While watching some movies we said ourselves that this is a kind of inevitable emotions. Because the way the director create the character is so embarrassing, may be or may not be.And when it comes to struggling characters, especially when it comes to the protagonist.As a director, it is your responsibility that you should create the empathy for those characters. We already discussed in our previous posts, that how mysskin makes empathized journey in his movie Onaayum Aaatukuttiyum. So let us get into the argument. Katradhu Tamizh is remarkable debut by director ram.The journey of the protagonist is very tragic at the same time it is filled with some happiest moments. While seeing the film we can see the visuals, plot, and characters are almost quietly going destroy together. Ram takes nihilist and pessimist approach to create this mood.
So like Stanley Kubrick we can tell this film as "quietly going decay together..". Prabhakar's childhood life mostly capture with the color of green. So the initial frames were filled with green color.Which reminds the song lyrics of kannadhasan-"Pasumai niraintha ninaivugale..".When the story moves, green is vanishing slightly in the movie. It turns gritty mode like dessert. Those reducing colors represent Prabhakar's life and how it turns so dark and grunge textured. As the result, the color tone is completely changed. While he narrating his life to the cameraman, those interchanging between green and gritty creates the insane among the audience.
Ram handles many symbolic elements in the film. The railway tracks show Prabhakar's life. When something happens badly, we see that we are getting into the tunnel and in good moments we get outside from that dark side. Because there is a light at the end.In Prabhakar's childhood when the dog getting into the tunnel it died. And it became one of the most important moments in his life. So the tunnel idea simply sticks with his mind.The light at the end of the tunnel represents the possibility of success, happiness especially after a long period of difficulty.
There is a lot of single serving subplot characters in the movies. And end with how bad they can end. They teach something to the protagonist. Almost every character gets separation from Prabhakar's life. Probably they are decayed characters. You may ask that if all characters are flawed, then what makes the journey of the story?. It is the characterization of Prabhakar. Even he trapped mentally, he never wants to stay in one place. He like telling stories, he is an explorer. This makes the story very interesting.We can compare Bala's Naan-Kadavul to this case. Almost every character in Naan kadavul literally flawed except protagonist. He is very static and never bends over on anything.
In Katradhu Tamil, along with those elements we should talk about the nature of the plot. Ram is hugely obsessed with capturing the cultural things among new generations. His other movies also depict his interest in writing the cultural ethics. Like these visuals and pot, this movie project the decay of culture. And how social inequalities makes the dominative and subdued peoples. Of course, the directors do it, they install their own personal feelings in their films. Ram is not an exception.
So eventually we see both are getting into the darkness of the tunnel. They died. But the director didn't want to finish with a sad ending, they get out of the tunnel, like "light after tunnel..", which makes happy ending with the green frame. There are many movies wrote in years to depict the decaysation. But Katradhu Tamizh achieved it by the good writing. We can easily be labeled it as a cinema of decay.
So like Stanley Kubrick we can tell this film as "quietly going decay together..". Prabhakar's childhood life mostly capture with the color of green. So the initial frames were filled with green color.Which reminds the song lyrics of kannadhasan-"Pasumai niraintha ninaivugale..".When the story moves, green is vanishing slightly in the movie. It turns gritty mode like dessert. Those reducing colors represent Prabhakar's life and how it turns so dark and grunge textured. As the result, the color tone is completely changed. While he narrating his life to the cameraman, those interchanging between green and gritty creates the insane among the audience.
Ram handles many symbolic elements in the film. The railway tracks show Prabhakar's life. When something happens badly, we see that we are getting into the tunnel and in good moments we get outside from that dark side. Because there is a light at the end.In Prabhakar's childhood when the dog getting into the tunnel it died. And it became one of the most important moments in his life. So the tunnel idea simply sticks with his mind.The light at the end of the tunnel represents the possibility of success, happiness especially after a long period of difficulty.
There is a lot of single serving subplot characters in the movies. And end with how bad they can end. They teach something to the protagonist. Almost every character gets separation from Prabhakar's life. Probably they are decayed characters. You may ask that if all characters are flawed, then what makes the journey of the story?. It is the characterization of Prabhakar. Even he trapped mentally, he never wants to stay in one place. He like telling stories, he is an explorer. This makes the story very interesting.We can compare Bala's Naan-Kadavul to this case. Almost every character in Naan kadavul literally flawed except protagonist. He is very static and never bends over on anything.
In Katradhu Tamil, along with those elements we should talk about the nature of the plot. Ram is hugely obsessed with capturing the cultural things among new generations. His other movies also depict his interest in writing the cultural ethics. Like these visuals and pot, this movie project the decay of culture. And how social inequalities makes the dominative and subdued peoples. Of course, the directors do it, they install their own personal feelings in their films. Ram is not an exception.
So eventually we see both are getting into the darkness of the tunnel. They died. But the director didn't want to finish with a sad ending, they get out of the tunnel, like "light after tunnel..", which makes happy ending with the green frame. There are many movies wrote in years to depict the decaysation. But Katradhu Tamizh achieved it by the good writing. We can easily be labeled it as a cinema of decay.
