From: mvishnu@bcr3.uwaterloo.ca (Meenan Vishnu)
Subject: Re: enRRum anpudan!
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:55:23 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.045944.12951@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> ssankara@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sornam Sankara) writes:
>
>
>In article <1992Nov12.024215.4233@menudo.uh.edu> Venkatachalam Aruna <aruna@tre
>e.egr.uh.edu> writes:
>>
>> One of the recent tamil movie "enRRum anpudan" passes the mediocrity
>>of tamil movies.Reminds a little bit of "naan paadum paadal", actually
>>very little.Starring: Murali, Sithaara,Rohini,Manorama,Janakaraj and
>>Senthil.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Venkat
>>--
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>>venkat@menudo.uh.edu                | If it comes back, it is yours.
>>venkat@uhupvm1.uh.edu               | If it does not, it never was.
>>aruna@tree.egr.uh.edu(NeXT mails OK)|
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>
>"naan padum paadal" was also a mediocre movie w/o any doubts.  In fact we can
>count the non-mediocre movies in Tamil released during the last 10 years.
>
>thaNNeer thaNNeer (1982) - Komal Swaminathan and K.Balachander,
>oru inthiyak kanavu (1983) - Komal Swaminathan,
>veedu (1988) - Balu Mahendra
>     these three for the theme and realism.
>
>
>maRu pakkam (1991) for the theme and realistic expression of inner feelings in
>a changing society.  - Sethu Mathavan
>
>
>muthal mariyathai (1985) for its artistic touch.
>puthumaip peN (1986) and vedham puthithu (1989) for the controversial theme
>and the messages.  But all these Bharathi Raja's movies are not very realistic,
>and commercial too.  KB's `achchamillai achchamillai'(1983) joins this
>category.
>
>
>poove poochchoodava by Facil was commercial but realistic to a certain level.
>
>
>There was one movie by John Abraham (MalayaLam director) "agraharaththil
>Kazhuthai"  was never released in TN theaters thanks to the Brahmin lobby.  It
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This group is very adept in suppressing literature that speaks against their
evil ways.

>was not allowed to be screened by the TV in its national network at the last
>minute, sorry, the last second by our ex. Hon president RV.  The story was by a
>well known Tamil literary critic Venkat Swaminathan who was a Brahmin and those
>from the Film colleges say that there is nothing against  Brahmins except the
>title.
>
>
>Other than that, Mani Ratnam, Bagya Raj, T. Rajendar, R. Sundararajan,  Telugu
>K. Viswanath are all just making business and are really very talented in it.
>They satisfy different types of crowds.  Bharathi Raja, KB, Balu Mahendra are
>also not exceptional.
>
>
>I may have missed a few (very few) other movies.  Please correct me if I have
>the years gotten wrong above.
>
>Our movie world has to learn a lot more from MalayaLam cinemas.  Even most of
>the commercial MalayaLam movies are not mediocre like Tamil movies.

This is very well said.  The difference between an average Tamil movie and an
average Malayalam movie is immense.

We (the Tamils)  may have inherited this fascination for unrealistic dream 
world stories thru our contacts with the irrational Sanskritic literature.
Here I am refering to the Sanskritic stories which are similar in spirit
to the story of Satyavathi's birth ( A fish swallows semen and later when
fishermen cut open the fish, they find two kids etc).

>S. Sankarapandi
>ssankara@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu


Meenan Vishnu
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