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Sunday, October 27, 2013

MY TAKE ON CINEMA: Chennaiyil Oru Naal!

MY TAKE ON CINEMA: Chennaiyil Oru Naal!: Chennaiyil Oru Naal is supposedly a remake of 'Traffic' a successful Malayalam film! I say 'supposedly' as I have not watch...

Friday, October 25, 2013

Chennaiyil Oru Naal!

Chennaiyil Oru Naal is supposedly a remake of 'Traffic' a successful Malayalam film! I say 'supposedly' as I have not watched Traffic. The film starts with a happy carefree young girl driving a car and suddenly notices a few bike Romeo's following her. The girl panics and drives through a stop sign and accidentally hits a motor bike. The bike's pillion an aspiring radio jockey after obtaining the blessings of his parents and a fond goodbye from his girl friend is on his way to interview the 'supreme star' suffers a fatal head injury while his friend the rider escapes with minor injuries owing to his protective head gear (though due to the impact both of them are tossed up over 10 to 13ft in the air like rag dolls).The junction has a few other characters waiting at the traffic signal. A doctor and his close friend in a car. The doc is driving a new car as a surprise gift to his wife while his friend ( portrayed as a Casanova) is happily coo chi cooing  on the phone to a unseen girl trying desperately to take her to bed asap much to the amusement of his friend (Prassanna). Little does he realize that his buddy is two timing him. At the same time some where in the city a local counselor successfully reinstates a suspended traffic head constable (gets caught accepting a bribe owing to a difficult family situation) using his clout with a minister. At the same time Prakash Raj the busy supreme star of the Tamil film industry is happily studio hopping and thereby has no time for his family- a doting daughter and wife (Radhika).
The main plot

The protagonist the pillion rider is rushed to a big multi national hospital where the doctors somehow come to the conclusion (using rather complicated medical jargon) that the boy will not survive much to the anger and charging of his father (J.P) a leading surgeon and is wife (Lakshmi Ramakrisnan). Suddenly the doting daughter of Prakash Raj is diagnosed with a heart problem and is admitted in Vellore. The proagnist