Saw Kannathil Muthamittal again. It is, in my opinion, one of the best movies I have ever seen, possessing beauty in form and content. The music and the lyrics, the dialogues, the characters well-etched and portrayed, the direction and the editing, indeed just about everything is nice. A couple of thoughts are in order now that I have spent nearly 3 more hours on it, having seen the movie a few times already.
When Amudha runs away from school the first time, she is found in the Perambur Railway Station. Peculiar, Mani Ratnam's attachment to the railways and trains: quite a few of his movies include an important scene on a train or in a railway station. A few movies that come to mind immediately are: Agni Nakshathiram(the song), Dhalapathi(the child abandoned in a train), Nayakan(the girl asking Kamal about her mother), Dil Se(the song and the opening sequence), Alaipayuthe(lots of scenes), Thiruda Thiruda(the premise itself), AE(Meera Jasmine and Siddharth have scenes on trains), Kannathil Muthamittal(see above) etc. I do not think it is exhaustive and maybe I am taking a piece of coincidental observation too far but..
The central theme in the movie is expressed of course in the beautiful Vellai Pookal song(a song for peace to dawn in a world torn in pieces by conflict), with each of the other songs providing variations or minor themes. For example, Vidai Kodu catches the effects of social displacement; Kannathil Muthamittal, the love-hate relationship between the child and the parents; the short ditty when Madhavan and Simran open their hearts, the idealistic couple; the other two major songs are intros to Amudha's character and to Sri Lanka itself. All fine songs and beautiful sequences though the songs I have not named are not favourites of mine.
The script is also a mixed bag of many ideas. It raises issues about adoption, terrorism, war, idealism, adjustment etc. One thing that matters a lot these days is terrorism and that will be the subject of my next long post.
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Definitely a great movie...and it needs a Vairamuthu and an ARR to express Mani's amazing creativity in words and music..awesome combination.
Sattena Nanaindadu Nenjam is a beautiful example of this...
well said man...
hey.. how are you! did not know that you had a blog site. that too a tam one! so unlike you
shy,
sattena nanaindadu was really sweet, short and captures the scene so well.. and vairamuthu near his peak.. very few songs have been as well written as the ones in this.. i have spent hours and hours listening to them again and again
anonymous,
thanks for the comment.. i am fine.. how are you? did not know i wouldn't have a 'tam' blog :-).. and do leave your name so i can address you by name :D..
cheers
Agreer...awesome movie, awesome songs, awesome lyrics(my favourite is vidai kodu engal naade)...surely Mani's best movie so far.
The suicide bombing scene...I get gooseflesh if I think of it even now.
Have seen it only once and was very impressed. Should see the movie again.
visited your blof after a LONG time and was quite comforting to read abt tamil movies! still getting in terms with champaign and hence donno where to get tamil movies and all that :(
rajesh & k7,
u definitely should catch KM when u can. agree with k7 that it might just be Mani's best movie. and baada, seriously da the suicide scene is terrifying..
shankar,
only the first couple of days(or weeks) da.. then the whole thing will become mechanical.. as for tam movies, i subscribe to an online streaming video site - tamilgrounds.com.. anyways have fun these first few days b4 grad work starts eating up all ur time
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