Saturday, 28 September 2013

Onaiyum Aatukuttiyum - ஓநாயும் ஆட்டுக்குட்டியும், Tamil Film

Roughly translates into The Wolf and the Lamb!!

After a disappointing Mugamoodi, the prodigiously talented Myskkin, sets the tone of the movie with the roar of lion, propels you to the edge of the seat, dextrously manages to weave the taut narrative with intensely brooding characters, long spaces of silence, the magical mixture of Ilayaraja's music and his trademark lament about the insensitivity around.

The narrative fluidity helps masks the flaws. A thumb rule for the fugitive on the run movies is that the fugitive manages to be just one step head of the guys who are trying to get hold of him. Neither the bad guys or the good guys here seem to have any specific plan to zero in. They just seem to be moving around in Brownian motion all round. 

I hope Mysskin revisits his own Anjathey and works towards a better climax. With so much of craft in hand, he has the necessary intelligence to do away with violence and also his fixation with knives!!!!.


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