Towards the end, having experienced the hilarious and often poignant interplay between such real, rural characters, it seemed to me that this is the sort of film that somebody like Manikandan would make if asked to do a village film.
Category: Film Reviews
Thondan: A big basket of moral lectures
He plays an ambulance driver called Vishnu who has saved 1,362 lives. And Vishnu, as you know, is the protector—saviour if you will—in Hindu mythology. One of his friends is named Vaikuntam. All daughters born in his ambulance generally get named Vishnupriya. The film is layered like that.
Brindavanam: A warm, fuzzy drama that works for the most part
Like Mozhi, this film too is about a menagerie of people across religion, caste and occupation, who live together as one happy unit. It’s for that reason that the film is titled Brindavanam, which translates to ‘a garden of happiness’. There’s an almost saccharine air of optimism that pervades the film’s world; think of the director as the anti-Bala.
Sangili Bungili Kadhava Thorae: A moderate entertainer saved by its final stretches
I also liked that Vasu, in a fit of fury, asks the ghost that which we have wanted to, every time another uninspired haunted house story comes our way: “Peikku edhukku veedu?”
Yeidhavan: An unaffecting, even if sincerely written, thriller
The hero himself, Krishna (Kalaiyarasan), embarks on a revenge mission, not just to avenge his dead sister, but to save the lives of other medical students. He’s noble like that.
Sudhir Srinivasan 