Happened to watch "Evano Oruvan" last Saturday. After reading the reviews I went with an expectation that I am going to see a different movie.
The movie starts with a brief overview of a normal middle-class person's daily life. Sridhar Vasudevan(Madhavan) is a guy who works for a private bank and his wife Vatsala(Sangeetha) is a house wife. They have 2 kids.They live a normal life at Nanganallur, Chennai. Sridhar is a normal middle class guy who fights for day to day living.He sees lots of happening in the society which people take it for granted.
Incidents like a shop keeper charging 2 rupees extra for coke, a road side shop keeper dumping things near hospital, a bike parked in no parking area, a water tanker guy asking 100 rupees extra to give water. Madhavan asks question to each and everyone of them in a violent way.
Incidents like a shop keeper charging 2 rupees extra for coke, a road side shop keeper dumping things near hospital, a bike parked in no parking area, a water tanker guy asking 100 rupees extra to give water. Madhavan asks question to each and everyone of them in a violent way.
How he transforms back to a normal guy and being treated as a fool by the society forms the rest of the story.
The way Madhavan deals with problem is what a normal guy would do. Its very natural.
Madhavan fits the role of Sridhar Vasudevan as a tee. He hasn't over (re)acted in any of the scene which is good.He is ably supported by Sangeetha and Seeman. Everyone in the film has done their job with perfection.
This movie is about you and me who sees atrocities in society day in and day out. We generally satisfy ourselves with whatever we get and that's what forms the theme of the movie.
No songs, No dance,No heroism, No fight sequence, No villain, No romance. Even if the movie has so many "No" I would rate this as a "Yes" movie .
Ps: Those who want entertainment can ignore this movie . Its not for you.
2 comments:
actually ur PS correctly describes the state of audience' mindset.
Entertainment for us have become larger than life charecters, hi-fi gravity-defying stunts, glamor, item-numbers etc..
kudos to Maddy for bringing out a truly parallel movie in such an unparallel world of ours.
Yes, u r right Ash. Parallel cinema is fast growing in Tamil film industry which is a positive sign,even though only few of them get commercial benefits.The greatest gift Tamil film industry has is its always a mix of parallel cinema and commercial cinema.
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