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Tamil Padam
Saturday January 30, 2010
Amongst all unconvincing releases in the past few weeks, here’s an unparalleled flick that strikes off well offering gratifying nourishment to the film buffs. If we had our admirations for the ‘Hotshots’ and ‘Scary Movies’ of Hollywood, ‘Tamil Padam’ remains as a diligent effort from debutant Amudhan for its unique innovativeness.
The debutant has churned out every sequence, in such a way to impress and not to hurt the feelings of filmy buffs. Maybe, it’s sure to be a little disregard with flag colors representing the real life ones though it doesn’t carry the tagline message. Anyhow, C Amudhan weaves an interesting screenplay by blending each and every sequence as a hilarious lift from various Tamil films – Pokkiri, Kanthaswamy, Thalapathy, Nayagan, Anniyan and yet more….
When the village head orders a lady (mockery on the characterization of Paravai Muniyamma) to kill the newborn male child by feeding poisoned milk, the boy pleads her to depart him in a goods train so as that he can reach the city to accomplish his dreams of big aspirations.
As with accordance to your predictions, the hero grows up to be Shiva (Shiva), a responsible youngster sharing good rapport with his neighbors. His college life is so jovial with the company of his classmates: Nakul (MS Bhaskar), Siddharth (Manobala) and Bharath (Venniradai Moorthy).
Literally, he falls in love with his classmate (Disha Pandey) with the similar traits of Vijay’s’ Kadhalukku Mariyadhai, Mozhi and proposes his love similarly in the ‘Mounam Raagam’ style. Of course don’t miss his classical dance to impress his ladylove.
But when the father disagrees to get her married to a good-for-nothing orphan guy, Shiva enunciates his vows to become rich during an overnight course. Obviously, it’s where you will get to watch his double-handed signature just like Sivaji – The Boss and gets green signal for his love from her dad. But that doesn’t stop Shiva from striding on another aim, that’s about finding his dad and embarks a journey towards the village, where a lot of humorous stuffs are played. Nonetheless of all constraints, Shiva somehow zeroes down on his dad just with a family song as it worked in ‘Naalai Namadhey’ and ‘Yaadon Ki Bharath ‘…
And now, it’s time for the protagonist to head Chennai and on the course it’s revealed that Shiva is an undercover agent appointed to put an end to atrocious gangs in city. He’s assigned with a backbreaking task of trapping the ‘D’ Company (outrageous spoof on Ram Gopal Varma’s film as the director commonly uses the term ‘D’ company to signify Dawood Ibrahim). But as he unravels the backdrops of ‘D’ company, it’s quite as shocking not alone for Shiva, but for all the audiences as well.
Wanna know what’s all about? Just take a watch over this film as you will experience an unavoidable fun-filled moment.
Shiva plays out every moment of the frame with a boisterous appeal. Be his introduction sequence or a heavy flow of fun with ‘Anniyan’ buffalo-umbrella stuff, he’s sure to bring the roofs down.
However, fans of Silambarasan and Vijay will have to be patient with some rib-tickling spoofs played on the actor. Revealing more than this would surely lower your expectation levels.
The greatest attribute of this film is its reasonable duration of 130mins and top-notching technical aspects. The film doesn’t carry much minuses as we got to watch it effortlessly picking out illogical quotients.
Musical score by Kannan doesn’t capture your senses to greater extent except the funny number ‘Oh Maha Zeeya’… Nirav Shah’s cinematography is excellent and his serious efforts for placement of innovative camera angles are appealing while editing is much similar to the situations picked from various films.
Finally, ‘Tamizh Padam’ is a sure-footed winner at box office and to be precise, it’s a onetime effort and may not work out if any filmmakers attempts for similar genres in mere future. Possibly, this is an endeavoring effort by Amudhan just as it happened with Hindi film industry’s ‘Quick Gun Murugan’.
What works: Shiva & complete star-casts, screenplay, cinematography.
What doesn’t work: Songs, Editing, few shots of direct spoof on actors.
Verdict: Must watch it.
Banner: Cloud Nine Productions.
Production: Dayanidhi Azhagiri.
Direction: C. Amudhan.
Star-casts: Shiva, Diya Pandey, Manobala, M.S. Bhaskar, Venniraadai Ramamoorthy and others.
Music: Kannan.
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