Cheran’s latest release Thavamaai Thavamirunthu casting him at the lead role, supported by Padma Priya, Rajkiran, Charanya, Senthil (new comer) has hit the theatres, beginning of this month.
Like all his earlier release, Cheran this time too, has victoriously captured the hearts of the audience with his wonderful family melodrama. The movie is too touchy that the audiences are sure to be affected by the story and when they walk out of the theatre, would carry out with them, the impact that the movie had caused.
Thavamaai Thavamirunthu is a down to earth, simple anecdote highlighting father-son relationship woven against the rural backdrop, enlightening the struggles of parents, to bring up their children against so many odds and ends.
Rajkiran, who runs a press for his living, brings up his two sons Ramanathan (Senthil) and Ramalingam (Cheran) through lots of debts and sacrifices, to afford them best of education and life. As the son’s grow up, they start having their own lifestyle and priorities, which shatters all the dreams and hopes he had built on them. The elder son Ramanathan, after his wedding, is drawn to his wife’s whims and fancies and in the process neglects his parents. The daughter-in-law is so odious, she tactfully separates her husband from her parents and goes to live on their own.
The elderly couples, who are devastated by their elder son’s separation, find solace and trust in their younger son and with hopes and anticipation that they have at least their younger son with them, let him go out of the town to seek job, only later to find that their second son is no better than the first. Ramalingam had to elope with his college-love Vasanthi (Padma Priya) as he had made her pregnant in a moment of lust and feels culpable for his actions and wants to give her life. The rest of the story is about how Cheran struggles with his wife away from his parents and repents for what he had done to them and how he re-builds the shattered family nest to get back the lost happiness and confidence and how the family finally unites.
With a flawless screenplay, and with coherent sequences of events, which are very pragmatic, the director has shown maturity in every way and has expressed very realistic story and captured the hearts of the audience. However the length of the movie is too long and the initial narration of rajkiran’s life and cheran’s struggle in chennai to find himself a living, could have been cut-short, to make the story less dragging. The emotions are sequenced well enough to moisten our eyes.
Rajkiran deserves a special mention as he steals the show throughout the movie, there is no trace of acting from his side as he seems so naturally fit into the role of a father for whom his sons are the only world and hope, and has brought out the fatherly emotions and expectations expertly in his performance. His make-up of the old-age father towards the end of the movie had adapted him so well, that he looks realistically 20 years older on the screen.
The newcomer Padma Priya, seems to blend into the role given to her well and has shown matured performance. She will have a good round in tamil movies, if she maintains her acting standards. Charanya, who plays the mother of the two, has not much of a role-play, and doesn’t seem to make the mark to the extent of Rajkiran, in expressing her motherly feelings, though she has given her best of performance.
The musical score by Sabesh-Murali supplements the story, particularly in emotional sequence and the song “Oru Murai Thaan…” is indeed a tear-triggerer with its melancholic tune and strong lyrics elucidating the aftermath of fateful marriages committed, jeopardizing the family happiness. On the whole, the movie is worth the watch.
Thavamai Thavamirunthu is definitely an eye-opener and a deserving watch, particularly for the younger generation and it carries with it a very good message. It’s indeed a real good entertainer for all age groups.
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