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Annapoorani: The Goddess of Food (2023)
Agenda driven rhetoric
The movie follows similar themes that many Tamil movies to get audience interest. Subtly bash a minority community to gain traction by negative publicity. The story's main plot is to encourage female entrepreneurship and how passion and hard work leads to success. This can be achieved without bringing caste, religion and other Unwarranted narratives. Like, when the story is about becoming the best chef, there should be scenes that showcase the expertise and presence of mind and improvisations that showcase the cooking talent. This would make the audience focus on the hero of the movie, their quality and hard work. Instead the movie focus on everything except the person. It tried to set false community narratives, generalising people. Especially at the climax, where Nayantara's victory is attributed prayer instead of talent, as some divine blessings are needed to make the recipe great. And these scenes are totally opposite to what the previous dialogues convey. There are lots of such inconsistency where dialogues and actions totally contradict each other.
Tamil cinema will do well when it keeps religion and caste agenda out of its storylines.
Parking (2023)
Started realistic, ended unrealistic, over the top
The movie started realistically with day to day issues that people face with parking, adjustments not made between human beings for petty issues and ego. All the actors were good and did the job. Harish could have done better, mostly he just stared blank into space on scenes which needed an anger, frustration etc.
Whatever good was achieved in the first half hour, gradually became bad & cringe worthy. The story was steered unrealistically and over the top. No body goes to the extent of character assassination of their own daughter or even to the extent of killing because of petty issues such as these. The movie also normalises fake complaints as if it's easy and the Police and Vigilance dept dont counter charge against person framing others. MS Bhaskar's character who was so concerned about getting his daughter married properly few scenes before, suddenly becomes maniac enough to drag her into a molestation case? Seriously! Thats taking audience's IQ for granted. Same with the corruption charge sequence, etc etc. At one point, it was so illogical that, you can easily guess the next stupid thing the main characters would make and I started skipping scenes.
And I dont know why women are always made the scapegoat for the storylines. Movies should stick to the genre of realism from start to finish to make a positive impact.