Thursday, December 09, 2021

Maanadu - Delightful Loop

#Maanadu #sriGINthoughts #tamilmovies #reviews

Mild spoilers ahead. If you don’t want them to be revealed, just ‘Like/Love/Wow/Sad/Angry’ and move on 😊

8 reasons why I did not ‘like’ Maanadu… 💓

1. Probably for the first time ever in all these years of movie-watching, a villain does not want the hero to die. That was as tough to digest as an undercooked biriyani #BeAliveLoop

2. One finds the hero flying from Delhi to Coimbatore in ShivAir and GoAir alternately. The day might get repeated. But the flights don’t. I have heard of codeshare flights; but this one is…? Unless I missed a subtle message there... 😉 #AirlineLoop

3. STR has a grand total of four outfits – okay, five including the patient gown. And that is the highest among all actors. Advantages of a timeloop movie? No costume expenses. #SartorialLoop

4. Dhanushkodi meets KhaliQ for the first time, he asks for his name. When he gives his name albeit diffidently, Dhanushkodi lets out a judgmental, ‘Oh!’. The next shot is on Khaliq’s face, which depicts a tremendous mixture of resignation, insult, how-long-will-my-community-be-judged feelings. #ReligiousLoop

5. Just like people wondered about how old Kattappa in Baahubali was, people will be counting the number of times Simbu dies in this movie. #NumberLoop

6. Blood is thicker than water, they say. Yeah, right! Don’t let them mix. Else it will be a #BloodyLoop all over again!

7. There is more to SJ Suryah than that meets the eye. He probably exhorts YG Mahendra as ‘Thalaivarey!’ in more ways than the number of punishments described in Garuda Purana #LeaderLoop

8. Heard that they have stopped teaching the students Caesar’s veni, vidi, vici in schools. Instead it is, வந்தான்; சுட்டான்; செத்தான்; ரிபீட்டு! (He came. He shot. He died. Repeat!) #InfiniteLoop (yes, that pendant!) 💓

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In software development lifecycle, we keep harping that the clearest of requirements gets the best software out – I mean there will be less bugs; a bug-free software is a myth anyway! Similarly, a good movie must have spent a lot of time on writing. Readers might remember my lament about Tamil movies’ writing or lack of and how Mollywood movies rock in that aspect. Venkat Prabhu has worked really hard to make a cogent movie with intelligent writing, that Ujjain BS notwithstanding. Creditable, indeed.

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Maanadu – a successful conference of minds!


PS: I unlocked my phone only once during the movie; just to snap a picture of friend Baala (Great start, man!! Congrats & best wishes!) That, my friends, is an achievement in itself!

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