December 24, 2010 : Film Title: Thenmerku Paruvakatru
Director: Seenu Ramasaamy
Cast: Vijay Sethupathy, Aruldas, Stills Kumar, Saranya, Vasundhra, Kadhal Sukumar, Kambam Guna, Theepetti Ganeshan.
Music: N. R. Rahnandan.
Rating: ***
Director Seenu Ramasamy has presented a simple story with interesting twists through his latest Tamil offering Thenmerku Paruvakatru. The film tells the story of a widowed woman Veerayi (Saranya), who has brought up her son Murugan (Vijay Sethupathy) alone. So she is very possessive about him.
The film has a rural background but it is not a typical village story with some ‘lungi’ clad man romancing leading ladies. The director has relied on some fresh faces, who will be portrayed in a village called Theni.
Murugan has a herd of goat and he loves to hang around with his gang of friends and spends time playing pranks. His mother Veerayi wants to get him married with his cousin so that he becomes responsible. He agrees reluctantly to please his mother.
On the other hand, a group of masked thieves usually vanish with goats in the village and those who try to stop them, get assaulted. When the thieves try to steal Murugan’s goats, he fights with them along with his friends. But, they fail to stop them and they run away with goats. However, Murugan gets to see face of a thief, who happens to be a young girl. A curious Murugan searches for the young lady in the neighboring villages and finds a girl named Pechi (Vasundhra) after a day’s travel. In order to support her family, she cooks midday meal at a village school and during night, she joins the gang of goat thieves. They sell goat meat and earn money from it.
Murugan falls in love with the goat thief but her family is worried about their security so they try to murder him. During this attempt he survives and they are arrested by the police. Pechi’s family is now deadly against him while she starts feeling for him. On the other hand, Murugan’s mother is very angry with him for breaking his promise to marry his cousin and trying to marry a girl, who is a thief.
Saranya has poured on her over 20 years of acting experience and gave a wonderful performance as an affectionate mother. Don’t miss this wonderful film.
