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Nava rasa review4/5/2023 ![]() For some time, the enemies stop firing at each other, forget the war and come together to save the horse. In a scene in the Hollywood movie, the horse gets tangled in barbed wires on no-man’s land. Karthik and his writer Someetharan have blatantly lifted the plot idea from Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, which was an attempt to see the scale of destruction of war through the eyes of a beast. That sort of originality is missing in Peace, which is based on the civil war that raged in Sri Lanka. The characters and images in his films were unlike what we had seen before in Tamil cinema. We are now living in the era of Pa Ranjith and Mari Selvaraj, who have changed the way we look at caste hierarchy in movies.ĭirector Karthik Subbaraj’s claim to success was the originality of his imagination. A couple of upper caste men using a boy, from what they perceive as a lower class, to do their dirty work and punishing him when things get messy sticks out like a sore thumb. What is missing is a little sensitivity, attention to changing times, and conscious effort not to normalise casteism. ![]() The class and caste distinctions are very clear in the setup. While it is funny that a dog dives into a pool of human waste, barges into a house and splashes the faeces all over a group of extremely neat looking people, there is nothing funny about dehumanising adjectives used to describe the protagonist by his schoolmasters. And it does, if you forget how crudely it portrays caste division in society. Priyadarshan’s movie is supposed to invoke laughter. Even the performances of Suriya feel clumsy. There is nothing natural about the way conversations flows in this film. The film, however, is a reminder that Gautham needs to reinvent/reboot his storytelling skills. And we all know romance is also the middle name of Gautham Menon. The theme of the film was shringaara rasa, which is romance. It received a lot of hype for Suriya and Gautham Menon coming together after more than a decade. This was supposed to be the crowning jewel of the anthology. But, Gautham Menon’s old techniques lets the movie down. ![]() As a logline, the story reads interesting. They both write songs together, share a ride, coffee and a kiss. He has even bought flight tickets but then his ambition takes a backseat, as he meets Nethra (Prayaga Martin). So he decides to fly to London and benefit from the thriving independent music scene there. Kamal (Suriya) is an independent artist, who feels he’s not valued in India.
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