Science fiction is not one subject every director handles in Tamil movie industry. S. J. Suryah tries this new concept in his movie New . This is the story of a young boy who becomes grown-up with 15 years more this age after 6 p.m. and becomes a kid again at 6 a.m. All this happens when he drinks the medicine given by a scientist. It is a humor treat from there on.
If you are instantaneously searching for the relevance of this review for mother’s day, I am just about to bring it out. The love the little boy has for his mother is also one among the plots for this movie. The mother does not know that his son becomes a grown-up after 6 p.m. She thinks that the lad is the friend of his little son, who is 8 years old. This kid on the other hand thinks that his mother hates him because she always scolds and beats him up. He comes to understand his mother’s love when she narrates all her struggles to hold her son in her womb, to the 23 yr old friend of her son (that is the kid himself). This makes him understand the difficulties of a mother and he takes very good care of his wife, when she becomes pregnant.
Devyani plays the mother of Suryah (actor director). Cannot say she acts brilliantly as a mother, but the movie portrays motherhood beautifully. The song Kaalaiyil Dhinamum sung by Unnikrishnan and composed by A. R. Rehman will come to anyone’s mind, when they want to sing a song for their mother.
Apart from these, there is action and humor sequences when the kid keeps switching between being a kid and a young man. Simran is his lover and he marries her too and well, becomes a father too! Kiran Rathod comes in for a guest role and does an item number as well. It would do a lot of good to the movie industry if Suryah could just stick to direction. He never has any elements to become a hero other than his dancing abilities. Let him dance, only if he stays at a distance from the camera. I am sure no body would wish to see his face in close-up, which he tends to do so often in the songs.
To throw both good and bad at you and asking you to pick either one or both is the quality of S. J. Suryah . My friends told me that this movie is full of double entendres. But I couldn’t find any. They were not double entendres but direct sexual remarks. There are few jokes that you would wish to laugh your heart out, but also wished you could have come to the movie along with your friends rather than your family. Unnecessary overdose of sex is the biggest drawback for this movie.
The director has an immense gift to produce good movies. Valee and Kushi are excellent movies from this director. Hope he understands his potential and stop giving ‘A’ certificate movies, rather produce very good movies as he has done in the past. What this does is it overrides the scenes that show good things like mother’s love, which people might miss. I didn’t miss them though. Let us start loving our mother in every instance possible.
Happy mother’s day!
-Vinayak
(Please do leave your comments and do visit my other review for fathers on mother’s day!)