Comments on: Review Roundup: Tanmatra

By: Deepthi

Deepthi — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 19:23:27 +0000

I am very impressed with tanmatra. The flow of the story,the characters, the plot is done to perfection. Iam very happy to note that Mohanlal has not lost any of his glory, his acting appears more refined and polished in this movie. Arjun is a star in the making…his acting is very tailor made and does full justice to his role. Meera is convincing as a supportive wife,but I feel she lacked lustre. She looked quite young to have a teenage son. Blessey has done wonderful job, he is sucessful in an honest potrayal of a sensitive issue like Alzheimers. Way to go!!!!

By: Anand

Anand — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 01:16:45 +0000

Jo,
I do agree that Blessy as a director has a lot to improve. I could not watch Tanmatra yet…but from the clips i have seen on TV..the drama that he tries to create to depict human tragedy appears too fabricated.

But i do not agree with your comments on Dileeps acting skills in Chandupottu..for me he jus did another mimicry act with all that mass masala. I have seen a lot of people with similar situations in their life(may nt be of such filmy significance) but i dont see an ounce of exploration into what it would be like them, from dileeps performance. He made the whole theatre laugh…pple will laugh a lot more now on many “Radhas” from now on.

It takes more than sheer commercial insight and guts to (people talk a lot about dileeps courage to do such a character at this stage of his career) to make a character like that memorable. Moreover at the hands of an imature director like LalJose and producer Lal the whole theme fell part to become one another chartbuster that keep appearing year after year.

By: Jo

Jo — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:56:12 +0000

According to myself, its a sloppy movie that has a lot of flaws. Mohanlal wasn’t that great (if we compare this to his best roles) in the movie. And Blessy dissapointed me with this film. So many ‘inspired’ scenes from Awakening and Iris.

See the scene that Mohanlal lecturing the parents in the PTA meeting. I agree Blessy has a lot of ideas on parenting, but hey, this is a movie. Not a parenting class. Mohanlal did well with the scenes after Rameshan fallen ill. But this role is not a challenging role in his career. If I am to choose the best amongst Chaandupottu and Thanmaathra, I would choose Chandupottu and would select Dilip as the best actor. Such a challenging role it was.

But the boy who played Rameshan’s son amazed me. He is the highlight of the movie. And then Nedumudi venu was also good eventhough his role was small.

And sorry for the looong comment.