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The movie revolves around the struggle and vulnerability of 16-year old Mayil (Sridevi) when in love.The movie revolves around the struggle and vulnerability of 16-year old Mayil (Sridevi) when in love.The movie revolves around the struggle and vulnerability of 16-year old Mayil (Sridevi) when in love.
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Pathinaaru Vayathinile / 16 Vayathinile (1977) :
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The bellwether of Rural Romance in Tamil Cinema. Not tragic but a sentimental romance which grows from Adolescence to Maturity with realistic theories. Pathinaaru Vayathinile seemed quite like a mix-up of many old Hollywood and Bollywood films but it had its own original storyline while dealing the mainstream content. We have seen this formula before that a Teenage girl falls in love with a wrong man while her childhood buddy who is a true lover of her is always ignored by her. And then after getting abandoned by that wrong man she realises the true love of her childhood companion. Pathinaaru Vayathinile uses the same formula but keeps all the characters very original except for the heroin and that's fine because i don't think anybody could have done anything different with that character. It focuses on the strengths and vulnerabilities of Mayil, a 16-year-old schoolgirl, and the challenges she faces and overcomes. Sridevi plays 16 years old Mayil when she was actually 14 herself. But i didn't really see her that young, i mean the maturity when she speaks and the way she looks seemed like above 20 sometimes. I don't know why that happened to me but sorry i couldn't help saying this. Kamal Haasan as Chappanni is terrific. He is the best performer in this film, and very much credit of that goes to writing too as he was the only character in the film who had the highest scope. Rajinikanth plays an evil guy and he definitely looks one. 'How's this?', he asks. 'Very Good', i say. Bharathiraaja made an impressive debut, no doubts about that. 16 Vayathinile was the first Tamil film to be shot predominantly outdoors and yes that helped it very much because without that Real Village Layout, it might have lost that humour and realistic touch. Overall, a Classic Romance and you can call it tragic if you wish but i would rather call it a senti one.
RATING - 8/10*
By - #samthebestest.
The bellwether of Rural Romance in Tamil Cinema. Not tragic but a sentimental romance which grows from Adolescence to Maturity with realistic theories. Pathinaaru Vayathinile seemed quite like a mix-up of many old Hollywood and Bollywood films but it had its own original storyline while dealing the mainstream content. We have seen this formula before that a Teenage girl falls in love with a wrong man while her childhood buddy who is a true lover of her is always ignored by her. And then after getting abandoned by that wrong man she realises the true love of her childhood companion. Pathinaaru Vayathinile uses the same formula but keeps all the characters very original except for the heroin and that's fine because i don't think anybody could have done anything different with that character. It focuses on the strengths and vulnerabilities of Mayil, a 16-year-old schoolgirl, and the challenges she faces and overcomes. Sridevi plays 16 years old Mayil when she was actually 14 herself. But i didn't really see her that young, i mean the maturity when she speaks and the way she looks seemed like above 20 sometimes. I don't know why that happened to me but sorry i couldn't help saying this. Kamal Haasan as Chappanni is terrific. He is the best performer in this film, and very much credit of that goes to writing too as he was the only character in the film who had the highest scope. Rajinikanth plays an evil guy and he definitely looks one. 'How's this?', he asks. 'Very Good', i say. Bharathiraaja made an impressive debut, no doubts about that. 16 Vayathinile was the first Tamil film to be shot predominantly outdoors and yes that helped it very much because without that Real Village Layout, it might have lost that humour and realistic touch. Overall, a Classic Romance and you can call it tragic if you wish but i would rather call it a senti one.
RATING - 8/10*
By - #samthebestest.
16 Vayathinile came in as opportunity turn into gold for all the main cast. Rajnikanth went on to become Superstar of Tamil Stars, Kamal Hassan's career catapulted to Successful career from a stuntman/Choreographer role, This movie identified Sridevi as mainstream actress from Child artist. This movie revolves around 16 year old Mayil played by Sridevi. Owing to her 16 year old a local vet hangs out with her later to ditch her for a homely girl. After Mayil is deserted, there are only two people in her life, Parattai (played by Rajnikanth) and Chappani(Played by Kamal Hassan). When Parattai sees opportunity of attaining her Chappani acts in. Worth watching, beautiful music scored by Illayaraja.
Kamal hassan Really wonderful, super, Awesome Actor in the world no one can do like a Kamal hassan 👌 👏 👍🙏🙏🙏
For this movie should we became to Oscar award National Award Filmfare Award all the world no one can do like this acting such kind of actor I was Bollywood Hollywood I am never seen such kind of actor in the world new Hollywood movie or Hollywood movie Kamal Hassan actor no one will be choosing the best stories awesome stories wow it's possible to know but really busy one of the actors actor wonderful okay what to say I can see about Kamal Hassan please really Gmail in Indian cinema actor actress weekend from it no one can come with Kamal sir Fantastic Actor 👏 👍 👌 😀 🙌 😊 👏 👍 Humanity in Kamal sir.
For this movie should we became to Oscar award National Award Filmfare Award all the world no one can do like this acting such kind of actor I was Bollywood Hollywood I am never seen such kind of actor in the world new Hollywood movie or Hollywood movie Kamal Hassan actor no one will be choosing the best stories awesome stories wow it's possible to know but really busy one of the actors actor wonderful okay what to say I can see about Kamal Hassan please really Gmail in Indian cinema actor actress weekend from it no one can come with Kamal sir Fantastic Actor 👏 👍 👌 😀 🙌 😊 👏 👍 Humanity in Kamal sir.
16 VAYATHINILE is the story of a 16-year-old schoolgirl, and the challenges she faces and overcomes. This film is all about beautiful storytelling. It says that the iconic character of Forrest gump is inspired from Kamal's character in Swathi Muthyam and I think Swathi Muthyam is also bit inspired from this movie.
The story is not new now but it attained cult status in Tamil cinema and is considered to be the trendster of films depicting realistic portrayals of rural life. Haasan's performance was considered a tour de force by critics since he was typecast as a romantic hero at that time.
Available on Amazon Prime Video & Youtube With English Subtitle.
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The story is not new now but it attained cult status in Tamil cinema and is considered to be the trendster of films depicting realistic portrayals of rural life. Haasan's performance was considered a tour de force by critics since he was typecast as a romantic hero at that time.
Available on Amazon Prime Video & Youtube With English Subtitle.
© MandalBros.
Good Movie. Everybody acted very well in the movie. Songs and BGM in the movie were good. The Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth combo scenes were main highlight in the movie. Those combo scenes were excellent in the movie. The movie bored and lagged a lot at some scenes in 1st half. Good Movie.
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- TriviaThis film ran for 100 days in many theatre's at Tamilnadu. It ran for 266 days at the Sinipriya complex theater in Madurai and 177 days at the Midland theater in Chennai, 133 days at the Bharat theater in Chennai, 126 days at the Rajakumari theater in Chennai and 106 days at the Prabath & Padmaamani theaters in Trichy and 113 days at the Raaja theater in Coimbatore and 63 days at the Taj theater Vellore and 127 days at the Gaity & Central theaters in Colombo, SriLanka.
- ConnectionsRemade as Padaharella Vayasu (1978)
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