Great that Mani Ratnam is back. I wish he had made this movie in Hindi with Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt or one of the other youngsters. These urban love stories look better in Hindi and he would have a larger audience to cater to.
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A very smooth narration with pleasantness spread all over. It is like a person with good etiquettes has made a movie on borderline morality questions. This topic is not new (Cocktail in Hindi) but the way the movie has been rooted makes this an instant classic. The monotonous nature of the storyline does drag you sometimes and the parallel comparison with AP being unavoidable (Aravidsamy-Kushboo replaced by a better version: Prakashraj-Leela couple), still the movie manages to strike a chord. Usual Maniratnamish curios like Trains, Buses, Rains, dancing blankets, curtains, rain etc. fill the screen.
Anyway, final thoughts, great movie, Nithya is a wonderful successor to Shalini, but I must say (as a woman) Dulqueer just falls a tad short of the Maddy charm- the charm that one fell for with just one smile as he rode his bike in the opening credits of Alaipayuthey ?
Baradwaj, I am a big fan of your writing. Keep going great! Now, OKK-Light weight? It was more feather light. Unfortunate that Mani Ratnam is forced to make a movie like this to establish himself again in box office. I could watch Kadal many more times, and get moved, rather be without emotionally touched in OKK. I am revisiting DVDs of Raavanan and Kadal for the real magic of Mani.
c. Despite the story presenting opportunities for skin show or excessive intimacy, the director refrained from doing so and presented the whole concept in a clean, clean way. I saw the movie with my 60+ mom and absolutely felt no discomfort at any point. Kudos.
First generation is Ganapathy Uncle and Bhavani Aunty, who was in my opinion the best of three pairs shown in the movie, Love which starts in 70s with Love letters, pure at heart and stable till now showing that true love is not making passionate love at 20s its about caring for one another when they are incapacitated at 80s.
Not that one needs to add riders to what one feels about movies, but there is a distinct sensibility associated with each kind of cinema we make in India and Tamil films have that so much more! I have watched a very select few for this very reason ie if you dont have the sensibility you cannot appreciate it and i dont have it in me to appreciate a ROBOT/ENTHIRAN or a AAI or a SETHU. However KANNATHIL MM or IRUVAR or THEVAR MAGAN or ALAIPAAYUTHE i (notice how most of them were Mani Ratnam movies) I have enjoyed. Always considered him one of our most accomplished writer-directors who could set a story in almost any part of the country and still be able to pull it off just fine.
Not saying the film is horrid, but damn, was I bored throughout except for the bits with the older couple. The only heartbreaking part of the movie regarding the younger couple was that Nithya and Dulquer acted their hearts out for this tedium. Ugh.
Cinema I feel is an artistic medium. The director as a creator makes a film to satisfy his creative urges. How come more people are concerned about the social implications of cinema rather than the aesthetics involved. Mani ratnam & PC Sreeram duo have provided us with a visual spectacle to sense, feel and appreciate not to analyze, nit-pick and argue about. Being politically correct would kill the creative urges in a film maker. Watch Nymphomaniac for instance, it is a movie that is so beautifully crafted and sculpted however if you churn the surface all you would sendup with this scum. Guys tin is high time we develop sense of aesthetics. Casteism, religious and racial discrimination are part and parcel of Indian society when someone, who is indian, makes a sincere attempt at creating a film rooted in an urban Indian milieu there are bound to casteist and class echoes. In fact I would be antagonized and call a creator a hypocritical and insincere if such affectations where non existent in his work.
Like an old artisan returning to a trade long ignored, not really sure of his touch, but willing to try, in OK Kanmani Mani Ratnam marries the sweetness of being with its lightness and gives us a dish that is best savored in repeated viewings. This is a rainy day movie.
In trying to create a movie that attempts to give voice to what seems their aspirations, and suffusing it with that much needed gloss of Cassatta Cake Romance, he has given them and their love lives something to treasure. Trips to the gynec?
However Maniratnam, despite using the subject matter as cover, is actually celebrating romance, romance without the tie downs, which he tends to agree that in an Indian context is finally unavoidable. It was boring, in places, but five days after the movie, if some images of the couple manage to hover in your memory, his success as a film maker is assured. 2ff7e9595c