Once in a while, in tamil cinema, you will get a movie that has the director shouting aloud “I am a non-conformist. Come watch this! You haven’t seen this before.” ‘Pattiyal’ is a reminder that such movies, even if they are unconventional, do not necessarily have to be good.
Coming from the team that made ‘Arinthum Ariyaamalum’, the movie goes out of the way to break the mould of conventional tamil cinema. It does not have a set of ‘right’ people fighting the ‘wrong’ ones. Its protagonists are killers. Hired guns do not care about their targets and that’s the way life goes for ‘Kosi’ (Arya) and Selva (Bharath). They kill for money and see it as the means of their livelihood. By the movie’s standards, either it isn’t such a lucrative business or the middleman who gives them the jobs leaves them with just enough dough for their booze and cigarettes.
But that’s where all the ‘different’ things come to an end. From intro songs to item numbers, fleeting glances to damsels in distress, the movie has its fair share of clichés. It also has two unnecessary girlfriend characters that simply don’t belong in the movie other than to provide excuses for the ‘love’ songs and ‘light’ moments. Had this been a simple story about killers, it would have been a lot more effective.
The acting is not all that effective. The four leads have a combined experience of about ten movies. The only one to make any impression is Padmapriya as ‘Saro’ who pines for Kosi, which she has been doing for a while, much to his irritation. Bharath plays the mute and has to do all the acting with his eyes. It is not too convincing for him to be able to read and write while being mute. The lip reading thing is a little too much and the guy should be blessed with ESP to be doing some of the things he does. Arya’s dialogue delivery is like Parthiban’s ; irritating and monotonous.
Amongst other things , ‘Pattiyal’ is also a sign of Indian directors’ exposure to niche cinema, especially reminding us that they do see movies like ‘Boondock Saints’ and want to think and create on those lines. Maybe the industry is being killed by producers who do not want to take risks. Nevertheless, the movie is a small attempt at breaking the classical mould and searching for stories in unusual places. We have been witnessing these false starts for a while now. Hope the real thing is round the corner.
By the way, why was this movie named 'Pattiyal'? No clue!!
5 comments:
Watch the movie again - the movie name will be said aloud somewhere. If not, then this movie has surely broken the tradition.
well, i havent seen the movie yet, but the word of mouth was that it is far better than the adi, paramasivam crap that has been fed to us. calling this director the next maniratnam is still too much.
commercial tamil cinema will have song and dance numbers....thats y they r commercial. i saw another "commercial" hindi movie taxi number 9211. Goin into the theater, i was thinking that this is gonna be another rip off of collateral and a few other taxi movies put together with a few songs and item numbers.......but i was wrong, totally wrong......surprisingly the movie is totally original(to my knowledge atleast), the item number comes after the end credits!!!!!! there is no sameera reddy skin show, there is some excellent acting from nana patekar. dont worry, its not the angry shouting nana patekar. i must saw, its worth a watch. it atleast gives u the satisfaction of watching a decent hindi movie(its less than 2 hrs...another record!!!).its running for full shows!!!!!!!!
oh boy...any movie made will be better than aadhi and paramasivan lol wat a horror it was to watch it..well havent seen the movie yet but ppl going to the extent of saying Vishnuvaradhan is the next Mani Ratnam is i guess premature...
mainstream heroes like vijay and vikram are jittery. Vijay was able to succeed as other movies were mediocre. With the kind of competition and talent, Vijay and Vikram need to work hard on their story lines.
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