Bliss- 80%; Ferocity-20%

The Bliss ferocity percentage split mentioned in the title is what I had while watching the movie Aayiraththil Oruvan (AO). The brighter part in the title is totally because of the AO Team and the darker side is because of the Audience the AO had on that day.Lemme talk about the brighter part first. I was so proud that such a movie has come out from Tamil Cinema Industry .To put it in two words I wud call it, “Brave attempt”. I usually like Tamil movies for its comedy .My favorite hero is always vadivelu.Let him be a comedian, for me he is a hero.Yeah of course some insightful Tamil films exists. But I don’t know I liked AO so much. May be u may not like some parts but the script is so new and hope it sets a new trend. As u all know the script is based on the Cholas and pandiyas. The director has mixed his imagination so well and made it so meaningful. The seven traps set by chola king, of which the movie talks about is so amazing and makes us think how intelligent they were in those days and leaves us with a doubt cud we do it today even with the massive technology we have?…Brahdeeshwar temple built by Raja Raja Cholan still remains as a challenge for the civil engineers and architects across the globe. Needless to say lot many temples in India wud get appended in the challenging list. Not only temples, the literature, paintings, Music, Dance, the medicines etc etc that have roots from our country are fantabulous; their usage and proud needs to be passed on to the upcoming generations. But I see two unimportant elements which have the roots of our country getting passed on sincerely for many generations which is nothing but the rotten stuffs caste and religion. So coming back to AO, the efforts it has taken to pass on our history makes me feel so glad. Every time I wanted to see a Tamil movie here in UK just to hear the Tamil Language on the screen. But this time I was so moved .Hats off to AO team.Jai Ho AO!!!

Now comes the fury part. There was a group of audience in AO who were constantly giggling at scenes which portrayed the wildness of the Chozha,their practices, Reema Sen’s ancient Tamil etc. I am not ferocious on the audience who did not like the movie. Taste differs. No issues on that. But I was upset with the guys who were constantly mocking at the film for no reason. I don’t get one thing. What’s so funny when u see the reflection of your own culture on the screen. Me and Selva were quiet disappointed with those guys. We both were discussing what made them to spoil the show. We thought probably if the same film was directed by James Cameroon or Steven Spielberg they would have applauded the movie and say,” wow what a movie!”Producing a film in Indian Rupees is totally different from producing a film in Dollars and Pounds. In that perspective, AO is an extravaganza for Indian Rupees. What I feel is, some of us get confused what we like. May be we are clueless who we are? Except the ID card our working company gives us what exactly do we have to identify ourselves? We feel so ashamed to talk in Tamil in TamilNadu. Okays in that case do we speak at least good English? No. The level of our English knowledge is something similar to this sentence. “Don’t stand in the veyil.Stand in the puliya marathu nizhal”(courtesy: Dum Dum Dum Tamil Film).So we know neither Tamil nor English. The ultimate quintessential sense that differentiates humans and the rest living creatures is been messed up. At least are we British when in Britain? No. We get the ugly stare from British for talking aloud in the cinema hall. Its cent percent fine if we don’t like the Indian culture. But are we at least following the British Culture which has some good things inculcated in it?British always stand in a queue and get the cinema tickets. We break the queue by making our friend to buy the ticket who stands in the front of the queue. British normally don’t look down people based on their profession (As far as I have observed!). We don’t even stand near people who clean toilets. So who are we? Do we have any identity other than the identity card that’s hanging around our neck?

P.S:The second para of the post aims at pitying the people who are similar to those guys who were giggling at AO show and not all Indians.