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Behindwoods Visitor
Prasanna Kumar |
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It’s
so intriguing and interesting
to know the nuances of movie
making. The enigmatic part
of it is to understand the
way it weaves an experience
into the being of the audience
despite it being surreal in
nature. It is said that every
director has only one story
to tell but they tell it in
different ways and end up
making many movies. As far
as the Tamil film industry
is concerned I just can’t
help but notice an aspect
that’s so profound,
the fascination to deal with
one bold human emotion again
and again -‘pain’.
All these years we have acknowledged
certain kinds of movies that
have adorned the big screens
and those movies are now perceived
as cult movies and milestones
in the history of Tamil cinema.
For instance 16 Vayadhinile
was made more than 30 years
ago, which in its time was
perceived to be a new wave
as the dawn of rustic realism
in Tamil cinema. Paruthiveeran
and Subramaniapuram in the
recent times were received
so well that they are now
being touted to be path breaking.
These three movies, though
belonging to different slots
in the timeline of Tamil cinema
have many things in common.
They are harsh, intense and
most importantly unpleasant
to watch the way it ends.
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The characters in these movies are so simple
and easy for the audience to relate to.
In fact the characters come to life in a
way that it gets really hard for the audience
to digest what happens to them in the movie.
In other words the audience was made to
see horrible unexpected and unwanted things
happening to those characters. In short
these films struck a chord with the audience
where content of the film played a key role.
Well, how many of us would even have the
heart to see someone getting brutally raped
or killed, to whom you would wish only good
things happening.
The thing that disturbs the audience the
most is the feeling of seeing something
really horrible happening to a person in
front of their eyes which they wouldn’t
want to happen to them even in their worst
nightmares. People get infused with such
an uncomfortable emotion and they attribute
it to the movie and end up calling it as
the effect of the movie but what they fail
to recognize or realize is that it’s
the content that disturbs them the most
than the movies depiction of it.
I would like to conclude by saying that
I am just bored and tired of movie’s
which are bold and loud expressions of human
suffering, I don’t want to see another
Moondram Pirai or another Sethu or for that
matter another meaningless cinema in the
name of rustic realism showing pain which
seems to have become the order of the day.
A commendable movie need not necessarily
be a tear jerker, it could be about the
subtle aspects of life, subtle aspects of
varied human emotions and not just pain.
Thanks
with regards
Prasanna Kumar
rrprasannakumar@gmail.com
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