Or take Thamizh’s mother, who emotionally blackmails her son into a temple visit. In his first scene, he dispenses advice about porn and beer. Take Thamizh’s father (K S Ravikumar, who, apparently, is a much better actor than director). He writes characters deftly, defining them with a sharp scene or line. Keep persevering, and you’re soon calling your NRI pals: “ Machi, get me some Heineken from duty-free, da.”īut within this small circle he’s drawn around himself, Velraj locates interesting tangents. Falling-in-love, in these films, is like acquiring a taste for beer. Then there’s the girl who points to the hickey on her neck, the fair-complexioned second hero (Adith Arun, playing Thamizh’s cousin Aravind), the fairer-complexioned out-of-one’s-league heroine (Amy Jackson’s Hema) who first snubs the hero and later finds him irresistible. Given the Selvaraghavan ethos, “having sex” seems more appropriate – it suggests sweat and humping. I’d have said “making love,” but that suggests mood lighting and scented candles. It’s referenced in the cramped living quarters where parents stuff their ears with cotton so they don’t end up listening to their son in the next room having sex with his new bride. 7G Rainbow Colony is referenced here – in a theatre screening, in a poster. Thangamagan is a reworking of Velraj’s earlier (and first) film Velaiyilla Pattathari, which was a reworking of the prototypical Selvaraghavan story about a low-key loser. I don’t want to over-praise Velraj, exactly, for his work thus far has been decidedly derivative. A for… And you can bloody well wait to know what happened.
For Velraj, screenwriting is: A for… Action. For most Tamil filmmakers, screenwriting is pre-emptive exposition. Again, we don’t get the scene where they discover she’s pregnant – at least, not yet. We don’t get the scene where he loses his job – at least, not yet. Thamizh is moving to a new house, and the house suggests he’s moving down in life.
Oh, it’s raining, which, in the movies, means one of two things: romance, or trouble. Beside them, in an auto-rickshaw, are Thamizh’s mother (Raadhika Sarathkumar) and wife Yamuna (Samantha).
Thamizh (Dhanush) and his friend Kumaran (Sathish) ride up to a house. For one, the hero gets no big-ticket introduction – not in the get-the-fans-screaming sense, considering the whistle-ready title, Thangamagan. It’s an unusual introduction for a movie with a big-ticket hero.
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