Movie
Madrasapattinam
Director
Vijay
Producer
Kalapathi S. Aghoram
Music
GV Prakash Kumar
Cast
Arya, Amy Jackson, Nasser, VMC Haneefa, Bala Singh, M. S. Bhaskar
Madrasapattinam
Director
Vijay
Producer
Kalapathi S. Aghoram
Music
GV Prakash Kumar
Cast
Arya, Amy Jackson, Nasser, VMC Haneefa, Bala Singh, M. S. Bhaskar
Madrasapattinam from director Vijay has got the right ingredients to make this film work and give you a nostalgic feel all through. He really had the guts to set a film in the Madras of the 1940’s under British rule and then work out a love story between a local washer man (Dhobi) and the Governors daughter. The script and screenplay starts and feel like the classic Titanic and during the wrestling brawl looks like Lagaan.
Forget about the cast, Vijay’s idea of pictoriasization, art director Selva, cinematographer the great Nirav shah and to some extent GV Prakash with his music has done an impossible task of recreating Chennai sorry!! Madras of the 1940’s.
Seriously hats off to the team that at no point we ridicule about the plot more importantly the authenticity of the location itself. GV’s music are hummed around the vicinity, and credit goes esp. to Nirav Shah to make this situation click with his amazing camera work along with Selva who has recreated Chennai to Madrasapattinam
With lead actors Arya and Amy Jackson along with Naseer, and others brings you near perfection casting for the movie. Arya has done his role as cult; Amy Jackson with lip sync is quite outstanding. Special mention to Balasingh, MS Bhaskar, late Cochin Haneefat (Iyer British translator) is perfect. Little humor to a serious script brings the house down. Even the selection of British Cast is good.
The film shifts at constant intervals from the present to the pre-independence, as the whole story is reminiscence of the old Amy Willikinson who lives in England and needs a surgery. Her wish before her procedure is to fly to Chennai with her granddaughter to meet Ilamparithi (Arya). The plot itself is wafer thin where Amy falls for Parithi, a dhobi walla and a local wrestles who lives on the banks of RIVER COOVUM in a village called Guindy which was then the Washermanpet of old Madras. She even learns Tamil for her love which astounds Parithi. Government wants to build a golf course at the place and wants to vacate the people to different neighborhood; this is against by Parithi who stood up for the villagers against the government. The rest of the story, after the leads ill-fated severance shown in a cinematic way is cut to present day Chennai- On the last day of her stay in Chennai a very sick Amy in search of Parithi discovers the startling truth.
Overall Vijay with his strong screenplay and a brilliant team make this film work.
Forget about the cast, Vijay’s idea of pictoriasization, art director Selva, cinematographer the great Nirav shah and to some extent GV Prakash with his music has done an impossible task of recreating Chennai sorry!! Madras of the 1940’s.
Seriously hats off to the team that at no point we ridicule about the plot more importantly the authenticity of the location itself. GV’s music are hummed around the vicinity, and credit goes esp. to Nirav Shah to make this situation click with his amazing camera work along with Selva who has recreated Chennai to Madrasapattinam
With lead actors Arya and Amy Jackson along with Naseer, and others brings you near perfection casting for the movie. Arya has done his role as cult; Amy Jackson with lip sync is quite outstanding. Special mention to Balasingh, MS Bhaskar, late Cochin Haneefat (Iyer British translator) is perfect. Little humor to a serious script brings the house down. Even the selection of British Cast is good.
The film shifts at constant intervals from the present to the pre-independence, as the whole story is reminiscence of the old Amy Willikinson who lives in England and needs a surgery. Her wish before her procedure is to fly to Chennai with her granddaughter to meet Ilamparithi (Arya). The plot itself is wafer thin where Amy falls for Parithi, a dhobi walla and a local wrestles who lives on the banks of RIVER COOVUM in a village called Guindy which was then the Washermanpet of old Madras. She even learns Tamil for her love which astounds Parithi. Government wants to build a golf course at the place and wants to vacate the people to different neighborhood; this is against by Parithi who stood up for the villagers against the government. The rest of the story, after the leads ill-fated severance shown in a cinematic way is cut to present day Chennai- On the last day of her stay in Chennai a very sick Amy in search of Parithi discovers the startling truth.
Overall Vijay with his strong screenplay and a brilliant team make this film work.