was looking at it, the characters feel like they are a 2.0 version of the ones in taramani albeit a little bit more mumbaikar like or bangalorean like.

TK, please see the previous episode of bharathiraja and the characterization, casting and screenplay is much more rooted and crafted to perfection, and it was much simpler as a life that is still relevant in todays chennai.

Varumayin Niram Sigappu (1980)

Best Tamil Movie I have ever seen

[10/10 · 15 November 2010]

KB, the director of this flick has delved deep into the problem of unemployment in the 80's period of India. The license restrictions made unemployment further higher in the country and this story deals with a well-educated youth who is extensively ideal and does not lose his morality for mere survival. What follows is his actions in life making him fight his own father and come out of his house as an independent unemployed youth fighting in order to find a job. This movie also shows two other people who are the protagonist's room-mates and the film ends with the beautiful character portrayals and twist and turns. The film shows that morality is very relative in this world and the order of the day is survival through any-means. Among the protagonist's friends,one of them marries a rich widow and gets settled while the other becomes a mad-beggar roaming in the streets. The film's heroine is shown as a woman who is also a heavy victim of fate with a drunken father and a mad and rich boss who tries hard to marry her but she is in between the boss and her lover finally managing to marry her lover. Another beautiful character is the dumb painter on the roads trying to make a living through his paintings. What is clearly shown in the film is that the unemployed youth are well-educated and active young people and are not lazy people. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is exemplified through this film. Kudos to the director and the hero Kamal Haasan for this film.