Khan Saheb Kamal Haasan's Jamaat/Jeba Koottam/Devasthaanam - Part 8

[jaiganes]

I don't know about Siruthai...

But on this topic, intentionally adopting a "lower" aesthetic ngradhu necessarily thappu illaiyE? I have to clarify that I read "intentionally adopting lower aesthetic" more as intentionally "dumbing down" or "playing it to the galleries"...

3 Idiots could be a great example- I loved that movie to the core. It conveyed it's message (quite loud and quite repeatedly as well) and it set out what it achieved to do. I haven't read the book but the way the characters were written intentionally as caricatures like the professor Virus, the nerdy dude from Pondicherry etc. were all done in a way to convey a serious topic in a jolly/clown-ish tone... Adhukkaga, Hirani-yaala "Hey Ram" maadhiri-yO, illai "Mahaandhi" maadhiriyO padam edukka mudiyuma-nu kekadheega.

Another intentionally lowering the aesthetic is fully applicable to Thenali, IMO... This was unbeliveable given that the man's previous movie was "Hey Ram". Whan I watched "Thenali" first time in theatre, I hated the movie to the core. And I felt like an odd person out because the entire theatre were laughing and roaring throughout the movie including my wife. It was later during the revisist(s) during family re-unions etc. that I figured I damn missed the point of the movie... I completley didn't read the tne of the movie right (starting scene 1 the way Jayaram rescues a mentally disturbed Vijayakumari in a "over the top" (pun intended) fashion...

Thenali is one of my all time favourite time pass movie-nga. Revisits worthy film that doesn't "blade" me at all. SeyaramaR's penchant for comedy has nveer been explored to the hilt before. and HaasaR sollave vendham, semmaiyA lalakeerpaaru (not much with dialogues but mostly via distorted mannerisms, body lAnguEj etc.)

what tenali - eh?
From now your opinions on movies are "in coma" to me.