Movie: Sathum PodaathayDirector: Vasanth
Producer: Kaivallya
Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
Cast: Pritviraj, Padmapriya, Nitin Satya, Raghavan
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Vasanth has once again proved that he is a director with a difference with Sathum Podaathay a thriller mixed with some soft romance and peppy music. Padmapriya, the pivot around which the film revolves has given a riveting performance and is the pick of the film.
In these hard days when only larger than life heroes in outdated mass masalas work at the box-office, Vasanth has been bold to experiment with a subject that is daring. One of the major highlights of the film is the songs and background score of Yuvan Shankar Raja.
The story revolves around Bhanu (Padmapriya) who gets married to Ratnavel (Nitin Satya) a guy who works in railways as he is a sportsman. But soon the relationship turns sour, when the couple realize after a gynecologist ( Suhasini in a cameo) tells them that Ratnavel is impotent. In spite family pressures to get a mutual divorce, the old fashioned Bhanu decides to go ahead with the marriage by adopting a child.
But with the arrival of the baby, Ratnavel becomes more insecure and tells her that the child reminds him about his weakness! And all hell breaks lose when Bhanu realizes that her husband was an alcoholic who knew about his impotency and had betrayed her. She walks out on him. Bhanu meets Ravichandran (Pritviraj) a happy-go-lucky guy who proposes to her. But Ratnavel who had vowed to make life miserable for Bhanu returns. What next? You have to watch the film.
Songs like Azhagu Kutty Chellam…. and Pesugiren, Pesugiren… is class apart but their placement could have been better and they slow down the narration. The three hit numbers are slotted in the first half, and two of them end up with the same Bekal fort in the background! H.Sridhar’s audiography and Yuvan's background score needs special mention as for nearly 20 minutes towards the climax, there are no dialogues which give the thriller the necessary eerie feel.
On the down side, there is nothing new in the plot of the film, as a lot of similar stories of women married tormented by an obsessive psyche characters ending up battered, bruised and kidnapped have appeared earlier ( Darr, Anjaane, Chellamay, Sleeping with the Enemy among others). The character of Ratnavel could have been better etched out as we do not feel sympathy or empathy to his anguish and actions. But what works largely for the film are the performances of lead actors especially Padmapriya, Nitin Satya who is promising and Pritviraj.
Vasanth has once again proved that he is a director with a difference with Sathum Podaathay a thriller mixed with some soft romance and peppy music. Padmapriya, the pivot around which the film revolves has given a riveting performance and is the pick of the film.
In these hard days when only larger than life heroes in outdated mass masalas work at the box-office, Vasanth has been bold to experiment with a subject that is daring. One of the major highlights of the film is the songs and background score of Yuvan Shankar Raja.
The story revolves around Bhanu (Padmapriya) who gets married to Ratnavel (Nitin Satya) a guy who works in railways as he is a sportsman. But soon the relationship turns sour, when the couple realize after a gynecologist ( Suhasini in a cameo) tells them that Ratnavel is impotent. In spite family pressures to get a mutual divorce, the old fashioned Bhanu decides to go ahead with the marriage by adopting a child.
But with the arrival of the baby, Ratnavel becomes more insecure and tells her that the child reminds him about his weakness! And all hell breaks lose when Bhanu realizes that her husband was an alcoholic who knew about his impotency and had betrayed her. She walks out on him. Bhanu meets Ravichandran (Pritviraj) a happy-go-lucky guy who proposes to her. But Ratnavel who had vowed to make life miserable for Bhanu returns. What next? You have to watch the film.
Songs like Azhagu Kutty Chellam…. and Pesugiren, Pesugiren… is class apart but their placement could have been better and they slow down the narration. The three hit numbers are slotted in the first half, and two of them end up with the same Bekal fort in the background! H.Sridhar’s audiography and Yuvan's background score needs special mention as for nearly 20 minutes towards the climax, there are no dialogues which give the thriller the necessary eerie feel.
On the down side, there is nothing new in the plot of the film, as a lot of similar stories of women married tormented by an obsessive psyche characters ending up battered, bruised and kidnapped have appeared earlier ( Darr, Anjaane, Chellamay, Sleeping with the Enemy among others). The character of Ratnavel could have been better etched out as we do not feel sympathy or empathy to his anguish and actions. But what works largely for the film are the performances of lead actors especially Padmapriya, Nitin Satya who is promising and Pritviraj.
Verdict: Thriller
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