Ilakkanam ( இலக்கணம் ) - a Tamil movie
Yesterday in DD Pothigai, I watched the Tamil movie – Ilakkanam. I have never heard of this movie. There was no synopsis of the movie. The only thing said about the movie was that it is entirely in Tamil. It started off in a very simple way. The actors were all new to me. The hero was pleasant, decent looking. I got interested.
The dialogue was not in chaste literary Tamil but in simple spoken Tamil. The story was about an idealistic hero, a writer working for a publisher. The film seems to have been made just for the love of Tamil language and to propagate values like tolerance, forgiveness, honesty, morality and standing up for one's rights and beliefs. The story reminded me of the novels by Na. Parthasarathy in the 60s.
It amazes me to think how a writer even conceived such a clean story to include all the principles to live by in a social drama (addressing a variety of social causes), depicting love, ethics, value system, compassion etc. Credit for making such as good movie has to go to the producer who has taken great risk in producing this movie that doesn’t follow the usual formula for success at the box office.
The actors, Ram (the lead role of Tamilarasan), Uma (his wife Kayalvizhi) the child artist (couple’s daughter Panimalar) all play their role so well, so naturally without any exaggeration.
The music and the Lyrics for the songs (from the poems of Bharathiyar) are so pleasing.
I don’t know whether Ilakkanam was given tax exemption or won any award. I haven’t seen another movie of such calibre in any language.
It is a lively and enjoyable movie worth seeing. I was feeling happy all throughout while watching the movie (and the feeling continued long into the night too). I was fully engrossed in it. Being on DD there was no commercial break to break the continuity. This is an ideal movie to show it to children at school to teach them value system.
I am happy and feel lucky that I got to see the movie.
For more on the storyline, review see -
http://www.koodal.com/tamil/movies/reviews/269/ilakkanam
இத்திரைப்படத்தை இன்று மக்கள் தொலைக்காட்சியில் காண நேர்ந்தது, ஆங்கிலம் மற்றும் எந்த ஒரு அந்நிய மொழியின் கலப்பில்லாத உரையாடல்கள், படம் முழுக்க பெரியாரின் கருத்துத் தூவல்கள், பெயருக்கு ஏற்றாற்போல் நல்ல படத்திற்கான இலக்கணம் இவ்விலக்கணம் ;-)
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Deleteநீண்ட நாட்களுக்குப்பிறகும், ராம் என்ற பெயரில் நான் (விஷ்ணு பிரியன்) நடித்த இலக்கணம் பேசப்படுவது மகிழ்ச்சி. நன்றிகள்.
ReplyDeleteகொண்டாடப்பட்டிருக்கவேண்டிய படம்.
Yesterday after a long long time i browsed through my blog and came across your reply to my write-up about the movie. I again watched the movie yesterday on Utube and enjoyed it as much as i did the first time. Dear Vishnu priyan, your looks and personality are ideally suited for the role and you have acted very well.
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