Intuitions drive the story
When the emotions of the storytellers on screen are not conveyed to the audience, a kind of alienation is created between the two. People celebrate it for the feeling it creates beyond the story. In terms of success, he moves the stories and feelings he is telling. The characters and the world he creates are those who express it. None of his characters express certain emotions. In Vetrimaran’s world, everyone is an ordinary person. All human qualities are buried in them. Their qualities vary according to the environment and their desires and the reasons given by the character to suit the situation of the story. He follows almost the same method to get the performance he wants from the actors. “My expectation is that the mood for the particular scene should be right. The only thing that matters to me is whether the feelings I have in my mind are expressed through them. They can express it however they want,” he said in a recent interview.
And Vetrimaran primarily deals with certain emotions in his films that make him stand out. Although all the universal feelings like love, friendship, disappointment, enmity are present in his film, only one particular feeling prevails over the others. Although it occupies only a small part of the film, its lethality makes it stand out. It has the power to falsify all the above feelings like love and friendship. Yes, a human mind cannot easily overcome the feeling of betrayal. Words cannot contain the pain of feelings that emerge at the moment of broken trust. “Ravi… What!” Selvam expressing his helplessness turned the starting point of everything coming together into a factor in the disintegration of his life. When it comes to know that he is the hoodlum who pretended to be a father, Karupu breaks down and says, “You hate me so much”. …” Pandi says, Rajan says “What is this…” knowing that he has been brought there to be killed. All of them express the same feeling.
The pain of disappointment is multiplied when those close to us inflict it. As a result, the black man said, “If you tell me to die, I will die myself, why are you doing this?” Even Rajan’s words, “Don’t my brothers look like this?” make the audience emotional. Vetrimaran makes this particular feeling emerge at the ‘high-point’ of the film, or because of the emergence of this emotion, the particular scene becomes the most important part of the film. But does the feeling of betrayal of trust only manifest in Vethimaran’s films, no? Then why his films stand out. This is where the need to understand the screenwriter Vetrimaran arises.