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| THAMIZH
PADAM MOVIE REVIEW |
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by : Behindwoods review board |
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Starring:
: Siva, Disha Pandey, M S Baskar.
Direction:
C S Amudhan
Music:
Kannan
Production:
Dayanidhi Alagiri |
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Having
reveled unabashedly in formulaic
and melodramatic stereotypes
from time unknown, it’s
time for us to wake up and –
well laugh out loud at ourselves.
Thamizh Padam, a parody of Tamil
movies of all times, spares
no movies, not even the ones
we usually classify to be above
all criticisms. Starting from
MGR, Sivaji, Jayshankar, Rajini,
Kamal to the contemporaries
Ajith and Vijay are spoofed
in style and tastefully.
The preposterously reoccurring
themes of rapes, saviors of
peace, retribution, turning
around fortunes in one night
and one song, ageing heroes
playing college students and
aged sidekicks playing their
college friends are mocked at.
And even the often untouched,
yet existent themes such as
infanticide are not left behind
either.
Mirchi Siva plays Siva, who
was born in Cinemapatti, the
village that kills male infants
as soon as they are born fearing
the ominous threat of them fleeing
the village to the city to become
heroes in movies. Siva, as an
infant, gets off the vindictive
hands of Paravai Muniamma, but
eventually flees to the city
to realize his movie dreams.
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becomes an undercover police officer instead
who lives and breathes to protect the civilians.
Siva falls in love in the midst of his business
of protecting-the-civilians and his future
father-in-law puts forth a condition: amass
wealth in just one night (and one song).
With a carefully constructed storyline,
aimed at taking potshots on every single
stereotype we are so used to (and almost
having forgotten what stereotypes are, for
their abundance), there are very few dull
moments in the movie.
Siva proves to be a revelation. He is a
riot and his college friends Nakul (M S
Bhaskar), Bharath (Vennira Aadai Moorthy)
and Siddharth (Manobala) are a scream. The
Boyz scene with Manobala is one of the highlights
of the movie.
On
the downside, the plot employs spoofs
of movies from the late seventies and
eighties in many places; the viewing pleasure
of which is enhanced only if the viewer
is familiar with the original. Not that
it proves to be a dampener, however.
Amudhan’s
research is ingenious and the inventive
plot construction deserves special mention.
He has wedged almost all famous movies
of our times into the plot, taking a leaf
out of famous movies including Naattamai,
Basha, Annamalai, Talapathi, Kanthaswamy,
Vettaikaran, Boyz and Run – not
to mention the good old ones. And sequences
like girl-raping-a-guy and villain shooting
himself to death are sure to bring the
roof down.
The fantastic rerecording complements
the tone of the movie fittingly and Kannan’s
composition for the song Omaha Zeeya is
a visual treat in itself.
So grab your popcorn and cola, get yourself
a ticket and watch Thamizh Padam with
your entire family. If not anything, you
might get a hint at how stereotyped our
movies are. Who knows, this might even
bring about a change in the outlook of
our creative heads. For better, hopefully!
Verdict:
You ought to watch it!
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