To me, this movie has two separate tracks… one about the Aghoris and another about the beggar mafia… and these tracks are somehow made to meet towards the movie’s final moments. (Reminds me of the times when I used to stretch one of the lines disregarding the instructions - while in Geometry class - to make it meet one of the others thereby completing some drawing/diagram that was due.)
What was the point of Arya building up this persona for this movie, when all he did was sit on his head with his butt in the air a couple times? I do not understand. I am hoping Bala might have…or atleast Arya…
Most of whom I spoke with about this movie, prior to watching it, warned me against watching it because of the grotesque manner in which the beggar mafia is exposed. However, the movie does not show things which are too different than what I have seen day in and day out growing up in a city like Madras. Of course, I did not surmise that the “disabled” kids begging on the streets may have actually been just another hungry stomach waiting to fed… and someone might have used this vulnerability to make a racket out of it. So definitely some new insights, albeit being showcased a little differently in Slumdog Millionaire, already. (To me it seemed like vada naattula mattum dhan varumaya, tamizh naatileyum irukku…adha kaamikkalam… sort of ideology).
Anyway the movie was different compared to all the jinguchakka films, with busty and rotund heroines trying to seduce (hopelessly, of course) heroes suffering from post steroid bulge syndrome.
Filed under: movies, rant | Tagged: psycho padams, wasted talent
