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Mirugam Movie Review |
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Mirugam
Cast
: Padmapriya, Adhi, Kanja Karuppu
Direction: Samy
Music: Sabesh – Murali
Production: KarthikJai Movies Pvt Ltd
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Set
in the 1980s, Mirugam sheds light on the awakening of awareness
to AIDS in Tamil Nadu, in a rural and backward village in
particular. Having said that, the movie does have a solid
plot; had the treatment meted out to it been more sincere,
it would have stood a chance to be rated among one of the
eloquent movies of the year. If you do not consider a waywardly
hero sleeping around with every willing women, doing drugs,
and gambling to be controversial, Sami has saved himself from
the whirlwind of hullabaloos generated by his earlier stint
with Uyir. |
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Aadhi
plays the rustic villager – whose mother is a
commercial sex worker, that gives him enough and more
freedom, perhaps, to live an unrestrained and wild life.
The hero, an irrepressible alcoholic and a recluse,
tends bullocks and makes a living out it – most
of which he blows out gambling and sleeping with prostitutes.
After losing his mother, he is being raised by a couple;
however, he ill-treats and hurls derogatory abuses at
them – the reason stated being his mother’s
ill-treatment at the brothel. The director here fails
to answer the basic question of the protagonist’s
relentless frustration towards his foster parents who
are in no way responsible for his mother’s plight.
Aadhi marries the village damsel Padmapriya with the
sheer intention of sex and ends up raping her after
marriage. Although his assaults and abuses become habitual,
Padmapriya, like any other girl in the history of Tamil
cinema, vows to transform her companion with visibly
negligible results. |
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The
movie further describes the circumstances that lead
Aadhi to contract the AIDS virus and diagnosed with
what is termed as a mysterious disease at that period.
Eventually, will Padmapriya stand by him now till
the end of his life or abandon him for the sake of
her life forms the crux of the film.
There
couldn’t have been a better choice than Aadhi,
son of a lesser-known Telugu producer, for the role
of Ayyanar. His character is made to be loathed and
while he gambles, misbehaves with housewives, and
endlessly transgresses with his foster parents, he
scores full points. However, since the whole point
of his behavior is not substantiated, his histrionics
seems wasted without a cause. Padmapriya is first
rate as the village belle. Look out for her histrionics
in the climax sequence.
While
the AIDS issue could have remained the focus of the
movie, Sami, on the other hand indulges mostly in
other shoddy matters providing it with an overdose
of sex delving too much into it. His lack of clear
conviction in the subject is glaringly visible that
probably made him adopt other ways and means reducing
the movie to a mediocre product.
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If
there were two aspects to be handpicked from the movie,
camera and music stand apart. The rustic village setup is
skillfully captured by the cameraman and the music travels
effortlessly through the narration.
On
the whole, Sami’s attempt seems like a lost ball in
the high weeds.
Verdict: Well Intentioned, half baked presentation
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