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The Great Indian Kitchen (2023)
Revolting rubbish marketed as revolution
Some film makers seem to think that they can get away with portraying rubbish and pass it off as a pathbreaking effort- such is this film. It presents a family and a way of life that is set supposedly in the present but which is so unnatural as to be irrelevant to any point in the history of the Tamil region. It presents two good for nothing men scavenging on the efforts of two extremely stressed and overworked women- one of whom in the mother in law and the other is a young wife. There are enough sore thumbs in the social fabric to push the daughter in law to the brink but the film maker brings in an unconnected issue of Sabarimala and makes it pivotal to the daughter in law's exit from the marriage.
The film is clearly agenda driven with the clear motive to demean a particular religion, a way of life. The grotesque and callous misinterpretation of customs and practices have only one thing in mind - the destruction of a valued tradition which is totally condemnable.
Ponniyin Selvan: Part One (2022)
Callous Handling of a Classy Epic
Watched Ponniyin Selvan yesterday. I feel the film can only be watched if you set aside your recall of the great novel by Kalki.
One sore point was watching 40+ actors essaying 20+ roles another was the bad jokes which were disgusting. Third was the poor Tamil diction of one actor in particular. Also the settings, music and dance steps did nothing to evoke the sense that one was watching a film that was about life lived 10 centuries ago.
I feel that the director has made no attempt to do a close reading of the text or that he has made a sincere attempt to bring the intrigue and ethos to the audience. Some of the actors seemed unfit for the roles that they played.
Extremely disappointing movie. Ardent fans of the novel must revisit the novel to assuage their disappointment.