But the psychological detailing helps you look past minor tropes of that era. Like in all love triangles, Ram, Pratap and Viji keep running into each other however hard they try not to.
The rest of the film, too, gets this nuanced treatment, and so, it never plays out as a typical romantic drama. Mahendran chooses this understated and unassuming manner of showing two people go through the awkward process of bonding by discovering things they both enjoy. And they break into spontaneous laughter. They pass by a man neck deep in a lake - singing. The song plays in the background while Ram and Viji, who’ve only recently met, are out on a jog. It sounds like the voice in your head that automatically plays a tune to match the rhythm of your jog. This is very similar to how events in director Sridhar’s earlier film, Kalyana Parisu, put the unfortunate couple together when it’s the last thing they want.įor example, take the really quiet gem from Ilaiyaraaja, ‘Paruvame’. But he ends up treating her husband, Venu (Muthuraman), who has a potentially terminal condition. He devotes himself to cancer research as way of forgetting her. Murali (Kalyan Kumar) finds his girlfriend, Seetha (Devika), already married when he returns abroad from his studies. Nenjil Or Aalayam is an emotionally-rich film with an interesting variant of the love triangle: genteel and sophisticated Dr. *Streaming on Amazon Prime Video Nenjil Or Aalayam (1962) It’s also as far as his image would allow him to get into Sivaji Ganesan’s Ooty Varai Uravu and Kalatta Kalyanam zone. Only the year before, he had starred in the blockbuster action-adventure film Ayirathil Oruvan. There is, of course, the customary climax fight where MGR uses chairs as weapons in a dining room, but really, that’s only a device to settle the quarrel between Balu and Geetha. Again, near the end, when he reveals who he really is, she needs to fall in love with him again. There, he meets Geetha (Saroja Devi) who falls in love with him over the course of the MS Viswanathan’s classics ‘Rajavin Paarvai’ and ‘Love Birds’ at the beginning of the film when she doesn’t know who he is. He takes a vacation to Shimla where he stays in his own bungalow but under a different identity. MGR’s filmography took an unexpected turn with Anbe Vaa, in which he plays the famous millionaire tycoon, Balu, who is forced to take a break from all the hard work and philanthropy to keep his health. More than the major drama of the film, Kalyana Parisu is probably better remembered today for its terrific comedy track where Thangavelu fakes it with his wife that he’s employed at Mannar & Co, a fake shipping company he invents. Whether you can digest the film’s tragic ending or not, it renders the film’s title superbly poetic.
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The following is a chronological journey through the best romances in Tamil - spanning almost 60 years - from Kalyana Parisu to Vijay Sethupathi -starrer 96, and passing through classics such as Punnagai Mannan, Alaipayuthey and Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa.īut Vasanthi’s sacrifice in Kalyana Parisu is just the beginning of a series of events that continue to place her in close proximity to Baskar.
And a romantic film like Punnagai Mannan has elements of both comedy and drama. Kanda Naal Mudhal and Pyaar Prema Kaadhal are romantic comedies. But films like Kalyana Parisu and Kadhal Kottai create a drama around romance. And even when they are, few stay strictly true to genre. Most of these films aren’t centered around romance. In films like Vaazhvey Maayam or Idhayam the romance simply sets off high tragedy. And even a comedy like Michael Madana Kama Rajan allows three of its four Kamal Haasans brief romances and in Kadhalikka Neramillai, Nagesh’s character gets his own comic romantic track. High octane action in films like Ghajini and Kaakha Kaakha are emotionally grounded in solid romantic tracks. It’s hard to find a mainstream Tamil film that doesn’t have a romantic track.
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