Filmmy

Vallamai Tharayo is directed by debutant director Madhumita. The music for this movie has been scored by music director Bharadwaj. The cast of the movie includes Parthiban, Chaya Singh, Anandraj and Karunas. Prior to the release of the movie there was a lot of publicity about the debutant director’s “Vallamai Tharayo”. Like every other young debutant trying to bring a fresh aroma of sensibility one hoped that Madhumita, the lady director would come with some new and remarkable film.

Unluckily director Madhumita has failed, as she has made her own story of director Mani Ratnam’s classic movie “Mounaragam from a feminist point of view. The film is frail in narration and execution. The prime characters look false and Parthiban has ended up with an egg on his face, as the weakest link in Madhumita’s story telling.

Parthiban’s character has been badly carved and there will never be such a spineless newly married husband who tolerates the agony heaped on him by his insensitive and cruel wife. Any man with some self respect would have given his wife a piece of his mind and walked out of the marriage! Due to certain situations Nandita ( Chaya Singh) is forced to marry Anand ( Parthiban) a gentleman who is being chosen by her father (Anand Raj). Nandita is intensely in love with her cousin Sekhar (Srikanth).

Nandita is a stubborn and highly egoistic and just cannot forget Sekhar. She treats Anand like a stranger and they stay in the same house till the day she seeks divorce for a stupid reason. The couple are separated, but from here the film becomes boring, characterization goes haywire, comedy scenes sticks out like sore thumb and above all too many songs mars the tempo. We feel sorry for Parthiban who is just wasted as Anand especially post interval. All the respect that we had for him till then turns into irritation and little can we sympathize or even like him after he starts following her and adopts childish measures to lure her.

Chaya Singh has a dream role as the film belongs to her. But again her character is so confusing as her love with Sekhar is not established and when he says (on TV) that he is going to get married to another girl, the so-called love story between them turns out to be a laughing matter. And the role of the maid (Devipriya) looks more like a caricature. She walks into Nandita’s house, gives her advice on her personal matters and speaks fluent English which just does not gel.

Madhumita’s attempts need to be complimented but somewhere down the lane, her direction turns clumsy. Bharadwaj hasn’t exerted himself much. The heard-before feel in a couple of numbers dampens your enthusiasm. The first song is a rehash of his own Unnodu Vazhathe…, from Amarkalam and picturised so imaginatively on Ajit and Shalini by Saran.