Movie Review
of Kavan
This
movie by KV Anand is a path breaker in Indian Movie industry. I stopped writing
review for movies probably a decade ago and this movie has forced me to write a
review for a movie once again. What is refreshing to see in the movie is its
straight forward and honest depicting of scenes mimicking actual happenings in
the real world. Hats off to KV Anand in taking such a brave venture and also
bringing it out successfully.
The
movie starts with usual lover boy Thilak (Vijay Sethupathy) going after a gal.
Later Thilak joins a media company called zen one. During his visit to the
company for joining he captures scenes of riots outside the media company.
Later when he joins the company for the first day, he gives this video to media
manager Pillai (Pandiarajan) and he publishes this scene with edit version in
his channel. Thilak gets lot of praise for his action but he is perplexed by
the edited version of his video. This is when his tryst with media company zen
one starts.
Then
the movie moves to the parallel love story between Abdul (Vikranth) and Kalpana.
They both are protesting against a pesticide company for the farmers in the
region. The company uses its muscle power against the protesters and Kalpana
has to face the ultimate ordeal of being gang raped. This is when her friends Thilak
and his love Jennifer join the mayhem and start to project her version to
people. The next tipsy and curvy events of how the media company initially
supports the gal and later on for business motive turns its head to politicians
defines the rest of the movie.
What
happens next is the ultimate level of honest depiction, which probably Indian
Movie industry has never visualized, the story shows how the politicians and
media company gang up against these protesters and their newfound media company
Mutthamil headed by our own TR. The depiction of Abdul as terrorist by media
zen one is something every Muslim is familiar to India but probably no one in
the movie industry had guts to show this in mainstream movies. This is where I
would take my hats off to Director KV Anand for his real time depiction of the
scenes. The scene where dance shows are made fun by the Director is so real
that people who have seen dance shows in TV can relate to.
TR entertains with his
usual wits and humour and is refreshing to see a veteran experimenting with
character roles. Sir we (TR fans) hope to see you like this in many more
movies. You were definitely the best addition to the movie. Vijay Sethupathy
has slowly but steadily established himself as tangible star along with Jayam
Ravi, Arya, Dhanush as the present generation superstars. The heroine was
mostly without any character role and it was more Kalpana who was the heroine
of the movie. Overall a real entertainer of movie with good message in the end.
I will give it 4.5 stars out of five. Must watch if you are a media critic and
also must watch if you want to learn about how media works.
