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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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TAMIL MAYANDI KUDUMBATHAR
EDITOR'S PICK
`Mayandi Kudumbathar`: family troubles and audience woes (Tamil film review)
Rating: *
"Mayandi Kudumbathar" meaning Mayandi`s family, is a parade of
directors-turned-actors past their prime led by the bearded Manivannan.
Thespian Sivaji Ganeshan overacted in similar emotional tripe comprising of
improbable family situations that went out of fashion in the sixties - made
primarily to boost his sagging political career.
The tale is all about a family head Mayandi (Manivannan) whose offsprings fight
like cats and calm down only after their old man`s interventions.
The son, an engineering student Paraman (Tarun Gopi) woos the homely
college-damsel Poongodi while the two families oppose the alliance for god only
knows what.
One fine day Mayandi drops dead but everything ends well after the old man is
rendered justice posthumously.
The cliched storyline has been seen in several Tamil plays earlier.
Manivannan does the expected and overacts - according screen-space to his
erstwhile directorial colleagues who are all past their prime.
Cinematography, script, dialogues and music are silly and shoddy.
