சூது கவ்வும் by Nalan Kumarasamy

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எந்த ஒரு கலைஞனுக்கும் கட்டாயம் இருக்கவே இருக்க கூடாதது இதுமாதிரியான கைய புடிச்சி இழுத்தியா தொடர்புகள்தான்! க்ரியேட்டிவிட்டிக்கு முதல்தேவை கட்டற்ற சுதந்திரம்தான்.ஆனால் அன்பார்சுனேட்லி அன் யுனிவர்ஸல் ஒபீடியென்ட்லி பாவப்பட்ட கோடம்பாக்கத்து உதவி இயக்குனர்களுக்கு அந்த பாக்கியமே கிடையாது.

சினிமாவில் நுழைய வேண்டுமென்றால் இதுபோன்ற ஆயிரம் பெரிசுகளை தாண்டித்தான் வரவேண்டியிருக்கும். அப்படி வருவதற்குள் அவனுடைய சகல புதுமையான திறமைகளும், சிந்தனைகளும் மங்கிப்போய் மட்டையாகி மண்ணாங்கட்டியாகத்தான் வெளியே வருவான். ஏதாவது மொக்கையான லவ் ஸ்டோரியை தமிழ்சினிமாவின் சகல க்ளிஷேகளுடன் எடுத்து ஃப்ளாப்பாகி ஊருக்கே கிளம்ப வேண்டியதாகிவிடும்!

நாளைய இயக்குனர் நிகழ்ச்சி மூலமாக வருகிற குறும்பட இயக்குனர்களுக்கு இந்தத் தொல்லையில்லை. சொல்லப்போனால் அவர்களை சுற்றியிருக்கிற பெரிசுகள்.. ஏன்டா இப்படி சினிமா கினிமானு வெட்டியா திரியற, ஏதாச்சும் உருப்படியா பண்றா என்பதை மட்டும்தான் அறிவுரையாக வழங்குவதை பார்த்திருக்கிறேன்.

அதிகம் போனால் கஷ்டப்பட்டு உன்னை உங்கப்பாம்மா எப்படி படிக்க வச்சாங்க.. ஏன்டா இப்படி அவங்களை கஷ்டப்படுத்தற என்பதாக இருக்கலாம். ஆனால் யாரும் தப்பித்தவறியும் கூட இந்த இடத்துல காமெடி டிராக்.. இங்க ஒரு டூயட்டு.. ஃபைட்டு கட்டாயம்.. தர்மம் ஜெயிக்கணும் அதனால ஹீரோ சாகணும் மாதிரியான யோசனைகளை கொடுப்பதில்லை. அதுதான் இவர்களுக்கு பலமாக இருக்கிறது.

அந்த வகையில் காதலில் சொதப்புவது எப்படி தொடங்கி ‘பீட்சா’ கார்த்திக் சுப்புராஜ்.. இதோ இப்போது ‘சூதுகவ்வும்’ நலன் குமாரசாமி வரை.. குறும்பட இயக்குனர்கள் பாக்கியவான்கள். அவர்களுக்கு வழிகாட்டுதல்களை வழங்கி காலி பண்ண பழம்பெரிசுகள் இல்லை.

அவர்களாகவே நீந்தித்தான் கரையை அடைகிறார்கள். நிறைய உலகப்படங்களை பார்த்து நிறைய வாசித்து தங்களுக்குள் விவாதித்து சினிமாவை கற்றுக்கொள்கிறார்கள். தங்களுடைய தவறுகளை ஒப்புக்கொள்கிற நேர்மை இவர்களுக்கு இருக்கிறது. வாழ்க்கையிலிருந்து சினிமாவை படிக்கிறார்கள். சினிமாவுக்கென்று கதை வசனம் எழுதாமல்.. இயல்பாக தங்களுக்கு தெரிந்ததை எழுதுகிறார்கள். குறிப்பாக இவர்களுக்கு தோல்வியை பற்றிய பயமே இல்லை!

அதனாலேயே என்னவோ இவர்களுடைய படங்களிலும், எந்த வித தயக்கமும் இல்லாமல் இதுவரை தமிழ் சினிமாவில் கடைபிடித்துவந்த சகல இலக்கணங்களும், வரையறைகளையும் சுத்தியலால் உடைத்து நொறுக்கி குச்சியை விட்டு நோண்டி ஒரே ஜம்பில் மீறுகிறார்கள்.

‘மௌனராகம்’ மோகன் மாதிரி இருக்கிற நம்முடைய ஆர்தடக்ஸ் இயக்குனர்களுக்கு மத்தியில், அதே படத்தில் வருகிற துறு துறு கார்த்திக்கை போன்ற இந்த சுட்டிப்பையன்களின் வரவு தமிழ்சினிமா ரசிகர்களை பெரிதும் கவர்ந்திருப்பதை கண்கூடாக பார்க்க முடிகிறது.

அட்டக்கத்தியில் தொடங்கி, இதோ இன்று சூதுகவ்வும் வரை வந்தது எதுவுமே சோடைபோகவில்லை. மக்கள் அப்படியே அள்ளி கட்டிக்கொண்டு தலையில் வைத்துக்கொண்டாடுகிறார்கள்.

‘சூது கவ்வும்’ படம் ஓடுகிற உதயம் தியேட்டரில் மிகச்சரியாக ஒவ்வொரு மூன்று நிமிட இடைவெளியிலும், விசிலும், கைத்தட்டலும், சிரிப்பொலியும் பறக்கிறது. திரையரங்கமே அதிர்கிறது. ஹெலிகாப்டர் காட்சியில், முதல் கடத்தலில், நாயகனின் திட்டங்கள் சொதப்புகையில், சைக்கோ போலீஸ் டிக்கியில் சுட்டுக்கொள்ளும்போது, நாயகநண்பன் பிட்டுப்படத்தில் நடிக்கும்போது, டவுசர் கழண்டுச்சு மாமா என்று நாயகி சொல்லும்போது என ஒவ்வொரு முறையும் தியேட்டரில் கொண்டாடுகிறார்கள்.

ஒருபடத்தில் என்னவெல்லாம் இருக்குமோ, அதெல்லாம் இந்த படத்தில் இல்லை. ஒரு படத்தில் என்னவெல்லாம் இருக்க கூடாதோ, அதெல்லாம் இந்த படத்தில் இருக்கிறது. ஒரு நாயகன் என்னவெல்லாம் செய்ய மாட்டானோ, அதையெல்லாம் செய்கிறான். ஒரு நாயகி என்னவெல்லாம் பேசக்கூடாதோ, காட்டக்கூடாதோ, அதையெல்லாம் அவள் செய்கிறாள்.

நல்லவர்கள் படம் முழுக்க தோற்க.. கெட்டவர்கள் ஜெயிக்கிறார்கள். (படத்தில் மொத்தமாகவே நாலைந்து நல்லவர்கள்தான்.. இல்லை இரண்டுபேர்.. ஒருத்தர்.. நியாபகமே இல்லை)

இது நிச்சயமாக மசாலா படம்தான். ஆனால் இதில் டூயட் இல்லை.. காதல் இல்லை.. காமெடி டிராக் இல்லை.. அதிர வைக்கும் சண்டைகாட்சி இல்லை. ஆனாலும் தியேட்டரில் படம் பார்த்த சகலரும் ஆந்திரா மெஸ்ஸில் டபுள் மீல்ஸ் சாப்பிட்ட த்ருப்தியோடு ஆவ்வ்வ்வ்வ்… என ஏப்பம் விட்டபடி தியேட்டரை விட்டு சென்றதை காண முடிந்தது. படம் பேஜாருப்பா என்கிற குரல்களை கேட்க முடிந்தது.

குறும்பட இயக்குனர் என்பதாலேயே, ஒவ்வொரு காட்சியையும், ஒரு குறும்படத்தை போலவே உருவாக்கியிருக்கிறார் இயக்குனர். ஒவ்வொரு காட்சியிலும், ஒரு GIMMICK ஒரு சஸ்பென்ஸ் மற்றும் ஒரு ட்விஸ்ட்! இதுதான் ஃபார்முலா.. தனக்குத் தெரிந்த இந்த ஃபார்முலாவை படம் முழுக்க பயன்படுத்தியிருக்கிறார் நலன்.

ஏ.ஆர்.முருகதாஸ் படங்களில் இதுபோன்ற திரைக்கதை அமைப்பை பார்த்திருக்கலாம். அதற்கு ‘ரமணா’ நல்ல உதாரணம், ஒவ்வொரு காட்சியும் ஒரு குட்டி குறும்படத்தை போன்று அமைக்கப்பட்டிருக்கும். உதாரணத்துக்கு மருத்துவமனை காட்சி.. பிணத்தோடு வருவது அதை அட்மிட் செய்வதில் தொடங்கி.. ஏழை குடும்பத்துக்கு பணம் வாங்கிக்கொடுப்பதில் முடிந்துவிடும்.

ஒரு கிம்மிக் ப்ளஸ், ஒரு சஸ்பென்ஸ், ஒரு ட்விஸ்ட்... ஒவ்வொரு காட்சியிலும் இந்த மூன்றும் சுவாரஸ்யமாக அமைந்துவிட்டால் படம் ஸ்யூர் ஹிட்! துப்பாக்கி திரைப்படம் இதற்கு நல்ல உதாரணம். இது நலன் குமாரசாமிக்கு நன்றாக கைவந்திருக்கிறது. முதல் கடத்தல் காட்சி இந்த வகையில் அமைந்திருந்தது. அதாவது ஒரு சில விதிமுறைகளோடு நடக்கிற கடத்தல்.. அதை எப்படி செய்யப்போகிறார்கள் என்கிற சஸ்பென்ஸ். இறுதியில் கடத்திய பெண்ணுக்கே கொஞ்சம் பங்கு கொடுத்துவிட்டு செல்கிற ட்விஸ்ட். இப்படித்தான் மொத்தபடமும் கட்டமைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.அதோடு இயல்பான வசனங்கள் படத்தின் இன்னொரு பலம்.

திரைக்கதையில் குறிப்பிடதகுந்த அளவுக்கு லாஜிக் மீறல்கள், சில மொக்கையான காட்சிகள், திணிக்கப்பட்ட பாடல் ஒன்று என குறைகள் இருந்தாலும்.. புதுமுக இயக்குனரின் முதல் படம் என்பதால் தாராளமாக மன்னித்துவிடலாம். அதோடு காசுபணம்துட்டுமணிமணி பாடலும் கூட ஏதோ பெரிசு ஒன்றின் அட்வைஸால் சேர்க்கப்பட்டதாக இருக்கவேண்டும். படத்தோடு கொஞ்சமும் ஒட்டவில்லை. முதல் காட்சியில் ஒரு நியூஸ் பேப்பரில் படிக்கிற செய்திகள் மூலமாக படத்தில் நாம் சந்திக்கப்போகிற சகல பாத்திரங்களுக்கும் லீட் வைத்ததை மிகவும் ரசிக்க முடிந்தது.

விஜயசேதுபதியும் இசையமைப்பாளரும் இயக்குனருக்கு இரண்டு கைகளாக இருந்திருக்கிறார்கள். இந்த விஜயசேதுபதி எந்த கேரக்டர் கொடுத்தாலும், அந்த கேரக்டராகத்தான் திரையில் தெரிகிறார். உங்களுக்கு வயசென்ன பாஸ்?

இவருக்கு மட்டும் எப்படிதான் இதுமாதிரி லட்டு கேரக்டர்கள் வந்துமாட்டுகிறதோ? தொடர்ந்து நான்கு ஹிட்டுகள் கொடுத்துவிட்டபடியால், அடுத்து பேரரசு இயக்கத்தில் விஜயமங்கலம்னு ஏதாவது படத்தில் பஞ்ச் பேசி நடிக்காமலிருக்க பிராப்பிரஸ்த்தூ!

தமிழ்சினிமாவின் ஓட்டை டவுசரை கழட்டி தூர போட்டு விட்டு, புத்தம் புது ஜூன்ஸ் மாட்டி அழகு பார்க்கிற இளம் இயக்குனர்கள் படையில் இன்னொரு இளைஞர் நலன்குமாரசாமி.

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Soodhu Kavvum is a class apart- rediff.com | Rating 3.5
Tamil film Soodhu Kavvum is an engaging film, with ingenious characters and entertaining situations, writes S Saraswathi.

After hit films like Attakathi and Pizza, producer CV Kumar is back with his third venture, Soodhu Kavvum. It has been directed by debutant Nalan Kumarasamy, one of the talents of Naalaiya Iyakkunar, a reality show for aspiring directors.

Soodhu Kavvum stars Vijay Sethupathy and Sanchita Shetty, alongwith MS Bhasker, Ramesh, Simhaa, Ashok, Karunakaran, Yog Japee and Radha Ravi in significant roles.

It is a norm in Tamil cinema to create a grand opening scene for the lead actor like a thrilling chase-and-rescue mission or daredevil stunts or a peppy dance number. The opening scene in Soodhu Kavvum, however, has our hero Dass (Vijay Sethupathy) getting beaten up by a teenage girl with volleyball after a failed attempt at kidnapping. This hilarious scene has the audience in splits and sets the mood for the movie.
Dass, a small-time smuggler, wants to graduate to the next level, kidnapping, which he believes is more exciting and lucrative. Upset by his failed attempt, he goes to the bar to vent out some steam. He finds himself in the company of three desperate jobless friends Pagalavan (Simhaa), Kesavan (Ashok) and Sekhar (Ramesh).


Dass convinces them that he has the perfected the art of kidnapping and asks them join him. Having no other alternative, they do.
Soon they become successful, and can pull off a series of kidnapping without any hitches.


Things move smoothly until one day, they decide to raise the stakes and kidnap a inister’s son. What follows is complete mayhem, and the real fun begins.


A very peculiar, but extremely lovable character in the film is Shalu (Sanchita Shetty), who plays the love interest of Dass. What is exceptional about this character is that it is not real; Shalu is a figment of his imagination and is visible only to him. The sexy Shalu is the ideal male fantasy, who evokes a lot of laughter with her absurd dialogues and action.
What sets the film apart is that in spite of being a comedy film, there are no typical comic one-liners or forced comic situations. The predicament of the characters provides the comic element to the film. Even the most serious dialogues in the gravest situations make the audience laugh uncontrollably.


With every film that he has acted in, Vijay Sethupathy has always managed to raise the bar to an entirely new level. As a grey-haired, 40-year old with psychotic tendencies, speaking broken English, Vijay Sethupathy in Soodhu Kavvum is truly unbelievable.
There is some good all around performance, especially Simhaa and Ramesh, who manage to steal the show with their unpretentious and honest performance.


Full credit goes to the director, Nalan Kumarasamy, for transforming a simple plot into an extremely engaging film, with ingenious characters and entertaining situations.
Good cinematography, crisp editing and the refreshing non-conventional background score make this film even more distinctive. A must-watch.

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'Soodhu Kavvum' an entertaining watch- http://www.sify.com

Movie: "Soodhu Kavvum"; Cast: Vijay Sethupathi, Sanchita Shetty, Radha Ravi, M.S. Bhaskar, Simha, Ashok Selvan, RJ Ramesh Thilak and Karuna Karan; Rating: ***1/2

Packed with several funny, outrageous twists, "Soodhu Kavvum" (SV) makes for a great one time watch. You can't possibly enjoy the film a second time because most of the plot is closely attached to the twists.

Treading the path few Tamil films have attempted, "Soodhu Kavvum" proves yet again that content is king.

A brawl in a bar brings together four petty criminals hoping to make ends meet by pulling off small crimes. Three have no prior experience in any sort of criminal activities but Dass, the most senior amongst them, has been kidnapping for the last few years. Dass recruits the three wastrels and teaches them kidnapping techniques.

Before we know it, the team of misfit kidnappers are out on the streets, abducting random people for small amounts of money because they don't want to get too greedy. However, things take an unexpected when they kidnap the son of a local minister. The supposedly easy task almost gets the four killed. What did they do to put their own lives in danger? This forms the rest of the story.

The film is similar to British comedy "Four Lions", especially the plot revolving around the four lead characters. While the English flick was about how four misfit 'jihadis' wish to blow something up to join a terrorist group, this is about four unemployed men who wish to pull off one last kidnapping to settle down in life. Of course, nowhere does "Soodhu Kavvum" appears to be a frame to frame copy of the English film so the possibility of a copy can be ruled out.

The humour in the film never evokes laughter, but entertains at regular intervals. It progresses at an unhurried pace, except for the extended second half that could have been easily chopped by few minutes.

The initial recruiting scene involving the three characters and their respective past stories result in some best humorous moments of the film. While most of the humour can be brushed off as passe, debutant director Nalan uses sarcasm at appropriate junctures to perfection.

Be it the misfortune of the only righteous character in the film of a politician or the highly educated group member-turned-kidnapper, Nalan highlights that society has no room for good people in his own way.

All lead characters get equal amount of screen presence to prove their mettle.

"Soodhu Kavvum" is also one of the few films that doesn't waste time on a romantic track. There is no such thing called a hero or a villain in the film as everything revolves around the lead characters.

Nalan makes us root for a bunch of misfits and their acts of stupidity; this partly works in favour of the film.

Music does play an important role in the success of the film. Except for one song, you don't find other songs disturbing the flow of the film.

Vijay along with a bunch of debutantes shine in their respective roles. The unlikely friendship between the four characters is a treat to watch.

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Soodhu Kavvum-timesofindia

Rating: 4 star

Synopsis: Das (Vijay Sethupathy) is a kidnapper with a conscience and carries out small jobs to earn a livelihood. His team comprises Pagalavan (Simha), Sekar (Ramesh Thilak) and Kesavan (Ashok Selvan). They pick up Arumai Prakasam (Karunakaran), the only son of politician Jnanodayam (M S Bhaskar), only to find out that he had been planning his own kidnapping to wrest some money from his dad to start a business. Things get complicated when psychopathic cop Brahma (Yog Japee) is brought in to handle the investigation.

Review: A man forced to leave home after building a shrine for actress Nayanthara, a driver thrown out of his job at a five-star hotel after driving off in a fancy car belonging to a guest, an IT employee sacked for not succumbing to the whims of a bossy co-worker, a doctor who would rather make films than treat his patients (a la 'Power Star') and finally, a schizophrenic kidnapper who keeps talking to an imaginary moll - this is the motley group of characters who populate 'Soodhu Kavvum'. Into this mix are thrown in a politician for whom nothing matters more than truth and honour, his not-so honest son out to make a quick buck and a cop whose fists talk more than he does. When their paths meet, chaos ensues.

Nalan Kumarasamy establishes himself as a director to watch out for in this laugh riot of a debut movie. Carrying off a dark comedy is no mean task, but Nalan hits the target right in his first attempt. His writing is crisp, the lines are down to earth and funny, the characters well-etched and the screenplay has no dull moments. What's more, all characters are given due importance and the screen space they require, thanks in part to editor Leo John Paul, but it is the director's clarity of thought and vision that shines all through.

' Soodhu Kavvum' marks a hat-trick of successes for Vijay Sethupathy after the thriller 'Pizza' and the situational comedy 'Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom'. His knack of choosing good roles and working with new directors brimming with ideas will stand him in good stead, as also the work he puts in to portray each character. He put on weight and grew a beard to play Das, and the look fits him to a 'T'. His chemistry with Shalu (Sanchita Shetty), who has a terrific screen presence and does a neat job in her debut movie, is a treat to watch.

In fact, the other debutants, Simha and radio jockey Ramesh Thilak, too come out with good performances, bringing in the laughs at regular intervals with their mannerisms and dialogue delivery. Karunakaran does not have much screen space in the first half, but comes up with a riotous performance in the second half. Veterans M S Bhaskar and Radha Ravi aren't taxed much, but Yog Japee does a bravura act as the tough as nails Brahma, who gets his comeuppance at his own hands.

Dinesh Krishnan impresses with his camera work, but it is Santosh Narayanan who takes the movie a notch higher with his eclectic background score. Though the movie features only one full song 'Kaasu panam', the soundtrack has other gems like 'Mama douser' and 'Come na come' and a background score that will remain with you long after you exit the theatre. With a smile!!!

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Soodhu Kavvum: Crime does pay!-thehindu.com

From the very beginning, from the minute a lowly MNC employee rolls off his bed in a tiny house whose walls bear a poster of T. Rajendar, Nalan Kumarasamy’s Soodhu Kavvum is a demonstration of what’s possible when movies are made for the sheer joy of making movies. There isn’t a single calculated moment, something cynically aimed to satisfy this segment of the audience or that one. Everything is organic, the events rooted in a nutty story and sprouting through a brilliant screenplay.

Like a collector who polishes his vintage car every morning, you sense in this team the pride of ownership, that it’s their film and that they have to treat it the best way possible. The performances (in a cast toplined by Vijay Sethupathi), the cinematography, the dialogues, the sets, the editing, the outstanding songs and background score — it’s all one of a piece, with nothing sticking out with attention-grabbing awkwardness. Most thrilling of all is the gleeful amorality — there’s not a nalla karuthu in sight.

It’s difficult to discuss Soodhu Kavvum — which centres on a botched kidnapping (sorry, “kednaping”) attempt — without spoiling it for the first-time viewer, because it isn’t about what happens so much as how these things happen. It’s about the vibe. It’s about the parking valet who bathes and changes into fresh clothes and applies sacred ash on his forehead and then sits down to have a drink, delivering an impassioned rant about the futility of reading newspapers.

It’s about the loser who, like James Stewart in Harvey, introduces people to his invisible companion. It’s about a politician who seeks solitude while tucking into pizza. It’s about a kidnapper who picks up the ransom money coolly, as if he were a delivery boy for a courier company picking up a package. It’s about the funniest spelling mistake ever, where an innocent declaration of lunching out is reduced to an unprintable sexual act. It’s about a name like Nambikkaikannan.

The director’s uncompromising vision — in the current Tamil-cinema scenario, where box-office compromises are everywhere, you could even call this some kind of conscientiousness — extends to the songs and the fights, which don’t cut into the pace of the film but instead enhance the overall mood. The only full-fledged song (the irresistible ‘Kaasu panam’) is a dream sequence that takes place in an Indra sabha-like set, where the dancers are in gold ribbons and red sneakers.

And a fight scene (featuring the excellent Yog Japee, who plays a “psycho inspector“) is cut as a montage, invigorated by backdrops that keep changing. The quirk, thankfully, isn’t overdone. Had every scene been saturated with colour, we’d have ended up exhausted — there’s just enough bizarreness to keep us wondering if, for instance, the casual shot of oranges at the corner of a frame has anything to do with a character thinking up a plot point about the fruit for a film named Honeymoon.

Soodhu Kavvum doesn’t quite explode the way you expect it to — I couldn’t put my finger on it, but I think the pacing in some stretches is a bit off — but that’s a small price to pay in the face of such riches. This is the kind of film that marries Tamil cinema with cinema from beyond. From the former, we get a line like “Yen da en nanban-a adiche?” — a clever reworking of a cliché that invites not eye-rolls but laughs. And from the latter we have such surreal moments as the small song that reunites hero and heroine in heaven... in the middle of a torture scene.

I am most curious to see how Soodhu Kavvum will be received — the noir-comedy isn’t a genre we dabble in all that often — but of at least one thing there is little doubt. These brave little films are here to stay. Vijay Sethupathi the poster boy of this cinema, was welcomed in his first scene with cheers and claps usually reserved for mass heroes making their entry. It’s the sweetest sound I’ve heard in years.

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SOODHU KAVVUM - behindwoods

Rating- 3 Star

Soodhu Kavvum marks the entry of yet another young director, Nalan Kumarasamy, following Pizza’s Karthik Subbaraj, whose claim to fame was a TV show designed for likewise aspirants. Nalan Kumarasamy shows his gratitude in the opening slide by thanking the judges of the show - Prathap Pothen and Madhan.

The aptly titled Soodhu Kavvum tells the story of petty criminals who are engulfed by their own occupation volunteering to ride the high tide, knowing well of its repercussions. Scheming the perfect crime and executing it is only half the story as Soodhu Kavvum offers some radical and sometimes outrageous twists and turns.

The actions and decisions of a motley crew led by Das, played by Vijay Sethupathy, with amateur miscreants enacted by Simhaa, Ashok Selvan and RJ Ramesh, is what drives Soodhu Kavvum forward, but at an unhurried pace. While Vijay might be the leader of the pack the screen space is fairly shared with other members in the gang but Vijay’s paunch and graying beard does earn him a sense of seniority. The actor does have the guts to play a forty year old, so early in his career. Sanchita Shetty’s character is a surprise as Vijay Sethupathy’s doll faced confidant and ‘dream girl’. Nice touch, sharing a different chemistry with the hero. The other cast members include familiar character artists such as Radha Ravi and MS Bhaskar in integral roles and a common face in the short film circuit, Karunakaran, appears in a role tailor-made for him.

Soodhu Kavvum’s scoring area is definitely its characterizations as Nalan Kumarasamy offers each of the central characters a back story that’s unique and more importantly contributing to the character’s present circumstance. Essentially the only righteous character in the film is that of M.S. Bhaskar who plays a spotless politician. Without being all too preachy or self conscious Nalan Kumarasamy paints a picture to portray that there’s hardly any room for such individuals in the modern day. Neither is he tempted to be ironic. Having said that, the writer director seems to have been consumed by his own thoughts, and probably even overwhelmed with his own project, that sees him go on a creative overdrive. Sure there is always room for cinematic freedom, and it is filled to the brim in Soodhu Kavvum in a bid to offer something different.

Santhosh Narayan peppers the background score with processed beats and hard rock rhythms that work well for the numerous dramatic slo-mo scenes. He also employs his own version of a popular score from Dr. Strangelove. The songs are well shot and its position in the film is justifiable. The camera work and editing is slick and seems to have drawn inspiration from post-modern filmmakers.

The film introduces us to several quirky characters and ambitious sketches, all delivered with a light heartedness. The director is rather successful in making the audience root for the anti-hero group and their reckless ways but the viewing is lacking of a certain stranglehold because of many long drawn-out scenes and the leisure manner in which the story unfolds to an end.

Verdict: Different attempt by a young team!

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Soodhu Kavvum - Captive audience | IndiaGlitz

It is not very often that a director can keep you in splits with intelligent dialogues, a good pace to keep the story moving briskly. There is so much fun in the first half hour that when the interval arrives you are amazed and want to know how it all ends. Full marks to the director for just that achievement. And then kudos to him for rebooting slapstick and giving you a version that wont get dated anytime soon. For example, there is this scene where the chief minister is having lunch and cannot be disturbed. However, his minister barges in-and guess what the CM is having-a takeaway pizza !

Then there is the story itself, where the 'heroes' are criminals, and yet you cant help but laugh at their escapades.

Pagalavan, Kesavan and Sekar are three friends, who lose their jobs in Chennai due to force of circumstances. Then they come across Dass, who runs a smart kidnap- and- ransom scam. He has five golden rules that he follows in his tradecraft, the most important of which is never to get involved in kidnapping the very powerful. Another mantra is to never to be greedy. Awesome is the word that comes to your mind when you watch the audacious scene, where a bank manager, whose daughter is kidnapped, takes the call at his desk in his bank, then withdraws the money from the ATM and hands it over to the kidnapper while his colleagues are busy with their work.

Dass never hurts the captives and treats them well. Naturally his crime flourishes, and the three friends team up with him, Another presence is Shaalu the heroine who is visible only to the hero. Is she a figment of the hero's imagination? Or is it the director's tongue-in-cheek salute to the split personality genre of films that come and go in Kollywood? Or is her characterization tongue in cheek treatment of the heroine as a 'doll'? Take your pick. But suddenly things go haywire when the path of the criminals crosses with that of Arumai Prakasam, son of the state finance minister. Denied capital by his very strict father to start his business Arumai Prakasam stages his own kidnap, but ends up in the hands of Dass and co. The comedy of errors takes a turn when the finance minister wants to catch the culprits, and gives the task to a very strict, encounter specialist cop , Brahma. Then there is Dass' brother who is a doctor, but is directing a film, but can phone a friend in the criminal world to help his brother and his friends. How Das and co try to stay ahead of the cop and how Brahma nabs them, and what happens are narrated quite well, though with less sharpness when compared with the first half.

On the plus side, great dialogues and a neat way of tying up the many threads. The characterisation is done with a twist of humour and credibility, like the minister's wife, a role well played by Radha. Imagine bolting yourself in the kitchen to escape your husband waiting to slap you, and then telling the maid, 'let's eat!'

Vijay Sethupati as the brooding Dass is quite good, but the man who steals the show is Sekhar, playing the role of Ramesh. Simha, as Pagalavan is a riot, and in the scene where he is being thrashed for putting up a temple for Nayantara, he pulls off that look of sheer bliss that fans in real life get... that almost cross-eyed look is priceless. Karuna Karan gets a rare role to shine as an upright minister's shady son, and as Arumai Prakasam he has capitalized on the opportunity. Sanchita is easy on the eye, dresses smartly and she can act too ..Santhosh Narayanan's BGM is good, but the short duet in the second half, doesn't gel. Another minus are the brutal cop scenes. Can any cop get away with such roughing up, in Chennai, when the media is not far away? The dialogues, so funny and coming fast and furious, dry up a bit in the second half. But the twists and turns keep you engrossed.. The slapstick treatment of politics - using gas cylinders to distribute money to the vote bank-are sure to bring the roof down. And the last scene where Dass is shown as running a class - like a coaching camp for maths-for potential criminals makes you exit the theatre with a smile on your face.

On the whole a good entertainer.



Verdict : Good

Star : 3.5/5

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Soodhu Kavvum – The indisputable gamble | mokkapadam.com

A few days back in an interview, Nalan said “Not even a single scene or a dialogue in the whole movie will be unrelated to the script. Every single thing that is happening and every character who appears on the screen will provide a strong support to the story”. This is what intrigued me the most to watch this movie. It is surprising to see that the movie has actually lived up to his word.

Soodhu Kavvum

The amount of detailing directors these days give to their script is astonishing. You can’t find a single scene or a character to be unnecessary (except for a couple of songs). This can come only from someone who has prior experience in short films – because you cannot have any scenes or dialogues that are unnecessary due to the time constraint. Nalan being well experienced in this arena, Soodhu Kavvum turns out to be an outstanding flick.

Everything seemed to work out for this movie right from the promotions, most of which was taken care of by Nalan’s reputation in Naalaya Iyakkunar and Santhosh Narayanan’s usual offbeat tracks. To top it all, they have the sensational Vijay Sethupathi, who has the highest hit ratio at present. When you make a movie in such an environment and when you also have a brilliant story to back it up, there is absolutely no way to go wrong.

I just couldn’t condense the story into a single line. There is a guy who kidnaps for a living; his recently formed team consisting of a few unemployed youngsters who don’t have any motive in their lives; his girlfriend with whom he lives (hats-off to Nalan on revealing the twist early into the story and not giving it much importance); a straight forward pain-in-the-ass politician who is irritated by his son who is completely in conflict with his ideals and his ever-worrying wife; a rough and tough, chosen-to-be-mute policeman who has only one expression in his face for the whole time and a splendid story that links all these characters. Even if someone tried to say the story in a single line, he will end up narrating the whole movie.

The songs sound awesome when heard alone. They look good with their videos too. But some just don’t sync in. Especially the Kaasu Panam track seemed a little unnecessary despite the awesomeness off the video. Good thing they didn’t overuse the theme music and saved it for the best parts alone. In some places, the BGMs were spectacular. Some BGMs which normally would sound completely in contrast to the scenes, sounded perfect in this movie.

There weren’t any sub-par performances. Even though ‘natural acting’ seems like an oxymoron, I can’t find a better word to describe Soodhu Kavvum’s cast. Everyone had equal screen space and everyone gave their best. Quoting even a single scene is an insult for the movie but if asked, I would the mention the scene where Vijay Sethupathi collects the money from the father of the first girl he kidnaps. It lasted just for a few seconds and his casualness was brilliant.

Dear writers who write for Santhanam, this is how you write one-liners. Straight, sharp and without any innuendos. The black humour was perfect in all parts. Again quoting a scene will be an insult to the movie and I would not like to make the same mistake twice.

There is this revolution going on in Tamil cinema where directors are actually starting to give importance to their stories and script and where heroes and heroines are starting to not matter. When asked for ‘whose movie is it?’, people are answering with the director’s name and not the actor’s. These kinds of directors and audience are not new to Tamil cinema – they have just grown in number in recent times. I hope that this healthy revolution continues.

Soodhu Kavvum – A black comedy without any slapstick humour

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Soodhu Kavvum (Tamil)- newindianexpress.com

Engaging screenplay, deft narration, well-etched characters and twists and humour generated at unexpected moments, make Soodhu Kavvum a wacky jolly fun ride. A participant of the TV reality show Naalaya Iyakkunar (like Pizza’s Kartik Subburaj and Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi’s Balaji Mohan), Nalan Kumarasamy makes his mark with his very first film.

Vijay Sethupathy’s uncanny selection of scripts works for him big time. The plots and the characters he has played so far have been varied and challenging — be it Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom, Pizza or his Das role in Soodhu Kavvum. It’s laudable that the actor doesn’t hesitate to take a role that has him essaying a 40-year-old man, greying and with a paunch. Das is a small-time kidnapper, shabby, unkempt, weird and hallucinating at times. Sethupathy plays it with perfect understanding that it’s fascinating to watch him go through its various nuances. Shalu (Sanchita Shetty, a perfect foil) is Das’s constant companion, with the duo making for an interesting team. The rest of the characters too are quirky and colourful, the actors finely tuned to their roles. The director etches the background of his characters meticulously and one knows what to expect from each as the story progresses. There are the three wastrels (Simha, Ramesh, Selvan), whom Das takes under his wing. The latter has his list of do’s and dont’s: his targets only being ordinary people. Then comes the chance to make some big money, but the operation that goes awry. Jobby is quietly menacing as Brahma the brutal sadistic cop on the track of the gang. It’s an ending that reminds you of Pizza, in a fiction-merging-with-reality kind of way.

Some of the scenes may fall short on logic, but the novelty or the humour in the situation keeps it going. The narration could have been made crisper and slicker. The songs are apt (Santosh Narayan) and suitably placed, and the background score enhances the feel. The director takes a dig at the political scenario in the episodes of the upright minister (Bhasker) and the chief minister (Radha Ravi), who plays the politics of survival. Soodhu Kavvum is imaginatively crafted, engaging and worth a watch.

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சூது கவ்வும் திரை விமர்சனம்- tamilrockers.net

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காதல் பிரச்சினையில் வேலை பார்க்கும் இடத்தில் கைகலப்பாகி வேலை இழந்த ஒருவன், விலையுயர்ந்த சொகுசு காரை ஓட்டவேண்டும் என்ற ஆசையில், பைவ் ஸ்டார் ஓட்டல் வேலையை தொலைத்த மற்றொருவன், நயன்தாராவுக்கு கோயில் கட்டி, பொதுமக்களிடம் தர்மஅடி வாங்கி சென்னைக்கு வரும் இன்னொருவன் ஆகிய மூவரும் ஒரே அறையில் நண்பர்களாக தங்கியிருக்கிறார்கள்.

மறுமுனையில் சிறு சிறு கடத்தல் வேலைகளை செய்து பணம் சம்பாதிக்கும் விஜய் சேதுபதி, பெரிய இடத்தில் கை வைக்கக்கூடாது, மிரட்டக்கூடாது, மாட்டிக்கொண்டால் அடிபணிந்துவிட வேண்டும் என்பது உள்ளிட்ட 5 விதிமுறைகளின்படி கடத்தல் வேலைகளை செய்துவருகிறார். இவருக்கு அவ்வப்போது ஐடியா சொல்பவராக, ‘மாமா மாமா’ என்று ஒரு நிழல் உருவமாக வலம் வருகிறார் சஞ்சிதா ஷெட்டி.

வேலையை இழந்த மூன்று நண்பர்களும் ஒருநாள் பாரில் அமர்ந்து மது அருந்திக் கொண்டிருக்கும்போது, அங்கு மது அருந்திக் கொண்டிருக்கும் விஜய் சேதுபதிக்கும், இன்னொரு கும்பலுக்கும் தகராறு வருகிறது. இந்த தகராறில் நண்பர்கள் கூட்டமும் தாக்கப்பட, அங்கிருந்து தப்பித்து விஜய் சேதுபதியிடம் சேர்ந்து வெளியேறுகிறார்கள்.

மூவரையும் தன்னுடைய இடத்துக்கு அழைத்துச் செல்லும் விஜய் சேதுபதி, தன்னுடைய கடத்தல் வேலைகளுக்கு அவர்களை பயன்படுத்த முடிவெடுக்கிறார். இதற்கு நண்பர்களில் இரண்டு பேர் சம்மதிக்க ஒருவன் மட்டும் பின்வாங்குகிறான். பின்னர் அவனும் வந்து இணைகிறான். மூவரும் இணைந்து சின்ன சின்ன கடத்தல் வேலைகளை செய்து பணம் சம்பாதித்து வருகிறார்கள்.

இந்நிலையில், நேர்மையான அரசியல்வாதியாக வரும் எம்.எஸ்.பாஸ்கரால் பாதிக்கப்பட்ட தொழிலதிபர் ஒருவர், எம்.எஸ்.பாஸ்கரின் மகனை கடத்தி அந்த பழியை தீர்த்துக் கொள்ள நினைக்கிறார். இந்த கடத்தல் வேலைக்கு விஜய் சேதுபதி கும்பலை பயன்படுத்திக் கொள்ள நினைக்கிறார். முதலில் மறுக்கும் விஜய் சேதுபதி, பின்பு ஒத்துக்கொள்ளும் நிலைக்கு தள்ளப்படுகிறார்.

இதன்படி, ஒருநாள் அரசியல்வாதியின் மகனை கடத்த திட்டமிடுகிறார்கள். ஆனால், இவர்களுக்கு முன்னதாக வேறொரு கும்பல் அவனை கடத்திச் சென்றுவிடுகிறது. அவர்கள் செல்லும் இடத்தை அறிந்துகொள்ளும் விஜய் சேதுபதி கும்பல், மறுநாள் போலீஸ் உடை அணிந்து அங்கு சென்று பார்க்கின்றனர்.

அங்கு மயக்க நிலையில் தனியாக இருக்கும் அரசியல்வாதியின் மகனை தூக்கிக் கொண்டு வருகின்றனர். அவனை கடத்தியதும் அரசியல்வாதிக்கு போன் போட்டு மகனை கடத்திவிட்டதாகவும், விடவேண்டுமென்றால் 2 கோடி ரூபாய் பணம் தரவேண்டும் என்றும் மிரட்டுகிறார்கள். ஆனால், இதற்கு அடிபணியாத அரசியல்வாதி போலீஸ் உதவியை நாடுகிறார்.

இதனால் பயந்துபோன விஜய் சேதுபதி கும்பல், அவனை விட்டுவிட துணிகிறது. ஆனால், அரசியல்வாதியின் மகனோ, தன்னுடைய அப்பா மூலம் பணம் கேட்டால் கிடைக்காது. தன்னுடைய யோசனையின்படி செய்தால் பணம் கிடைக்கும். கிடைக்கும் பணத்தில் ஆளுக்கு பாதி எடுத்துக் கொள்ளலாம் என்ற நிபந்தனையின்படி பணத்தை வாங்க ஐடியா கூறுகிறான்.

அதற்கு விஜய் சேதுபதியும் ஒத்துக்கொள்கிறார். அரசியல்வாதியின் மகன் ஐடியாப்படி பணத்தையும் வாங்கி விடுகின்றனர். இறுதியில் பங்கு பிரிக்கும்போது பிரச்சினை வர, விஜய் சேதுபதி கும்பலை விபத்தில் சிக்கவைத்து அங்கிருந்து பணத்துடன் தப்பிவிடுகிறான் அரசியல்வாதியின் மகன்.

இதற்கிடையில் தன்னுடைய மகனை கடத்திய கடத்தல் கும்பலை பிடிக்க ஒரு சைகோ போலீஸ்காரரை நியமிக்கிறார் எம்.எஸ்.பாஸ்கர். இறுதியில், பணத்தோடு ஓடிச்சென்ற அரசியல்வாதியின் மகனிடமிருந்து விஜய் சேதுபதி கும்பல் பணத்தை வாங்கினார்களா? இந்த கடத்தல் கும்பல் போலீஸிடம் சிக்கினார்களா? என்பதே மீதிக்கதை.

அடர்ந்த தாடி, லேசாக நரைத்த முடி என 40 வயது மதிக்கத்தக்க வயதான தோற்றத்தில் வித்தியாசமான நடிப்பை வெளிப்படுத்தியிருக்கிறார் விஜய்சேதுபதி. இவர், இதுவரை நடித்த படங்களில் நாயகியை கட்டிப் பிடித்து நடிப்பது போன்ற காட்சி இல்லாத குறையை இந்த படத்தின் மூலம் நிவர்த்தி செய்து கொண்டார்போலும்.

படத்தின் முதல் பாதி முழுவதும் அரைகுறை உடையுடன் நாயகியை மடியில் தூக்கி வைத்துக் கொண்டே சுற்றுகிறார். படத்தில் கூறும் வசனம்போல், படம் முழுக்க மனுஷன் வாழ்ந்திருக்கிறார் என்ற பொறாமையை நம்முள் ஏற்படுத்தியிருக்கிறார். படத்திற்காக கொஞ்சம் குண்டாகியிருக்கிறார்.

கடத்திவிட்டு பணம் பெறுவதற்காக இவர் பேசும் வசனங்கள் ரசிக்க வைப்பதோடு மட்டுமல்லாமல், வயிறு குலுங்க சிரிக்கவும் வைக்கிறது. நண்பர்களாக வரும் மூன்று பேரும் குறும்படங்கள் மூலம் பரிச்சயமான முகம் என்றாலும், வெள்ளித்திரையில் மேலும் பளிச்சிடுகிறார்கள். மூவரின் நடிப்பும் வெகுபிரமாதம்.

இவர்களுடைய பயம் நமக்கு சிரிப்பை வரவழைக்கிறது. எதார்த்தமான நடிப்பை அற்புதமாக வெளிப்படுத்திய மூவருக்கும் நல்ல ஒரு எதிர்காலம் இருக்கிறது என்பதை மறுக்கமுடியாது. சஞ்சிதா ஷெட்டி அழகாக இருக்கிறார். ‘மாமா மாமா’ என்று விஜய் சேதுபதியுடனேயே வலம்வந்து நம்மையும் வசீகரிக்கிறார்.

முதல்பாதி வரை படம் முழுவதும் நிரம்பியிருக்கிறார். நேர்மையான அரசியல்வாதியாக வரும் எம்.எஸ்.பாஸ்கர், வெள்ளைச்சட்டை, தோளில் துண்டு, மிடுக்கான தோற்றம், மிரட்டும் தொணியில் பார்வை என நடிப்பில் பிரமாதப்படுத்தியிருக்கிறார்.

இவருடைய மகனாக நடித்திருக்கும் கருணாகரனின் திருட்டு முழிப் பார்வையும், குரூரத்தனமான இவருடைய செய்கையும் நம்மை வெகுவாக ரசிக்க வைக்கின்றன.

சைகோ போலீஸ் பிரம்மாவாக வரும் யோக் ஜெப்பி படத்தில் பேசாமலேயே மிரட்டுகிறார். எந்த ஒரு செயலுக்கும் முகபாவனையிலேயே தனது முடிவை சொல்லிவிடும் இவரை, கடைசியில் சிரிப்பு போலீசாக மாற்றியதுதான் ஏமாற்றம்.

முதலமைச்சராக வரும் ராதாரவி, அமைச்சரின் மனைவியாக வரும் ராதா என அனைவரும் தங்கள் நடிப்பை திறம்பட செய்திருக்கிறார்கள்.

ஒரு கடத்தல் கதையை சீரியஸாகவும், அதே நேரத்தில் காமெடியாகவும் சொல்லிய இயக்குனர் நலன் குமாராசாமிக்கு பாராட்டுக்கள்.

இந்த படத்தின் நிஜ ஹீரோவே திரைக்கதைதான். யூகிக்க முடியாத கதை, கதாபாத்திரங்கள் போக்கை எல்லா இடத்திலும் என்ஜாய் செய்யமுடியும் என்பதை திரைக்கதை மூலம் வெளிப்படுத்தியிருக்கிறார் இயக்குனர்.

அதேபோல், படத்தில் கேரக்டருக்கு தகுந்தாற்போல் அவர்களது பெயரையும் தேர்வு செய்திருப்பது இயக்குனரின் திறமையை காட்டுகிறது. படத்திற்கு மிகப்பெரிய பலமே வசனங்கள்தான். விஜய் சேதுபதியின் 5 விதிமுறைகள், கடத்திய பிறகு பெற்றோரிடம் பணத்தை பெறுவதற்காக பேசும் வசனங்கள் எல்லாம் ரசிக்கவைக்க கூடியவை.

மேலும், ‘கடத்தல் வேலைக்கு குருட்டுத்தனமான முட்டாள் தனம் வேண்டும், முரட்டுத்தனமான புத்திசாலித்தனம் வேண்டும்’ என்பது போன்ற அறிவார்த்தமான வசனங்களும் ஆங்காங்கே பளிச்சிடுகின்றன.

படத்திற்கு மற்றொரு பெரிய பலம் சந்தோஷ் நாராயணனின் இசை. பாடல்களும், பிண்ணனி இசையும் படத்தை இன்னொரு தளத்திற்கு எடுத்துச் செல்கிறது. அந்த அளவுக்கு கலகலப்பூட்டும் இசை.

ஒளிப்பதிவாளர் தினேஷும் தனது பணியை செவ்வனே செய்திருக்கிறார்.

மொத்தத்தில் ‘சூது கவ்வும்’ நிச்சயம் வெல்லும்.

[ajaybaskar]

Dont miss it. One of the best in recent times.

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

1st, its nice that this film branched out of the Small Films thread! positive reviews everywhere. inneram hub la oru kudumi pudi sandai nadanthirukkaNume?!?

[NOV]

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[mexicomeat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAoexWLQtKg

[arulraj]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAoexWLQtKg

ivan means dhanush or vijay sethupathi.....?

[balaajee]

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[balaajee]

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[balaajee]

Soodhu Kavvum Movie Review – Do not Miss This One!




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Soodhu Kavvum is one of the latest releases in Tamil cinema industry and the movie is all about a kidnapping attempt carried out by four interesting characters. Soodhu Kavvum is one of the rare movies in Tamil cinema. The movie is of noir – comedy, which is not usual for the Tamil audiences. The characters have been sketched so well that they make the audiences get into plot in no time. The movie works so well, as the director Nalan Kumarasamy, who is famous for his good short movies released in YouTube, has delivered only what is needed without any compromises, and more importantly in a quite entertaining way.
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Das (Vijay Sethupathy) has a team behind him that comprises of Pagalavan (Simha), Sekar (Ramesh Tilak) and Kesavan (Ashok Selvan). As a team, they kidnap people for money and earn for their living. They plan and kidnap Arumai Prakasam (Karunakaran), the only son of a well to do politician Gnyanodhayam (M S Bhaskar). However, the mess begins to happen when the team knows that Arumai Prakasam has been planning for his own kidnap to get money from his father to start his own business. What happens next forms the rest of the plot.

Director Nalan Kumarasamy’s Soodhu Kavvum works very well to be honest. The movie has everything lined up neatly for a perfect entertainer carrying a genre that is somewhat new to the audiences in Tamil Nadu. The movie’s characters, the brilliant screenplay, the dialogues all carry the vision of the director in every essence.


The audiences never feel bored or disappointed thanks to the interesting story telling ability of the director. The characters have been given considerable screen place and the actors have done more than justice to their roles.

Santhosh Narayanan’s background helps the movie in a great way.Overall, Soodhu Kavvum is easily one of the gems in Tamil cinema industry this year, and one must not miss this one!

[balaajee]

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[balaajee]

தயாரிப்பாளரானார் விஜய் சேதுபதி...!

"தென்மேற்கு பருவக்காற்று" படத்தின் மூலம் ஹீரோவாக அவதரித்தவர் விஜய் சேதுபதி. அவர் ஹீரோவாக நடித்த முதல்படமே தேசிய விருது பெற்றது.
தொடர்ந்து "பீட்சா", "நடுவுல கொஞ்சம் பக்கத்த காணோம்", "சூது கவ்வும்" போன்ற வித்தியாசமான படங்களில் நடித்து தமிழ் சினிமாவின் கவனத்தை தன் பக்கம் ஈர்த்தவர்.

இப்போது அரை டஜன் படங்களில் நடித்து வரும் விஜய் சேதுபதி, புதிதாக "விஜய் சேதுபதி புரொடக்ஷ்ன்" எனும் பெயரில் தயாரிப்பு நிறுவனம் ஒன்றை தொடங்கியிருக்கிறார். இதுகுறித்து நம்மிடம் அவர் பேசியபோது, நான் சொந்தபட நிறுவனம் ஆரம்பித்து இருப்பது உண்மைதான். இயக்குனர் ஹரியின் உதவியாளர் சுதாகர் தான் என் முதல் படத்தை இயக்குகிறார். படம்பேர் "சங்கு தேவன்". நான் தான் ஹீரோவாக நடிக்கிறேன். ஹீரோயின் இன்னும் முடிவாகவில்லை. படத்தின் கதைக்களம் திண்டுக்கல்லில் நடக்கிறது. "அட்டக்கத்தி", "பீட்சா" படங்களில் அருமையான இசை கொடுத்த சந்தோஷ் நாரயணன் தான் என் முதல்பட தயாரிப்பிற்கு இசையமைக்கிறார். ரசிகர்கள் எதிர்பார்க்கும் எல்லா விஷயங்களும் இந்த படத்தில் இருக்கும். ஜூன் மாதம்
படப்பிடிப்பை தொடங்குகிறோம். *என்னுடைய தயாரிப்பு நிறுவனத்தில் நிச்சயமாக நிறைய புதுமுகங்களுக்கு வாய்ப்பு தருவேன் என்று பெருமையாக கூறினார்.

[Anban]

reviews evvalavu nalla irunthaalum paakka isttam illai.. download panni kooda paakka porathillai ..

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=532186090151982&set=a.372291656141427.77451.371925396178053&type=1&theater

Team Maiam Update:

KH watched Soodhu Kavvum and then invited the entire team to congratulate them for their work.

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[balaajee]

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=532186090151982&set=a.372291656141427.77451.371925396178053&type=1&theater

Team Maiam Update:

KH watched Soodhu Kavvum and then invited the entire team to congratulate them for their work.

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Now Anban have REASON to watch..

[venkkiram]

Was sethupathi in the above snap? Could not figure out.

[venkkiram]

Its not running in NJ. If someone pm me the online link (decent quality), punniyamaa pokum.

[NOV]

What a movie! :clap: :clap: :clap:
Needs a standing ovation! Fantastic performance by every single character!
Amazing screenplay... excellent unpredictyable story

The best thing is that no one will be able to guess what happens next!

Must watch!

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

Its not released in bangalore and not even in Hosur. Going to Salem is the only way for bangaloreans. Seems there is some politics from EThirneechal camp to bring down this film, i heard. not sure.

[NOV]

Its only playing in 2 cinemas in KL... one of which has only one show :sigh2:
I went for 3 pm show... they refused to sell me tickets saying that there isnt enough people, and asked me to return later.... fortunately there were some ppl who wanted to watch the film and finally about 12 of us managed to see it :D

[SoftSword]

Its not released in bangalore and not even in Hosur. Going to Salem is the only way for bangaloreans. Seems there is some politics from EThirneechal camp to bring down this film, i heard. not sure.

welcome to the steel city aka maangani maanagar! #angappOyiidharAvo

[Cinemarasigan]

welcome to the steel city aka maangani maanagar! #angappOyiidharAvo

Are you in Salem now?

[Cinemarasigan]

Its only playing in 2 cinemas in KL... one of which has only one show :sigh2:
I went for 3 pm show... they refused to sell me tickets saying that there isnt enough people, and asked me to return later.... fortunately there were some ppl who wanted to watch the film and finally about 12 of us managed to see it :D

Probably this film will pick-up in the coming days due to good W-O-M.

[SoftSword]

Are you in Salem now?

pls note:

#angappOyiidharAvo

[Anban]

Now Anban have REASON to watch..
i actually posted after seeing this picture only.. I wont watch Vijay Sethupathi movies .. pizza-nu oru kuppai-la nadichu scene pottatha mannikkave mudiyaathu ..

[NOV]

I was :rotfl: at pizza eating CM

There were many such moments throughout the film. Another was the innocent "ennaachu" :rotfl2:

one doubt, what significance in showing Vijay as a 40 something person?

[ajaybaskar]

May be to earn him an initial respect among the other youngsters in the group. If he was in the same age group, the other 3 wouldn't have considered his idea.

[balaajee]

i actually posted after seeing this picture only.. I wont watch Vijay Sethupathi movies .. pizza-nu oru kuppai-la nadichu scene pottatha mannikkave mudiyaathu ..

Its not Vijay Sethupathi's movie,he is part of it. You can avoid his home prduction(விஜய் சேதுபதி புரொடக்ஷ்ன்). Do watch the movie for the real HERO DIR Nalan Kumarasamy.

[balaajee]

Kumudham rated NANDRU & Vikatan - 45 Marks

[Anban]

i have long decided that i will avoid movies that glorifies rowdyism, thieves and nonsense ..

[Srimannarayanan]

i have long decided that i will avoid movies that glorifies rowdyism, thieves and nonsense ..



You are a chanceless :)

[19thmay]

reviews evvalavu nalla irunthaalum paakka isttam illai.. download panni kooda paakka porathillai ..

couldn resist ... apparam edhukku indha thread-la post pannikiteeeyyyyy irukeenga?

[mexicomeat]

i have long decided that i will avoid movies that glorifies rowdyism, thieves and nonsense ..

including mumbai express?

[Cinemarasigan]

including mumbai express?

this movie is similar to Mumbai express?

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

I read in twitter, there is a guy SenthilCP who will be the 1st to post review! He said the movie is like mumbai express!

See his review last para http://www.adrasaka.com/2013/05/blog-post_9552.html

[Anban]

including mumbai express?
antha padatha thaan kamal fans ellorum senthu eppo kavuthaachey.. its a meaning less attempt, but for the digital revolution it accelerated in Tamil Cinema ..

[Cinemarasigan]

I read in twitter, there is a guy SenthilCP who will be the 1st to post review! He said the movie is like mumbai express!

See his review last para http://www.adrasaka.com/2013/05/blog-post_9552.html

Thanks Sakala...

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

Guna plot adopted and made as Kathal Konden and became a Hit! now Mumbai express Plot taken for சூது கவ்வும் and becomes a Hit! :D

[Cinemarasigan]

Guna plot adopted and made as Kathal Konden and became a Hit! now Mumbai express Plot taken for சூது கவ்வும் and becomes a Hit! :D

Do you mean to say that Kamal could not make these movies commercially hit but using the same plot some other directors can make these movies commercially successful?

[SoftSword]

anumaar pudikkappoyi korangaa poyiruchu...

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

Do you mean to say that Kamal could not make these movies commercially hit but using the same plot some other directors can make these movies commercially successful?

Guna was not a commercially flop film though it was not a Hit. Mumbai Express is being liked by kamal fans, likes of P_R, Grouch/Bala etc. We cannot expect the same quality in the adapted versions.

Here you shud not see it as kamal couldn't succeed in same plot etc. May be Kamal's quality was high and ppl expected a much diluted versions. Kamal will never compromise to reduce the intense. Not only that, Only the Plot is same but treatment and mainly the reason for success is different. And lets not forget that ppl are more ready for off beat themes now than the time when Guna released.

Kamal made RajaPaarvai and due to its loss he sold one of his House. But now, directors like Bala makes movies like Paradesi and its reported that he brought a new house in Poes garden, by selling his movie. The point is, Kamal was and is a motivator for almost all directors to make an offbeat experimental film. A Topmost comercially viable hero, who is quoted as one of the Superstars of South, attempting an experimental subject needs more courage and dare to take risk. Kamal is almost the only example for that, for all directors today.

Coming back to the point of discussion, even the plots kamal took didn't succeed to the expected level, those directors using the same plots again itself is an indirect success for kamal.

And yes Kadhal konden and சூது கவ்வும் became hits but we have to wait and see it they become timeless classics/lighthouse examples like Guna and Mumbai express(for its genre).

And while we are talking about [kamal's plot based]movies which succeeded, there are many other kamal movies which were huge success for kamal but remade or adapted versions failed badly, like Devar Magan Viraasat etc. Its not easy to remake / plot-reuse a kamal film, too!

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

And who knows, kathal konden's commercial success may be kind of equal to Guna itself, there is huge diff in the commercial outcome of a topmost actor and a new debutant!

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

Last one, I made that comparison to point out that kamal's plots are always popular even if the movie de-railed too. Thats why directors re-use his plots. And good if they succeed! That never means any downfall for kamal! As I said, those directors reusing his plots by itself is a Success for Kamal. Kamal's flop movies too are useful for industry whereas some commercial hit films turn out to be totally useless and pointless after its release hype!

[NOV]

Please do not insult Soodhu Kavvum by comparing it to a completely useless film like mumbai express... :ashamed:

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

I didn't. a blogger who already saw the film, made that comparison. I am yet to watch this film. Also comparison is btw Plots not the whole Film. So nobody need to pOngify needlessly! :)

[NOV]

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Soodhu Kavvum actor Bobby Simha (Pagalavan) with Kamal Haasan

[Cinemarasigan]

Please do not insult Soodhu Kavvum by comparing it to a completely useless film like mumbai express... :ashamed:

Nov, idhu unglukkE konjam overah therila... I don't mind you appreciate this new film, but your choice of words "completely useless" does not sound good...

[satissh_r]

The first 15 mins of the movie didn't engage me much, could be because of my expectations. Once that period was through, the movie was just too good, I was in splits most of the second half, especially the last 20 mins. I guess the director's motive was to not let anyone second guess what was going to happen next, if so he succeeded brilliantly :clap: I've just started watching movies after a long hiatus and this is my first Vijay Sethupathi movie, loved his performance, his mannerisms, English ;) In fact all the actors suited their roles perfectly.

Nalan Kumarasamy :thumbsup:

I will recommend it to anyone looking for a good laugh without thinking about logic and analysis.

[Pras]

this is my first Vijay Sethupathi movie

go and watch pizza and naduvula konjam pakkatha kaanom then .... u will enjoy ;)

[satissh_r]

go and watch pizza and naduvula konjam pakkatha kaanom then .... u will enjoy ;)

Yeah I have a lot of movies to catch upto, nichayam pakkaren, thanks!

[balaajee]

சூது கவ்வும்
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அதிகாலை அலாரம் வைத்து அரக்கப்பறக்க எழுந்து குளித்து, உடைமாற்றி, அமர்ந்து சாவகாசமாகச் சரக்கு பாட்டிலைத் திறக்கும் ஒருவனில் ஆரம்பிக்கிறது காமெடிக் கச்சேரி!
இதுவரை தமிழ் சினிமா டெரராகக் காட்டிய ஆள் கடத்தல் சூதினை ஜாலி கலாட்டாவாகப் படைத்து மனதைக் கவ்வியிருக்கிறது 'சூது கவ்வும்’!
கடத்தலுக்கு ஐந்து விதிகளை வகுத்துக்கொண்டு 'மிக நேர்மையாக, இதய சுத்தியுடன்’ ஆட்களைக் கடத்தும் விஜய் சேதுபதி, நிதி அமைச்சரின் மகனைக் கடத்தினால் என்ன ஆகும் என்பதே... கெக்கேபிக்கே படம்! ஆனால் கதை, ட்விஸ்ட், க்ளைமாக்ஸ் என்று தொகுத்து விளக்க அவசியம் இல்லாத திரைக்கதை.
''இதை இட்லினு சொன்னா, சட்னிகூட நம்பாதுடா!''
''நீங்க நியூஸ் பேப்பரே படிக்கிறது இல்லையா?''
''டெய்லி டேட் மாத்தி விக்கிறான்... அதை எதுக்குப் படிக்கணும்?''
''சென்னைக்கு பிளானோட வந்தவன் எல்லாம் திரும்பப் போயிடுறான். பிளான் இல்லாம வந்தவன்தான் ஜெயிக்கிறான்!''
''சார்... எம் பொண்ணை ஒண்ணும் பண்ணிராதீங்க சார்!''
''அய்யய்யா... நீங்களே சொன்னாலும் நாங்க எதுவும் பண்ண மாட்டோம் சார். கவலைப்படாதீங்க. மூச்சை இழுத்து விடுங்க. இப்போ ஃப்ரீயா ஃபீல் பண்றீங்களா?''
''நான் கத்த மாட்டேன். தயவுசெஞ்சு அந்த கர்ச்சீப்பை வாய்ல திணிக்காதீங்க.. நாறுது!''
''ஃப்ராடுத்தனம் பண்றதுக்கு குருட்டுத் தனமான முட்டாள்தனமும், முரட்டுத் தனமான புத்திசாலித்தனமும் வேணும்!''
''டெய்லி 18 டீ குடிக்கிறான்... இவனைக் கடத்த பிளான் எதுவும் போடத் தேவை யில்லை. ஒரு டீக்கடை போட்டா போதும்!''
''நாளைக்கு சண்டே... நாங்க வொர்க்பண்ண மாட்டோம். திங்கட்கிழமை பணத்தை வாங்கிக் கிறோம்!''
- இப்படி சீனுக்கு சீன் சிரிப்பு மேளா நடத்தியிருக்கிறார் அறிமுக இயக்குநர் நலன் குமாரசாமி. ஆனால், அசட்டுக் காமெடிகளாக இல்லாமல் நினைத்து நினைத்துச் சிரிக்கும் அளவுக்கு ஒவ்வொரு ஒன் லைனும் அவ்வளவு இன்ட்ரஸ்டிங் ப்ளஸ் இன்டெலிஜென்ட். தமிழ் சினிமாவில் நலனுக்குக் கலகல வரவேற்பு!

http://cdnw.vikatan.com/av/2013/05/zmziyt/images/p10a.jpgபடத்தில் ஹீரோ என்று யாரைச் சொல்வது? அமெச்சூர் கடத்தல்காரனாக வரும் விஜய் சேதுபதி, அதிகாலை சரக்குப் பார்ட்டி ரமேஷ், நயன்தாராவுக்குச் சிலைவைக்கும் சிம்ஹா, சாஃப்ட்வேர் பேர்வழி அசோக், நேர்மையான அரசியல்வாதி எம்.எஸ்.பாஸ்கர், அவருடைய பக்கா ஃப்ராடு மகன் கருணா, ஒரு வார்த்தை கூடப் பேசாமல் டெரர் கிளப்பும் திகில் போலீஸ் யோக் ஜெப்பி, சேஸிங்கில் கியர் தட்டும் ஒளிப்பதிவாளர் தினேஷ் கிருஷ்ணன், பின்னணி இசையில் மிரட்டும் சந்தோஷ் நாராயணன் என எல்லாருமே அவரவர் வேலைகளில் செம ஃபிட். அரூபக் கற்பனையாக வந்தாலும் 'மாமா... மாமா...’ என்று விஜய் சேதுபதியைக் கொஞ்சிக் கொஞ்சியே கிளாமரும் ஹ்யூமருமாக வசீகரிக்கிறார் சஞ்சிதா ஷெட்டி.
http://cdnw.vikatan.com/av/2013/05/zmziyt/images/p10.jpgபடத்தின் குறைகள்? நிறையவே! இவ்வளவு சொதப்பலாக ஒரு கடத்தல் கும்பல் இருக்க முடியுமா? ஒரு அமெச்சூர் கடத்தல் கும்பலுக்குப் பயந்து மாநில முதல்வரே கட்சி நிதியில் இருந்து கோடிகளைத் தூக்கிக் கொடுப்பாரா? பணப் பை ஜி.பி.எஸ். சிக்னலைப் பின்தொடராமல் போலீஸ் ஏன் வேடிக்கை பார்க்கிறது? கான்ஸ் டபிளைப் பார்த்தாலே உச்சா போகும் விஜய் சேதுபதி அண்ட் கோ, இன்ஸ்பெக்டர் பிரம்மா வுக்குத் தண்ணி காட்ட முடியுமா... போன்ற கேள்விகளுக்குப் பதில் யோசித்தாலே படத்தை ரசிக்க முடியாது. ஆனால், அது எதையும் யோசிக்கவிடாமல் அள்ளுகிறது காமெடி!
வெளியுலகை மறக்கடித்து, ஆறாம் அறிவை முடக்கிவைத்து, இரண்டு மணி நேரம் சிரித்துக் கொண்டே இருக்க முடியுமென்றால், இப்படியான 'சூது’களுக்கு நிச்சயம் விரிக்கலாம் சிவப்புக் கம்பளம்!

[Balaji.r]

Liked it. Premise was interesting and execution was terrific.

Most of the sequence had me in split.

Eagerly waiting for Vijay Sethupathy`s next, pannayarum padminiyum. Watched the naalaya iyakunar episode.

[NOV]

I am shocked Balaji. :shock:
Koodiya seekiram dum dum dum thaan ;)

[Balaji.r]

Enna shock , nov? :wink:

Liked VS N.K.Pakkatha kaanum and pizza was okay watch. Though the twist was unwarranted in pizza. Defn Vijay Sethupathy is choosing/getting decent scripts

It would be interesting to see how they are going to make the pannayarum .. into a 2 hour feature.

[NOV]

Shocked because I thought we have lost you.
Andha twist illena Pizza would have been one among the rest.

[mappi]

Soodhu Kavvum (Tamil : 2013)
Written & Directed by Nalan Kumarasamy
Edited by Leo John Paul
Cinematography : Dinesh Krishnan
Music by Santhosh Narayanan

Banner : Thirukumaran Entertainment

Starring : Vijay Sethupathi, Sanchita, M. S. Bhaskar, Simhaa, Ashok Selvan, Ramesh Thilak, Karuna Karan, Yog Japee, Aruldass

Three young men (Pagalvan, Kesavan and Sekhar) who are in "no job position" accidently meet a semi-psycopath Das. Convienced by his "sweet-talks" and enchanted by his "out-of-proposition-never-seen-before-behavior" they enroll themselves to assits Das in his day to day job : "Kednaping". After a "jet-speed-crash-course" on Kednaping from Das, they suceed in various petty kednaping, until they get a call to take up a BIG job - Kidnaping a minister's son for a huge ransom. Initially Das is hesitant as his first golden rule is not to touch the powerful, but events happen so fast, thanks to Kesavan, that he agrees for the job. To their suprise, the minister's son Arumai Pragasam, gets kidnapped by another gang. A quick intervention by Das team retrives Arumai Pragasam as well as comes to know that the whole kidnappin was staged by him to milk money from his honest father. Now they all enter a pact to continue the kidnaping act and share the money. Things go fine until Arumai Pragasam smells something fishy with Das & co once they retrieve the money, resulting in him escaping with the money. In the mean time the honest Minister goes nuts and enages his relative cum DJP to catch the crimals. Shit hits the fans when Brama, the nutorious police officer, is assigned to the case and he's got 48 hours to track the kidnappers. Now its upto Das and co to tackle Brama and come out either Dead or Alive, but do they have this option as Brama's style of capturing criminals is not "dead or Alive" but only "Dead or Dead". So sad ....

Nalan Kumarasamy, after his fantastic works as a short film director/screen writer, has massively suceded is making a full length motion picture. He carefully introduces the principal character in the first 40 minutes, and then quickly takes the naration forward without putting a single doubt on the viewers mind "who-is-who" as at a point of time the moive briskly shows so many people on screen. He teams with the editor to present the events in quick pace carefully playing with the registration done earlier. THe quick cuts between phone conversation is a highly note worthy technique. Santosh Narayanan has equally played well with Nalan. Variation of music in the fast cut scenes and the choice of BGM are excellent. Introducing the "cow-boy-style-gun-slinging" music towards the end increases not only the pace but puts a broad smile on your face. There are quite a few moments like that where not only the scenes and character but the music also plays a big part. Easily the interesting one is the shot where Das comes out of the Bank.

If I talk more about Vijay Sethupathy, I would be branded as his "fan". So I choose my words ... LoL. Just for an exemple, there is a scene where they all know that they are screwed up. Das listens carefully at the same time manipulates the next action. At a point of time he requests for a car & a bike. The scene on papers or reading it here seems easy, but no. Try it before a mirror you will find it hard to impossible. But Vijay Sethupathy just delivers it at ease. There are more such scenes in the movie where he gives a lot of variations, and if you look at it, you will be mind blown. Appreciations to him - [I do not know his residence or office address, else I would have written to him]

The other characters are perfect, eventhough a few do not have much screen time. Special mention to Ramesh Thilak [see his shorts films, but he excells more in this movie]. Also the guy who comes as the bank manager - don't know his name. He has acted in a handful of Shortfilms my favorite being 'Nadanthathu Yenanau' starring Karuna Karan. And Karuna Karan - how do you manage to put-up a face like that ? Thats your forte. Nice to see him more on movies. Like I had mentioned, Aruldass has less screentime, but he magically switches from anger to clamness between seconds. MS Bhasker as a neat-white politician gathers sympathy vote - poor guy - he is been played volley between his party people and his family. Finally, Yog Japee as the no-dialogue-cop Brama just holds your attention with his serious looks [and by the end you tend to hear his mind voice "Epadi Irundha Naan, Ipadi Aitein"]

As usual, I had some problems with this movie too. The tight grip was loosened at the end. Personally I felt they found it quite hard to finish what they started. Some scenes were rushed and some unwanted scenes took major time. Vijay Sethupathy at a point of time did not have much to do and it surprised me that he left the decesions and talking to his 3 associates. Would have loved an extended version of "Kasu Panam". I could not take my eyes off from that girl in the centre. Das split personality is mostly used for "funny purpose". Its good, but I would have loved to see more of Das character in depth, eventhough well developed, it still misses the impact.

Soodhu Kavvum : Super Mama

[Cinefan]

Its not released in bangalore

Wrong.It has made it the previous weekend I guess.Running even in Inox Central- 2 shows.

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

At the time of writing it wasn't! Now i know, yesterday few friends went and watched!

[Cinefan]

Want to watch it ?

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

No Ajay! Not in mood (& chichuvesan) to go to theatre and spend 3 hours!

My friends too called, i dint go. Namma, some other time meet pannuvom! :)

[Cinefan]

No Ajay! Not in mood (& chichuvesan) to go to theatre and spend 3 hours!

My friends too called, i dint go. Namma, some other time meet pannuvom! :)

Ok.Neenga sonna onnu,ennale follow up panni fix panna mudiyala.Apologies!

Too many things happening the last one month,today only relatively free-nnu nenaichen,rest of the day schedule fixed.

Hope things have fallen in place from other sources.

Bye ! Appuram call panren

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

No issues nga! :) I thot u wud be struck up, and already many times disturb pannitten, so only naanum free ya vitten! Appuram meet pannuvom! :)

[NOV]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BKJjD6WCQAENo4A.jpg:large

[mappi]

Deciphering the character DAS - Rajathandiri

Das is a character created by Nalan to adopt to his plot for the film Soodhu Kavvum, which he had directed too. Das often seems to be accompanied by Shalu, an attrative young girl, whom Nalan pet named as Kanavu Kani. Less is talked about them in the movie, expect for the subject information that Das is suffering from personality disorder and has volunterly abandoned medication.

Who is Das and whats the secret behind Shalu ?
Disecting the scenes involving Shalu and Das from the film, this is what I infer (conditions apply) :

Das is a scared guy. Either its his principle nature, or some event in his life has made him become so. I opt the second (keeping in mind his and his brother's profession) and this incident had created fear and isolation inside him. I beleive that he had been put or was hiding in a closed dark room/closet where he would have watched some gruesome acts. So to comfort himself, he had invented in his mind Shalu. Her young age could describe his lonely life till date. And she is aggressive, just what he could not be. Shalu is his reaction to fear. So she is around him whenever suituations create fear in Das.

To support my observation that Das is a scared person, I put forward the 5 golden rules of Das, the way he addresses to the kidnapped victim family, wears a dark sun glasses at suituations that accelerate fear (even inside his house while dealing the Arumai Pragasam kidnaping).

Shalu is seen around for the most of the 1st half and is completely missing in the 2nd. Its not that the story did not need her, but Das was not fearing nor did he have time to fear in the 2nd half. Here is the summary of Das-Shalu present in the same scene :

- The introduction of Das and Shalu - Das is under stress before kidnapping the girl
- The bar episode - he is confused and just escaped from a maniac + he uses his anti-fear to find where he went wrong
- Meeting with the 3 guys - as said by Shalu, he is scared to tell things about him to strangers and whether to trust them or not.
- Kidnappings - fear factor

But once Das meets his Brother, he regains security. He hates his brother only due to his profession as THE "doctor". But they both seem to have a affectionate relationship : courtesy - his brother helping him and panicing towards the climax. So Shalu is not needed by Das, but wants to embrass her when he is tortured in the dark room. This instant Das really thinks he is finished and before end nears, he makes Shalu to abandon him or it could be a revelation, a therapy - as I mentioned before all could have started when he was put in a dark room. This revelation releaves his split personality.

Shalu Missing (where you may think Das is scared) :
- Hotel scene : Das is comfortable with the guys now but she comes in the next scene just while kidnaping the banker's daughter
- 1st encounter with Brama - No time as when Das gets down all be sees in Sekar holding a gun
- Surrender - its planned and as rehersed he announces his motive to the press
- In the police van after release : helplessness and his analytic brain does not command fear
- Chasing + Running : Normal as instinct takes over fear. [for a fraction of a second he comes out to be himself, while standing valiantly before the initial kidnappers of Armai Pragasam - life & death suituation - instinct takes over fear.]


Side Note : Shanker briliantly coined the split personality in Anniyan. His trumph was the long hair and he created 3 logical characters who would have long hair normaly in a soceity and injected fear in one of them. Fear was used as a weapon by Karthik Subbaraj in Pizza to be exploited by the lead character in succesfully covering his heist. Nalan, on the other hand gave a contrast face to fear and made it walk in a movie. These are the peaks of imagination.

I do not know if this post would have audience, but I am satisfied that I found the answer to the remark that I had put in my review : "Das split personality is mostly used for "funny purpose". Its good, but I would have loved to see more of Das character in depth, eventhough well developed, it still misses the impact."

Thus, I take back my remark and conclude that Das is a well sketched character and all that I had said above was well emoted by VS.

Apreciations to Nalan & team.

[NOV]

i do not know if this post would have audience.........always.... :D

[mappi]

Not in the idea of digging an already discussed matter, I just want to register my reply as I was late to this thread, reason being I did not watch this movie at that time.

For me, the plot of Mumbai Express and Soodhu Kavvum is nowhere near. They are 2 distinct plots.
Mumbai Express
- Replacing a Key hand in the Kidnapping gang
- Error comitted while kidnaping the target
And the sub-plots includes how the characters use, mock and fool the principle character showing it in the POV of the principle character (that is we all know whats happening except him)

Soodhu Kavvum
- Amatures forming a kidnaping gang
- The victim becomes an associate
The sub-plots includes the crime comitted and its aftermaths. Its basically a lot of 'What IFs'

A far fetched similarity that I could notice in Soodhu Kavvum is the black bag full of cash + replacing cash by stuffing journals. Plus, the helicopter ariel shots does remind a bit the crane shots (but I am not too technical to elaborate on this).

Another similarity that I noticed (not in respect with Mumbai express) is : the dialogues by Sekhar to Pagalavan about new paper article - Its certainly the same style and tone of the narrative trailer of Aranya Kandam.

End

[interz]

Soodhu Kavvum - Super Machi

I watched this movie after reading the positive reviews. which normally is a bad idea. But I wasnt dissapointed watching this movie. Making short film makers direct a bigger movie paid off a lot lately eg. KSE, Pizza and NKPK (havent seen it yet). Kudos to the director for staying true to his script, I think this is the way the director wanted the movie to be. Most of the scenes are hilarious, Kaasu Panam song seem misplaced in the movie, and didnt do the movie any good.

I was impressed by Vijay Sethupathy in Pizza, and he didnt dissapoint either in this movie. All the other cast did well too incl. the heroine name which i forgot (sorry to Ovvuru Figarum Thevai Machan FB Group).

I am eagerly waiting for another short movie director to shine on the the silver screen soon among Nalan Kumarasamy

[NOV]

SK pushes EN to take the No. 1 spot


Week : 2
Total collections in Chennai : Rs. 3,85,78,620
Verdict: Good Opening
No. Shows in Chennai (Weekend): 520
Average Theatre Occupancy (Weekend): 75%
Collection in Chennai (Weekend): Rs. 1,38,22,800
No. Shows in Chennai (Weekdays): 428
Average Theatre Occupancy (Weekdays): 65%
Collection in Chennai (Weekdays): Rs. 1,06,13,824

http://behindwoods.com/tamil-movies/soodhu-kavvum/soodhu-kavvum-box-office-may-12.html

[NOV]

BigCinemas allocated full shows for Soodhukavvum 2nd wk in SanJose, Edison, Chicago & Atlanta. Minneapolis also full show. Dallas coming soon

[balaajee]

BigCinemas allocated full shows for Soodhukavvum 2nd wk in SanJose, Edison, Chicago & Atlanta. Minneapolis also full show. Dallas coming soon
:victory: keep going.....

[svaisn]

BigCinemas allocated full shows for Soodhukavvum 2nd wk in SanJose, Edison, Chicago & Atlanta. Minneapolis also full show. Dallas coming soon

Already in Dallas nov.... Funasia...
Houstonle than illa :(

[NOV]

Soodhukavvum opening in Boston from tonight. check http://www.imoviecafe.com for show details

[19thmay]

Nachu movie ..... :thumbsup: These youngsters are taking TFI to places. Keep it up boss! Kuraigalai niragarichu, kandippa adharikanum :smokesmirk:

[NOV]

http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/217318_466418673443812_590772179_n.jpg

[arulraj]

Saw the movie .....Enjoyable in many scenes....Esp the POLICE character from beginning to end amazing...kudos to nalan and vijay.

[19thmay]

Saw the movie .....Enjoyable in many scenes....Esp the POLICE character from beginning to end amazing...kudos to nalan and vijay.

+1 Dark room cell :rotfl:

[arulraj]

Iruttu araiyil murattu kuthu.......:2thumbsup:

[ajipdhej]

The film is good but not as humorous as NKPK

[NOV]

my ranking is:

1. Pizza
2. Soodhu Kavvum
3. NKPK

[19thmay]

my ranking is:

1. Pizza
2. Soodhu Kavvum
3. NKPK

Mine is reverse order.

[NOV]

Mine is reverse order.hazards of married life :rotfl:

[19thmay]

Heroine characterization in Soodhu Kavvum is even worst :rotfl:

[NOV]

Heroine characterization in Soodhu Kavvum is even worst adhu bachelor's fantasy thaan :rotfl3:

[19thmay]

But adhu muthiponadhu :lol2: you call it as fantasy...come on!

[NOV]

you call it as fantasy...come on!ellaarum oru vagaiyila paithiyam thaan :D

[NOV]

Watched a second time and enjoyed immensely. Whole cinema was clapping and laughing.
Son loved it. :D

[SoftSword]

indha padatthayaa aahaa ohonaanga?

[NOV]

http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/01467/27MPSOODHUKAVVUMMO_1467380g.jpg


Off-beat films that speak the language of youth and portray life as we live it are the new chartbusters, says Sudhish Kamath


The twin successes of Nalin Kumarasamy’s noir comedy Soodhu Kavvum and Alphonse Putharen’s quirky thriller Neram has probably been the best news for Tamil cinema in a long time.

Simply because it has proved that the offbeat horror thriller Pizza and the unusual comedy Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom were not flukes of the season last year.

Over the last couple of years, brave, young and confident filmmakers such as Thiagarajan Kumararaja (Aaranya Kaandam), Karthik Subbaraj (Pizza), Balaji Mohan (Kaadhalil Sothappuvathu Yeppadi), Balaji Tharaneetharan (Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom) and now, Kumarasamy and Putharen have managed to break both form and formula by tapping into genres and sub genres rarely seen in Tamil cinema.

If Aaranya Kaandam introduced neo-noir rooted here, Karthik Subbaraj tapped into Hollywood horror constructs only to pull the rug from under your feet. While Balaji Mohan infused freshness into romance with a modern urban sensibility, Balaji Tharaneetharan brought the boys next door and their wisecracks to life on the big screen through a comic thriller of a bromance. If Nalin Kumarasamy mixed satirical elements in his dark noir comedy, Alphonse Putharen employed feel good in his light hearted comedy of co-incidences.

But what’s common to all these films spread across different genres?

They speak the language of the youth. Not filmy dialogues but casual banter you hear all around you. From the streets, campuses, offices and your own neighbourhood.

Ever since Venkat Prabhu’s street cricket comedy Chennai 600028 and C.S. Amudhan’s spoof Tamizh Padam paved the way for irreverence and anti-formula a few years ago, Tamil cinema has never been the same.

Though stars continued with the formulaic escapist entertainment on one hand and the other bunch of rural filmmakers continued to turn suffering into the new formula channelling poverty porn, a new reactionary cinema began to emerge as a response to formula.

Every stock situation would be countered with a cliché turned on the head. Every punch line would be reduced to a joke. Every filmy ingredient would be replaced with slices of life. And every hero would be replaced by the common man.

Young stars like Dhanush and now, Vijay Sethupathy have shown tremendous amount of commitment to avoiding anything remotely formulaic or heroic and have just played it straight. As the common man. Or the boy next door.

Brave production houses like Capital Film Works (S.P. Charan), Y Not Studios (S. Sashikanth), Cloud Nine (Dhaya Alagiri) and now Thirukumaran Entertainment (C.V. Kumar) have been backing radically different scripts over the last few years.

Anti-formula is the new formula.

Yet, it hasn’t been easy for a whole bunch of others because change is slow. It has been a long wait for many others.

Modern urban films like Milind Rau’s Kaadhal 2 Kalyanam and Venkyy’s Konjam Koffee Konjam Kadhal generated tremendous buzz and positive word of mouth in private screenings but are still waiting for the market to open up and smell the coffee.

Youth sells. Formula is out. Fresh is in.

http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/rise-of-the-antiformula/article4750113.ece

[k_vanan]

Watched a second time and enjoyed immensely. Whole cinema was clapping and laughing.
Son loved it. :D

Finally watched.. awesome movie. Will rate one of the best in this year :bow:

Now days this new director are ruling the TFI with fresh & good screenplay :clap:

1. SK
2. NKPK
3. Attakathi
4. Pizza

[NOV]

Will rate one of the best in this year :bow:
Sentul?

I watched it there the first time, and in State the second time

[littlemaster1982]

indha padatthayaa aahaa ohonaanga?

You didn't like it at all?

[k_vanan]

:bow:
Sentul?

I watched it there the first time, and in State the second time

ya .... :smile:

[SoftSword]

'at all' ellaam vilambaram... but aaha oho is anaavasiyam i feel...

[HonestRaj]

recent times ellame 1 time watching madhirithan irukku.. inge vandhu partha sky high praise... ellam pazhaya joke'aye vetti ottura velaithan seiranga

[Balaji.r]

tcrip??

[NOV]

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[balaajee]

இந்தியில் ரீமேக் ஆகிறது விஜயசேதுபதியின்சூதுகவ்வும்!


தென்மேற்கு பருவக்காற்று படத்தில் ஹீரோவாக அறிமுகமான விஜயசேதுபதி அதன்பிறகு நடித்த சுந்தரபாண்டியன், பீட்சா, நடுவுல கொஞ்சம் பக்கத்த காணோம், சூதுகவ்வும் என எல்லா படங்களும் ஹிட்தான். அதனால் தற்போது கோலிவுட் மார்க்கெட்டில் பேசப்படும் நடிகராகி விட்டார் அவர். தற்போதுகூட கைவசம் அரை டஜன் படங்களை வைத்துள்ளார் விஜயசேதுபதி. இந்த நிலையில், அவர் சமீபத்தில் நடித்து வெளியான சூதுகவ்வும் படம்
தமிழக திரையரங்குகளில் மட்டும் 6 கோடி வரை வசூல் செய்துள்ளதாம். குறைவான பட்ஜெட்டில் தயாரான படம் இவ்வளவு சம்பாதித்து கொடுத்திருப்பதால் விநியோகஸ்தர்கள் மகிழ்ச்சியில் ஆழ்ந்திருக்கிறார்கள். இந்த சந்தோசமான தருணத்தில் இப்படத்தை இந்தியிலும் ரீமேக் செய்யப்போகிறார்களாம். இப்படத்தின் உரிமை இதுவரை எந்த தமிழ் படமும் விலைபோகாத அளவுக்கு அதிக தொகைக்கு விற்பனையாகி உள்ளதாம்.

[Madhu Sree]

saadharanamaana movie thaan... aaha ohonu solla onnum illa... ok kind...

[balaajee]

அருண் பாண்டியனையும் சூது கவ்வியது

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ஒரு படத்தின் ஸ்கி*ரிப்டை முழுமையாக எழுதினால் எழுதியவருக்கு இரண்டோ ஐந்தோ லட்சங்கள் தருவார்கள். ஆனால் அதே ஸ்கி*ரிப்டை வேறு மொழிக்கு விற்றால்…?

சூது கவ்வும் படத்தின் ஒட்டுமொத்த *ரீமேக் ரைட்ஸை அருண் பாண்டியனும் ராக்லைன் வெங்கடேஷும் இணைந்து வாங்கியிருக்கிறார்கள். இதற்காக அவர்கள் தந்தது ஒன்றரை கோடி ரூபாய். சமீபத்தில் ஒரு மீடியம் பட்ஜெட் படத்தின் *ரீமேக் ரைட்ஸ் இவ்வளவு அதிக தொகைக்கு விலை போனதில்லை.

அரசியல், கட்சி என்று சினிமாவிலிருந்து காணாமல் போன அருண் பாண்டியன் இந்த *ரீமேக் ரைட்ஸை வாங்*கியதன் மூலம் மீண்டும் தனது சினிமா ட்ராக்குக்கு வந்திருக்கிறார்.

சூது கவ்வும் படத்தை தெலுங்கு, இந்தியில் தயா*ரிக்கும் முடிவில் இருக்கிறது அருண் பாண்டியன், வெங்கடேஷ் கூட்டணி.

[HonestRaj]

tcrip??

nalla print vandhuruchungOv..

[Siv.S]

my ranking is:

1. Pizza
2. Soodhu Kavvum
3. NKPK

1. Soodhu Kavvum
2. Pizza
3. NKPK

Pizza second time antha alavukku illa,konjam lengthy-aavum irunthuchu antha veettukkulla nadakkira scenes,for me NKPK given a short-film feel..

SK - thoroughly enjoyed it,except that fantasy heroine character everyone did their best, no Rofl moments but every frame had its moments keep me engaged,most importantly never get bored. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[mappi]

except that fantasy heroine character everyone did their best

Not in defense for Sanchita Shetty, but I feel that she did a decent job. Eventhough she is not "my-kind-of-girl", I found her charming in few scenes notably during the intro, bar and "swim-wear" scene. She looked kind of vampy in her "police-mini-shorts". Also its quite challenging to perform when everybody (except one) are igorant about you.

Glad that you enjoyed the movie.

[Siv.S]

Not in defense for Sanchita Shetty, but I feel that she did a decent job. Eventhough she is not "my-kind-of-girl", I found her charming in few scenes notably during the intro, bar and "swim-wear" scene. She looked kind of vampy in her "police-mini-shorts". Also its quite challenging to perform when everybody (except one) are igorant about you.

Glad that you enjoyed the movie.

I should have put that lil more clearly,she did well but having that character didn't work for me... yes boss really enjoyed it.. :D realised that i have smiled more time for Bagalavan dialogues :D one of the best characterisation next to Vj sethupathi and MS Baskar.

[vithagan]

'at all' ellaam vilambaram... but aaha oho is anaavasiyam i feel...:yes:

[HonestRaj]

had few really funny moments
good screenplay, but last 15 mins dragging.. as usual for a comedy film
who is the policeman Bramma? the one who played the role of Ranjith in Ajith's Billa? oru sizeah partha hat trick hero sivarajkumar madhiriye irukkan.. enneramum verappaa..
indha padathukkagava vijay sedhubadhikku pudhu thread open panneenga.. miraculous..
few dialogues are very good.. liked it.. "all conditions apply" is one among them.. can be used in daily conversation
bgm song.. douser kazhanduruchu.. :lol:
andha extra lady character.. adhu enna padam.. hmm.. ah.. Talaash'la irundhu suttadhu.. adhu original'ah ngradhu enakku theriyadhu

[Anban]

had few really funny moments
good screenplay, but last 15 mins dragging.. as usual for a comedy film
who is the policeman Bramma? the one who played the role of Ranjith in Ajith's Billa? oru sizeah partha hat trick hero sivarajkumar madhiriye irukkan.. enneramum verappaa..
indha padathukkagava vijay sedhubadhikku pudhu thread open panneenga.. miraculous..
few dialogues are very good.. liked it.. "all conditions apply" is one among them.. can be used in daily conversation
bgm song.. douser kazhanduruchu.. :lol:
andha extra lady character.. adhu enna padam.. hmm.. ah.. Talaash'la irundhu suttadhu.. adhu original'ah ngradhu enakku theriyadhu
enna solla vareenga ?? the highlighted sentence actually means that there are no funny scenes in the movie..

[Brianengab]

watched it..nothing much to say..usual pazhaiya story thaan...ithukku ean ivlo buildupuuuu...

[HonestRaj]

enna solla vareenga ?? the highlighted sentence actually means that there are no funny scenes in the movie..

oru sila scene'la nalla rasichu sirichen.. intentional fun..

unintentional fun'nu padathula edhuvum illai..

[arulraj]

one of the best movie in recent movies .....esp for dialogues

loosu koomuttai maathiri paysuriyae...
no job position...
angry man.....
thirumba thum adikalaamu irukkaen..
ean kaasulan than saapidanum....
sapida porom...
ivana kadaththa oru tea kadai vacha pothum...
nayantharavukku kovil kattavanukkellaam ean dream romba pudikkum...

i liked very much boss.....

[mappi]

oru sizeah partha hat trick hero sivarajkumar madhiriye irukkan..

LoL


andha extra lady character.. adhu enna padam.. hmm.. ah.. Talaash'la irundhu suttadhu.. adhu original'ah ngradhu enakku theriyadhu

Talaash lady = Ghost
SK Lady = Split Personality

For the ghost in Talaash, you cannot look into originality, as all ghosts stories have the same baseline, its the angle that gives the difference and Talaash wins at it, but miserably fails in its naration.

Another important contrast is that :

- as I mentioned in my review of Talaash, Talaash is the "hallow-search-in-oneself" that opens doors for the lead character to see, listen and experience Ghost, which not only helps him find the answers for his materisalistic "search" but also the spiritual one.

- as desipherd this layered character in SK, its the depression that provokes an alternative to support oneself.

Glad that you enjoyed the humour in SK and for paying attention to "all conditions apply".

[mappi]

one of the best movie in recent movies .....esp for dialogues

You missed "close" ... LoL

[NOV]

Nalan Kumarasamy struck gold with his very first directorial venture Soodhu Kavuum, a black comedy starring Vijay Sethupathy in the main lead.
In this interview, this engineer turned film-maker talks about the making of Soodhu Kavuum.

How did the idea of Soodhu Kavvum originate?

I had written a script that I felt was quite bad and was discussing it with my friend. I was in a very depressed mood. My friend consoled me by saying, I had already made seven short films and the script for a feature film would be there in one of my short films.

There is a character called Arumuga Prakasham in one of my short films, and my friend asked me, what if he became a minister in the end? He is the wickedest character in the story and in the end, he becomes the minister. That set me going. That was the beginning of Soodhu Kavvum.

But it is not the minister's son who is the central character in your film; it is the kidnapper. How did he come into the picture?

It is the minister's son that set the script rolling. All the other characters were added slowly as we progressed.
I wanted the minister's son to be kidnapped. Then, I thought, who could do that? I didn't want a stereotypical kidnapper or a villain. That was how Das, the man who was a failure as a kidnapper, got developed.

The story is plot driven and not character driven. So, as the story progressed, I went on adding characters. Somehow, many felt it was a character driven film.

You started with the minister's son getting kidnapped. How come the kidnapper became the hero of the film?

I wouldn't call the kidnapper the hero of the film. He got more attention because it was played by Vijay Sethupathy. If the role was played by a character artist or a comedian, nobody would have called him the hero.

The kidnapper has an imaginary girl friend throughout the film which nobody else sees. How did this idea to come to you?

When I wrote the script and showed it to my friends and my family, all of them told me that it was a very male-centric film, and would not run. The feedback was quite disappointing.

Many asked me to have a lover for the kidnapper which I did not want. I was very sure that there would not be a romantic angle in the film as I felt romance and songs would spoil the flow and mood of the film. Their worry was how can you make a film without a woman in any frame? They felt such a film would not run.

One day, suddenly the idea of an imaginary girl friend came to my mind. That was how she was created, as an imaginary girl friend whom nobody else can see except this guy.

Do you feel the film would have worked even without the female character?

Yes, I feel the film would have worked without her too. I don't think it would have been less entertaining without her.
I feel audiences don't always look for romance, love or women in a film. If it's a good film with a good story, audiences will like it. You don't need any formula to make a good film.

Why did you decide to make it a black comedy, a rarity in Tamil cinema?

I am a true lover of this genre. The plot can be quite serious but you can treat it like a comedy. I also watch a lot of black comedies, and most of my short films are also in this genre. It was a familiar genre for me. I didn't feel I was doing something new.

Does that mean you will stick to this genre?

No, I am basically a story teller. If I have a very serious subject, I will definitely not follow this genre.
I would say the story will decide what genre the film should be. I want to make all kinds of films.

When you made the film, were you expecting this kind of success?

I knew it would have a decent run but never expected this kind of response from the audience.

Did you have any difficulty in getting a producer for such a film?

Luckily, C V Kumar, the producer, made offbeat films like Attakathi and Pizza. He is always on the lookout for offbeat and innovative scripts. Only because of him, the film got made. Otherwise, I don't know when I would have been able to make Soodhu Kavvum.

After I wrote the script, I told myself that I would show it to four or five producers and if all of them rejected it, I would write another one. That was my plan. Luckily, Kumar got interested in the script, and the film was made.

I would say that if you want good films to be made in Tamil, you need good producers. There are good directors and innovative ideas but we do not have good producers who understand good scripts.

Is it heartening for film-makers like you that films like Pizza, Naduvula Konjam.., Soodhu Kavvum, Neram etc are accepted by people?

People are always ready but producers are not. They still feel that people prefer only formula films.

Film-makers like you may start your career with an actor like Vijay Sethupathy but they always say their dream is to work with a star. Is it the same for you?

Yes. I would like to direct stars but their presence should not affect the story.

I am of the opinion that we shouldn't be averse to directing stars. But I would like to say that Vijay Sethupathy is a star now! If there was no Vijay Sethupathy, Soodhu Kavvum would have been a different film.
The truth is we needed him to bring in the audience for a film of this budget. If the budget is more, you need a bigger star to bring in the audience.

What is the best compliment you got for your film?

When other directors call and congratulate me, I feel very happy. Their compliments are very special.

Kamal Sir called us to his office and told me that I should stick to making these kinds of films with good scripts, and not go after big budget films.

[SoftSword]

LoL



Talaash lady = Ghost
SK Lady = Split Personality



its just hallucination no?

[mappi]

its just hallucination no?

Not going into too much details (as I am not so good at psy subjects, except that I am quite interested) :

Auditory and visual hallucinations are symptoms of Dissociative Identity Disorder (also know Multiple Personality Disorder and pet named Split personality). How it mounts to become a disorder is according to the patients pretendence.

For ex :
Often during Halucinations, the patient (with the (wrong) help of the brains) imagines things those that does not exist. It depends on his surrounding and mostly connecting to him either to danger (seeing demons) or false-joy (taking himself for someone big). As said hallucinations depend the surronding.

On the other hand, DID is the form of depression exploding in search of comfort zones. Here the patient is in permanent contact with their "hallucinated" character, and assume its real. They pretend to continue like that, being absolutely normal. The trauma the mind had experienced defines the level of this disorder.

As Nalan has not come out exactly what he intended to showcase with this character - he is more concerned to tell us that its just to have a female character around, which I am not buying - by looking at certain scenes, dialogues and the "sa ga" song, I deduced that Das is "psy-sick", thus sufering from DID.

I absolutely take in account your angle, but Halucination cannot be permanent and does not get provoked at any given suituation - maybe Auditory but visual should have a motivation (or an external influence like medication or drug). Where as DID, until the patient pretends, the visual character is real.

I dont find any other explantion, I am all ears.

[balaajee]

had few really funny moments
good screenplay, but last 15 mins dragging.. as usual for a comedy film
who is the policeman Bramma? the one who played the role of Ranjith in Ajith's Billa? oru sizeah partha hat trick hero sivarajkumar madhiriye irukkan.. enneramum verappaa..
indha padathukkagava vijay sedhubadhikku pudhu thread open panneenga.. miraculous..
few dialogues are very good.. liked it.. "all conditions apply" is one among them.. can be used in daily conversation
bgm song.. douser kazhanduruchu.. :lol:
andha extra lady character.. adhu enna padam.. hmm.. ah.. Talaash'la irundhu suttadhu.. adhu original'ah ngradhu enakku theriyadhu

This is unfair, even Talaash team won't accept that...

[HonestRaj]

adhu illainga.. illaadha oru aalai irukkura madhiri kaatturadhu... adhukkaga appadiye copy adikka mudiyadhe.. oru inspiration'nu vechukkalam

[kumarsr]

Landmark film of the year....perhaps the best so far.

[Cinemarasigan]

Watched it over the weekend. Good one to watch when u are in a relaxed mood.. Story moves in a steady pace and ends up well.

Different from the run-of-the-mill comedy films we see in the recent times...

Those kidnapping policies of Vijay Sethupathy are very practical ones, dangerous thing is real world Kidnappers may try to follow these...

I liked the kidnapping episode of bank manager's daughter... Very casual and the many :rotfl: dialogues during this sequence.

Ahaa ohO-nu sollra aLavukku illa... but definitely enjoyable one..

[Avadi to America]

enda...itha thaan iruttu araiyil murattu kuthada...

[hattori_hanzo]

Soodhu Kavvum is probably the movie with the maximum number of unpredictable sequences/characters. Thats right from the title.

- Soodhu, in the movie never Kavs anyone or anything, except the cop's ass. The criminals go unpunished and get rewarded too.
- OTOH, the only 2 honest characters, Bhaskar and Yog Jappi suffer in the end.
- There are movies in which a pivotal character is shown as a figment of imagination - Fight Club, Beautiful Mind. And this is revealed to the audience towards the end of the movie to add a shock value. But here in SK, it is revealed in the second scene. Thats a brave attempt.
- Surprises thrown in many other scenes like the contents of Arumai Nayagam's bag, CM's meal, TR poster, Vijay Sethupathy's mokkai intro, Rowdy doctor's prescription, iruttu araiyil murattu kutthu and a song there etc.

[NOV]

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[venkkiram]

சூது கவ்வும்! முதல் பாதியை ரெண்டு வாரத்திற்கு முன்பாகவும் இரண்டாம் பாதியை இன்றும் பார்த்து முடித்தேன். கதை, திரைக்கதை, வசனம், ஒளிப்பதிவு, பின்னணி இசை , படத் தொகுப்பு, இயக்கம் எல்லாமே ஒன்றொடு ஒன்று கலந்து முழுமையைக் கொடுக்குது. சின்ன சின்ன விஷயங்களில் திரைக்கதை காட்டியிருக்கும் முனைப்பு நேர்த்தியாக வந்திருக்கிறது. உதாரணத்திற்கு துப்பாக்கியை இடுப்பில் சொருகும்போது தவறுதலாக வெடித்து விடுவது போலிஸ் இலாகாவில் நடக்கும் நிகழ்வுதான். அதையே படத்தின் முக்கியமான காட்சிக்கு சொருகிவிட்டது பொருத்தம். படைப்பின் சிறப்பான விஷயமாக நான் கருதுவது நடப்புக் கால விஷயங்களை வைத்தே கற்பனையை கலந்து விடுவது. மேலும், யாருக்குமே படம் முழுக்க வியாபிக்கும் வகையில் இடம்கொடுக்காமல் பலதரப்பட்ட பாத்திரங்களை தேவைக்கேற்ப முன்னிறுத்தி உள்ளடக்கிக் கொள்வது. இந்த யுத்தி சிறப்பு. கிளி ஜோசியக்காரனெல்லாம் ரியல் எஸ்டேட் தொழில் பண்ண ஆரம்பித்தால் உருப்படுமா என்ற ரீதியில் வரும் வசனத்தை மிகவும் ரசித்தேன். கவுண்டமணி வகை சிலையுடைப்பு! உன்னதம்..வசனம்.. :notworthy:

[mappi]

hattori_hanzo, glad that you have noted TR posters ... LoL.

Just a couple of remarks :

Neither Bhaskar nor Yog Jappi are honest. Atleast they are not corrupt, but they are everything else. Yog Jappi is a determined arrogant cop who does everything other than abiding the law. Bhaskar is a egostic self-centered man, whose only intention is to stay in the power. So he takes anti-corruption as his weapon, but does not really do anything much to his party or to the people whom he should serve.

SK characters are all dark shaded but the beauty is you can paint them with any coating shade. Here is a few characteristics of the charcters : Jobless, aimless, panicking, masked, egostic, arrogant etc., : and each character can be assosiated with these. For ex: Yog was jobless whereas Bhasker becomes jobelss. Likewise, each character gets into the shoes of others characteristics and how its woven is absolutely fabulous.

"Vijay Sethupathy's mokkai intro" : I just loved it ... intro ending with "super mama" and begining the title card with the theme = fruit salade.

[ I wish to add Vennkiram's lines here]

Myself favoring the movie is not to create a hype around it, just to announce that "here comes a movie that has so many things in it that each one can get what he is looking for". Its a rarity in TFI (for the moment) and the material the movie has is the best so far.

Comming to the story and events : Eventhough what you have expressed is true, the only justification that I can come up with is - its about the wolves, so there will not be pity for the lambs. Whether its necessary (notably showing indian youngsters living on alcohol or girls or criminals go unpunished) is entirely a different debate. SK stuck to its concept and presented it in a rather non-shocking manner - thanks to the casting.

[hattori_hanzo]

hattori_hanzo, glad that you have noted TR posters ... LoL.

Just a couple of remarks :

Neither Bhaskar nor Yog Jappi are honest. Atleast they are not corrupt, but they are everything else. Yog Jappi is a determined arrogant cop who does everything other than abiding the law. Bhaskar is a egostic self-centered man, whose only intention is to stay in the power. So he takes anti-corruption as his weapon, but does not really do anything much to his party or to the people whom he should serve.


Cant agree with you fully on the nature of Yog and Bhaskar. On Yog - idhaye Kaaka Kaaka'la hero senja adhu heroism but supporting character senja arrogance'a? He exceeds his limits in punishing the criminals but that doesn't take away the honesty from him. The job assigned to him is to nab those who kidnapped and he does that without wasting a minute.

And Bhaskar - egoistic, self-centered, does do anything for his partymen? He isnt corrupt and doesnt accept bribes which makes the CM say, onnaala katchikku nashtam. But those are scenes which are made to show that being a good man among wolves doesnt benefit him. We are not shown any of his party activities so we cant blame him for serving his people. But right in the first scene he conveys a neat message. The character is somewhat similar to Walter Vetrivel Vijayakumar.

[Cinemarasigan]

Myself favoring the movie is not to create a hype around it, just to announce that "here comes a movie that has so many things in it that each one can get what he is looking for". Its a rarity in TFI (for the moment) and the material the movie has is the best so far.



Mappi, I don't think this movie is "Best" in any of the departments... according to me we can use the word "Good".

[mappi]

On Yog - Encountering a criminal is different from 'dirty harry' styled murder. By doing that the yog character steps from 'honesty" and becomes a vigilantie in uniform.

On Bhasker - true that he is not corrupt (as mentioned) but being the calf in the wolves pack itself deplaces the honesty (towards the wolves). For that I completely understand what you are saying, but in the later parts of the movie you could get to see his aggresivity, which is not provoked by honesty but just his egostic side taking a full swing.

I like to quote the lines from the theme song "Nalladhu edhu Kattathu edhu, Kattadhuku Nallathu Kattadhu". Thats exactly the confusion that the film maker wants to create. Its from where you see that deceides which is good and which bad, and determines how you see it.

Anyway, thats absolutely my depiction of the charaters strictly as shown in SK and I respect yours. I may agree with you on the honesty part of Bhasker (a bit - on papers not on screen) but Yog is definetly a rogue cop.

[mappi]

Mappi, I don't think this movie is "Best" in any of the departments... according to me we can use the word "Good".

OK Cinemarasigan.
If you have followed this thread, I have written/discussed many things on SK. Those are the points I lay forward for calling SK "best so far"

I would like to hear yours please.

[SoftSword]

best so far - pls Define (2 marks)

[mappi]

LoL
Best is a superlative of Good
Other similarities assosiated to Best are : Most satisfactory, greatest degree, most favorable

So far : Up to the present moment

Best so far : Most satisfactory upto the present moment.

Now the question is what are the movies that were compared with. On the whole no movies were considered for comparison. Its the film-work on the whole which is addressed, keeping in mind the perfect unification of various departements in film making, without losing what should be conveyed. The crispness in the delivery and projection of elements mingling naturally with the envoirnement has be captured briliantly, leave alone dialogues, editing etc., those which are truely visible and scores max points. The story ground work was quite strong which reflects in the proceeding. Last but not least, the stroy-telling techinque was so crooked that it was awesome.

As I had mentioned, each character plays every characteristic, which is the major highlight that I am favoring the movie. And as I said there is something for everyone no matter how he/she looks at it. Take the song "Kasu Panam" - right from the girls doing the spanish "un, dos, tres" spanish dance to the curency flying, each frame had something in it - a guy eating popcorn, filming with his smart phone, a lady leaving soap bubbles etc.,

From my point of view and stictly sticking to TFI, SK is by far a film that drew my attention.

I have extended and positioned (again) my statement.

And I would like to know on what basis you categorise a movie to "Good" and "Best". (For Best, I have given my version)

[NOV]

... just to announce that "here comes a movie that has so many things in it that each one can get what he is looking for". Its a rarity in TFI (for the moment) and the material the movie has is the best so far.I agree with you in totality.

There isn't any other movie released this year that is better than this, in terms of story, screenplay, acting, presentation, etc.

[mappi]

A grain of rice from the pot :

Continuity and timing : the opening kidnap scene when VS puts the girl in the car - starting the car - girl escaping = the sequence is perfect as you see eveything on the screen between shots.

Editing : the phone conversations

Dialogues : Yen vali (vazhi) thani vali - when Arumai prakasam is chokes Pagalavan

Cinematography : the chase sequence

Screenplay : placement of the twists to keep you interested

Direction : Keeping key shots at the most "unintended" places

Executive production : collecting all the necessary items thats a part of a (any) scene

Story : the unique characterisation

Music : working as an invisible character

Art : 2 versions of "bachelors room"

Acting : irritated MLA or Poli Doctor or the man who build a temple for Nayanthara or the one who keeps alarm to get up and continue drinking or ...

Dialogue delivery : as mentioned in my review, VS demanding a bike and a car

Let me know if you wish to know on any other stream in the movie, I will be glad to give it to you.

[Siv.S]

Me too +1 +1.... , so many good moments in the movie.... characterization,dialogues,flawless-interesting-screenplay,performance everything was so perfect ... Hats off to the writer.. :2thumbsup:

[Arragesh]

Me too
I have seen director Mr.Nalan's interview sometime back.He mentions "Katra anaithu raja thanthirangalum intha padathilaya use panniyaachi so inimae thaan yosikanum" when he was questioned about his next project.

That was the same thing even i have in my mind,This film is so perfect that clearly shows the learning of this director over the years.

[venkkiram]

Car and police jeep chasing scenes are praiseworthy. Editing and cinematography worked well together. And the Art work throughout the movie is topnotch. A perfect film for team work. A rarity in TFM.

[kumarsr]

This film will be a trendsetter more than other films released this year but is comes along the same path of other decent non-formulaic films. This is really a welcome change. I especially liked this movie which just keeps your interest from start to finish in a very breezy fashion with all characters fitting into the plot nicely and the plot organically moving along. Importantly, it has none of the usual stereotypes - the mandatory fights, foreign locales for songs, stars, unbelievable situations, very expensive budgets etc. There is no "love" story around which everything revolves. I don't recall seeing many movies recently which did not have some of this crap - it's as if it cannot be taken w/o one. This film breals all these stereotypes and manages to be quite entertertaining - a breath of fresh air. Kudos!!!

[Cinemarasigan]

LoL
Best is a superlative of Good
Other similarities assosiated to Best are : Most satisfactory, greatest degree, most favorable


Thx Mappi for explaining your stand on this... In my view I didn't get "Most satisfactory" feeling after watching.

Greatest Degree - In my view this movie has some shining moments but not all scenes are done with greatest degree of perfection... there are many places I felt it could have been done better... If time permits, I will elaborate on this later..

Most favourable - There are many things in this movie can be enjoyable to limited set of audience...
For example the initial scene where the driver gets up early morning to start drinking... this may be enjoyable to some set of audience, but it puts me off .. There are many things like this in the movie which can be enjoyed by a section of people, not all..
If you feel that these kind of things can be in a "best" movie, then I beg to differ.. Also the movie drags little more in the second half and it could have been crispier..

Other than this I agree that this movie scores well in all the departments - story, screenplay, strong characterization, background score & camera work. I enjoyed the movie as well...

[mappi]

If time permits, I will elaborate on this later..

OK


If you feel that these kind of things can be in a "best" movie, then I beg to differ

I think there is a tiny misunderstanding while reading between the lips. As discussed with Hattori Hanzo, its a "personel" objection which I respect. But on the whole, inside the concept of the film, this character and the scenes elaborating his nature are not lags. Strictly in this aspect the movie wins again. Eventhough, I repeat, the question whether its necessery or not is entirely another debate - I have a huge list of movies, which ofcoarse includes SK. If you have followed my other reviews I had sarcastically mentioned "Drink, drug & die - kind of youngsters". From here I can only mention it, but do nothing. For that how the actress in TFI are "exploited" even today (I precise year 2013) in the name of "Kalai" & glamour is more shocking to me than a bunch of youngsters getting together on spirit. In a recent "comedy" film the "womenhood" was showcased as the most dumbest creation of God. But I am not suprised (au contraire to you with SK) when people are enjoying it THOROUGHLY.

Additional note : And I never wish to seperate audience by "sets" & sections. My personal view on that is, at any given point of time its the individuals take rather than the section's influence. Most of the "big shots" in art or for that matter any stream worldwide have come from these "so called sections" that we are refering to quite often. But I absolutely have not problem if you or others do that, just that I can't repy in favour or deny it.

[SoftSword]

And I would like to know on what basis you categorise a movie to "Good" and "Best". (For Best, I have given my version)

thala, i only wanted to know abt ur 'so far' in the sense 'so far since when'?
indha varushamaa... indha decade'a? etc.,

[mappi]

LoL

Professor Sir, Naan Pass-a Fail-a ! 2 out of 2 thaaney ... illa indha varushamum pona varusham mari thaana ?


Jokes apart, "so far" is associated to the moment, which is nothing put the gap in time when past becomes present and waiting to enter the future. Mostly "present" moment is often used, when the past and future moments cannot be denied.

Present moment is defined for a short term in association with the topic. Mostly it is semestrial when talking about large subjects. When "so far" is used, according to me, the immediate past is refered to, meaning you cannot bring in Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali to compare with Nalan's SK.

So "so far" according to me is = Year 2013

On a side Note : we should not confuse it with "Thus Far"

[And if anything is wrongly used, please excuse my english - I am anywhere wandering between English, French and Tamil]

[SoftSword]

yov...
oru puriyalenu oru kelvi ketten.. adhukku ipdiya edho kolai senja maadhiri enna feel panna vekkiradhu...

professor goes on long leave...

[Cinemarasigan]

yov...
oru puriyalenu oru kelvi ketten.. adhukku ipdiya edho kolai senja maadhiri enna feel panna vekkiradhu...

professor goes on long leave...

leave is not sanctioned...

[mappi]

Oh! that was not my intention though (I always feared about my english, have not yet come out of it - KK Nagar "Complex" I think ... LoL)

[venkkiram]

Soothu Kavvum movie a crime-comedy based, is the first of its kind where all the departments shined well together to make it a classic and fresh! A perfect example for Team work.

[venkkiram]

சூது கவ்வும்: அபத்த நகைச்சுவையும் திரைக்கதை நுணுக்கங்களும்-

http://thiruttusavi.blogspot.com/2013/06/blog-post_18.html

விமர்சனம் சூப்பர்..

[SoftSword]

leave is not sanctioned...

neengalae D-bar aana kesu... idhula enakku sanction...

[NOV]

@kegnanavelraja : #SoodhuKavvum Hindi rights sold for a very big price never heard for a Tamil film!


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BOYabIDCcAEj34k.jpg:large

[mappi]

SK Bluray :

India : http://www.amazon.in/Soodhu-Kavvum-Blu-ray-Nalan-Kumarasamy/dp/B00EIKPEAE

US : http://www.amazon.com/Soodhu-Kavvum-Original-Tamil-Sealed/dp/B00EIF83JI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377330784&sr=8-1&keywords=soodhu+Kavvum

Europe / UK : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Soodhu-Kavvum-Original-Tamil-Sealed/dp/B00EIF83JI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1377330730&sr=8-2&keywords=Soodhu+Kavvum

for other locations, contact the seller for shipping details.

[easygoer]

It's been a long time since I have enjoyed a movie like this. The characterization, screenplay, execution etc., are very fresh. I am amazed by the way the director has blended comedy with a thriller. We have never seen a character like M S Bhaskar or Psycho police officer in Tamil films. Another great thing about the movie is its unpredictability. No can imagine what is going to follow next. An imaginary female lead is also an excellent idea which looked very fresh in the screen...

Kudos to the new boys who has broken away all the rules and has given us an entertaining picture with great quality...

[uruzalari]

The film is going on in Zee Tamil now .....

[balaajee]

“பெரிய பட்ஜெட் படம் பண்ண தைரியம் இல்லை!”
''ஒரு வருஷத்துல தமிழ்ல வெளியாகும் படங்களைவிட வெளிவராத படங்களின் எண்ணிக்கைதான் அதிகம். மூணு படம் தயாரிச்சவன்ற சின்ன அனுபவத்தை வெச்சு சொல்றேன்... ஆயிரம் கோடி ரூபாய்க்கு மேல மதிப்புள்ள படங்கள் இப்பவும் லேப்ல தூங்கிக்கிட்டுதான் இருக்கு. இங்க, படம் எடுக்குறது சுலபம். ஆனா, அதை ரிலீஸ் பண்றதுதான் கஷ்டம். என்னைப் பொறுத்தவரை சினிமா ஒரு சூதாட்டம். இயக்குநர், டெக்னீஷியன், ஆர்ட்டிஸ்ட் எல்லாருமே குதிரைகள். அவங்கமேல பந்தயம் கட்டுறோம். பந்தயத்துல ஜெயிச்சா ஏ.சி. கார்ல போகலாம். இல்லைன்னா நடு ரோட்லதான் நிக்கணும்!''

- 'அட்டகத்தி’, 'பீட்சா’, 'சூது கவ்வும்’ - ஹாட்ரிக் ஹிட் படங்களின் தயாரிப்பாளர் சி.வி.குமார், தமிழ் சினிமாவின் இப்போதைய நிதர்சனம் சொல்கிறார்.
சில வருடங்களுக்கு முன்வரை ஆன்மிக சுற்றுலா பேக்கேஜ் தொழிலில் இருந்தவர், இப்போது டஜன் படங்களின் தயாரிப்பாளர். அறிமுக இளைஞர்கள், ஃபார்முலாவில் அடங்காத திரைக்கதை, குறைந்தபட்ச பட்ஜெட் என கோலிவுட்டின் தற்போதைய டிரெண்டுக்கு படம் பிடிப்பவருடன் பேசியதிலிருந்து...

http://cdnw.vikatan.com/av/2013/09/zmziyt/images/p44a.jpg''சொந்த ஊர் மதுரை, திருமங்கலம். சைக்காலஜி படிப்பு. கல்யாணமாகி ஒரு பையன், ஒரு பொண்ணு. பக்தர்களை புனித யாத்திரை அழைச்சுட்டுப் போகும் சுற்றுலா பேக்கேஜ் தொழில்ல அப்பாவுக்கு உதவியா இருந்தேன். மாசத்துல பாதி நாள் பயணங்கள்தான். அந்த சமயங்கள்ல சினிமாவும் புத்தகமும்தான் என் நேரத்தைக் கடத்த உதவும்.
டிராவல்ஸ் தவிர இன்னொரு தொழில்ல கவனம் செலுத்தலாம்னு யோசிச்சப்போ, 'பிடிச்ச சினிமாவையே தொழிலா எடுத்துக்கிட்டா என்ன’னு தோணுச்சு. 'திருதிரு துறுதுறு’, 'உன்னைப்போல் ஒருவன்’ போன்ற படங்களின் தரமான டிஜிட்டல் மேக்கிங், 'களவாணி’, 'தமிழ்ப்படம்’ போன்ற குறைந்த பட்ஜெட் படங்களின் வெற்றி... இது ரெண்டும் என் கவனத்தை ஈர்த்தன. உடனே, டிஜிட்டல் கடவுள் மேல நம்பிக்கை வெச்சு இறங்கிட்டேன்.

'அட்டகத்தி’க்கு முன்னாடியே ஒரு படம் பண்ணலாம்னு முடிவு பண்ணி, நாலு மாசம் ப்ரி-புரொடக்ஷன் வேலைகள் போச்சு. சினிமால என்னல்லாம் செய்யக் கூடாதுனு அதுல கத்துக்கிட்டு, இப்போ தெளிவாகிட்டேன். ஒரு ஸ்கிரிப்ட் படிக்கும்போதே, இந்த சீன் இப்படி அவுட்புட் ஆகும்னு விஷ§வலா கற்பனை பண்ணிப் பார்க்க முடியுது!''



''உங்ககிட்ட வாய்ப்பு கேட்டு வரும், அறிமுக இயக்குநரிடம் என்னென்ன தகுதிகள் எதிர்பார்ப்பீங்க?''

''ஸ்கிரிப்ட் கனமா இருந்தா மட்டும் பத்தாது. டெக்னிக்கல் அறிவும் அவசியம் இருக்கணும். சினிமாவின் அத்தனை துறை பற்றிய புரிதலும் இருக்கணும். அவரோட ஃபிலிம் மேக்கிங் ஸ்டைல் எப்படி இருக்குனு பார்த்து, விஷ§வல்கள் சுவாரஸ்யமா இருந்தா, உடனே ஓ.கே. சொல்லிரு«வாம்!''


''பெரிய நிறுவனங்களே படங்களை வெளியிட, வெற்றிபெற வைக்கத் தடுமாறும்போது, உங்க சக்சஸ் ஃபார்முலா என்ன?''

''எல்லாமே என் ஒருத்தன் பார்வையில்தான் நடக்கும். பெரிய பட்ஜெட்டுக்குப் போகவே மாட்டோம். இதெல்லாம் எங்க கட்டுப்பாட்டில் இருக்கும் விஷயம். இதுபோக, இப்போ சினிமாவின் வட்டம், வீச்சு குறுகிடுச்சு. எல்லா படத்தையும் எல்லாரும் பார்க்க மாட்டாங்க. ஒவ்வொரு படத்துக்கும் ஒரு 'டார்கெட் ரசிகர்கள்’ இருக்காங்க. அவங்களை ரீச் பண்ணாலே போதும்னு இலக்கு வெச்சுப்போம். அவங்களுக்கு என்ன மாதிரியான கதைகள் பிடிக்கும், அதை எப்படி சினிமா ஆக்குறது, அவங்களை ரீச் பண்ண எப்படில்லாம் பப்ளிசிட்டி பண்ணணும்..? இதுதான் எங்க சினிமா மேக்கிங். 'சினிமா’ங்கறது, ஒரு கலை, சேவை என்பதைத் தாண்டி சிக்கலும் சீரியஸுமான ஒரு வணிகம். ஒரு படத்தின் வணிக எல்லையை நாங்க எப்பவுமே மீற மாட்டோம்!''


''அப்போ, மாஸ் ஹீரோக்களை வெச்சு படம் பண்ற ஐடியாவே இல்லையா?''

''முதல்ல அவங்க நமக்கு டேட்ஸ் தரணும். அப்புறம் நாங்க அவங்களுக்கு ரேட்ஸ் தரணும். மாஸ் ஹீரோ நடிக்கும் படங்களின் எல்லை, ஓப்பனிங் வேற. அவங்க படங்களோட முதல் அஞ்சு நாள் கலெக்ஷன், எங்க சின்னப் பட பட்ஜெட் போல பத்து மடங்கு இருக்கும். வெளிப்படையா சொல்லணும்னா, பெரிய பட்ஜெட்ல படம் எடுக்குற அளவுக்கு எனக்குத் தைரியம் இல்லை!''

http://cdnw.vikatan.com/av/2013/09/zmziyt/images/p44.jpg''சின்ன பட்ஜெட் படங்களுக்குப் பெரிய பப்ளிசிட்டி பண்றீங்க... மார்க்கெட்டிங்லயே ஒரு படத்தை ஓட வெக்கிறது உங்க திட்டமா?''

''எங்க டிராவல்ஸ் நிறுவனத்தோட அடிப்படையே விளம்பரம்தானே? அது இல்லைன்னா பிசினஸே இல்லை. நம்ம தயாரிப்பு எதுவா இருந்தாலும், அதை கச்சிதமா பிராண்ட் பண்றது முக்கியம். அதனால பப்ளிசிட்டியும் இப்போ ஒரு படத்தோட செகண்ட் ஹீரோ கணக்கா ஆகிடுச்சு.
'அட்டகத்தி’ ஒண்ணேகால் கோடியில முடிச்சேன். படத்தை 20 லட்சம் லாபத்துக்கு வித்தேன். இசை வெளியீட்டுக்கு 30 லட்சம், ரிலீஸ் விளம்பரங்களுக்கு மூணு கோடிக்கு மேல் செலவு. 1.52 கோடில முடிச்ச 'பீட்சா’வுக்கு பப்ளிசிட்டி செலவு 2.40 கோடி. 'சூது கவ்வும்’ தயாரிப்புச் செலவு 2.60 கோடி. பப்ளிசிட்டி பட்ஜெட் 2 கோடி. இங்க 50 லட்சத்துலயே ஒரு படம் எடுத்துடலாம். ஆனா, குறைஞ்சது ஒண்ணரைக் கோடிக்கு பப்ளிசிட்டி பண்ணாதான் ரிலீஸ் பண்ண முடியும்; ரசிகர்களை தியேட்டருக்கு வர வைக்க முடியும்!''


''தயாரிப்பு, இயக்கம்னு பல தகவல்கள் சொல்றீங்க... சீக்கிரமே நீங்களும் இயக்குநர் ஆகிடுவீங்க போல..!''

''சிலருக்கு ஒரு விஷயத்தை க்ரியேட் பண்ணத் தெரியும். சிலருக்கு அதைப் பார்த்துட்டு குறை சொல்ல மட்டும்தான் தெரியும். நான் ரெண்டாவது கேட்டகிரி. அதனால எனக்கு இயக்கம் எல்லாம் சரிப்பட்டு வராது!''


- Vikatan