What is life without watching a movie over a long weekend?
With that being said, DH and I watched Mynaa yesterday. We had to keep the volume under control because we did not want to disturb the little one's nap (in turn did not want to get disturbed), so I started to lose inclination towards watching it further as I had difficulty in following the accent for sometime and within few minutes I saw the protagonist hitting a lady so violently and I walked out to the other bed room, intolerably. DH stopped me and asked me what I was intending to do - he got to understand from my facial expressions that I did not want to continue watching and he also knew at that point that I might not like the movie. I told him I would better blog than watching this crap. By this time the unpleasant scenes rolled and the screenplay got its dynamism. Yes, you are right, I brought the laptop out and started to surf while I had a watch on the storyline as well.
When the movie ended, I had a heavy heart and was sympathetic not to the lead characters but to our own selves. Our movie-makers have to understand the basic fact that we want only ENTERTAINMENT for those 2-2.5 hrs and certainly do not want to end up wiping our tears or get any sort of negative impact on us or on our society. I vehemently believe that the movie-makers have the moral responsibility of influencing the society to a great extent; Cinema is so much in our blood and culture - we see our illiterate society doing pAl abhishEkam to their super-heroes ( When I was nursing Chinnu, I used to feel quite bad in a situation when a single drop of breast milk gets wasted; honestly, I used to think that the milk that I consume is the calf's birth right and this was the time I wanted to convert to veganism) and the educated ones celebrate movie releases like Diwali, new year - their FB headlines will whirl around the movies during then.
I remember few crimes that were merely triggered from our tamil movies - a little boy's murder in Chennai and the criminals were minors too; they used red-chilli powder in order not to get traced by the sniffer dogs - seems they stole this idea from a movie, in another case a girl was gangraped just that the accused wanted to experiment what they had seen in the movie paruththiveeran. There may be so many other cases that did not come to the light. That being the situation, I think the movie-makers can not just say that they only get their stories from real life. They may be true but they also feed the ignorant with new ideas to commit crimes(or should I make it a passive sentence here?) One gangrape in a remote village in Jharkhand or Orissa may be a news for a week but a movie with such a storyline will easily stay in our minds for a remarkably longer period.
After the movie ended, DH and I did a postmortem (romba thevai!!) and were discussing about the logical flaws in the idea of sending mynaa with the policeman who had a terror-wife. I see no reason why she was not sent with the older guy. Secondly why was the former's wife not updated about the accident or further happenings? Anyways, I made a resolution (new year resolution?) - I am not going to waste my time on watching our movies; at the same time I do not want to miss TZPs, 3 Idiots, Pasangas, Arunachalams, etc. etc for sure.
Lets come to the lighter side of it. After the movie ended I told DH that the accident scene was well conceived and I had not seen such a thing in other movies where accidents were shot. He said it was perfectly stolen from a hollywood picture.
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