What if being a cop your son is kidnapped by the drug mafia in return for a bag of cocaine you got from them in a under cover operation? It definitely reads similar to a news item you may read sipping your morning coffee.
So what it takes to convert this simple thing into a watch-able story on screen ? That's what is all about thoongavanam the latest movie by Kamal Haasan and team.
It is a remake of a (some say without much alteration) French movie Nuit Blanche.
So this fact hangs in the back of my head while I watch it leaving me just to enjoy the movie as is than looking into it as a original creative piece.
I read the English translation of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. It is undoubtedly in the top of my best reads. Not reading it in Russian did not in any way come in the way of enjoying the novel. It may be because whoever did the translation did full justice to it. The flow, the sequence, the narration, the dialogues all looked engrossing and natural.
So it does not matter whether you see the original or the duplicate as long as the essence of the original which could be the story, the screen play, the characters, visuals or action do not drop from what the original did. In fact if you can add subtle things that can make it more interesting then you have achieved your job of a remake.
The humour interlaced in the movie throughout , the people in the kitchen , the villain Prakash Raj, his assistant and the movie producer in the bar, all of them seem to add mild humour to the otherwise fast paced and a bit serious action and screen play. May be on a different note, if this humour was let off, the thrill element would have been little more.
So if you forget the fact that it is a remake and Kamal Haasan who gave some classics like Thevar Magan, Virumandi, Hey Ram is in here in a borrowed theme, you will thoroughly enjoy this movie.
The movie is definitely fast paced, no songs, no romances, very straight in what it is trying to say as a story, no need to break your head in complex non-linear narration, all happening over a night in a pub between a drug mafia, cops (good and bad), a little boy and a bag of cocaine.
It is not a movie that you will rave about definitely, say like a Hey Ram. All I can say is it has the finesse and is quite well executed without any rough edges. The background score is amazing.
Personally, I always like creativity and seeing it come alive in execution. It would be difficult for me to code on a project that I did not conceive of except for money. I guess that is what the makers of this film also would be aiming for. Execute cleanly and rapidly on a well established theme and make quick bucks. So we can only appreciate the execution which is crisp and professional.
So what it takes to convert this simple thing into a watch-able story on screen ? That's what is all about thoongavanam the latest movie by Kamal Haasan and team.
It is a remake of a (some say without much alteration) French movie Nuit Blanche.
So this fact hangs in the back of my head while I watch it leaving me just to enjoy the movie as is than looking into it as a original creative piece.
I read the English translation of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. It is undoubtedly in the top of my best reads. Not reading it in Russian did not in any way come in the way of enjoying the novel. It may be because whoever did the translation did full justice to it. The flow, the sequence, the narration, the dialogues all looked engrossing and natural.
So it does not matter whether you see the original or the duplicate as long as the essence of the original which could be the story, the screen play, the characters, visuals or action do not drop from what the original did. In fact if you can add subtle things that can make it more interesting then you have achieved your job of a remake.
The humour interlaced in the movie throughout , the people in the kitchen , the villain Prakash Raj, his assistant and the movie producer in the bar, all of them seem to add mild humour to the otherwise fast paced and a bit serious action and screen play. May be on a different note, if this humour was let off, the thrill element would have been little more.
So if you forget the fact that it is a remake and Kamal Haasan who gave some classics like Thevar Magan, Virumandi, Hey Ram is in here in a borrowed theme, you will thoroughly enjoy this movie.
The movie is definitely fast paced, no songs, no romances, very straight in what it is trying to say as a story, no need to break your head in complex non-linear narration, all happening over a night in a pub between a drug mafia, cops (good and bad), a little boy and a bag of cocaine.
It is not a movie that you will rave about definitely, say like a Hey Ram. All I can say is it has the finesse and is quite well executed without any rough edges. The background score is amazing.
Personally, I always like creativity and seeing it come alive in execution. It would be difficult for me to code on a project that I did not conceive of except for money. I guess that is what the makers of this film also would be aiming for. Execute cleanly and rapidly on a well established theme and make quick bucks. So we can only appreciate the execution which is crisp and professional.
