It is seen to that, the child completes his school education, atleast up to High School, and he or she is equipped vocationally, to enter society as an independent and productive member. This identification is done with help from Police Department, and subsequently these children are in a sense adopted by New Life. One of their projects involve identifying children who live in an environment deprived of moral or emotional support, an environment highly conducive to development of delinquent habits. Closing with a song from ' Dil Se', (somehow never did like the Tamil version, movie and music, try as I did), for the pure magic that blazes the screen with AR Rahman-Manirathnam synthesis. The list is long, and hope to cover a few more, but as I write it makes me wonder what a bereft place the world would be without movies and geniuses who make them. And favourite song from a mix of great melodies, Kannathil.for the lovely lyrics. We do trudge back home with a heavy heart, but only to delve deeply into the issues, arriving at our own debatable conjectures.The characters and what they experience become a part of us. You are entwined into the story and with the characters, so much so that you begin to live their lives, feel their sorrows, understand their loss, even as questions thrown at the viewers rankle your mind. They were done so well, that at no point you are made to feel that they are being addressed or presented. Two social issues handled here, Adoption and Tamil Eelam Rights.
You cannot but wonder at the ingenuity of the artistes involved be it the director, the actors, or the script writers. Even when you know what is to follow, and you brace yourself, the intensity and depth of the feeling conveyed through sensitive words and expressions, reaches out to you so seamlessly. And this one never fails to induce the tear ducts even as I battle with it. In my scale the ratings climb up, if the movie moves me to tears, each time I watch it. "Kannathil Muthamittal', yet another masterpiece from Manirathnam, one of the few which was not made in Hindi. Somehow the film offers such wholesome entertainment, that you are left with a sense of having experienced something totally beautiful, as true art should be. Stirring ‘ Uyire.’, romance dripping ‘Kannalene.’ and the rocking ‘Humma.
And then the mesmerising music of AR Rahman. It was a class performance I would think. Manisha Koirala emote, especially as an anguished mother (where she searches for her missing sons), was portrayedĮxceedingly well. Intense pulsating romance, the mounting fear and terror that grips you, or theĮngulfs you, it is all there delicately interwoven. Of the sprawling kitchen and tiny bedrooms and the moods captured, be it the
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