The new flick Poi Solla Porom turned out to be one of the few Tamil movies I have enjoyed in a very long time and it seriously restored my faith in the quality of Tamil movies that are being churned out nowadays… This I say on the basis of my last sojourn into the Tamil movie realm… I am talking about my last viewing that’s Dasavatharam for you...Which by the way was immensely torturous to the visual and the auditory hubs of my poor brain….And it led to me getting a full blown headache…
Anyway to continue with Poi Solla Porom… I was really worried about booking tickets for this movie since it was not just my husband and I but my parents and a friend as well who we had invited out of the zeal for turning the whole outing into a big family get together...Ok! Now talking about my husband, he has a really high tolerance level when it comes to Tamil movies… No let me rephrase it saying he has a very high AFFINITY towards Tamil movies…that means he can watch any Tamil movie and his favourite channel is KTV (I am rolling my eyes as I type this)…Most Tamilians will agree with me when I say that KTV is the stupidest channel in India if not the world and the movies that are played on this channel would make you want to hang yourself…But my dad on the other hand has absolutely no interest in movies of any kind…and I on my part had done some emotional blackmailing and compelled him into coming with us…So you can imagine what would have happened to me if the movie had turned out for the worse :)… But all’s well that ends well so here’s where I will start with the movie review…
Poi Solla Porom is the Tamil remake of Khosla Ka Ghosla which I had heard was worth a watch and I assure you the remake is just as good if not better…Anyway the story revolves around a typical middle class family which consists of mom, dad, 2 sons and a daughter… Dad has big dreams for the house he is going to build on the land which he bought with his retirement money…The elder son that would be Karthik (he is so cute!!) is portrayed as a stand offish character with goals and ideals which includes going to the US but not his family…His girlfriend is a part of some drama troupe… the younger brother is a student I think…Dad gets royally swindled by a real estate agent who has the backing of a land shark played by Nassar… the rest of the story deals with how the family tries to get back the land with the help of Karthik’s friends…
The movie is really natural and evokes myriad emotions from the audience…All the artists fit their characters to the boot…Be it the dad played by Nedumudi Venu or Mouli and Balaji as the drama troupe artists who play very significant roles in the movie’s climax or Bosky as the passport agent and of course Nasser as the land shark who conveys all his dialogues through expressions rather than speech (he hardly has any dialogues in the movie, but with his expressions he has given a truly brilliant performance)…And the guy who plays the younger son Om is also really good as a character who doesn’t think before acting…The song and dance routines at all the wrong situations (typical of most Tamil movies) have been removed from the forefront and have been added to the movie as background scores…A relief I assure you…This movie has all the makings of a hit and I hope the Tamil audience accepts it… I definitely approve and would easily give it a rating of four and a half on five :)…As Tamilians say - Half mark cut for the music which was not very appealing… Other than that I have no complains about the movie and neither did my family… and we were smiling as we got out of the movie theatre…
Anyway to continue with Poi Solla Porom… I was really worried about booking tickets for this movie since it was not just my husband and I but my parents and a friend as well who we had invited out of the zeal for turning the whole outing into a big family get together...Ok! Now talking about my husband, he has a really high tolerance level when it comes to Tamil movies… No let me rephrase it saying he has a very high AFFINITY towards Tamil movies…that means he can watch any Tamil movie and his favourite channel is KTV (I am rolling my eyes as I type this)…Most Tamilians will agree with me when I say that KTV is the stupidest channel in India if not the world and the movies that are played on this channel would make you want to hang yourself…But my dad on the other hand has absolutely no interest in movies of any kind…and I on my part had done some emotional blackmailing and compelled him into coming with us…So you can imagine what would have happened to me if the movie had turned out for the worse :)… But all’s well that ends well so here’s where I will start with the movie review…
Poi Solla Porom is the Tamil remake of Khosla Ka Ghosla which I had heard was worth a watch and I assure you the remake is just as good if not better…Anyway the story revolves around a typical middle class family which consists of mom, dad, 2 sons and a daughter… Dad has big dreams for the house he is going to build on the land which he bought with his retirement money…The elder son that would be Karthik (he is so cute!!) is portrayed as a stand offish character with goals and ideals which includes going to the US but not his family…His girlfriend is a part of some drama troupe… the younger brother is a student I think…Dad gets royally swindled by a real estate agent who has the backing of a land shark played by Nassar… the rest of the story deals with how the family tries to get back the land with the help of Karthik’s friends…
The movie is really natural and evokes myriad emotions from the audience…All the artists fit their characters to the boot…Be it the dad played by Nedumudi Venu or Mouli and Balaji as the drama troupe artists who play very significant roles in the movie’s climax or Bosky as the passport agent and of course Nasser as the land shark who conveys all his dialogues through expressions rather than speech (he hardly has any dialogues in the movie, but with his expressions he has given a truly brilliant performance)…And the guy who plays the younger son Om is also really good as a character who doesn’t think before acting…The song and dance routines at all the wrong situations (typical of most Tamil movies) have been removed from the forefront and have been added to the movie as background scores…A relief I assure you…This movie has all the makings of a hit and I hope the Tamil audience accepts it… I definitely approve and would easily give it a rating of four and a half on five :)…As Tamilians say - Half mark cut for the music which was not very appealing… Other than that I have no complains about the movie and neither did my family… and we were smiling as we got out of the movie theatre…
