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The flower facing the sun
Dec 14, 2008 08:13 AM 3087 Views

Rarely Tamil films are made from a literary source, and now we have'Poo', based on a short story by Tamizhselvan, a marxist writer. No, don't expect any revolutionary flavor or red dyed script. This is the story of a village girl who madly loves her cousin, an engineer. Maari always dreams of marrying Thangarasu, her maternal uncle's son, right from her childhood. But he is not aware of this, nor has any inclination towards her. He has to marry his dad's bosses daughter, according to the elders' wish. He is also advised that marrying within blood relations may affect their kid's health, and hence he decides to marry the rich girl. Before this marriage, Maari is also married to another petty grocery owner and she lives happily. During the end she finds that Thangarasu's marriage is a failure and she weeps for it.


What is special about this movie? Director Sasi who started his innings with'Rojakoottam' is famous for his soft romantic themes, and now he has shifted the scenario to a dry landscape, we have already seen in'Veyyil'. He has experimented with characters and faces that are fresh for a Tamil filmgoer. The film is set near Sivakasi, the cracker, matchbox and the offset town. The landscape is dry, mostly barren with a few palm trees strewn here and there, unlike a typical green village. The locale like a cracker factory is really new to the screen.


The characters are lively and taken from the real world, thanks to the literary team, who worked in the script, and new faces with good performances. There is a character who always wields a pen and self respect. He is proud when he is called as'Penakkaarar'(penman), and is wounded when called by other names like cartman or loadman. He has high hopes on his son, who is going to be an engineer and earn in five digits. There is a teashop owner, who punctuates every word with a'hallo'.


Every other sundry character like the mother, the factory foreman, the friend who loves to gobble anything, the traders, the phone booth owner is full of life.


Heroine Parvathi is from Kerala, and from her tan make up, you have to believe she is a Sivakasi girl.


Her mobile expressions which change every second is a real treat, until you feel bored and wonder whether she is over acting. Hero Srikanth is a real misfit here, though his character is well etched, his looks deceive. He stands aloof with his complexion and postures comparing with other actors. His rich wife and his girl friend from college are stereo types, we have been seeing in movies for decades together.


The director has given a different tone to the entire movie, but I wonder why should songs be included in such experiments. The film starts with a stupid song with the heroine and her husband singing in all locales, from the bedroom to the green pastures, while we have no idea of who they are at all. We have dream songs, the usual kids' song associated with village movies, the group dance where right from the hero to the extras, everyone dance in rhythm and careful steps.Of course, there are beautiful moments in the film, and the director deserves credit for them, but does such moments make the entire film?


Though I find the songs needless, they are hits in the FM circuits. When you see the film, you will surely remember films like Azhagi, Solla marantha Kathai, Onpathu roopai nottu and even the chinese classic'Road Home'. Why'Road Home', you may wonder. The heroine's waiting, her great run with the eatables to catch the hero on a rough path, the entire re-recording/theme music around her character.everything is'inspired' from the chinese classic.


But'Poo' is really a different film, and the Director should be appreciated for selecting a different theme and locale.


Flower of romance
Dec 12, 2008 05:35 PM 1655 Views

Sasi has come out with a masterly work of poo .. One may recall his work with debutant srikanth in rojakoottam , however this movie has srikanth playing a very suttle role as second fiddle to the heroine parvathy who engrosses the audience with almost perfect perdormance ..


The plot is about mari played by debutant parvathy who is madly in love with her maternal uncles son thangarasu played by srikanth. Right from childhood. As they grow up thangarasu takes up to study engineering under the guidance of an ambitious father who toils hard towing luggage laden bulloct cart for survival. Thangarasus dad is a man of principals and high self esteem and is popularly called as the " penna carrer" or the man with the pen in a village earning the subtitle purely on the basis of using his pen at every juncture. He wants his son to earn and settle well in life and every time he is illtreated by the rich he owes and takes pride that his son too would be earning in thousands...


Mari is very simple down to earth girl and has a able friend to support her as they both work in a fire cracker factory. Mari is so madly in love with thangarasu with whom she had never conceded that even a small spark of words about him get her angry and furious even if it was her best friend... The balance plot of the film is all about whether Mari marries the man of her dreams and whether the dreams of the father come true ..


The plot has an message to the masses with regard to marriage between blood relations and the problems that occur owing congenital birth defects which plays a vital role with the consequence of the story it self.. however the the turn of events only show that eventually people make so many sacrifices only to find out that there dreams are unfulfilled...


Srikanth with such a suttle role doing second fiddle is a rarety in modern day cinema and thats welcoming ... The director has made sure that he captures the moods and lifestyles of the the people working in the fire crackor factory very well and the characters go with the plot including the palm trees and the other props that the director has used like the cactus fruit etc...


Parvathy rules the film with almost a perfect perdormance mixes ignorance with a will to achieve very well and the same shows where it her attempts to match heights with the hero when she imagines the foreman in the company as thangarasu and tries to walk close to him even as her friend figures out whether the hieght was alright, the enormous wrong telephone calls she makes and gets blasted , and the way she kisses the hot dosas that she makes for thangarasu and burns her lips ...


Its a sincere neat effort and though the story gets a bit dragging the director has made it sure that he mixes romance with ample amounts of comedy with the available characters in the film escpecially thanagarasus classmates who runs a tea shop ..


Music is fair but eventually sounds amaeturish with the quality of music and recording facilities you have these days.


Overall the picture is a beautiful romantic flavoured flower at times soothing to smell but looses essence as the plot unfolds. But lovers of very soft spoken subjects would love it and certainly people who want entertainment please stay away


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