Chennai man Vijay Victor’s second movie , ‘Pakarnnattam’, was screened at 12.30 pm on Saturday 17, December 2011 in Chennai under ‘Indian Panorama Films’ at Woodlands as a part of the ‘Ninth Chennai International Film Festival’.
The film opens with a sad execution theory of a political party cadre Thomas, characterized with a perfect emotion giving & unseen ultimate facet of Jayaram. He does this role with his full heart as he is always very keen to perform greatly.
The story goes back to those days, where Thomas and Meera get attracted to each other. Thomas is an environmentalist and he also takes care of the rehabilitation of the deadly ‘Endosulfan’ victims. ‘Pakarnnattam' thus starts with the shadow of a real environmental disaster.
Meera is well characterized by the award winning fashion designer and wife of the director, Sabitha Jayaraj.
Cutting across religion , Thomas accepts Meera , there by giving room for the audience to believe that , if all goes well on his side , then he would marry Meera and if all goes well on her side , she would marry Thomas !
Contrary to this, Meera has to battle out her way due to stiff resistance from her home side. She decides to leave her home and meet Thomas. They finally arrive on a mutual acceptance for marriage. But on the proposed marriage day, fate derails when Thomas is asked by his party to take the blame of murdering an opponent political party worker. When Thomas pleads with his marriage proposal, the party leadership forces him to accept that the party is above all and assures him in taking care of his age old mother.
Thomas takes the blame and goes to jail. Meera’s love mission thus fails and she too gets another form of imprisonment, a traditional house arrest by her family elders in order to shift her thoughts away from Thomas.
Things worsen after some years when the trial ends and Thomas gets a negative judgment and his capital punishment day gets announced. Meera’s sincere love for Thomas makes her feel, what is real, always was and cannot be destroyed. She decides to fight for the release of Thomas. The director was able to close his eyes and create vivid images with great imagination, thus has justified his perfect social intelligence.
The locations shot were nice and Sinu Murukkumpuzha’s cinematography perfectly picturises director’s mind.
Meera finally tracks down Sudhi, who has actually committed the murder. The ‘Chennai Man’, Vijay Victor, plays the role as Sudhi. The movie takes a new turn after that.
In the acting side, Vijay victor looks extremely confident in theory and practice as both his personality and performance were made by the director to compete each other! Vijay Victor has given an additional appeal through his wonderful eyes to his interpretation. The way in which he is directed to walk in dhoti and shirt when pre-planned guys try to finally pick him up makes a nice appeal. In the initial frames of this scene, a determined Sudhi walks majestically like that of MGR in the song ‘Koduthathelaam koduthaan’ from the Tamil movie ‘Padakoti’!
During the launch speech at Woodlands in Chennai, Vijay Victor said he did not go for any acting courses and all he did was taught by the director himself!
In general, Pakarnnattam is the only one of its kind movie in which the director has directed the eyes of the characters. Thus with his swift screenplay, distinct dialogue and high-quality direction, Jayaraj makes us feel the inertia of his vision in our subconscious mind. This deserves high orbit acknowledgement and reserves exalted accolades, which are imminent.
Best wishes to the 'Pakarnnattam Team' from the fans of VV!
