Paruthi Veeran - My big april fool movie !

Excited at all the trailers for the movie and no.1 ranking in almost every movie countdown show in Tamil TV Land, not to mention the adorable promotional pitch made by his bro Surya, I could not wait to watch this movie. I was also so happy that an underdog like Priya Mani, a non-south-indian-heroine-in-tamil-movies was lauded for her performance.

One fine sunday, (should have noticed it was April 1, Fools Day,) I was so excited that I was able to get my hands on its DVD( claimed as original not pirated by the DVD guy). My husband being a north indian, wanting to share, appreciate and enjoy the rustic village setting fully, I called my maid-friend ratna and her daughter who were all too excited to join me.

The title and credits played and we all were tingling with anticipation. It started with a thiruna/jatrai/mela scene. I had to stop myself from making the sound one mouths after eating a delicious dish. Then came the LONG terukuttu song and dance sequence. It tested my patience, but quickly ignored it in wanting to see surya's little brother's intro. The terukuttu went on and on for another 10 minutes and then he came and boy ! did he arrive! he was so good, so convincing, I felt such a sense of pride, as if my own lil brother was having the best debut in this whole wide earth. Yeah!, I am like that, I like to call myself a person who can identify capabilities in unlikely underdogs of the motion picture industry and they all get better, eg( vijay, surya, milo ventimigilia, sneha, priya mani, stephen colbert) moreover I am a sucker for little siblings succedding in real life and reel life.

Karthik's acting, the screen play, Priya Mani's characterization and potrayal, comedy, everything was great. I am not going to beat the dead snake here, you can read great things being said abt the movie from many many reviews and blogs out there.

The reason why I am writing this blog is, after the ending I feel the movie is such a CRAP. A TRUCK LOAD OF CRAP. A CONTAINER LOAD OF CRAP. Contrary to the popular opinion that this is the best movie and our tamil movie industry has finally arrived.

The reasons could be one of the following
1. I am still shell shocked at the ending.
2. I am sleep deprived after getting nightmares of the final scenes.
3. I am still heart broken at the fate of those 2 very much likable characters.
4. I have seen it all and I now truly beleive that a tragedy ending does not automatically qualify a movie as being good/oscar worthy etc. etc.
5. I just plainly dont like a movie that make me pray and desperately want the saravanan character to shut his mouth and listen to the old lady and open the door and rescue the girl!. I DONT like to be so pulled into a movie without me knowing.

Dont get me wrong, I love a movie which moved me and make me bawl, in kadhal I knew the ending and I was prepared to cry my brains out, but here I was not, I was hoping for an ending, obnoxiously funny and daring. I would have settled and called it a great movie even if it ended with what I had expected, even if it was a cliche. I would have just been happy knowing that this was a movie which has a great debut and great actress.

You know what, I am so agitated right now that I an incapable of continuing my train of thoughts. I just want to find that completely @!#!@#!@# director and kick his butt black and blue and all colors of vibgyor.

He could have killed that freaking Paruthiveeran, but why kill my girl Muthazhagu ?

God!. Please dont watch this movie. If you have to!, then watch till Paruthi and Muthazhagu decide to elope. After that burn that DVD/CD/Tape, break the DVD player,
TV, tear the movie screen and walk away without turning back.

If not you will end up feeling just like me and pledging to never watch any movie uptill the ending.

WHAT A WASTE ! and what a great april fool I was made as!.