Editor Mohan's sons Raja and Ravi have always been associated with entertainers be it Jayam or M.Kumaran s/o Mahalakshmi. Given this background I went to watch Santhosh Subramanian in Balaji Theater, Bangalore last week. Work was getting monotonous and I was lost in different things and the movie was meant to be an ice-breaker, was it?
Balaji theater screens Thamizh movies regularly and has a decent screen and pretty good multi-channel sound which is too loud most of the time. The theater was empty, there were only two other people in the balcony. So this almost became a solo movie experience, I should add here that this was my first solo movie outing, I always have someone to accompany me to a movie. Santhosh Subramanian can be called a Jayam Company formula movie, there's this sweet and decent guy who falls for a simple and pretty girl. Where is the problem you'd ask? The problem is his Father who controls the life of his son by making choices for him. What's so wrong about it some might ask?
How does the guy win his dame? How does he face up to his Father and speak his mind out? That's the story line in two sentences. It's a clean movie, no skin show, no item number nor is there a 'double-meaning' (as it's come to be known) one liners. This is one of those movies you can watch with the whole family (a typical Indian term for a movie that has no references to sex, seduction, lust, skin show and the like). Ravi plays the role of the burdened son pretty well, Prakash Raj enacts the Father's characters aptly. Genelia d'Souza (over)plays the innocent college girl.
Balaji theater screens Thamizh movies regularly and has a decent screen and pretty good multi-channel sound which is too loud most of the time. The theater was empty, there were only two other people in the balcony. So this almost became a solo movie experience, I should add here that this was my first solo movie outing, I always have someone to accompany me to a movie. Santhosh Subramanian can be called a Jayam Company formula movie, there's this sweet and decent guy who falls for a simple and pretty girl. Where is the problem you'd ask? The problem is his Father who controls the life of his son by making choices for him. What's so wrong about it some might ask?
How does the guy win his dame? How does he face up to his Father and speak his mind out? That's the story line in two sentences. It's a clean movie, no skin show, no item number nor is there a 'double-meaning' (as it's come to be known) one liners. This is one of those movies you can watch with the whole family (a typical Indian term for a movie that has no references to sex, seduction, lust, skin show and the like). Ravi plays the role of the burdened son pretty well, Prakash Raj enacts the Father's characters aptly. Genelia d'Souza (over)plays the innocent college girl.
