All the time, there was a bad bad myth about tamil cinema audience that experimental (rather off-beat) movies wont be accepted unless its from a hi-profile star cast or from the team who got proven track record. Recent few years are transforming and turning out to be healthy period for Tamil cinema. Here are few movies that I admired and enjoyed watching which was literally stunners out of nothing.
Attakathi : A bold attempt by the entire crew. A perfect calculated risk I would say. As vetrimaran pointed out, its mainly college students who are thronging the cinemas these days and the film is an absolute feast for them. No big stars, no big technicians, a movie made purely out of trust on the talents of many and turned out to be a good visual delight. Personally, I was very happy that the story location is my childhood playground and I can very well appreciate the details projected by the director. Special mention to the new gaana find who sung ‘Aadi pona avani’. Killer !!!
Pizza : Another low budget stunner. The movie redefined the element called Fear. Vijay Sethupathy rose to the new phase of his career after this master piece of Karthik Subbaraj. Having read Vijay Sethupathy’s long journey to this point, my respect to him increased exponentially. This movie is deftly set to challenge the Hollywood thrillers with the application called ‘Intelligence’. One don’t need foreign locations or mass heros or glam dolls to get audience glued to seats. Sheer thrill.
Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom : Excuse me, is that a movie name? My friend Anand (whose doing a cameo in the movie) once mentioned this movie name and I shamelessly laughed at the name. Only to realize the aweness of the execution later. Its easy to find faults in any master piece and barring that, to me, this is best Tamil Movie of last year given the hard work the team has put and most importantly, the budget they worked on. No words for Vijay Sethupathy again. This guy is sure an attention grabber. We watched this movie during a casual get together and we laughed out our heart and made the session very pleasant one. Ennachi ?? Adichi thookiduchi : )
Attakathi : A bold attempt by the entire crew. A perfect calculated risk I would say. As vetrimaran pointed out, its mainly college students who are thronging the cinemas these days and the film is an absolute feast for them. No big stars, no big technicians, a movie made purely out of trust on the talents of many and turned out to be a good visual delight. Personally, I was very happy that the story location is my childhood playground and I can very well appreciate the details projected by the director. Special mention to the new gaana find who sung ‘Aadi pona avani’. Killer !!!
Pizza : Another low budget stunner. The movie redefined the element called Fear. Vijay Sethupathy rose to the new phase of his career after this master piece of Karthik Subbaraj. Having read Vijay Sethupathy’s long journey to this point, my respect to him increased exponentially. This movie is deftly set to challenge the Hollywood thrillers with the application called ‘Intelligence’. One don’t need foreign locations or mass heros or glam dolls to get audience glued to seats. Sheer thrill.
Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom : Excuse me, is that a movie name? My friend Anand (whose doing a cameo in the movie) once mentioned this movie name and I shamelessly laughed at the name. Only to realize the aweness of the execution later. Its easy to find faults in any master piece and barring that, to me, this is best Tamil Movie of last year given the hard work the team has put and most importantly, the budget they worked on. No words for Vijay Sethupathy again. This guy is sure an attention grabber. We watched this movie during a casual get together and we laughed out our heart and made the session very pleasant one. Ennachi ?? Adichi thookiduchi : )
I also heard that the movies SoothuKavvum and Neram are currently attracting all corners. Cant wait to watch them but I can see that these movies will definitely open the gates wider for the next-gen fresh talents. Also invites new band of producers to join the field. For sure, this industry uses the social media marketing to the best and brings a productive change to the Tamil Film Industry. As an average tamil cinema admirer, I thank all the artists, technicians and most importantly producers for bringing a change and slowly pulling us out of those run-in-the mill stuffs. I am yet to recover from the shocks like Mugamoodi, Alex Pandyan etc., I can see God trying to save Tamil Cinema already : )
