Irudhi Suttru/Sala Khadoos: There is neither the float nor the Sting

A  movie not only gets evaluated on its intrinsic merit but is also influenced by the expectation of the audience.

Let me also profess that I am a hardcore fan of Maddy and familiar with almost all his movies.

IN the recent times, I had inadvertently comes across two You Tube videos of Maddy and one of them touched upon fidelity. I should say the honesty of Maddy was so overwhelming , that my respect for Maddy had risen manifold.

Maddy had the guts to produce Evano Oruvan, based on Dombivili Fast which was again based on Falling Down. A truly important work of anger and angst. Much as it was piece of work which was adapted, the lament of a conscientious citizen, in the background of a civilization languishing and helplessly going  through the motions of life, was worthy of being narrated. Falling Down, probably had to be retold in all the languages spoken all around the world.

However bitter the box office debacle of Evano Oruvan meant, it certainly had to be made.

The bar had been set high.

So when Maddy promoted the film, with a sense of energy and purpose, I truly believed that Sudha Kongara’s work would be something new.

For Maddy, I was quite happy that the movie seems to had made a big impact on the audience. There was enough hooting and approbation, which should send the cash registers ringing.

But  Alas, Maddy, you just need to touch your heart, and ask, yourself If there was an iota of originality in the film.

Formulaic and derived from innumerable movies, one just wondered, why a three minute story of Maddy’s past did not occur in the narrative. While major mapping has happened from Karate Kid, especially in the second half,  one would have expected the unjust axing of Maddy, as a flash back. An important formula just went missing!!!

And our stupid formula has to include the mandatory love/lust story.

We have all round technical brilliance. The editor in particular sends your heart a flutter, in the first forty minutes, with some ecstatic editing.

But have we lost the ability to think something really original.

There is a difference between adapting meritorious works of art and then mapping and building blocks of a storyline from different movies.

Lego may want to build a new line of product for the Indian film community.

Works of art are reflection of the society which we live in.

Our thinking continues to be servile.

For the love of Ali, who gets quoted time and again in the film, one of his most memorable quotes, “Float like a butterfly, Sting Like a Bee. The Hand’s cant Hit, what the eye’s can’t see”.

There is neither the float nor the sting, only a worn out formulaic mess.

Et Tu Maddy?