After ''azhaki'' this is ''azhugai''. Review on Thendral Movie

Thendral ? review

At the face of it, thangar bacchan seems to have tried only to get people to wet their eyes more through the movie than see it much. He seems to have only explored depths of cries and deeply sad emotions than explore the medium and potential of communication through movies.

? If every man relished azhaki then every woman would relish Thendral? is what the print ad claims. Frankly, I never felt the touch that a woman would feel watching the movie. The real trouble had been that probably thankar bacchan, cheran and others of that ilk have started taking the means to be an end in itself. Good, quality movies to be rendered just for the sake of it.

Practically, thangar bacchan has compromised reality for art. The movie revolves around a poor girl thaamarai who is madly in love with a prominent self-styled tamil writer nalankilli(parthiban). She grows reading his books and is madly in love with it. It so happens that he is living only nearby. It so happens that her mother dies to a fire accident and she is forced to work in a house where they expect her to get married to an eligible bachelor in that house.

Now, in pure coincidence she goes to trichy by a friend?s reference for a job there only to get cheated by a guy sending her off to Nalankilli(staying there) as a hooker. She begets a son by that unfortunate incident (which she relishes, though). Again, it so happens that the young son meets Nalankilli and goes off to live with him just like that. In the end, thaamarai comes to nalankilli?s house just to see him though he doesn?t recognize her at all. Finally, she leaves without a word there and in the rain at night falls into a manhole. Incidentally, nalankilli and the young son searching for her find that it?s her and the climax is at the hospital with the three crying so much expecting the audience to really cry and save the movie.

Performances are excellent by every actor though there is no single shot in which every significant actor doesn?t cry atleast once throughout the movie. Music should have been more lilting and cinematography more artistic to enhance the movie. I couldn?t help but say that the movie is probably taken as ?art for art?s sake? even though I think it isn?t so. I believe a ?good movie? or even a ?good work of art? is one that alleviates pain rather pronounce it. This movie seems to do that and that too just for the sake of it.