Indian Cinema

Pathinaru Review

Pathinaru

Movie
Pathinaru

Director
D.Sabapathy

Music
Yuvan Shankar Raja

Cast
Siva, Madhu Shalini, Abhishek

Director Sabapathy’s Pathinaru is all about romance that fails to blossom. The subtle message he wants to convey is that falling in love is easy but there are too many obstacles in the way of true love ending in marriage.

Rich industrialist (Abhishek) only daughter Indu (Madhu Shalini) falls in love with Siva (Mirchi Shiva), her senior in college. Girl and boy secretly want to get married. The girl’s parents fiercely oppose the marriage. Girl’s mom asks them to read a novel Pathinaru.

As they read the novel together, in a flashback, the audiences are told about the circumstances that made the author write the autobiographical story. A boy and girl coming from different strata of society in a village milieu fall in love from their childhood.

The girl is obstinate that under any circumstances that she will only marry the boy. Fate intervenes and separates the lovers. The identity of the village lovers is revealed which forces Shiva and Indu to have a rethink about their marriage plans.

The film is under two hours, but Mirchi Siva has hardly 15 to 20 minutes in the film. It looks as though he is doing a cameo. The entire focus is on the village love story, and most of the happenings lack logic. In the climax Shiva tracking down the old lovers including the author of the book to Kodaikanal is hard to digest.

The only silver lining in the film is Yuvan Shankar Raja’s music. The film does not have storyline strong enough to hold viewers interest post interval and it looked like Sabapathy was in a hurry to end it.

Verdict- Average

In 3 Idiots Again Vijay ! How ??

Gemini Film Circuit and Shankar had initially signed up Vijay to do the Tamil version of the blockbuster Aamir Khan's Rajkumar Hirani directed 3 Idiots.
Later Vijay walked out of the film sighting 'date reasons' and rumours of Shankar not happy with the star's reluctance to go for a new look.

At that time, Suriya was roped into the project by Shankar. Suriya's only condition for doing the film was his salary (rumoured to be Rs 12 Crore) plus the Telugu dubbing rights (today's market rate Rs 8 to Rs 10 Crore).
GFC was not willing to give the dubbing rights as they hold the 3 Idiots remake rights for Telugu and was planning to do it with Mahesh Babu.

Meanwhile Shankar started the shoot of the Tamil remake in Ooty and also said he will break the deadlock with Suriya who will join the shoot in February end.
Bur Shankar-Suriya talks broke down as the actor insisted on Telugu dubbing rights, which Shankar knew would make the project unviable.

It was around this time that Shankar started renegotiating with Vijay. Vijay who against all odds was able to release Kaavalan also decided not to dabble in Tamil Nadu politics for the time being.
His father SA Chandrasekhar in an interview to a national daily kept the door open for his son's entry into politics by saying 'Vijay will enter politics when he is 40'.
It was the badly needed breather for Vijay as channels which were opposed to his entry into politics started showing Kaavalan trailer and songs.

Assuming that Vijay does not enter politics for the next three years (he turns 40 in 2014), he has to give hits. Kaavalan's success has proved that Vijay has a solid mass base and if he does good family movies, he can win over the lady audiences. And there is no better director than Shankar to reach the masses and classes alike.
Vijay has now signed the film and will join the film end February after he completes Velayudham.