So you all know what an FRS is right? Right?
FRS: Eeswaran
+120: For the director for keeping the movie to a runtime of just 2 hours and that’s perfect, without the songs this would be the ideal Tamil movie length standard.
Let us explain, deep down there is a hole in the OTT watcher’s heart to watch these template big hero films, call it the comfort of the familiar or just Stockholm syndrome or Madras day celebrations, but while watching it rationality kicks in (irrespective of which stock we are from) and us FRS writers especially worry about the time that we spend on these things.
2 hours is perfect. Let’s save this and give it to the next generation as heirloom.
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Any Big hero movie above 120 mins, must be miniseries.
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-45: Narration, director begins by introducing the entire Periyasamy (Bharatiraja) clan,again and again we have told bhai, why make movies when you can make audiobook types.
This syndrome comes from “basically all humans are storytellers” type romantix. Please.
+11: inspired casting of Manoj Bharatiraja as the young version of the legendary directory
+22: Infact Manoj and senior B are few of the good things in Eeswaran.
-13: Hero has the tendency to slap someone inadvertently.
Hey watch your hand buddy
-70.9: No amount of justification will make you believe why a hero is so hyped in his village, in fact when you get to know the reason you question the hype even more.
But we do agree, this is a slight improvement in writing from the other films in which hero is hyped in his village/town/city/nation/gated community just because he is hero.
+101: Josier Ex Machina
Raymond Chandler used to have a tip for writers which went like, “if you don’t know what to do next, have someone with a gun come in.”
Suseendran replaces the man with the gun to the astrologer with the cowrie shells, who sets things in motion
All this provides a good setup, but when the director does it again, it felt like this was the only idea in the film.
-45: Movie uses Covid as a setup to get the main characters together but the pressing reality and need for social distancing and masks are reduced to comedy, it almost as though feels that the characters are not serious about the pandemic.
Josier has more influence than the doctors, that should tell us something about society bhais.
Example: heroine believes that hero will not get covid because he is hero and in effect their kids wont too.
Example 2: Family closely interacts with covid positive patients but miraculously, all of them, test negative
Yes, the movie was made after the first wave, and it is still a movie, but thought we should point it out.
-101: Pandemic movie has no characters wearing masks
-67: Romance as character detail: Heroine has nothing to do in her character sketch, hence she falls in love with the hero.
+98: Movie is a callback of all movies which are callbacks of the times when all family members lived together, the times when cousins played yard games and the men drank their way to happiness and women toiled in kitchens to put up feasts. Those times, yes.
-40.6: Eeswaran seems to have some kind of nervous issue, is it Tourette’s syndrome? He shakes his head and fingers with vigor before he says anything important like a punch dialogue, but mostly the negative points are for taking such medical conditions seriously.
But we cannot help but ignore such things in a film which was shot during the pandemic and has a comedy sequence literally on the symptoms of covid 19
+33: It’s not an STR movie unless someone makes a reference to his coming late in films.
+22: Hero and his friends think that speaking fast is comedy.
-92: Snakes are not going to like this film.
-43: Nolan brothers are not going to like this film, we mean… they spend years to come up with ultra complicated plots and other visual elements to get us to the theatre, here’s Susi just saying a simple revenge is plot enough to make a film.
Send a man to jail and he will come back to kill your family, all the rest is just STRisms and a Dsir bait scene in the trailer.
Eeswaran help us all!
Subam.
Team FRS
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