Enna Koduma Sir Ithu?

From the days of Thyagaraja Bagavadhar and P.U.Chinappa, Tamil Cinema has always been a attention grabber among movie lovers. Known for their sound budgets (less compared to Hindi and definitely more than Malayalam, where even a petti kadai owner could become a producer!) and sensible acting (T.Rajendhar, Vijayakanth - an exception) tamil movies have always reigned superior in the south. Melancholic melodies, dazzling N.Indian chicks, gravity-defying stunts and feet-tapping tunes, we have seen it all. However it wasn’t until last week I realized that this illustrious industry has had its hiccups too with boring subjects and awfully illogical, lowww bugdet movies.


I was lazed up on the sofa, switching from one channel to another just to see some 40+ old lady crying at the gloomy state of her daughter’s life. Man! soaps portrait people in the real world as dull, dim, brainless, stupid and anything that’s not bright. They make veterans look like novices. Why doesn’t any political party include “banning serials” in their campaign assurances? Doh! Well coming back to the bigger screen, I accidentally happen to stumble across some breath taking ;) scenes from a stupendous movie of the early 90s.

~Kathai alla Kasmaalam~


The hero is a farmer (with an ageing mother of course!) and he has problems (Vaaikal Thagararu) with a rich capitalist,who happens to threaten him to give up his land for the sake of building up some industry.(an IT park?) And yeah u have guessed right, the rich capitalist is also the father of the heroine. The heroine has endured through higher studies (B.A-higher studies?! ) and is an arrogant and haughty young woman. The hero teaches her a few lessons from his book and transforms her into a “kudumba pangu ulla ponnu”. She falls in love with our hero instantly. They also manage to squeeze in a “romantic” song, where two sunflowers happen to brush one another which means the Hero has kissed the Heroine.. oooh! ;) (Mr.S.J.Surya, this a movie too and these people are lovers too! )


Later, the heroine’s dad comes to know of her love life and all hell breaks loose. He threatens his own daughter and suceeds in making her end her love relationship with the handsome hero,(which she does it with a gallon of glycerin in her eyes) ,at the cost of which he promises to spare the hero’s life along with his land. And yeah somehow, the villain is also responsible for the death of two kelavis so closely related to the hero!


Now for that breathtaking scene I mentioned earlier.. the heroine goes to a solitary seashore temple on a dark evening and prays to god to solve all her problems. Suddenly, out of the blue, her half-saree catches fire from a nearby oil-lamp! Oh my god! The heroine of all the things she could have done, takes off her clothes as fast as she could (of course,the cameraman focuses on the sky at the moment ) and jumps into the sea, only to realize that she doesn’t know even the A B C of swimming. (Uh!) The hero is having his usual 9PM stroll in the seashore, looking out to save drowning girls in the sea. (what is he? A life guard or something?) The hero on seeing his lady love struggling against the waves, jumps in and brings the comatose heroine to the shore. The cameraman focuses on the sky again (now whats his problem!) and the sun rises. The heroine finally comes around, and throws her arms around herself in protection realising that she is wearing the hero’s dress. On a nearby pillar, facing the opposite direction is our hero who delivers his one line dialogue “nee nenaikura mathiri inga onnume nadakala.” What crap! I dunno what happened to the producer of this movie and how he accepted the script in the first place, when even an infant Steven Spielberg would have spat on it!


Enna Koduma Sir Ithu???


Also the melodramatic T.R and his super-son Simbhu is one of the most laughed at sights by today's teenagers. Few of his videos which marked his brand in tamil cinema, showcasing his multlingual prowess and also the reason why anyone in Tamil Nadu, who recitates nursery rhymes are described as T.Ragenderistic!