Kottukkaali

Beauty of well constructed scenes keep you in awe. What we knew already from what we see is the premise of a Hyper Male against an Adamant Female. This Premise is aptly decorated by Family Members's idiosyncrasies and gossips.

Thus a Journey begins for the family, a rally to seek remedy to the current plight with prayers on either sides. Journey across Villages, Forests, barren lands leads us to the final destination. Journey is fillled with curious, inadvertent, stereotypic, touchy obstacles until we reach the finish mark.

A Road movie similar to Madras to Pondicherry done aesthetically. 

Frames, admirable, Rally view from the top, from the sides, from the front, Staccato Shots, Hyper walks, Justapoxing two or three Characters in a single frame, All these frames waiting for the viewer to interpret, leads us to the end of Journey with no apparent indication or suggestion. All these frames above does not in any way indicate the upcoming subtle transformation or about the Open Choice every one has to make in the end. Instead those Frames end up as a Outsider Gaze on a family, seeking remedy to a dispute, Viewed with curiosity and enjoyed with Silly Jest.

Frames though intelligent rarely evoke any emotion or movement within us. Frames does not add up to the overall Philosophy of the film if there was one.

End of Journey, the original Premise still remains nascent without flowering into any depth or Subtext. This left a gasping feeling of incompleteness at the end.

Film may pretend itself to be Open ended, it could also be because it could not grasp any depth all along during the Journey. All the movement that happens until the end is a mild indication to us that this Adamant girl is indeed a freedom loving girl where as the erstwhile hyper male is a doubting male now.

Thangalaan

Life of the individual juxtaposed with Life of the society in euphoric drama. 

Eventful journey of self discovery going back in time remembering the promise and responsibility.

Promise closer to truth whose voice we repeatedly hear throughout. Euphoric clarion call by the unmatched energetic force to stand by the promise and responsibility. Voice of the primordial power making us feeling safe and all consuming at the same time.

Promise in the form of pangs of conscience, dreams and inner voices you can neither ignore nor listen to. Journey undertaken demands to listen such voices and also demands to ignore the same voices to  chart your own intuitive path.A classic case of past leading us to the future. A habit to look back to arrive at now.

Standing out from the society but taking them along, Real Hero Arrives at the light dazzled by the complete truth of it only to carry a part of the whole to the show the world how it needs to be done.

Most famous hymn invoked here with all its grace.

Journey to achieve the material need brings within it the seed of contentment to bring freedom and everlasting peace. Movie beautifully captures that pursuit of wealth and contentment are inseparable and are intertwined with one another unimaginably. Unimaginably Dual.

Inversal of any folk tale or archetype is an excellent opportunity to learn more about our human nature. To arrive at the light we need to fight venomous desires, vigorous passions, Ruthless death has to be slain. but the same desires,passions and fear of death teaches us like no other , they are not to be shunned but faced and won. Nature in its splendid duality to teaching and taking us to the one light.

Buddha watching over centuries of similar lessons left unlearned. people Repeatedly left high and dry about the illusive goal of freedom and peace.

Should we move forward or go back in time to learn to keep the promise ? Was there a heavenly content society before us, long before us, Going by the stories we grew with answer seem May be. Individuals seem to have been arriving waiting for the Society.

Extraordinary film, with multiple layers of Retelling history, Retelling Social Order with a diligent eye for Individual liberation amidst all the euphoria.

The Delinquents

Who are these Delinquents ?

It begins as 

A common bet perhaps

Amongst the Delinquents,

Life time savings under the table,

But can only be used after, always,

Hidden amongst the rocks of time.

A pursuit not so uncommon

A pursuit not so greedy 

A pursuit in desparation 

A pursuit of promise

A pursuit of minor criminality

Pursuit is the bet

Bet is the pursuit.

Pursuit filled with 

So much tyranny 

So much distress to self and others

So much cunning and

So much anxious.

Pursuit broken by

Wonderful sunny day under the sky,

With love and company amidst the nature,

Unhinged flowing love brightly beauty, 

Moved by dreamy love,

Moved by arrangement of words, 

Moved by Silence and Movement.

Such days extended to eternity is

The Heaven

A dream, a promise, a yearning

of these Delinquents 

To keep things this simple.

Searching, a bet forgotten 

Waiting, a bet remembered 

Who are these Delinquents?