Udhayanidhi Stalin and Soori roam freely with cut loose humor by mocking the villagers, while it is indeed funny at the start, goes on to become repetitive. With a wafer thin script, director Prabhu relies on template humor that tries to build up the respective characters of the hero and villain by suitable sidekicks. Our Hero is someone who wants to do something good for his village desperately with the help of his sidekick and not far away is a Village Zamindar like character who keenly watches the hero’s moves and plans deviously to stop his growth what happens when the two of them collide forms the story.
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The story is simple and a few minutes into the movie is anybody’s guess on how it will pan out. While Udhay’s boy next door image looks very natural, Parthipen and Soori take a meaty share of the film’s humor as they continue to tickle the funny bone with their one liners. Ponram’s assistant Thalapathy Prabhu makes his debut with the blessings of his guru and brings aboard the signature effect of Ponram’s touch all over PEMT. Nimir’s clearly another addition to a growing list of respectable films in his career.Udhayanidhi Stalin has come a long way since his OKOK days, his maturity in choosing scripts and acting scaled up from Manithan Pothuvaga Enmanasu Thangam is the actor experimenting himself in a village centric movie. But Udhayanidhi Stalin won’t be too perturbed. Or perhaps it’s because of how suddenly, rather cinematically, Selvam seems to turn into a terrific photographer. Perhaps it’s because of how the climax fight feels more like a cinematic device than an organic consequence of previous events. Perhaps it’s because one of the heroines looks like she’s walked into the town fresh from contesting in a beauty pageant. Perhaps it’s because director Priyadarshan keeps trying to milk the story for humour, even if it feels inorganic - MS Bhaskar’s character, for instance, doing one flatulent humour bit. Perhaps it’s because Malar’s brother (Samuthirakani) simply comes across as a violent caricature. Here, you never truly feel the spirit of what it is like to be part of such a languorous village.
It’s a story of how great depth can be found in simplicity.īut for Nimir to be a truly great remake, the setting needed to feel more real, its characters more alive. Nimir’s the story of a simple man in a simple place finding happiness and in the meantime, also making a man out of himself. “ Kadai illa, studio,” his father corrects him. Selvam, meanwhile, is content being inside, and thinks of his workplace as a ‘ kadai’. Even when working out of his photo studio, he’s often found longingly looking outside the window. He’s an artist of the traditional mould, and is outdoorsy.
He’s a reticent photographer, a man who is more interested in art than in family, it seems. She reminded me a lot of actor Seetha, after whom I can’t think of too many actors who have done justice to playing the chirpy-but-feisty Tamil girl.Īlso intriguing is Selvam’s father, who Mahendran plays quietly and mysteriously.
In contrast, I found Namitha Pramod so much more likeable as Malar. It’s like sometime around teenage, she went through the Rajinikanth fairness routine in Sivaji. It’s almost hilarious how different Valli looks from the child who features in her flashback portions. For one, it doesn’t help that much of the opening portions feature Selvam’s girlfriend, Valli (Parvatii Nair, who’s extraordinarily caked in makeup). Nimir’s the casual story about the lives of such simple people, but the problem though is, it doesn’t feel as native, as real as it should. It gets resolved over a couple of sedate conversations. Not even that most dramatic of tragedies to occur to a Tamil film hero - love failure - results in anything extreme. It’s just a bunch of everyday people going along with their lives, and trying to make the most of it. There’s no great struggle between good and evil here. Selvam’s happy to run his studio, his father’s (Mahendran) happy with his camera, his friend’s (MS Bhaskar) happy running his small shop that sells framed pictures of deities… everybody’s seemingly happy with their lives. It’s a town with simple people and their simple aspirations. And this suits the universe of Nimir, which is defined by its simplicity.
All Udhayanidhi is trying to do is keep things simple, as he plays Selvam.
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