Sindhanai Selvar Dr.Kamal HaasaR - favourite movies,scenes 2

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Fantastic scene

What absolutely brilliant writing first of all. Kamal is silent throughout.

Not only the horror of finding his daughter in the brothel, but also the unspeakable horror of being suspected of abducting her and being beaten up for it. And the only voice we hear trying to explain is the weak-loser voice of Poornam Viswanathan. The very conceptualization is astounding.

Poornam - the believer, the wisher of good, the only who resigns to fate and wants to live in a peaceful corner - falls at the feet of the pimp and prostitute. Is a thoroughly ineffective advocate in the situation. When the Tamilspeaking madam comes, he totally flops and blabbers and can't even string together a sentence. Overwhelmed by the situation and emotions (solliNdE irukkEn, adikkaREL neenga - he is angry but it is the anger of a mouse!)

And when the madam says that he need not pay for taking Kaveri home, all Panchapakesan can conjure up is 'thanks' Is he even aware of the enormity of what she is saying!
Extraordinary writing/direction by Kamal.

And he is completely silent. Look at the way he looks up at the madam when she asks the girl to pay. What a complex emotion of overwhelming gratitude, shocked by the unexpected kindness he is showing.

There is one girl who (presumably) says: you give for me today, I will pay you tomorrow.
Why did Kamal insert that shot. More than cash in hand, what does that one line mean. The girl is saying I want to contribute to Kaveri's release today even if it means I have to pay for it by sleeping with someone tomorrow. Ghastly!!


The madam's daugher calling him 'appa' - the impact of that is tremendous.
You can see Panchapakesan in the next scene is relieved to have come out of the personal misery. He wants to retreat to his safe corner unmauled. He will probably want to forget anything happened at all. While Krishnaswamy says: 'ayyO...anga kAvEri maadhiri niRaiya puLLainga irukku Yamuna'.

And the line that shakes me up in this scene...
siri dee, un dheivam vandhirukku dee unnai koottittu pOga

It is Kamal's blackhumour to show faith in the depth of such misery. But it is such a brilliant depiction of the human condition. People will cling on to faith, particularly when that is the only thing they have to cling on to.

Kamal - you beauty!