I love Tamil cinema

Kitsch! They call this movie kitsch!

Hardly vacuous, this movie is as grounded in reality as a Kollywood blockbuster film can be. If the elements of the story look contrived, it is because we have a case of life imitating cinema imitating life.

A director's charge is entertaining his audience, and this young director's charge is more than complete. I saw happy faces in the audience, ecstatic faces even. I was mightily entertained.

The elitism of educated India bothers me, but it doesn't bother me enough to rant about it just now, thank heavens (I think I rant too much, too often). I must say, I'm really happy that I can also watch Takahata or Ray and be entertained.