Films of Mani Ratnam

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Remember, it should have a collector office / bungalow / agrahAram / kuppam / DSP / Don etc...Add MLA, continuous violence, thaNNi panjam pidichcha ooru, absolutely no accent in language...

romba anniyam

Compare that to N's dhArAvi

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but andha kaadhai oru kurippitta oora thazhuvi irukkanumnra kattayam illayae...

illai dhAn...edhanAl adhu thEvaiyAna aLavukku manasil 'ottalai' enRu yOsikkiREn...

[sathya_1979]

adhE - difference between adaptation of a life history of a sama kaala manidhar vs adaptation of a life history which happened thousands of years back. The adaptation of the latter is defined by the imaganation of the creator - milieu, culture, mentality, characters etc.
That goes as a limitation WRT adapting the first for portrayal.
Devadas vs Dev D maadhiri

[Nerd]

adaptation of a life history which happened thousands of years back.

really?

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lol'lu...

[sathya_1979]

really?

Yes..

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sathya how about 90000 pondaatti?
if in case its true, just imagine his hardwork.. nooru varusam vazhromnu vechukittave 36500 days dhaan varudhu...
kannu vera theriyaadhaam...

[Nerd]

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Agni N is as larger than life as thaLapathi is. Don't understand how one would prefer it to T. And T is not a deviation at all, quintessential Mani film. Milieu etc., I had no problems with it. Agree there are many dabbaa scenes, but again, typical Mani.

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W.r.to dialogues, neenga nallavaraa kettavaraa-vE is something you don't expect from a 3(?) year old. Mani wanted him to be the representative of the audience, obviously for the *effect*. Effectkkaaga dramatize pannradhu onnum periya vishayamillaiyE, even in Mani saar films.

My issue is not implausibility of the dialogue, Nerd, but rather the inclination to overtly underline emotion, themes etc. via dialogue. "nInga nallavaRA? kettavarA?" is also an expository line (to bring out Velu Nayakkar's internal dilemma for the audience), no doubt, but Mani stops at that, it's brief and also left with a sense of ambiguity. The sort of ambiguity that is quintessential Mani Ratnam (and got only better and better with his later films). adhu idhula missing-ngREn, avvaLavu dhAn. At the end of the day, I don't mean to be too critical of the film at all. It's a very enjoyable film as such. When I was younger, I might have been more interested in the offbeat elements as opposed to the standard commercial elements. Which is probably why I was expecting a more compelling film. But now I'd say the film works best when it operates as a masala film (collector office scene, etc.).

[sathya_1979]

sathya how about 90000 pondaatti?
if in case its true, just imagine his hardwork.. nooru varusam vazhromnu vechukittave 36500 days dhaan varudhu...
kannu vera theriyaadhaam...

60000 / 90000 was for Janaka Maharaja in Ramayanam. Dhirudhraashtrarukkumaa? news to me