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Thanga Meenkal
- 9/2/2013 10:12:10 AM
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Synopsis: Kalyani (Ram), a school dropout with a non-paying job, is obsessively affectionate towards his nine-year-old daughter Chellamma (Sadhana), who lives in a world of her own. But the realities of everyday life separate them. Can the bond between father and daughter withstand the tests of fate and bring them together again?
Review: Ram managed to create a cult following for himself with his very first film, Kattradhu Tamizh. His follow-up, Thanga Meenkal, is in many ways a mirror image of the director's flawed but fascinating debut film. Like Prabhakar in that film, Kalyani, this film's lead character, wants to live in his own world and so struggles to cope up the realities of everyday life. He is a school dropout, having married his classmate Vadivu even before finishing school, and does a menial job (silverware polisher) that doesn't even guarantee him a regular income (he hasn't got the salary for the past six months). He is a constant embarrassment to his parents, under whose roof he is forced to live with Vadivu and his Chellamma, despite the slights hurled by his father (Poo Ram), a retired teacher, and the unconcealed contempt of his mother (Rohini).
But as long as he is near Chellamma, who looks up to him for everything, all these do not matter. She is clearly a dyslexic child, although none of the teachers in her 'prestigious' private school realize it. So, she is labelled W, for not being able to rightly differentiate between the alphabets W and M,
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