Thamizh M.A.

Movie Name: Katrathu Tamil alias Tamil M.A.
Casts: Jeeva and Others.
Director: Ram

Of course, Tamil MA aka Katrathu Tamil has evoked much interest (I dont say hype) before its release, which prompted me to watch this film.

The film has created an urge in me to write my very first review online. I read the articles of movie critics about the film before sitting before my box to type my views.

Many said the debutant director Ram is confused and the lead character is psychopath. But I would rather say that the viewers failed to follow the thin line that interconnects the scenes. Prabhakars, a postgraduate in Tamil, search for recognition in the society, which is imbalanced, his search for love and a simple mans inability to fight the injustice.

Of course, there are flaws in the movie... but it succeeds, to a great extant, in projecting the social imbalance. The movie is in first person narrative about a mentally disturbed person.

Prabhakar, being a postgraduate in Tamil, lands him in a teaching job, which fetches him a meagre Rs. 2,000 as salary. He happens to see the death in close quarters. He was ill-treated in front of his pupils by a cop and tries to commit suicide unsuccessfully. He lands in jail and while trying to escape from the police, he commits his first murder. He kills the ticket cark and says I felt like god, when I killed him. He says this when he records his confessions in a video, catching hold of a cameraman (Karunas).

Prabhakar narrates his run for life and murders he commits But he never justifies his killing neither the director try through other characters.. (The dialogue from Karunas is a desperation to keep Prabhakar, who sitting with a gun, coolbut many misunderstood this scene).

For Prabhakar, his only peace is Ananthi, his childhood friend and classmate. The Director deserves a pat for handling the love between the two so elegantly The scenes of past and the present narrate the love between the two Starting from mortuary, where Prabhakar met Ananthi after he left her in childhood, to the house, where he finds her again as a prostitute.

Dialogues such as you master American English accent for money, but you will not speak in Tamil, which is your mother tongue, properly (Prabhakar dialogue with a BPO employee) are the films strength.

Jeeva shines and fits into the charter well an award winning performance in deed. Whether his outbursts after the ill-treatment or expressing his longing to stay forever with his ladylove, Jeeva scores.

The cinematography and the BGM are two pillars on which the movie stands firmly Particularly the scenes at Maharastras dry and parched terrains are beautifully filmed.

Yuvan is at his best in the movie Para Para Pattampochi, Paravaiyin kootil will stay in the mind

If u wanted to see two fights, six songs, comedy and romantic scenes that worth your ticket money, this movie is not for u

Watch this movie if you love to encourage film making with a care for the society.

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