2024-03-10 02:36:00
Elder brother Sent (Maran) and younger brother Shankar (Dinesh) who live in a backward part of Chennai have stopped talking. Both go to Kolkata to retrieve their missing mother J. Baby (Urvashi). The story is about why they don’t talk, why J. Baby went to Kolkata and what the brothers’ journey taught them.
The screenplay keeps up with the film right from the opening scene which creates curiosity to know why the brother and sister have stopped talking. When the reasons for the problems emerge from Shankar’s memories on the way to Kolkata, and from Baby’s life events unfolding instead of the questions asked by Kolkata Tamilar Murthy, who helps them, the length of the film is forgotten.
Debutant director Suresh Mari, who has filmed the life story of a real-life deceased woman, the way the story has been depicted and the way he has written the characters of Baby, his 5 children and Kolkata Murthy are the lives of ordinary people. In particular, it was a dramatic effort to cast Murthy, an army man who in real life helped J. Baby’s sons after giving up his job in Kolkata, with the same name as the actor.
Urvashi, who plays the role of J. Baby, is carrying the film on her shoulder. At the same time, Maran, who played the role of his son Senthil, and ‘Attakkatti Dinesh’, who played the role of another Shankar, have lived. In particular, Maran’s portrayal of Senthil’s alcohol addiction and its consequences is so believable. The way he shows the intensity of his anger towards his brother through his facial expressions and body language is amazing, while his line jokes are spot on. So far, Dinesh has given his best performance in the roles he has played.
Urvashi is one of the characters of a lifetime who has managed to break through the humor that splashes in the middle of the pains of life, even when she takes on the role of a woman who scolds her children, whether it is a judge who scolds her children or goes to a fight, or when she expects her children to be agreeable or agreeable to her as long as I am there.
Cinematography by Jayant Sethumadavan has followed the screenplay. A bright future awaits Danny Joseph, who has given the story’s central theme and the emotional state of the characters through the beautiful tender songs ‘Nedumaram Vadilathe’ and ‘Yar Padalai’.
The film is one of the rarities of Tamil cinema, about a woman who suffers from the loss of her husband while raising five children, the mental storm of her second half life, and the turmoil of her children who get caught up in it.
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