A COMPARITIVE STUDY OF MOVIES BY GOWTHAM

An Overview of Minnale, Kakha Kakha & Vettaiyadu Velaiyadu


Watching, rating and discussing movies has always been a favourite hobby of mine. Now, probably in a fit of madness and under the influence of Corex cough syrup, I am sitting in front of my computer and typing whatever comes to mind.

MINNALE –
Minnale was Gowtham’s very first movie, which totally rocked. Everything about it, the easy pace, the cool narrative & the even cooler songs were just a class apart. One of my very first Tamil movies, I can totally relate to people who claim to have seen the movie 50 times or 100 times.

Frankly, it was just as though the movie was crafted for Tamilians. It just goes on to show that a simple story, when given clear-cut treatment can turn out to be…WOW!

And Madhavan? You can hardly blame the girls for falling hard for him. Reema Sen was made for the role. Actually, that movie triggered in me an inexplicable wish to convince everyone that my pet name was Reena. I know, it was stupid, but I cannot be held responsible for something I said or did at age 7½.

KAAKHA KAAKHA-
Gowtham’s second movie, better known for the movie where the much talked about romance between Surya and Jyothika allegedly blossomed. Except for some bad dubbing (Maya’s high-pitched voice doesn’t make her sound very enticing, mind you) the movie was simply awesome. ACP Anbuchelvan was one character you could actually touch, feel and relate to. And as some would say, Surya’s perfect ‘ceps added to the movie’s appeal.

In the time when commercial flicks were just starting to rule the roost and ‘kuthu paatu’ was the name of the game, Kaakha Kaakha was a humongous relief!


VETTAIYADU VELAIYADU-
Clearly Gowtham’s best work to date. I don’t if it was just me and my CD player, but I really felt that the clarity of Kaakha Kaakha and Minnale was a tad less sharper than VV’s. Of course, having an impressive star cast like Kamal and Jyothika really helps too.

But according to us 8th graders, Kamalini Mukherji, Jo and that girl who played Rani (who is that girl? She should get a billboard of her own!) were oh so CUTE!!!! They were essayed in roles which suited them to the ‘T’, though I personally thought Kamalini Mukherji’s role was wasted. Oh yeah, she walks in, acts oh-so adorable and dies. Period.

And the music? God, it haunted us girls like anything. ‘Partha Mudhal Naale’ was driving us crazy… We couldn’t stop singing or humming it! Here’s something which might interest you… In our school we have a class called Club Activity, which is a joke of a class, where the whole school comes to the ground and we sit and chat (that’s not the point of CA but we’ve always had a knack for disobeying rules)… Now that was the perfect platform for us to exchange the lyrics of ‘paartha…’ and ‘neruppae’….


Now, I’m waiting with bated breath for Pachaikili Muthucharam… It’s supposed to be a remake of the movie ‘Derailed’ which was one helluva movie!!!

More later,A K…

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