Soothing... Review on Vishwa Thulasi Movie

When there was no TV before, we have only heard and read about amusing stories, all the visuals are left to our imagination. When movies started coming in, we were able to add extra elements to our imagination. Like the palace coming in that movie or ''Rajakumari'' like Padmini. And songs from our favourite musicians.

Almost everyone will walk with such stories may be built around our own life with all that colourful elements. Very few go to record that in one art form. So they write a poem or paint or do some kind of art work and they are kind of very personal.

Man! I am really jealous of Sumathy Ram, the director who went on to create a celluloid of her imagination. There are some who like movies which flows like a stream in the greens. The director is truly a fan of such movies and she tried to pull together everything she enjoyed while growing up. So we hear ''Vani Jayaram''

type, a forgotten voice for more than a decade. So is the story; love between Jameendhar ''Viswa'' and ''Thualsi'' a Veena artist . Viswa Thulasi.

Are you wondering when was this movie made? Yeah! Hard to beleive when Kollywood has gone past the veena and village subject in their unique way, this movie was made after Y2K.

A movie doesn't need more than dozen characters. Sumathy Ram proofs this with 10 other characters among the two leads performed by ''Mammotty'' and ''Nandida das''.

Viswa is one Jameen who ages gracefully with the laid back life in one luscious village. Sumathy doesn't spend time to promote this ordinary man with super powers. She doesn't care Viswa is played by Mammooty. What do you think a rich kid growing up eating lot of badam, paruppu and thayir soru with no worries for money, work and has ample times to soak in music? And if you still don't have useful work, you can still do some ''panchayattu''!

Thulasi character is such, she cannot even think the word ''HARM''. She is such a soft person who is very innocent and her world is too small like ''The Little Prince''. The dusky Nandida has done justice to the role by playing subtly. They should have chosen a thin girl to play young Nandida. They might have picked up just for her eyes and a dancer.

The theater artist ''Kalyani'' has got some role for her challenge to play an elderly aachi with a mini scope than playing a boring emotional MOM. A change for her.

There are plenty of little things in this movie which deserves to be mentioned

A basket of ''Pavala malli'' to express interest of love

A touch on the Sari to convey

That jasmine plant grown by ''sugumari''. Even that plant had a character

The sequence between ''delhi ganesh'' and ''Mammotty''

The sequence between Mammotty and Nandida when he comes out to wash his hand after a meal at her house

That cow pooja and the explanations

They are worth to watch than mentioning it.

When ''bullets'' and ''sickles'' rule the Kollywood, there is only one violent scene where a ''chicken little'' was killed by the cruel person and to be even nicer, only the blood after the act was shown. The action is filled by the BGM.

With all those goodies, the ''knot'' which the whole story was made around let us guess what will happen in the end. When that moment comes, there was a twist. Why do you let that happen Sumathy?

It's really hard to kill the past and the demon comes at very unexpected time with its own plans. It's very hard to pick things from your surroundings. Even the pet (actually an elephant) quickly learns the signs. But the person with all his conscience fails because of the same conscience.

The songs are really placed well. I was wondering how come a song opens without any music at the early morning. The scene was ''Thulasi'' starting a day expecting her love at lunch. She calls the ''kakkai pillai'' and the ''KaKa'' crows, she calls the ''Palli kutti'' and it goes on. The music follows everything unfolding the day. Nice

one. Every song is soothing.

Sumathy Ram must had a producer who doesn't put any pressure for commercial reasons. Looks like she had absolute freedom in what she's making and she achieved that too.

Actually these films are not for theatres any longer. Atleast the North has picked up this Multiplex audience for such movies. South hasn't embraced it fully yet. To save the debacle to the producer, may be these directors join with TV network or TVnetwork should take some initiative to produce such movies.

All said, time to close this review.

''Mayiliragal Varudiyathu madhiri''....I don't find equivalent words to summarize this movie. If you cannot sit through this movie even at your home, either you must be a hyperactive person or a person who walk around with full load of tension and it's time to visit a doctor.