'Kaadhalum Kadanthu Pogum' is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen which leaves me spellbound once the film is over. It depicts the most difficult things in life like unemployment, betrayal, love, ambition in a gentle and subtle way.
Yazhini is an ambitious engineering graduate who wants to live her life in her own independent way. Katiharavan is a foolish goonda who had been in jail for 5 years to protect his gang leader. When the cross roads of their lives meet, there evolves the naked raw emotions between them which people would take it as love, friendship or anything. Do we need to really define these emotions? I would probably leave those feelings as such.
The sole companion for Yazhini who has left her home and living in a unknown place is her next door neighbor Kathiravan. He was with her when she herself doesn't know that she needs someone as a companion. By being tagged as a rowdy she was initially skeptical and fearful about kathiravan. But when they started to talk, she came to know that he is very good at heart. she began to love this new feeling of her for him.
Kathiravan's ambition is to open a bar with the help of his leader. After all, he went to jail for him and he is expecting that he will help him by getting the license to open the bar. But, kathiravan started to feel that he was used by his leader as he is always procrastinating about the bar matter. He was wary about his girl next door Yazhini when she was moved in. By some curious and funny incidents they became close. He really enjoyed her talks when she was drinking and he was on cloud nine when they slept together after the booze without knowing for themselves. When Yazhini was asking him to come to her home and to fake as a network manager, the movie becomes more emotional. The dialogues and the scene in the temple between them in her home town is exceptional. Nothing special yet simple and splendid.
The relationship between people, either be a boy with a girl, a girl with a girl or a boy with a boy or whoever with whoever, will always start without having a definite name tied to them except the blood relationships. But for the sake of society and civilization, we are giving the name for the emotions like lover or friend or companion and then we would try to restrict our emotions to them based on the name that we have given to the relationship. Is it really necessary? When Yazhini was having drinks with kathiravan in his room, I don't think they have defined a relationship between them. Sometimes it is very good to be foolish and let the things happen its own way.
kathiravan has to fake like a interview candidate so that Yazhini would reach to the interview place in time and would take up the interview. The dialogues about the 'Opportunities in life' when he was caught faking the interview candidate is well written and is well executed by him. He has to choose between his own life and the life of a goonda under him. The decision he made and the implications of that decision and whether Yazhini got the job or not and whether they are happily married or not is the climax of the movie. Or whether all these things really happened or simply a dream.
The last scene of the movie is the best scene when the lead characters are smiling together for some unknown reason. What is the name of their relationship? Do we really need to care about it? What is there in the fucking name? Let the viewer contemplate what they want to?
Let the thread always dangle in the air and if we try to tie it to somewhere, one day or the other, it will always break off. Borrowing the words from Arundhathi Roy, "The civilization created the Love Laws that lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.” Let's fuck that and untie all our threads. Kaadhalum kadanthu pogattum.
The sole companion for Yazhini who has left her home and living in a unknown place is her next door neighbor Kathiravan. He was with her when she herself doesn't know that she needs someone as a companion. By being tagged as a rowdy she was initially skeptical and fearful about kathiravan. But when they started to talk, she came to know that he is very good at heart. she began to love this new feeling of her for him.
Kathiravan's ambition is to open a bar with the help of his leader. After all, he went to jail for him and he is expecting that he will help him by getting the license to open the bar. But, kathiravan started to feel that he was used by his leader as he is always procrastinating about the bar matter. He was wary about his girl next door Yazhini when she was moved in. By some curious and funny incidents they became close. He really enjoyed her talks when she was drinking and he was on cloud nine when they slept together after the booze without knowing for themselves. When Yazhini was asking him to come to her home and to fake as a network manager, the movie becomes more emotional. The dialogues and the scene in the temple between them in her home town is exceptional. Nothing special yet simple and splendid.
The relationship between people, either be a boy with a girl, a girl with a girl or a boy with a boy or whoever with whoever, will always start without having a definite name tied to them except the blood relationships. But for the sake of society and civilization, we are giving the name for the emotions like lover or friend or companion and then we would try to restrict our emotions to them based on the name that we have given to the relationship. Is it really necessary? When Yazhini was having drinks with kathiravan in his room, I don't think they have defined a relationship between them. Sometimes it is very good to be foolish and let the things happen its own way.
kathiravan has to fake like a interview candidate so that Yazhini would reach to the interview place in time and would take up the interview. The dialogues about the 'Opportunities in life' when he was caught faking the interview candidate is well written and is well executed by him. He has to choose between his own life and the life of a goonda under him. The decision he made and the implications of that decision and whether Yazhini got the job or not and whether they are happily married or not is the climax of the movie. Or whether all these things really happened or simply a dream.
The last scene of the movie is the best scene when the lead characters are smiling together for some unknown reason. What is the name of their relationship? Do we really need to care about it? What is there in the fucking name? Let the viewer contemplate what they want to?
Let the thread always dangle in the air and if we try to tie it to somewhere, one day or the other, it will always break off. Borrowing the words from Arundhathi Roy, "The civilization created the Love Laws that lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.” Let's fuck that and untie all our threads. Kaadhalum kadanthu pogattum.
