Tamil movies 2011 #Snapshot


2011- Year of dramatic change in Tamil cinema industry. Dramatic change in terms of interest and response of audience. The year was completely dominated by attention they gain for the movie rather the yester year’s performance. Visibility played the main stay for any opening. From Surya to Karthi to Dhanush every body wanted to run for the visibility and position them as the star whom the audience wanted to watch. It worked commercially though. But this year it’s going to be a complete different game.

The year started off well with Siruthai and ended off well with Mounaguru. The year had occasional hits and it had plenty of good openings. Good hypes lived and the rest failed miserably. Many movies couldn’t deliver it with the hope which it carried with previous year’s flicks. Nadunisi Naigal, Porali, Rajapattai are some of the examples. Gautham Menon failed, Samuthrakani failed, Suseendran failed many bigger names failed just because they didn’t understand the penetration of other interest in audience.2011 was the year of social media to Indian cinema, Audience had all the option to try ,comment and review before the movie releases. This obviously sets expectation meter in a very clever way. The industry still doesn’t trust on the reach of the social media and freelancing on movie.

Mayakkam enna topped my list. It won just because of its simplicity and reality it carried through out. The movie had a fantastic BGM and a monster performance from Dhanush and Richa. I would definitely rate Mayakkam enna as one of the best Orchestered Musical album though it had some unconventional songs. Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai was a delight to watch. Right from the beginning the movie was the honest to literatary work and it had stunning performances through out. It shattered all the ideologies about the good looking heroes and Appukutty was the talk for some time. Suseendran started off great with Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai. I would definitely not rate Aadukalam above Pollathavan, but Adukalam was gripping tale of Dhanush and Pettaikaran. The Pettaikaran was scary, believable and he made the complete movie look interesting above Dhanush and Tapsee chemistry and he took it off completely from Dhanush and Kishore.Vetrimaran has the technique to do it, to take it off completely from the Hero.

The year’s blast was Aranyakandam.The movie was a riot and it has all credit to the debutant director. The dark tone, noir and the pace of the movie were stunning and it ripped off the formula movies in style. The movie didn’t work out commercially but technically the movie would go as the best made movie in recent times. Mounaguru became the dark horse of 2011 and Arulnithi’s gruffly appearance and moody disposition was well received. A mystery unfolding to mysteries was not new to Tamil cinema but the movie was kept engaged by the director santhakumar and in a very simple way.

Personally I am not with any of the money-spinner like KO / 7 AM Arivu for a simple reason they had nothing in them.7 am arivu was complete flawed and I had no interest of sitting through out the movie. KO had an interesting Masala but I am surprised with success it has gained. Thanks to SUN TV for the marketing they played on the movie and KO would remain as a mystery of 2011.

Mankatha won only for the screen presence of Ajith .The salt and Pepper look won the movie completely with the audience. The movie had no logic but it was destined to win because the Ajith fans were totally dry for hits and they needed one average movie to bring the momentum of celebration and Mangatha happened.Myskin’s Yutham sei was a good thriller ,what was not interesting was his repetition of style . His unusual dialogues and mannerisms of the characters are getting repeated in his every movie he makes, Yutham sei would have been a blast if the style was little deviant from his old style.

Every one said Velayudam was a hit, I am happy if it was a hit but the movie was absolutely crap. Avan Ivan was a disaster and bala disappointed in a big way. Nadunisi naigal was a hyped to be a path breaking movie but I could not move with the profuse violence it had for no reason.

Top 10 Movies of 2011
1. Aadukalam
2. Aranyakandam
3. Mayakkam Enna
4. Mounaguru
5. Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai
6. Deivathirumagal
7. Engeyum Epothum
8. Ko
9. Kanchana
10. Vagai Soodava /Mankatha/Yutham sei

Comments

Natraj said…
Nice write up da !! Would definitely try watching some of the offbeat movies you mentioned .. Keep writing Karthi..
January 11, 2012 at 10:20 AM
Sabhari Nath said…
My vote for best movie would be for Aaranya Kaandam or Mounaguru. Totally novel scripts and with a superb touch of reality. Good write-up KK
January 11, 2012 at 8:03 PM
ashok said…
agree with your top 10 list...Iam yet to watch mounaguru though!
March 26, 2012 at 9:55 AM
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