Katrathu Tamil{Tamil M.A}- Movie review

Katrathu Tamil{Tamil M.A} – Confessions of a ravenous Tamilian!

Debutant director Ram has delivered us a mystic mirror which displays the sad plight of a young Tamil graduate,enlightening us the other side of Tamil Nadu. Though a “pessimistic to the core” movie the director has made a lovely and lively movie which will have long lasting impressions in the minds of the audience. The director should be glorified for the guts with which he has shaped his ferocious fireworks. Despite the director’s effort to make the movie viewable for all the age groups, a few scenes drive us to say “Viewer discretion is recommended”. This movie is undoubtedly an avant garde rain in a desert of stereotypical Tamil movies. Jeeva has scored a triple century with the given piece of willow named “Prabhakar”, which will bring laurels to him and take him to new heights.

The plot is woven in the shape of number ’8′ using the “Stream of consciousness technique”. The story wheel starts rotating when we see Mr.Prabhakar{Jeeva}, the Tamil teacher of a small school in Chennai getting arrested for smoking in a public place. Following this he gets humiliated in the police station by the crooked policemen using his own “Tamil” as their mocking tool . As a result of this he assays to suicide which once again lands him up in the same old airport named Police station. But this time the nefarious policemen formulate a plan to convict prabha in a ‘weed’ smuggling case. Unlike the previous time Prabhakar skedaddles from them and runs for life. But this run forces him to commit a murder first and murders later. After a small interlude Prabhakar comes back and explains his life steps which he traced with fever and frustration to yuwang suwang{Karunas}, a camera man. As a small boy Prabhakar had lost his mother and grandparents and been brought up by a Tamil ayya {AzhagamPerumal} in a school in his village while his father left him to the army. Before moving into his favorite tamil ayya’s bosom Prabhakar spends his jocund time with his neighborhood girl Anandi{Anjali}. Eventually in a bus accident both Tamil ayya and Anandi’s father die and this provides Prabhakar the opportunity to renew his relationship passport with Anandi, which he carries on but only for a short while, till fate moves Anandi’s family to Maharashtra. Thereafter Prabhakar gets lashed by the whips of life and at last gets back Anandi though he has met her once in Maharashtra. The previously mentioned “interlude” is the Zeal of the movie and Nadir of Prabhakar’s life. To know what happened after Prabhakar’s video got published, visit Mr.Tamil M.A.

Once again Jeeva perfectly rolls the dice to move to the next part of his career. The emergence of Jeeva as one of the top-notch actors is as sure as eggs is eggs. Like a silver foil he shines out at the right times and in the right ways in this movie. Jeeva’s action makes it easy for us to think ourselves in the character’s shoes. In the last half an hour Jeeva goes for the full Monty through his angry questionings.The new comer Anjali who plays the female lead hits a clean home run using her motley named Anandi. Her adorable body language and appealing eyes proclaim that she has cut out her trump card perfectly. She corroborates that a real heroine don’t need a sentimental duet or a skin show to establish that she is the ‘heroine’. So the leading duo muscle with gusto to do their role best. Azhagamperumal who plays the Tamil Ayya with a Tirunelveli slang proves that he can do any character to the bee’s knees. Karunas plays a bit of comic melody in this tragic composition. Other than these director has puppeted every character well

The movie galumphs in the first half without any focus similar to the protagonist. After a big pandemonium it focuses its lens on the theme only in the second half. Too much of pessimism and lack of speed may obstruct the box office success of the movie. Although the questions posed by the director in this movie are appealing emotionally, they bring forth his ignorance of the existence of a whole lot of people who are successful after taking up a career in humanities,especially Tamil. The director would have taken care to see that a few scenes and dialogues are edited for profanity. The plot structure is too tough to make out for a run-of-the-mill man. If the director had fixed the above bugs,this movie would have been an unblemished one

Turning up to the technicalities, the Camera makes the chimera come true by swaying through various locations, in particular the mountain terrains. The Editor has done a good job by properly setting out the scenes, since its terribly difficult to contrive the bits and pieces of a stream of consciousness movie. Yuvan Shankar Raja‘s BGM is highly incongruous except in a few places where it conveys the effect of the scenes exceptionally well. All the songs are quintessential with Yuvan’s western imitation marks. “Para para Para Pattampochi” is the best of them all. So ‘Katrathu Tamil ‘says, If you play God you have the right to play with disturbing lives”

-Spontic