If you want to see Tamil films in TV without commercial breaks, then the good time will be after 12 AM. Last Sunday, after having a terribly bored Saturday night, I turned on the TV at 3 AM, after successfully hoping the channels for an hour, I was about to turn it off, but only to find that the next program in KTV will be May Maadham. The program guide saved my boredom, this is why we need a dish TV rather than a conventional cable!
I have seen May Maadham before, but it is always good to revisit the films you like. It gives us an extra second to find some things which we missed before.
Editing and cinematography are my favorite areas which I look forward to observe, although I couldn't grasp the editing part, I still have a doubt of who is responsible for the edits- is it the editor or the director!. Since, cinematography is more leaning towards visual medium than editing, it’s some what easy to comprehend (Haha, my neighbor is Santhosh Sivan!).
I started re-watching this film for PC Sreeram and Crazy Mohan. I never knew Crazy Mohan penned the dialogues for this film, unless I saw his name in the titles now.
More than camera angles, PC gives importance to lighting. He has his style of playing with light and shades. Later many cameramen followed his style. For sometime, I thought Thalapathi was from PC and Devar Magan was not his work. Devar Magan was a complete contrast of his style.
Back to May Maadham, the opening song of "Margazi Poovee" in Ooty mist was cool. I should say it was a good try, while comparing to Balu Mahendra’ Ooty!.
Once the story shifts to Chennai (no Madras ba) the camera shifts gear. Madrasa Suthi Pakaoren had a unique camera angle, the camera should have been placed in the car bumper. These fast-paced shots were synonyms to the background music. This was Madras’ C'était un rendez-vous moment. C'était un rendez-vous, is a French short film captured in the streets of Paris with a camera mounted on a Ferrari. Click Here.
Sandhya played by Sonali was dubbed by Rohini. In most of the scenes, there is no proper lip sync. Sonali must be speaking Marathi or Hindi or just chewing bubble gum. Even though she was giving some good facial expression, her mouth was always eating vada pav!. In this (above pic) important scene, where she reveals her true identity to Vineeth, it is obvious there has to be a close-up for her, but how to overcome his vada pav eating mouth!. I feel this is why PC should have used the shadow of the window grill in this scene. The shadow will fall right on her face and will cover just her mouth!. Clever’ro clever!
The dialogues of Crazy Mohan was as usual witty, but most of the characters uttered without any timing. Just bad direction. And, because of this some funny lines were lost.”Nee oru All, nan oru All, rendu perum senda All-in-All”.
This was a flop, in spite of having a good story line, peppy music, excellent art by Thota Tharani, beautiful cinematography, fine lyrics by Viramuthu, Crazy dialogues, Chennai slang by Manorama. The let down should be the screenplay after half-way. Never mind, if you get a chance to see it, watch it for the visual treat by PC Sreeram.
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