Thozhar Venkatesan Movie Review: Rating 3/5
Thozhar Venkatesan easily fits into this category, thanks to the genuine portrayal of people who suffer because of the flaws in our system. The movie starts with Venkatesan (Harishankar), a physically challenged person, requesting cops to find his missing vehicle. The cop in the police station is puzzled when Venkatesan says that his lost vehicle is a government bus. He starts narrating his poignant story – on how he became a handicapped person, how Kamali (Monica) entered his life, how he possessed a government bus based on a court verdict, and so on.
Venkatesan supplies soda to different shops, considers himself a self-sufficient mudhalali and takes pride in it as he, unlike his friends, doesn’t need to wait for any superior’s instructions. After inviting Kamali into his life in an unexpected situation, when everything seems to be fine, he becomes dejected after meeting with an accident which was caused by a government bus. After years of hearings and postponements, the court orders the government to provide him a bus as compensation. Will he be able to find the bus which went missing?
Set against the backdrop of Kanchipuram, Deva Selvam’s cinematography aids in setting the ambience right. Sagishna Xavier’s songs are decent and aren’t speed breakers despite the film handling a serious subject. The commendable thing is the way the subject has been handled without resorting to overdose of melodrama. The subtle humour, too, gels well. The performance of the artistes, especially Harishankar, as the helpless accident victim, and a few dialogues about life and the unfortunate depiction of our defective system deserve mention.
Producer:
Madhavi Harishankar
Music Director:
Sagishna
Editor:
Rajesh Kannan
Mahashivan
Director:
Mahashivan
Movie-Actress:
Monica Chinnakotla
Lyricist:
Mahashivan
Others:
Suseenthiran
Director of Photography:
Veda Selvam
Dialogue Writer:
Mahashivan
Distributor:
VT Cinemas Release
Screenplay Writer:
Mahashivan
Story Writer:
Mahashivan
Playback Singer:
VM Mahalingam
Suganya Rajendran
Niranjana Ramanan
Keshav Vinod
Anand Aravindakshan
Jithin Raj
Public Relations Officer:
Nikhil Murugan
Supporting Actors:
Hari Shankar
Monica Chinnakotla
hese kinds of movies are very rare and if it is taken, it will become a documentary kind. But, Thozhar Venkatesan is scripted and executed well. The film has humor too. So that the audience will not get bored. The dialogues are sharp and they impress the audience and make them relate to the daily happenings. However, the climax is painful. The cinematography and the music are good. As the songs travel with the story, it didn’t affect the flow of the film.
