My Okay Kanmani Moment

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All through my life, I always love to observe people. You may call it overhearing and whatever but that's my hobby. Most of the time, I learn many things from these strangers and try to follow the good values from them.

As usual, I went to this favorite restaurant of mine along with a friend. A young couple in their late 20s sat next to us... this girl asks her husband.. "How much is the EMI?"... he shows hand signal "Five". This girl calls someone, later I came to know its one of her parents.

The conversation progressed and she tells her parent that her husband needs 50,000 to pay his EMI bill and it sounds like they agreed. As usual, the usual talk happens and they asks her what she is eating and she replies back...before hanging up "Ithoda pothum verum ethum seiyathinga paa"...

Now the girl tells her husband "50K potruvanga but ithudhaan kadasi, I won't ask my parents again".

This kind of demanding husbands are there in every family. I'm not saying he is bad or ill treating his wife, I'm nobody to judge him, may be he would have financially broken and just asked for her in-laws' support but these kind of things actually diminishing my hope on the institution of marriage.

"How could someone truly love a girl and at the same time, demanding financial assistance from her parents. It's okay to tell them his issue and get the needed amount as loan but squandering the money of his in-laws just because the fact that they would definitely do it for her daughter, can't be a quality of a true man- again not being judgmental about the guy whom I've just seen but this is my humble opinion"...

The couple paid the bill and went off.. cut...

I'm yet to finish my Paneer Biryiani whereas my friend has ordered his butter milk. Opposite to our table, sat a couple who are at their late 60s...

The husband reads the menu louder so that his wife could choose her desired dish.

Husband: "Masala Dosai, Butter Dosai... Ghee roast...Gobi Dosa"...

The wife stops him "Oothapam?"...

Husband smiles, "Oothapam sapdava hotel ku vanthom?"... Wife smiles sheepishly...

He calls the waiter "Mushroom soup one by two kodunga"... wait wait... "oothapam oru plate " (A bright light on the wife's face")...

"Oothapam matum pothuma", asks the husband.. she doesn't have any answer. The husband tells the waiter " Phulka rendu ... panner butter masala vum"...

I was thinking "May be this young couple who had just fought over the EMI bill would someday end up like this lovely 60 year old couple, life could teach them a lot or this old couple would have had heated arguments during their young age"...

I paid my bill and approached the door with a flared up confidence on the institution of marriage...

May be this is my , #MyOkayKanmaniMoment

Thani Oruvan Movie Review

Mohan Raja’s Thani Oruvan is an interesting and intriguing tale between an upright police officer and implacable miscreant, who spearheads most of the organized crimes in the country.

Battle between the good and evil is a tried and tested formula in Indian cinema but what makes Thani Oruvan, an enjoyable watch is the arresting screenplay and comprehensible characterization.

As a fifteen year old teen, Pazhani aka Siddharth Abhimanyu (Arvind Swamy) accepts committing a murder so that his innocent dad, Sengalvarayan(Thambi Ramaiah ) could become an MLA, which would pave way for the life he intended whereas  our protagonist, Mithran IPS (Jayam Ravi) is meticulously following all the crimes to choose his suitable opponents and even sketches a plan to arrest all of them.

At one point of time, Mithran finds that Siddharth Abhimanyu is not an eminent scientist as celebrated by the government ; he is a perspicacious criminal who can’t be clobbered easily. Mithran gets defeated in each and every move because Siddharth is always one step ahead of him. Does our protagonist get a chance to win? Watch out on the big screen…

Easily, Thani Oruvan is one of the best films from ‘Jayam’ brothers. The script is highly original and the packaging is absolutely perfect with zero nonsense in the name of unwanted commercial elements like ‘Kuthu’ songs and crass comedies.  The director excellently sketched the characterizations of his protagonist and antagonist, both are equally powerful and hence the film arrests all our attention.

Subha’s dialogues are razor sharp, especially the lines like “Your choice of friend will show your character, your choice of enemy will show your capacity” and the scene where Arvind Swamy says “Love at first sight… Kill at first betrayal” are clap worthy moments. 

Another interesting aspect of Thani Oruvan is that Nayanthara, the female lead is not merely used as a glam doll, she is having a great scope in the movie and the actress too has portrayed it sensibly.

To point out, the textual romantic conversation between Ravi and Nayan as Arvind Swamy has bugged the former is absolutely endearing. Also, the conversations between Arvind Swamy and Thambi Ramiah are hilarious, there are many such winsome moments in the film and it shows the effort the director has put in penning the script, kudos!

Performance wise, Jayam Ravi is sincere that his tall masculine physique has suited the honest IPS officer role. The actor has improved a lot with his dialogue delivery that whatever he says in the film is convincing, way to go!

But Arvind Swamy is the show stealer, with his chilled out attitude and swag mannerisms, the actor takes the film to a different level, easily one of the well sketched and portrayed baddie role in Tamil cinema. The rest of the actors including Thambi Ramaiah, Nassar and Ganesh Venkatraman have also done commendable job.

Technically, Ramji’s cinematography is picture perfect while Aadhi’s background score is top notch. Overall, Thani Oruvan is a fairly engaging commercial cinema which should not be missed.

Rating : ***1/2