Punnagai Mannan - from my point of view

Now I have decide to post reviews and comments from my and my fellow mates perspective

I saw Punnagai Mannan around ten days back . Though it has tragedic end , the rest of the movie had a good entertaing feature.

Movie begins with young lovers Sethu and Ranjani who arrive there to commit suicide with the intent of joining at death. They live happily during the last minutes of the life. However, while jumping from the cliff Sethu gets trapped in a tree and survives and Ranjani dies.

This is a good starting given for that movie. Nearly after half-an-hour or something itself title is starting. Then Sethu is imprisoned for an year for suicide attempt. He comes out where he is shown a new life by Padmini, a spinster who owns a dance school. He tries to live peacfully with the life until he meets a girl called Malini who attempts suicide for silly reason. He diverts her and saves. This creates a crush for Malini towards him. She chases Sethu to his dance school. Though Sethu repeatedly insults her , she resists and continues to love him. She was also helped by Sethu's uncle Chaplin Chellappa to win his heart. At a point Sethu could not preveent himself loving her and finally he comes out of his ego and confesses his love for Malini. Sethu starts a new innings of his life.

Malini is a Sinhalese girl and becoz of which Sethu is not acepted as groom by Malini's parents. So both of them struggle hard and finally succeed. Everything goes fine with the wedding engagement of Sethu-Malini when Ranjani's father places a bomb in the car where Sethu and Malini are travelling to revenge him for his daughter's death. And finally Sethu Malini die in an explosion.

The love blossoming within Sethu for Malini is depicted nicely. He wants to be alone for rest of his life with Ranjani's memories but everything goes upside down. Young people even after many years after the release will surely like this becoz love is a love.

Malini, despite knowing Sethu's previous failed love whcich went upto a cliff, does not give it up. She also respect the love by showering flowers in the cliff place. Malini's love for Sethu is depicted very fine.

Chaplin Chellappa, is also a good humuorous character of the movie . Kamal Haasan really showed his talent to differentiate both the characters. Viewers can visualise only it as Sethu and only as Chaplin chellappa and not as as Kamal Haasan.  A branch story why he was called as Chaplin Chellapa, justifies the role at a point. One thing that, Revathy (Malini) seeking help of Kamal (Chap Chellappa) to win the Kamal's(Sethu) heart is a comedy from non-story point of view.

Other Characters like Padmini who later accepts to marry Chaplin Chellapa, Sethu's father, Malini's father,Ranjani etc are finely picturised.

The music scored by Maestro Illayarja has also added a good feature for the movie. Every song rocks even after 20 years. The songs are very nice to hear like Kala kalamaaga vazhum, Singalattu chinna kuyile, kavithai kelungal are melodious rocks.

However the movie has many technical failures at some places. The movie is badly editted in many places. Eg: when Malini was troubled by her dance class mate and when Sethu came to her rescue, the scenes are badly shown.

The picturisation of cliff suicide scene, Sethu's love confession scene indoors along with the piano dance, dual picturisation of Kamal Haasan as Sethu and Chaplin Chellapa are some of the notable appreciatable aspects of the movie.

The movie if ended in a positive manner may have added some value in another way. But with its negative ending rocked during that period. Except for the climax scene I like to watch every part of the scene.