A black rooster will attack all the roosters that compete against him in the field. Rathnaswamy will do whatever it takes to somehow settle a 30-year-old account with the hunter by defeating the black-in rooster. The black victory flag would have confirmed that Nati was the true heir of the hunter. All the members of Pettakaran party will be in high spirits in a festive mood. Except for one. He is nobody but a hunter. Yes, he would have lost his peace from that moment.
Rathanasamy’s words after the defeat would have accurately described the psychology of the batsman. When someone asks us to do something to help someone instead of failure, we don’t need to do anything anymore. He would have said as if the thought of breaking his word would kill him now. From this point, the second part of Aadukalam will start. Vetrimaran’s treatment of Phettakara’s psychology is an excellent example of how accurately a director can portray the psychology of a character in his story and its dynamics. But there is a problem with that.
This small analysis can be done to pose a question to Vetrimaran in this story. Does he do justice to the role of the slayer as an actor? No. Has the character been treated unfairly? These are the questions that we have to put before us here. For an analogy, let’s consider whether director Ranjith justified Rangan Vathiyar’s character in Charpata Paramparai.
A community is the source of a work of art. It is the people who wander through society who become the subjects of a work of art. The director’s imagination develops the characters and makes them travel in their own direction. The important thing is that only if you understand the society deeply, the psychology of the people born and raised there can be perfectly expressed in the story. Because individuals are the mold of society. Pettakara, Rathanasamy, Karupu and Durai are casts of Madurai clay. There is a social psychology to that land. Competition there is not just competition. It is a matter of honor. When a competition is held for honor, its nature changes completely. Even as she is about to die, Rathinasamy’s mother asks that her last wish is to defeat the chaser in a cockfight. Whether this is right or wrong is another debate. But that is what is happening. He will do everything in his passion to somehow win the hoodlum in a cockfight for his mother’s last wish.
What we are going to see here is the relationship between the hunter and the black. Pettakara is a banyan tree. Falling into the soil like a seed and growing up, he is at the peak of the cock’s trick. His cock rearing trick is the secret of those successes. He had a knack for predicting a rooster’s fighting strength the moment he saw it. A chosen disciple of the Black Hood. A true believer in cockfighting. A hoodlum is one who pretends to be fat.
Where does the problem start? There is a rooster planting a victory flag that says the hunter will lose. Then the idea that he is making a wrong prediction appears in the minds of those around him. Those around him leave words to show this. It is from this place that the flood in his mind is formed and leads to changes. The scene of the hunter regretting that night is a very classic one. We can understand how his psychology is when he tells his young wife that he can’t take good care of you anymore. The film moves based on the way the hoodlum behaves. We also start to have negative thoughts about the seeker. Eventually his character kills himself in guilt. This is the decision given by the director to the character. Is it really fair?
And that’s where the error actually starts. The mistake starts from the place where the groom stops the black with the cock in front of the girl without proper training. Then, trusting in the rooster he is rearing, he pounces without thinking about its reactions. He never understood the psychological problems of his subjects. That is where the problem arises. It is the desperation that no one understands him that pushes the hunter to extreme mental breakdown. The character of the hunter is carried towards negativity and ends. The story is moved from Black’s point of view and ends unblemished on him. In fact the story ends abruptly.
In this case, the problem here is that the director gave priority to the black character on the basis that he is a hero among the characters of the hoodlum and black. The hood is the soul of the pitch story. The circumstances of his diversion are perfectly depicted. It is moved in its course. He tends to make bad decisions when everyone is in a tight spot. His strength was his deep understanding of the psychology of his disciples. In the end he misuses it. If the director thought he could have realized his mistake. He didn’t do that. It is not wrong. But it is the black character who makes the most mistakes. He never predicted any change in his duck’s mood. He didn’t even try. He is intent on starting a business. If the director had been truthful, the uterus should have ended negatively. At least he should have shown his mistake as if he felt black. The director ends the film by saying that he will leave the village to save the honor of the hunter.
To understand the nature of this context, let’s look at how the relationship between Vathiyar and Shishyan is handled in the film Sarbata Paramparai. Rangan Vathiyar is the soul of Sarbhatta as the batsman is to the pitch. He is the one who carries the story till the fights with Vembuli. But, later the story moves on Kaplan’s career. This is the moment when the story changes for the hero. Rangan Vathiaar would reject Kaplan’s request that he wants to fight again. Reasons as to why he declined at that point were not properly conveyed.
As much as Rangan Vathiyar is fair to his boxing, he chooses Kapilan as the right man to beat Vempuli, even if it is his son. He thinks of talent above his blood relation. It is on the same basis that Kaplan rejects him, taking into account the diversion of life and fitness. Kapilan is also a man who believes in his Vathiyar. But he doesn’t pretend to feel why his boyfriend is rejecting him. The story ends with the disciple. At the end Kapilan will stand in our hearts as the hero. Rangan Vathiyar’s character should have been done better.
Although the above analogy is not a hundred percent match, the two definitely have some similarities. Instruments are very important. They give their lives for something they love. That is their world. We should celebrate them even more. The hunters who made the blacks should be admired more.
Vetrimaran’s storytellers are very important. The stories he created will stay with us for a long time. Love is not just black. Rajan and the hoodlum. Today is the birthday of the artist who created these characters!
Happy birthday Vetrimaran!