Films of Mani Ratnam

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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.