With better writing throughout, the climax would have made you weep. But as empty emotional entertainers go, this film isn’t a total loss.
Spoilers ahead…
You can read the full review on Film Companion, here: https://www.filmcompanion.in/namma-veettu-pillai-review-sivakarthikeyan-pandiraj-aishwarya-rajesh-anu-emmanuel/
In my review of Pandiraj’s previous film, I said, “Kadaikutty Singam wants to be little more than a time machine that transports you to a certain kind of masala movie-cum-melodrama, but are people interested in spending money on watching an update of films already available on TV and YouTube? Our actors trot out these films with the logic that it strengthens their B/C-centre base, but it may be interesting to research what those audiences really want. Has internet penetration and 24×7 television changed their movie-viewing tastes? Or are they still the same audiences — with the same “mindset”? The box-office performance of Kadaikutty Singam is going to prove interesting for these very reasons.” And interesting it certainly was. The rural drama was a huge success, and now we have more of the same. This time, it’s called Namma Veettu Pillai.
Continued at the link above.
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shaviswa
September 28, 2019
Ayyo!! Not another Kadaikutty Singam. I am still confused about who is who in that film!!!
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Voldemort
September 28, 2019
As days go, has BR started becoming less scathing of average movies?
To clarify, no blaming, just wondering.
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praneshp
September 29, 2019
@Voldemort: What’s worse? Our perception that brangan has become less scathing of average movies, or that the bar for average has been lowered?
fwiw I thought Kadakutty singam was acceptable, so maybe people like me are the reason for the latter 😦
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Honest Raj
September 29, 2019
What a curious career this actor has.
Maybe, it’s difficult to sustain as a cinematographer than as a actor/director in Kollywood.
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Voldemort
September 29, 2019
@praneshp : Right. And to think he has to gather the will to write something even for the worst movies, (and that he finds at least one good thing to mention most of the times..)That’s such a demotivating thing. Requires a lot of patience. No wonder he resorts to sarcasm (rightly so).
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itisprasad
October 1, 2019
@voldermort thats something I’ve always wondered about reviewers. To imagine they have sit through movies that are unflinchingly horrible and later write about it…
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Isai
October 1, 2019
“As days go, has BR started becoming less scathing of average movies?”
I saw many reviewers with urban upbringing and sensibilities pull their punches when reviewing this movie. I think this is because they felt chastened by the tremendous success of Kadaikutty Singam to which they had given only mediocre reviews. They could be accused of, at best not understanding the taste of the audience or at worst being against tamil culture.
I saw this movie and felt that it was average. I think the core brother-sister-husband conflict would have been developed more organically if this movie was made a few years ago when there was neither much need to pander to SK’s fans nor the pressure to replicate the success of KKS.
I feel movies like KKS or even Chichchore became huge hits because those characters (and not characterization) and the conflicts strongly resonated with a lot of people which made them overlook the mistakes in cinematic grammar. A key reason for this resonance is the lack of representation for such characters and conflicts in the movies of the past few years. Since KKS released only last year and since the core conflict of this movie is not as organically developed as in that, I don’t think this movie is going to get the same kind of resonance as KKS.
It would be interesting to see to what extent does SK’s star value and Sun Network’s advertising muscle compensate for this lack of resonance and help it race ahead of the competition.
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Honest Raj
October 1, 2019
itisprasad – Engeyo ketta per! 🙂
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brangan
October 2, 2019
Voldemort: I have rarely been “scathing” about average films. The tone of the review may be more like a sigh, but unless a film is rank bad, I don’t really get into that “scathing” zone (like I did in KAAPPAAN, which I felt was rank bad).
The KADAIKUTTY SINGAM review is linked here. The first paragraph is a very positive one. There’s no “scathing” in the review…
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Kay
November 19, 2019
“ Here, too, we are deposited into a family so large (plus Anu Emmanuel as the love interest), you may wonder if you are in a movie or in an unreserved compartment on the day before Deepavali.”
For some of us this is very real. I could totally relate to the characters because it felt like seeing a replay of the interactions at my in laws’ place. Even while watching KKS I felt the same. That I keep seeing this shit in real time. Why would I come to a theatre to watch more of the same drama?
“ I feel movies like KKS or even Chichchore became huge hits because those characters (and not characterization) and the conflicts strongly resonated with a lot of people which made them overlook the mistakes in cinematic grammar.”
Agree with you, Isai.
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