While you’re all set to watch a
film from Selvaraghavan, you have no rooms to guess. The
director keeps shifting the parameters from film to film. While
Kadhal Kondein was a movie that focused on a lad’s perplexed
thoughts of ‘Love’ and ‘Friendship’, ‘7G Rainbow Colony’ was the
heartiest piece from Selva on the immortal love. ‘Aayirathil
Oruvan’ pushed the bars of Tamil Cinema over the top and it was
something like first of its kind, where no one had endeavored
with.
‘Mayakkam Enna’ belongs to such a category, where your guesses
might go wrong from point to point. The film has some unexpected
twists, shock and surprises. Well, don’t expect the film to end
a tragic way. Selva brings in a splendid touch of giving an end
on positive note. The film centers on the laborious journey of
an aspiring photographer Karthik Swaminathan (Dhanush). He leads
a simple life with his friends amongst which one of them –
Sundar (Sundar) dates Yaamini (Richa Gangopadhay), who in turn
falls in love with Karthik. But the story doesn’t have this as a
conflict as it is about the relationship between a husband and
wife.
If we continue to look more into the story, there wouldn’t be
more interests to watch it. Dhanush goes for a remarkable
performance in places. Right from the beginning till the end, we
see him in various shades. Especially his acting adeptness
during second half goes with excellence. Richa Gangopadhyay
takes off with a brilliant show and this is quite a great
blessing for the actress. She might not gain such a powerful
role in her career from now. In fact, in many places she keeps
winning applause for her acts. During first half of the movie,
her brilliant flashes of performance is revealed through her eye
expressions. But Dhanush becomes the major attraction during
last 20mins of the film.
But overall, the entire film
travels through the eyes of a woman and that’s something unusual
from Selvaraghavan. There aren’t any minuses in the film.
Perhaps, the slow-paced moments might irk the audiences, who
strongly look for commercial ingredients.
Musically, it’s G.V. Prakash on his best in both songs and
background. The song ‘Kadhal En Kadhal’ is a special treat for
the audiences and ‘Voda Voda’ has some catchy CG works. Much
alike the director’s previous movies, one of the best songs
would go missing and here it’s ‘Ennana Seidhom’ . Cinematography
and editing is so neat and stands out as one of the major
highlights of this movie.
On the whole, ‘Mayakkam Enna’ is a different movie from
Selvaraghavan and it can be watched by audiences, who love
different cinema. |
