After
the success of Tamil horror comedy flick Devi, director AL Vijay is back on his path
of unusual he left with
Madrasapattinam and
Deiva Thirumagal. Though
Vanamagan isn’t impressive as the former ones did, I really want to appreciate him for
taking different subjects and experience things. For a tribal role Jayam Ravi
isn’t new, as he already done one in Peranmai but what makes difference was he
comes from remote and expresses emote instead of dialogues.
Vanamagan (Tamil movie) is about how modernisation and industries destroys the forest and disrupt the
tribes who adopt nature as their belonging… but wished the movie adjoin this
subject strongly rather moving around cities for first half of the film.
Plot:
Kaviya
is a very rich girl and orphan, growing under guardian of her uncle, is
carefree and enjoys life on her wish. During a holiday in Andaman Island with
friends, she broke into a protected area and accidently hit a tribe by the car.
Seeing him bleed, they took him to hospital and later brought to Chennai for further
treatment without let know anybody. Back to conscious, the tribe Vaasi got into
violence and she was force to take him home, where she learns about the tribe’s
behaviour and try to control him. At a moment things went wrong, Vaasi was
caught by police and shifted to Andaman where they tried to kill him, but Kavya
interrupt and they both escape into forest. And what remain answer everything.
Features:
You
can’t keep away the thought of Tarzan or George of the jungle even looking at
the poster or trailer, where Jayam Ravi hanging from a root. For Ravi, his
body, look and height are apt to the role of Vaasi (Kattu Vaasi), an indigenous
tribe unexposed to outside world. But his role as tribe there isn’t much action
for him to do or we to feel adventure or we lack interest to watch it as we
have seen similar movies earlier… the humour isn’t that much fun or
interesting.
Sayyehaa
as Kavya is beautiful and captured my attention through her dancing skill than
her acting! Perhaps the songs were choreographed by Prabu Deva who’s also
called as Indian Michael Jackson. She tried to be beautiful with her
expressions and being shown as senseless on things and
turning positive all of sudden doesn’t suit her well or she did about. Thambi
Ramaya did little bit comedy and his eagle map line is good.
The film captures the beauty of
caressing here and there and the feeling of touch, the real one, which has
almost lost in the gadget world, is perceived well. Stroke arrows on animals on
television, watching through car sunroof and the tiger fighting like Captain (Vijayakanth)
and the tribe on-board to Chennai all makes senseless and boring. Feels the
director has approached the movie from a common perspective rather studying
well about tribes of Andaman, to give more emotional detail to the subject.
Music is by Harish Jayaraj and
Vanamagan was his 50th composition… the songs were good to listen
and the cinematography is wonderful and captured the beauty of forest and
waterfalls so well. But the BGM is a bit old charm and is tuned for African
forest instead of Asia, which I feel has a distant tone. While I appreciate the
effort put by the team to give a different experience and explore a world at its
brim, could have scored an interesting screenplay rather applying Hollywood
shades.
