Comments on: More Manichitrathazhu Analysis

By: Nagavalli sound | varnachitram

Nagavalli sound | varnachitram — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:23:45 +0000

[...] More Manichitrathazhu Analysis [...]

By: abhilash

abhilash — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:15:19 +0000

Manichithrathazhu was made solely for the box office, not that there is anything wrong with doing so, except that it loses all claim to a good proper movie. To credit it as a classic would be a gross overstatement, and an injustice to several moviemakers who have made much better attempts at making good films. The plot is too ugly and manipulated for a proper movie, and belongs in the dustbin. Any psychiatrist who does like Sunny does in the movie gets jailed in real life and would get his license cancelled forever. The attestation to Sunny’s proficiency by Thilakan’s character must have made any doctor laugh, even if he or she had not waited for the gross misdiagnosis that is blurted out towards the end.

For some reason the director/screenplaywright also seems to think that the movie needs Sunny’s bizzare heroics and strange behaviour of the first half to keep the audience engaged… which only means that the director/screenplaywright is trying to cover up for his inability to present a story properly.

I could go on and on and on…, except that it is not worthwhile.

The remakes need to be exterminated from the face of this planet straightaway.

By: Suresh

Suresh — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:02:19 +0000

Name of the actor is Sridhar who one time was a hero in Kannada movie industry. He used to do meaningful roles in 90s. Now out of the race, does appear in small screen. He and his wife are trained Bharatanatyam dancers and present themselves in stage shows.

By: monisha

monisha — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:32:11 +0000

can anyone tell me the name of hte actor who played the role of mahadevan/ramanathan in the movie manichitrathazhu??

By: Manichithrathazhu Oru Murai Vanthu Parthayo | varnachitram

Manichithrathazhu Oru Murai Vanthu Parthayo | varnachitram — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:52:39 +0000

[...] If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video would be worth about a million words. Since our favorite pass time is analyzing Manichithrathazhu, we present to you the original oru murai song and the same song from various remakes. [...]

By: Kishor Kumar

Kishor Kumar — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:09:01 +0000

Krishnan, “Varuvanilla” is definitely not a copy of “Oruvattam kootiyen(Chillue)”. There is no tune-by-tune similarity. The songs have some similarities but thats possible when 2 songs are set in the same raga. One need to clearly distinguish between bland plagiarising and similarity due to same raga-base.

Ranjit, You are not the first one who has implied about Ganga’s mental desease being caused partly due to sexual dis-satisfaction. If you think about it, Nagavally is the worst nightmare for any married man. Not only is she openely having an affair, but she also wants to kill her husband! So, we are dealing with some very primitive male fears here. And viewers (depending on who they are) may rationalize this situation by giving different interpretations that will pacify them. The visuals shown during “varuvanilla” shows flashbacks of Ganga as a child watching the gate, expecting her parents arriving from Calcutta. The word “priyamulla” can be used in Malayalam in a non-romantic way.

But any great art form is open to different interpretations. And I would even add that some of the interpretations might not even be intended by its creator! Once created, art gets a life of its own. Infact, I have read a research paper which analyzes the interactions between Dr.Sunny and Chandu(Sudheesh) and draws some bizzare conclusions.

By: Ranjit

Ranjit — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:52:37 +0000

Kishor,
Great to discuss this marvelous movie out here. And VC, thanks a bunch for linking to me!

WRT the relationship between Nakul and Ganga, I had not interpreted the song that way either. However, there was an interview of Madhu Muttam on a Malayalam publication where he did mention that he had a sitting with the lyricist to insert elements of Nakul’s purported impotency. And I’d beg to disagree with you regarding the lyrics – the first stanza clearly indicates that Ganga wishes for a ‘friend’ / companion, despite having no hope for this happening. Their relationship, while not THE reason for Ganga’s later pschiatric problems, might have played a factor in making her susceptible, I guess (no expert on this stuff!).

After noticing and accepting this aspect, I also noticed (and I might definitely be attributing here) an akwardness between Nakul and Ganga in the final scene, where Sunny tells them to ‘start a new life’.

Truly, its all these layers to the movie that makes it a classic.