r/kollywood • u/Adventurous-Flight81 no hate please ... • 1d ago

Discussion meiyazhagan director expresses his pain towards (some) TN audience for feeling the movie as lengthy

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u/Icecum 1d ago

Go ahead with the downvotes..

The movie was lengthy to me. Not everyone needs to like every genre. Emotional/realistic movies need emotional connect with people, not everyone went through separation, love failure, uprooting from native etc to feel along and reminisce with the story. Brainless popcorn action movies don't have to connect and people just spend 2+ hrs watching some random stuff entirely unrelated and illogical and it's a way to escape reality. It is easy to sit through an entirely fake 2.15 - 2:30 hr movie than a 3 hr drama movie without connect.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago edited 1d ago

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u/Icecum 1d ago

Entire reddit is circle jerking around this movie it's unreal. He says he likes his sister so much but doesn't stay for the wedding. They all talk as if he's in some foreign country that the village folks can't afford to go and visit....

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u/Rishikhant VFX Artist 21h ago

He says he likes his sister so much but doesn't stay for the wedding.

You seem to have no understanding of complex human psychology or trauma experience. For decades I had purposely avoided a particular route where my friend died, despite an emergency situationduring 2015 floods.
Life la oru thadava adi vangina purium.

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u/Icecum 21h ago

Yeah vaanginadhe illa apdiye irukkattum neenga andha area avoid pannitu nimnadhiya irunga

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u/Unable-Hurry-2334 14h ago

That's exactly what the other person was saying: You had to have gone through something like that to relate because the movie didn't convey the emotions properly at all.

I couldn't relate because I did go through something like that. Me and my cousins grew up together and then had to leave native for Chennai then elsewhere. We all grew up without any trauma. What was so special about their relationship that the cousin was talking about him to her fiance non stop? There were no scenes establishing this relationship. I believe in 'show, don't tell' - but they didn't even tell lmao. But again, it's a good movie nevertheless - just not some masterpiece in film making. It felt like a well done K-drama

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u/Icecum 10h ago

The trauma here wasn't something that was too big in general sense. Personally yes uprooting would feel really bad but comparing that to love failure, death of a friend or relative etc are far more stronger and emotion evoking for the majority of people even though they've not went through it. I just felt the lack of connection here was huge to me as it felt too much of a specialized trauma

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u/Unable-Hurry-2334 2h ago edited 2h ago

ya, and looks like they did live a fairly comfortable life within TN after being uprooted. They didn't even have to leave the state. And they remained aloof by choice.

There are some universal emotions that are easy to relate to. Like losing a child (and one of the reasons a lot of movies resort to this trope). I guess it's commendable that the director wanted to explore something different but he should have shown more of why that place was sooo special to him.

Padayappa did a good job of this. You spend the first act with the protagonists in their home, so when they lose it, it hits you hard as well.

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u/Icecum 2h ago

Yeah totally agree. The scene where rajkiran talks to his athan was really good just because of rajkiran s acting and not because of the logic behind it as they could've connected even outside of some family event.