HE LOVED HER III

After the break-up, she noticed that he has reduced his personal talks with her but he was always available whenever she needed him.  She was surprised to see that he never brought up their break-up topic whenever they spoke.  He behaved like such an incident never happened.  Little did she know that he was excellent in deviating his mind and that was his strength.  And she was also afraid to start that topic with him.  However, she always had that guilty conscious of breaking up with him without letting him know what the reason was.  After a week, an organization change was announced and he had to join some other team in a different workspace location.  She was sad to know that he had to move away.  He had understood her so well that he knew that she felt her conscious pricking her whenever she saw or talked with him.  He did not want her to feel bad because of his presence so he  had applied for a change of workspace and it was granted without any objection.  However, he made sure that she should not be aware that it was he who initiated the location change instead as the company ordered it.

Few weeks later, he moved into another company and even he changed his number.  After that, they lost contact of each other.  Though he was so good in distracting his mind away from thoughts of her, there was never a morning that dawned without he pronouncing her name or a night that slipped without he thinking about her before going to sleep.  After a few months, he called her and he really caught her by surprise.  She told him that she was trying to reach him after he changed his job but the number was out of service.  Then they agreed to meet.  She had changed her residence again and that was usual because her family did not own a house and they always lived in a rented house.  Because of the change in her residence, she then used to come in train from office and take an auto-rickshaw to her home so she had asked him to meet her at the train station.  He waited for quite some time and finally she came.  For a minute, they stood there, each giving time for their minds to get accustomed of their changed image that had happened since their last meeting. 

She invited him to her home since her parents were not in town and only her sibling was at home.  While walking down the stairs of the subway to get to the other side of the road to get an auto-rickshaw, he held her hand.  No sooner he held her hand, he could feel that she was not the usual person he had known and he could feel the indifference she had when she told him of her break-up with him and he felt that she did not like to hold hands.  He immediately shook his hand.  Then, inside the auto-rickshaw, each were filling the gaps of what each had missed.  He then put his hand on her left thigh, imploring himself that wouldn’t she become the person he used to love but she gently removed his hand off her.  They reached their home.  It was his first visit to that new rented house and so she showed him around the place.  While he was chatting with her sibling, she went in to the kitchen to prepare some quick dish for him.  He went into the kitchen and she was preparing something for him.  With all the longings that he had stored up so far, he hugged her from behind just like old times, thinking the same hug would restore her as his lover but she pushed him off gently, much to his disappointment.  He concealed his disappointment and had whatever she prepared for him and left her home.

He always believed that every man wants to fight a battle and for that, he needs someone to fight for.  There is nothing that inspires a man to courage so much as the woman he loves.  Men fight for beauty and his pursuit brings her beauty.  Here, the woman herself has left the man and he did not know what to fight for.  He walked all the way home pondering all this in his heart, knowing for what he has to fight for the rest of his life.  However, by the time he reached his home, he had found the reason to fight for the rest of his life.

Yuddham Sei

We have directors and then we have directors like Myshkin.  What a movie Yuddham Sei had been!  I don't remember when was the last time Tamil cinema gave an excellent thriller movie but this movie is definitely a must watch for all edge-of-the-seat-thriller-lovers.  Even before the intermission in the movie, I could tell that the director has really worked very hard on the script, a process often taken for granted by Tamil cinema.  It has all the ingredients for a beautiful thriller to keep the audience's eyes glued to every frame of the movie till the end and yes, Myshkin definitely has all the worthiness to put in the ending credits as 'A Film by Myshkin'.

To first speak of the movie, I would take the screenplay, which is the highlight of the movie.  With only 5-6 slides for the opening credits (thank god as there was no title song for the credits), the opening scene itself starts with a knot in the story demanding the audience to be alert right from the first frame of the movie.  One may think that the next scene would be the introduction of the hero but no, another knot is introduced.  The principal characters are then slowly introduced and with more knots, more characters are introduced.  However, the director should be appreciated that the screenplay was not confusing with these many characters.  With each knot, the movie really gets exciting and makes one implore the next scene to untie the knots but the director has kept the audience guessing till the last frame.  And I was so happy that there was only one song sequence and that too fitted beautifully into the screenplay.  There was no flaw in the entire screenplay.  One may think that the father and mother should have ambushed the killers at the climax scene and not run directly at them with butcher knifes when the killers had guns but the state of the father and mother was to avenge for their daughter's death at any cost, even if it had to give up their lives.

The next wonderful aspect of the movie is the acting of the actors.  The best acting that stands out in my mind is that of Lakshmi Ramakrishnan because the other principal actors were all pros and one wouldn't been expecting a par below average acting from them - they usually deliver the best goods out of them.  In the climax scene, her acting reminded me of the T-X character played by Kristanna Loken in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.  There was not a slightest emotion showed in her face and she behaved like a real robot with only one objective in all her mind, body and soul - retribution at any cost.  Also it was really brave of her to shave her head for the movie.  The next one is Jayaprakash as Dr. Judas Iscariot.  The director's choice of choosing him to tell the audience the justice behind all the killing was not bad at all and Jayaprakash had justified the same.  Other characters were in place to play the supporting roles in the movie.

Myshkin has his unique way of narrating a thriller.  Even though the scenes in the first half  were a bit slow, it was still very interesting and kept me wondering what the next scene would be.  I think it is because the audience should understand the depth of the story especially since it is a thriller.  And I also felt the tempo was same throughout the movie and never lagged behind anywhere or rushed thru in the climax.  The next uniqueness of Myshkin are the fighting scenes in his movie.  I was really happy to see no stuntman flying miles for a kick from the hero like a cannon ball from a cannon.  The scenes were really enjoyable and quite realistic.  Another highlight of the movie is the cinematography.  I felt that the camera spoke a lot than the characters.  And what a background score delivered by the music director!  It is his music that gives the decoration to each scene in the movie.  To conclude, Myshkin has delivered his best brilliantly and has made a must watch movie in the history of Tamil cinema.