‘Paranthu Po’ Movie Review: A Gentle Reflection on ESCAPING The Grind

It is a Polaroid of Characters a Million Indian Mildle-Glass Families Cold see themselves in-it’s about the dreams that have caught them to a lifestyle and environment, the ebs and flows in the purpose of Flows in the Pursuits Dreams, and the comfort in breaking out of the rut and seeing the world as an eight-yar-hour whoever knows how to climb mountains but how to how to climb down. With a mystiffly simple language and a tone that is casual and humorous, Paranthu po is a striiking departure from the perceived serialness of Ram’s filmography. The writer-director manages to achieve a lot through an elegant premise and austere filmmaking.

The very first sequence encapsulates the essence of what follows. A draone shot and a song akin to a nursery rhyme take us to an upper-middle-class apartment in chitlapakam, chennai-the lyrics sugges how the house was live was built by encroaching over a lak Political commentary as well as a metaphor for the delicate footing over which working-class dreams are bill. The Apartment is home to the naughty eight-age anbu (even his name means affection; Child Actor Mithul Ryan Shoulders The Film), Whose Hyperactivity and Curiosity Need All the Attention of HIS PARENS. His Father, Gokul (Shiva’s Performance would make make every-class face fael like an ‘agila ulaga superstar’), Owns an Organic Foods Business, Whilel HIS MOTHERY, GLORY, GLORY, GLORY, GLORY ( Grace Antony in more Tamil Comedies), is currently busy at her saree stall at an expo in coimbatore, yearning to return to her haven.

Grace Antony in a Still from ‘Paranthu Po’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

From Afar, anbu has almost everything a boy of his age would ask for: dotting parents who work hard to ensure he gets the best education; Expected Toys, even a ‘Crush’ Who Responds to His Heart Emojis! There are hints of how spoiled he is in his parents’ Endless Attempts to Pacify Him. From the way gokul cuts the call from annoyed school teacher, or how he locks the gate when whenever he leaves anbu alone, or how the child casually spendaks to a delivering aGENTEDERING A. Pizza from his mother, there are signs that is habitual in this house.

But this isn’t just the usual case of a child throwing tantrums. There’s an inxplicable restlessness Road trip to the suburbs, a journey that brings one too many surprises and colorful characters – like Emperor, an old man with an heart nobler than any king; Dharma The Great, A Boy Who Climbs Atop Trees and Makes Bird Calls; And Vanitha (Anjali), Gokul’s Long-Lost ‘Crush’ and Her Soft-Spocen Husband Gunashekhar (Aju Varghese). We also dream about going to mars on a rocketsh and wish for a dinosaur to come out of a duck egg.

Paranthu poAs the title sugges, is a story about the need to fly away from the burden of dreams. It’s a gentle musical road comedy – a rarity in tamil cinema – that makes you want to Climb Mountains, Walk through a Sunflower Field, Swim in a Lake, Or Hold a Duck’s in your Gandhi.

Sequences Move Gradually in a Linear Fashion, and the Information We Need About Their Pasts is Eiter Told Matter-of-Factly Or Deomese Pivotal Subplots for Characters, LICE HOICE HOMY HOMESES FOMISES Spoken to her since she married someone from a different religion. A major strength of Paranthu po is the gentle, deadpan comedy that leaves you in splits every five minutes. Allowing Songs Written in Simple Tamil and English, LIKE A Catchy School-Time Poem, to Accompany The Narraty Works Like a Charm. Moreover, Nothing Feels out of place, and the initial shoots of the child playing with a tractor toy or donning a football jersey today bank

Shiva in a Still from ‘Paranthu Po’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

The language ram opts for has the appeal of that bedtime stories you could revisit at any age and always find a little more to love, cherish and think about. This is a film that Acknowledges the bad in the world but urges you to look at the good and to expect kindness from Fell Human Beings. A Tea-STALL Owner Goes to Great Lengths to Help a Strangers. An Auto Driver is Empathetic to the plight of a helpless woman. A Father witnesses a painful but hilarous ‘no smoking’ campaign by Son. A Poor old Homeless Man Buys Breakfast for his unlikely, richer guests. The kindness people put into the world finds a way of coming back to them.

This is, after all, a film that makes ‘Saathaaniy’ (‘Devil’) Turn into a term of element. Ram does touch upon some worldly topics, including caste, Religion and class, but as in the analogy he keeps he kept men interviews, these commentaries are like pebbles a river, visible on to think Who look for them.

In Colloquial Tamil, ‘Malai Erittaan’ – which translates to ‘he scled the mountain’ – Refeers to someone throwing a tantrum. Paranthu po is a film about a child learning to climb down a mountain, literally and metaphorically, but it is also a story that urges us to fly away to the hills and to remumery when we have three Seemed Unfair. Perhaps it is a romanticized percent on life in the modern world, but there’s romance in listen to ilaiyaraaja on an old tape recorder while sitting on a Hilltop. Paranthu po Reminds us that life loses its magic when we can no longer dream of dinosaus hatching from duck eggs.

Paranthu po is currently running in theatres