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

[Movie Cop]

Thanks Sahala.

Thenali is an unapologetic, unambitious, unpretentious movie which actually helps to exceed expectations. It even mocks at it’s own simplicity at couple of places where a) HaasaR spinning the suzhal to narrate a flashback b) HaasaR telling sOthika to get ready to sing a duet with him at a foreign location… To the people I’ve known, surprisingly, most of them see it as a funny movie (just a reality check on myself that I’m not taken over by craziness). Thankfully there is not too much of "aal maaratam's" or "word play/pun etc." that is often assoicated with Kamal/Crazy combo. The movie is very minimalistic and thrives just on the situations than through sheer wittiness.

Oru sila sample scenes:
1. The tree falling scene was downright hilarious – Jayaram’s expression, Haasar’s innocence “andha murugan thooki tharuvaan… neengalum konjam thookungO….”
2. The expression on a terribly broken/frustrated Jayaram on seeing Madanbob rushing towards Thenali (returning back to the home for the zillionth time) to ask “dei thenali andhe foreign rusk dhabba enga da…”
3. Delhi Ganesh/Ramesh Khanna following Thenali throughout Kodaikanal (however lame and unrealistic it looks) – they kinda serve as folks giving running commentary of the events to add that one last laughter (more of an after thought).

Indhe maadhiri china china things neraiye sollalaam… Even that “eli” fight is surely a better watch than the standard template “dishum dishum” fight one get’s to see in these kind of movies… The only drawback to me is the couple of unwanted duets that is placed at wrong time which slows down the madness.