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EDITOR'S PICK
`Pasanga`: wonderful film about the wonder years (IANS Film Review)
Rating: ***
After the success of its debut venture "Subramaniapuram", Company
Productions have come up with another lovely film in "Pasanga"
(children).
Debutant director Pandiraj has exhibited a sound understanding over the medium
and has extracted work of high quality from his star cast dominated by
adolescents.
Set in a rural setting of a government run school, the movie deals with the
pangs of growing up and puppy love narrated with oodles of humour.
A young school bully Jeeva (Sriram) is surprised by the spunk in a new classmate
Anbu (Kishore) who has shifted to the government-owned school from a private
institution following his father`s downturn in fortunes.
The studious Anbu goes on to win the heart of the bully`s sister played by
Keerthana and the entire class with his helping nature in solving problems -
within and beyond the curriculum.
And then there is the adult love interest in the form of trysts between Anbu`s
uncle Meenakshisundaram (Vimal) and Jeeva`s elder sibling and school teacher
(portrayed brilliantly by Vega).
The mix of characters established through a neat screenplay in different shades
and shapes are neatly bound together during the simple but moving climax leaving
a lovable lump in the throat.
Vega has improved tremendously after her first outing. The rest of the cast -
all real life schoolchildren - are splendid amidst the rustic background filmed
wonderfully by Prem Kumar.
James Vasanthan excels through his musical score, according a nice feel to the
proceedings. A song by veteran crooner M. Balamuralikrishna is a feather in an
otherwise crowded cap.
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