Maamanithan 2022 - Sinhala sub
Director: Seenu Ramasamy
Cast: Vijay Sethupathi, Guru Somasundaram, Gayathrie
Last year, Vijay
Sethupathi starred in Laabam where every scene looked like an excuse to
cram our heads with information. It was a social science class that I wasn’t
interested in. I was afraid a similar fate would fall upon Maamanithan,
as well. In the opening scene of this Sethupathi starrer, his character,
Radhakrishnan, teaches his children (a son and a daughter) the importance of
running. He tells them that running frees them. But his piece of advice comes
out of nowhere, and, hence, I didn’t think it would serve any purpose other
than depicting the bond between a father and his kids.
However,
Radhakrishnan runs sometime later. It’s not the kind of running that tests his
stamina, though. He runs away – from his family to find another shelter. Maamanithan is
surprisingly honest. It doesn’t beat around the bush and tells a nice story
straight from the heart. In the scene where Radhakrishnan talks about running,
there are some dialogues about eating fish, as well.
The
daughter asks if it’s wrong to kill something in order to eat it, and the
father says he doesn’t have an answer to that. He doesn’t come up with anything
smart on the spot. But they go home and happily gorge on fish curry anyway.
This attitude of his comes in handy towards the end when he’s asked by a young
sage if he knows the meaning of Advaitism. It’s a standout scene that deserves
applause for the way Sethupathi delivers his line. He says he only knows how to
stop hiccups and walks out of the restaurant, leaving his questioner
dumbfounded.
0 Comments