Thursday, October 21, 2004
7-G Rainbow Colony - A realistic love story
This movie will remain special to me for many reasons, one of them being the fact that it’s my first alien language movie in a theater that I saw it on the release day itself! Ideally speaking, the credit should go to another movie “Kathapurushan” – (A terrific Malayalam flick directed by the renowned Adoor Gopalakrishnan) which I saw it in an international film festival that was hosted at Hyderabad some 6 years back. But watching a movie in a film festival with sub titles in English way after its release; and watching it in a theater on the day of its commercial release are entirely two different propositions. So I prefer to give the credit to this movie “7-G Rainbow Colony”. We went to Mayajaal, one of the very few multiplexes in Chennai and the best part about this multiplex is the ride to reach the theater. It’s situated on ECR (East Coast Road), and as Chennaites are very well aware, ECR happens to be a rarity in Chennai by virtue of being the best maintained road. So the ride was great and in a way prepared me for the feast I would be served in a few minutes. I took along a hapless colleague to help me out in the translation of some of the critical dialogues of the movie. :-)
A simple story, “guy loves a girl, girl hates him, eventually guy impresses the girl, girl wants him to settle in life, makes him notice a talent in him, and then an unconventional ending” has been realistically transformed on to the silver screen with the help of some good performances from the protagonists, great screenplay, lovely songs and a terrific background score that is the piece-de-resistance of the movie. Yuvan Shankar Raja strikes the right chords for the right scenes, making it a fantastic experience. The director Selvaraghavan should take all the credit for focusing the movie on a guy who does not fit the ‘traditional definition’ of a hero. As he says it in this interview to rediff.com, he wanted to make a movie on below average, middle class guys and feels that “Nobody is interested in making a film on them” and that’s quite true. We have conveniently accepted the hero in our movies to be doing something special or have that extra zing in him that makes him stand apart in a crowd. Infact I search my memory to find a single commercial movie that has been made on such a hopeless character as “7-G Rainbow Colony” is. But Selvaraghavan does make one and this effort of his can turn out to be the biggest hit of the season. Of course, the movie in parts does suffer from some weaknesses, but those can be easily overlooked. It’s always great to see new, sincere directors taking a decision to make movies based on unconventional themes.
This movie will remain special to me for many reasons, one of them being the fact that it’s my first alien language movie in a theater that I saw it on the release day itself! Ideally speaking, the credit should go to another movie “Kathapurushan” – (A terrific Malayalam flick directed by the renowned Adoor Gopalakrishnan) which I saw it in an international film festival that was hosted at Hyderabad some 6 years back. But watching a movie in a film festival with sub titles in English way after its release; and watching it in a theater on the day of its commercial release are entirely two different propositions. So I prefer to give the credit to this movie “7-G Rainbow Colony”. We went to Mayajaal, one of the very few multiplexes in Chennai and the best part about this multiplex is the ride to reach the theater. It’s situated on ECR (East Coast Road), and as Chennaites are very well aware, ECR happens to be a rarity in Chennai by virtue of being the best maintained road. So the ride was great and in a way prepared me for the feast I would be served in a few minutes. I took along a hapless colleague to help me out in the translation of some of the critical dialogues of the movie. :-)
A simple story, “guy loves a girl, girl hates him, eventually guy impresses the girl, girl wants him to settle in life, makes him notice a talent in him, and then an unconventional ending” has been realistically transformed on to the silver screen with the help of some good performances from the protagonists, great screenplay, lovely songs and a terrific background score that is the piece-de-resistance of the movie. Yuvan Shankar Raja strikes the right chords for the right scenes, making it a fantastic experience. The director Selvaraghavan should take all the credit for focusing the movie on a guy who does not fit the ‘traditional definition’ of a hero. As he says it in this interview to rediff.com, he wanted to make a movie on below average, middle class guys and feels that “Nobody is interested in making a film on them” and that’s quite true. We have conveniently accepted the hero in our movies to be doing something special or have that extra zing in him that makes him stand apart in a crowd. Infact I search my memory to find a single commercial movie that has been made on such a hopeless character as “7-G Rainbow Colony” is. But Selvaraghavan does make one and this effort of his can turn out to be the biggest hit of the season. Of course, the movie in parts does suffer from some weaknesses, but those can be easily overlooked. It’s always great to see new, sincere directors taking a decision to make movies based on unconventional themes.
Don’t miss this movie.
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