Director Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s National Award-winning film was considered to be the first net-noir gangster flicks in Tamil cinema. The 2010 film featured Jackie Shroff as an ageing gangster, Singam Perumal, along with Ravi Krishna, Sampath Raj, Yasmin Ponnappa, Guru Somasundaram and Master Vasanth...
- 9/19/2017
- Film Companion
Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s Aaranya Kaandam is set in a decadent city: a city that looks bombed, dilapidated and dying. The ex-royal of the city has sold off his palace to make way for a hotel and is fighting a decisive battle to reclaim his honour through a rooster! The modern state, the police, plays nothing more than a corrupt mediator between baddies. Not that everything is alright with mafia either–the aging don suffers from a crisis of virility.
Crisis and especially the crisis of menfolk, who’ve ruled the world so far, is the central theme of this film. This highly stylized and meticulously-mounted film from the fertile south creates an extremely engaging piece of cinema by mixing two Hollywood genres-gangster and Film Noir. The newcomer director sets the story firmly in the contemporary Tamil (and Indian in general) society, that he understands remarkably well, and creates a jazzy,...
Crisis and especially the crisis of menfolk, who’ve ruled the world so far, is the central theme of this film. This highly stylized and meticulously-mounted film from the fertile south creates an extremely engaging piece of cinema by mixing two Hollywood genres-gangster and Film Noir. The newcomer director sets the story firmly in the contemporary Tamil (and Indian in general) society, that he understands remarkably well, and creates a jazzy,...
- 8/1/2011
- by Bikas Mishra
- DearCinema.com
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