When the lifestyle of people changing it's nature, the creators also pushed to modify their creations. They need to change their stories, paintings, songs and other art forms to modern elements. When it comes to films, it is inevitable. After the world war 2, story writers oppose the moral of classic stories and supernatural elements in their works like, which is unbelievable realities and characters.There is no exact definition for post-modernism. But it has some characteristics to define itself.
Tamil films are very classy from kaalidas to present day movies. But there are very few films which have a post-modern genre. In 2011, Aaranya kaandam released in theatres, as usual, it failed to bomb the box-office. Because it is an art film and even it got several international awards but it happened. Now it is praised as a cult.And the rest is history. Shortly post-modern is noted as new ideologies with different narratives and hold some characteristics.
'Pastiche' is one of the elements of post-modern narratives which is explained as a mixture of genres. Let us look at the movie, how do you define it? comedy, dark humourism, thriller, drama or neo-noir. So the post-modern writers care about these type of genre mixing. it may create the new wave. In the movie, there are plenty of characters are unreliable.
For instance, Subbu who is femme fatale of the story. Femme fatale is the fictional character of the film noir, who is a seductive woman and make suffers to the male characters by her sexual attraction. In 100 years of Kollywood, she is only femme-fatale without any absence of characteristics and glitters in the Tamil screen.Eventually "questionable characters" are the important term of post-modern narratives. It is entirely different from classic stories.
The second one is the parody.Parody can be explained as pasting references from old genres. It can create the new tone on style. For example, consider the scene from aaranya kaandam when the drug deal was happening, the western formalism applied to the scene. In 1960's western cultural movies are very popular.And yuvan's BGM brilliantly crafted for showing western style.
Especially characters eye-contact and tension, the way Thiagaraja kumararaja captured in his camera is amazing. The recent Tamil movie Jil-junk-jug also has a strong interpretation of post-modernism. And the whole story looks like the parody of western classic.Metafiction is another major bookmarks of post-modern pages. Because author's fiction can illustrate the film as a modern genre.In Aaranya kaandam all characters are developed by the nature of wild animals. So the writer creates his own fictional world in a story. Metafiction defined as "write about writing" and the film always reminds us "Hey it is just a film".
In one scene Subbu tells that,"Naama ellaarum oruthara appaaveenu ninaipom, aana avaruthaan periya Baasha ", which signifies herself at the last, because she is a game changer of the plot so it is a hook between pages and this is called "Self-referentiality" and it is one of the terms of intertextuality. Cultural reference is one of the great things in post-modernism. Quentin Tarantino's pulp fiction arguably one of the best modern movies, it has American pop-cultural references. And the trumanshow shows a media culture. Aaranya kaandam speak about the cinema influences on Tamil culture. And it is the part of our lifestyle.Especially this scene, "Ungalukku Rajini pudikkuma illa kamal pudikkuma" this shows the crazy of people on cinema in modern culture. There is always an old song, we can hear in the background of many scenes.
And the black comedy, irony and dramatic applied perfectly in a story. especially that scene,"Manasila oru poo ninachikonga saamy.." and at the end of the scene, Kajethiran tells that "Kushbu" and "Prabu". It conveys the cinema reference and shows the irony of comedy.
When it comes to ideology, Aaranya kaandam redefined the classical masculinity because the male characters are dominative, strong and winner of masculinity. But in this movie, all male characters are degraded by someway.Pasupathy told Singaperumaal,"Vayasaayirichu athaan tokku aayiteenga". Kaalaiyan who is a loser as a family man. Pasupathy also quoted by child kodukaapuli as "Pondaatiya tholaichavan" and no need to mention Sappai. So the story opposes the classical masculinity. And it creates the new wave.
Eventually, Aaranya kaandam is the good plot for studying postmodernism. It may not be the touches the heart people but it touches the art of modern storytelling.
Tamil films are very classy from kaalidas to present day movies. But there are very few films which have a post-modern genre. In 2011, Aaranya kaandam released in theatres, as usual, it failed to bomb the box-office. Because it is an art film and even it got several international awards but it happened. Now it is praised as a cult.And the rest is history. Shortly post-modern is noted as new ideologies with different narratives and hold some characteristics.
'Pastiche' is one of the elements of post-modern narratives which is explained as a mixture of genres. Let us look at the movie, how do you define it? comedy, dark humourism, thriller, drama or neo-noir. So the post-modern writers care about these type of genre mixing. it may create the new wave. In the movie, there are plenty of characters are unreliable.
For instance, Subbu who is femme fatale of the story. Femme fatale is the fictional character of the film noir, who is a seductive woman and make suffers to the male characters by her sexual attraction. In 100 years of Kollywood, she is only femme-fatale without any absence of characteristics and glitters in the Tamil screen.Eventually "questionable characters" are the important term of post-modern narratives. It is entirely different from classic stories.
The second one is the parody.Parody can be explained as pasting references from old genres. It can create the new tone on style. For example, consider the scene from aaranya kaandam when the drug deal was happening, the western formalism applied to the scene. In 1960's western cultural movies are very popular.And yuvan's BGM brilliantly crafted for showing western style.
Especially characters eye-contact and tension, the way Thiagaraja kumararaja captured in his camera is amazing. The recent Tamil movie Jil-junk-jug also has a strong interpretation of post-modernism. And the whole story looks like the parody of western classic.Metafiction is another major bookmarks of post-modern pages. Because author's fiction can illustrate the film as a modern genre.In Aaranya kaandam all characters are developed by the nature of wild animals. So the writer creates his own fictional world in a story. Metafiction defined as "write about writing" and the film always reminds us "Hey it is just a film".
In one scene Subbu tells that,"Naama ellaarum oruthara appaaveenu ninaipom, aana avaruthaan periya Baasha ", which signifies herself at the last, because she is a game changer of the plot so it is a hook between pages and this is called "Self-referentiality" and it is one of the terms of intertextuality. Cultural reference is one of the great things in post-modernism. Quentin Tarantino's pulp fiction arguably one of the best modern movies, it has American pop-cultural references. And the trumanshow shows a media culture. Aaranya kaandam speak about the cinema influences on Tamil culture. And it is the part of our lifestyle.Especially this scene, "Ungalukku Rajini pudikkuma illa kamal pudikkuma" this shows the crazy of people on cinema in modern culture. There is always an old song, we can hear in the background of many scenes.
And the black comedy, irony and dramatic applied perfectly in a story. especially that scene,"Manasila oru poo ninachikonga saamy.." and at the end of the scene, Kajethiran tells that "Kushbu" and "Prabu". It conveys the cinema reference and shows the irony of comedy.
When it comes to ideology, Aaranya kaandam redefined the classical masculinity because the male characters are dominative, strong and winner of masculinity. But in this movie, all male characters are degraded by someway.Pasupathy told Singaperumaal,"Vayasaayirichu athaan tokku aayiteenga". Kaalaiyan who is a loser as a family man. Pasupathy also quoted by child kodukaapuli as "Pondaatiya tholaichavan" and no need to mention Sappai. So the story opposes the classical masculinity. And it creates the new wave.
Eventually, Aaranya kaandam is the good plot for studying postmodernism. It may not be the touches the heart people but it touches the art of modern storytelling.
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