Films of Mani Ratnam

[jaiganes]

Incidentally, I was revisiting some scenes from thaLapathi today (just to get a sense of how/where I got this feeling that the treatment in is unsubtle ). The scene with Surya and Deva after the latter visits Subbu's house with the marriage proposal has the touch I'm referring to. Deva is regretting now that he might have made things worse for Surya and Surya doesn't deny it (he does seem upset but brushes it off) but simply says "vENdAm! iva pOnA enna ippO?" This sort of moment is what I'm talking about. idhu mAdhiri moments avvaLavA illaingaREn. The tone with which the film is playing, one could be forgiven for wondering if it's going to be underlined that Deva did not actually spoil anything, the rejection was a given and so on. That's all.

How can one forget the follow up scene on the temple tank where the lovers part and Raaja plays awesome strand of "sundari" set to pathos.
Offcourse we could have been assaulted with repeated scenes of charuhassan expressing his disapproval of surya - but that is not central to the theme of the movie - is it? Also what mani wanted to show was the "stiff upper lip" of our 'educated middle class' towards guys like Surya - it is another recurring theme even as far as until "Ayudha Ezuthu" vis-a-vis Inba's maamanaar. Nice discussion guys - keep it going. hopefully this doesnt end with kabaali trumping thaLabadhi.. hubbukku theeraadha izhukku thedi thandhuraadheengappa.