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Kizhakku Vasal - Tamil movie review

Another movie with an innocent village singer as the hero, in this case Karthik.  Manorama is his widowed mother and Chinni Jayanth, an orphan but adopted by Manorama as her first son. 

The village head's daughter Khushboo takes Karthik for many a ride but he does not mind any of it - except for one particular jovial word from her, that she wishes to marry him.  Believing it to be real he sends his mother to formally ask for her hand in marriage which is a fatal mistake for Manorama and alters the course of the story. 

Meanwhile new entrant in the village Revathi with her escort Janakaraj intrigues all.  She is the special guest of the village head and everyone keeps their distance from her, except for Karthik who moves with her quite casually and she too takes to his child like ways.

Things move fast after Khushboo's wedding is arranged with someone else and Karthik is invited to sing for the wedding ceremony.  He has forgiven her but her conscience troubles her.  Meanwhile the village head's (Vijayakumar's) pressure on Revathy to be submissive mounts and unexpectedly Karthik rescues her by placing the kumkum in her forehead symbolizing their union.   So in the end there is poetic justice.

The music is great; makes you hum the tunes.  Overall nice entertainer.  I am sure this movie has been an important landmark in all the main actors careers.  Chinni Jayanth's innocence is very endearing.  One particular dialogue of Karthik's that I like is when he says his hut has all the facilities for the new bride (Khushboo).  They say contentment is the biggest wealth and in that sense Karthik is the richest guy even though he may live in a hut, taking alms from the villagers for his survival.

 

Chinna thambi - movie review

         Prabhu as Chinna Thambi and Khushboo are the heroes in this village based theme.  The scenery is lovely and the music is very good too.  A nice entertainer if you can tolerate the extreme thali sentiment.  I say entertainer because for the three hours of watching this movie you have to be prepared to buy into the unrealistic bringing up of the heroine which has propelled her to marry the first guy, who is not her brother, that she has access to.  The hero of course is the epitome of innocence since he does not even know what a marriage means but otherwise he is the perfect hero - he can sing well, he can fight well, has his heart in the right place etc.

 

         The villains in this movie are Khushboo's over protective brothers who obviously cannot tolerate this bumpkin to be her suitor.  So they wreak vengeance in a very unique way - by pouring colored water, then applying kumkum then adorning flowers on the long widowed mother of Chinna Thambi, Manorama.  He is about to tie the thali (again thali sentiment) when Chinna Thambi promptly rescues her from that predicament.  As Radharavi, the villain hovers with the thali, my mind works fast, is this movie going to end like Apurva Ragangal movie?  So if Radharavi, Khushboo's brother marries Prabhu's mom and becomes his father is he rendering the possibility of marriage impossible?  And what would happen to his wife Sulakshana?  Thankfully putting an end to all my surmises Prabhu jumps in and saves his mother from further insults! 

 

     And all ends well when the villains repent for their deeds and decide to get their sister (re)married with her lover.  (She had already married him in secrecy - in fact Prabhu himself did not know that he was making her his wife by tying the thali around her neck!!!)