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PostPosted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 1:40 pm 
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PATTIYAL

Vishnuvardhan is the new style mannan among Tamil film directors, as proved by his debut film and now the latest Pattiyal. Stylistically inventive throughout, Vishnu’s foray into Chennai’s mean street inhabited by hired killers and ordinary slum dwellers arouse your interest and admiration for the director.

Video footage, moodily-lit authentic locations, intermittent flashes of zippy-zappy editing, top-line performances, digital imaging, knock out action scenes, great music and re-recording are just some of the highlights.

Pattiyal has a straightforward plot with an emotional core. Vishnu has beautifully etched out the friendship and bonding between two orphans, Koshy (Arya) and Selva (Bharath) who are hired killers for a middleman Sami (VMC Haneefa). Koshy is an emotionless, rough and tough guy who talks a lot while Selva is a fearless, deaf and dumb guy with some human emotions.

They are happy with whatever they make out of as contract killers for the rich and powerful and can’t think of life beyond their slums. Saroja (Padmapriya), a girl working in a garment company is crazy about Koshy who does not have any feeling for her. Selva meets Sandhya (Pooja) a salesgirl in a medical shop and they fall in love, which brings out the hidden romantic feelings and emotions in him. One day Sami gets them a big contract to kill a Kovai based businessman and politician Nachimuthu Gounder (Santhanabharathy), which turns their life upside down leading to a savage and brutal climax.

On the acting front, Vishnu has extracted astonishingly life-like performance from the lead cast. As Sami the middleman, VMC Haneefa is a surprise packet. Padmapriya as Saro is a revelation totally contrary to the image she had so far while Pooja as Sandhya is good. Arya is so hot-n-cool that you feel the fire-n-ice within. His body language and mannerism personifies the wry gangster with dollops of humour and his romantic encounters with Padmapriya are fun to watch.

But it is Bharath who is virtually the scene stealer. He has an author-backed role and you cannot take your eyes off him. As Selva the mute, he has an impassive face and his large eyes convey all the strangled emotions of a person unable to communicate with people around him. The scene where he bumps off Gounder towards the climax has the audience clapping and whistling!

Technically, Pattiyal is top class. Nirav Shah’s lighting and camerawork, Raj Kannan’s dialogues and Sreekar Prasad’s crisp editing gives the film an extra edge. Yuvan Shankar Raja’s music and background score is the life of the film and the songs are brilliantly inserted into the narrative. The first half is slightly slow while the tempo catches up in the last twenty minutes of the film which is racy and riveting. Vishnuvardhan has etched out the mute Selva character from Bangkok Dangerous and the atmosphere of City of Gods.

On the whole, Pattiyal is the most realistic gangster movie made in recent times with style and substance.

Verdict: Go, watch it!

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Pattiyal - Of guns and gangsters


Chennai may not have an organized underworld like Mumbai does. But if it had, it would certainly look like the one that Vishnu Vardhan has dreamt up in Pattiyal. And in this soft underbelly of a society he looks for some heart.

The film has a brooding, disturbing quality ---- reminding a range of directors from Quentin Tarantino to our own Ram Gopal Verma. The thing is that Vishnuvardhan has combined old-fashioned style of story telling with some telling technical virtuosity.

Backed by exemplars like Yuvanshankar Raja, he has come up with a film that will have an appeal across the board. He has also managed to wrench out believable performances from the top four.

The story begins around Koshy (Arya) and Selva (Bharath), the quintessential back street boys, the hatchet men of Sami (Cochin Haneefa). Koshy is an unblinking man with nary a feeling for life. Selva, deaf and dumb, is equally intrepid. But he has a heart ticking beneath the dark, dire exterior. Killing is their life.

But life arrives in the life, so to speak, in the form of Saroja (Padmapriya) and Sandhya (Pooja). The former falls for Koshy's machismo while the latter has a thing for the hidden softness of Selva.

When Koshy and Selva set out to bump off Nachimuthu Gounder (Santhanabharathy), things come to head and leads to a violent and a stunning denouement.

Arya is stand out as the emotionless Koshy. His brooding eyes give the right perspective to a tough-as-nails killer. But Bharath, in a much more complex and bankable role, hits all the right notes. After Kadhal, he is again in top form getting all the nuances just about right. The two girls, Padmapriya and Pooja, seem inspired choices. They have got the right understanding and carry off the role adroitly. Cochin Haneefa is always very realistic to watch.

Nirav Shah's camera is of the highest quality. His lighting and innovative angles deserve a special mention. Yuvan is the right music director for such a movie. He gets it all pat right. The editing, Srikar Prasad's, also provides the film the right momentum.

You can always see shades of Hollywood and Bollywood gangster films in Pattiyal.

But Vishnu Vardhan has managed to package it all with the vibrancy and virtuosity.


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Good movie. Must watch. Running NJ for folks around here.


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It would be nice if Ayngaran release the DVD in good quality.


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prolly VGP will release this too.. Arindhum Ariyamalum DVD was so crappy that I didn't see any of the so called style in it.


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The soundtrack is very good! :wink:


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kchan wrote:
prolly VGP will release this too.. Arindhum Ariyamalum DVD was so crappy that I didn't see any of the so called style in it.


Sad news....

1. Ayngaran is the copyright holder :?:

2. They released the DVD under Shruthilayam brand :(

3. For a chance, they screwed up more by releasing this movie in a "2-in-1" disc - comes with "naan unnai kaadalikkiraen" - a crapy movie :shock:

4. Ayngaran never released any movie they released under Shruthilayam brand in their original ayngaran name. :roll:

It means we all have to go to theatre 8)


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:27 am 
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so this is ayngaran strategy... release decent/watchable movies in sruthi brand, or give them to vgp.... and release vijay/vijaykanth/sathyaraj craps in their regular format. :?


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dvdunlimited wrote:
Ayngaran never released any movie they released under Shruthilayam brand in their original ayngaran name. :roll:


Didn't Ayngaran release Ayitha Ezhuthu and Perazhagan under Shruthi brand, with proper versions later?


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they r comparing him to manirathnam now.... seriously is he that good?


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DragunR2 wrote:
dvdunlimited wrote:
Ayngaran never released any movie they released under Shruthilayam brand in their original ayngaran name. :roll:


Didn't Ayngaran release Ayitha Ezhuthu and Perazhagan under Shruthi brand, with proper versions later?


Yes, those were the first set of DVDs they released on Shruthi and Ayngaran but recently they didnt release any DVDs. For e.g.

Dishum
Thambi
Madarasi
June R
Kodambakkam

May be they will release after a while.

kchan

yes, ppl compare him to mani. I dont think he is that great and also since mani is considered "gone" from tamil movie industry, he may be the next manirathnam. even the reviews says that it the best don movie made after "nayagan" so...


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