rrprasannakumar

Where do I even begin ?.. Words like freedom and dignity are not just mere words but they carry in them the deepest pain and suffering of all of humanity, Pain and suffering that were unawaredly endured for thousands of years through social and all kinds of oppression at the hands of a few oppressors and many a times by the very social norms that the humanity had laid out for itself through the truncated understanding of its own social condition in the larger scheme of collective human existence, how do you even go about freeing yourself from the clutches laid out by the collective oppression that has become your identity and the very means to your existence, how do you even go about waking up the society to the cultural cruelty that it's inflicting on its own cultural freedom and social well-being, The seed of the scared fig is not just a movie about Iran and it's women and their struggle over theocratical oppression to expand the social space for their personal freedom to reach the realms of human dignity and it's social acknowledgement, it's a much deeper study on the conflict that arises between the all empowered state through whatever social dictum and the individual freedom which forms the basis of the creation of the sub-unit called family, the very basis on which societies as such come into existence and seek to thrive in various forms and colours...This movie carries a seed in it that humanity needs to cherish for its own better future ...

There are movies that cater to the audiences temperament and there are movies that intend to create a certain kind of temperament in its audience, and those kinds of movies may demand more from its audience, it would demand them to be open to new ways of thinking, it would demand them to ruminate their present understanding of the world in which they exist, it would demand them to remember their ability to ask questions which is what we humans think makes us humans and sets us apart from other living organisms, TEENZ movie is a one of its kind in Tamil cinema, A Movie that I guess may not appeal to the Tamil audience, but it surely is a movie that Tamil film audience may not know that they had waited for over 40 years...

Being an avid movie watcher and as one who knows about the life history of Mr. Velupillai Prabhakaran i was kind of very excited about the prospect of watching this movie and, the least i can say is i wasn't disappointed at the end. The movie is well crafted for the kind of budgetary constraints the crew members seem to have put up with, i have no doubts that with enormous budget the people who made this movie can just blow our minds with the extraordinariness of what their cravings for the art in cinematic form can achieve. A movie is as good as the story it talks about and more importantly as good as the actors who play the characters in the movie, i only wish if certain characters in this movie were more real to the time they belonged to, the old make up on certain characters didn't sit quite well and in certain places looked gaudy, i am aware that it might be because of the constraints ... But nevertheless the Makers of this movie are so talented enough that they deserve a larger canvas. I am sure that the sequels will be far more thorough and sublime than the extraodinary expectations this movie had to live up to..