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Neerparavai Movie Review
- 11/30/2012 8:25:17 AM
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Cast: Vishnu, Sunaina, Nandita Das, Saranya Ponvannan, SamuthirakaniDirection: SeenuramasamyGenre: DramaDuration: 2 hours 17 minutes.
Synopsis: A skeleton is found at the home of Esther (Nandita Das), whose fisherman husband Arulappasamy (Vishnu) has been missing for the past 25 years. Esther confesses that it was she who murdered her husband but when Agnes (Varsha), the cop assigned to the case, lends a sympathetic ear, she narrates a heart wrenching tale of a loving family ruined by the politics of territorial waters.
Movie Review: There is a lot to like in Neerparavai which seeks to highlight the issue of fishermen killings in the Palk Strait. But where the movie actually scores is not in the message it conveys, but in its handling of human relationships within an under-represented (on film and otherwise) community.
The film is narrated as a flashback and we see how Arul, a drunkard and the laughing stock of his fishing community, is touched by Esther's (Sunaina) kindness towards him. He mends his wayward ways much to the delight of his parents (Saranya and Ram). But the fisher folk protest when Arul decides to earn a living as fisherman. He manages to nullify their objection and turns a fisherman through sheer grit. Just when everything seems rosy, fate deals a cruel hand.
The major strength of Neerparavai is the authenticity with which it recreates the life of a fishing community. You really feel that you are living amidst these people and the actors,
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