Film / Documentary - Recently watched & worthy of some discussion

**hattori_hanzo** · 10th March 2015, 07:15 AM

Pisaasu. Being a fan of Mysskin's earlier works, particularly Anjaadhe, Yudham Sei and OA and after reading some good reviews I expected a lot from this movie. Quite a disappointment. I found it to be a mix of Anandhapurathu Veedu, Eeram and The Machinist. I wonder how Pisaasu became a BO success and but OA did not.

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**hattori_hanzo** · 10th March 2015, 07:18 AM

Anegan - Padathula oatta irundha paravailla, padame oattaiya irundha?? Kodumai. Can watch it only for Navarasa Nayagan who simply steals the show whenever he is around. Dhanush is wasted in all 3 (or 4?) roles.

**selvakumar** · 10th March 2015, 10:25 AM

Hattori - you might have earned the wrath of Anegan fans in the hub.

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**mappi** · 10th March 2015, 03:02 PM

Originally Posted by ilayapuyalvinodh_kumar

Yendi Ippadi Song !!! Wow.... Enna Ponnu Da !

Yes. The song was one of the coolest moments in the Film. I had been listening to the album for a long time, and still Yendi & Poo Avizhum Pozhudhil are still in my playlist. The beauty is the opening of the songs are part of the narrative. The events pass and at a moment the opening serves a BGM and then the song continues. I felt this quite amazing, as you know that you favourite song is going to be played.

Yendi from Ennakum Oruvan.

**mappi** · 10th March 2015, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by hattori_hanzo

Anegan - Padathula oatta irundha paravailla, padame oattaiya irundha?? Kodumai. Dhanush is wasted in all 3 (or 4?) roles.

But there is one loose thread and if you catch it, the film can suddenly become fabulous. Only one person on internet (I came across) spoke about it. As I did not like the film, I kept away from the thread. I saw it again recently on DVD (for 'the heroine' purpose) and found that the idea was great, but KVA, just like any other 'Ad film maker turned feature film maker' concentrated more on detailing, taking much time and at the end trying to wrap it up too fast. A kind of Mariyan Syndrome. No questions on the visuals, they all were amazing. But why Danush ? a miscast !

Anyway, the loose thread I am talking about is - there was never a reincarnation at all. The present Couple is just a co-incident (which I don't buy, and thats entirely a different issue, something I have to deal with myself). The other stories are fabricated by Madhu, thanks to whatever pills she is made to take by Karthik, her employer, who develops 'stoneage' video games. The purpose of the pills is to stimulate the imagination of the developers, then he sends them for a psycho analysis termed 'stress relief', gets the story from the psy and develops his games.

Madhu gets stimulated more than the actual capacity. She reads a book on Burma, and thus the Burma story. When she was a teenager, she meets Kalyani's father is the Rehab, and thus Kali story. But when she meets Ashwin, its like a dream come true for her, and she starts to confuse herself between imagination & reality. Karthik's facemask gets town by the hands of "twist" and the movie ends coupling all the ending of the couples imagined by Madhu (thats why KVA makes a point to show her then & there when Ashwin fights Karthik during climax).

Now, if you agree, watch the movie again, and you will get a different picture. But KVA does not communicate it properly to us, there lies the 'oatta' you are talking about.

**NOV** · 10th March 2015, 05:08 PM

Karthik, not every viewer needs a Gautam-Menon's-hold-my-hand-I'll-tell-you-the-story approach.
Watching it the first time itself, many of us understood the layers in the film.

**mappi** · 10th March 2015, 05:32 PM

NOV,

Not in an explanatory tone, but just to point out that the 'oattai' in question should not be confused with the capabilities of Madhu to decipher an information. Obviously, there will be continuity problem as she is narrating junk as reality. If beyond this, a viewer still thinks that there is 'oattai', its basicially his/her dislikeness towards the film and not an argument. Just wanted to make that clear.

And no offense intended to other spectateurs (I should have avoided "only one person" sentence, next time will be more careful).