Raam

Another fairly decent movie. The plot was carried deftly all-through the movie. Not many unwanted deviations from the actual-plot, quite unlike other tamil movies. Vazhavanthan's role was outstanding ;-)
'Should tamil movies go-away with songs-fight-sentiment masala-stuff and follow-the-sensible cinema approach and be loyal to the actual plot of the movie?' is something I have always wondered about. I think masala-stuff suits the general audience best than any other movie-genre. Surprisingly, both hollywood and tamil-movies adopted the musicals in moving-cinemas during the early stages of movie-making. But Hollywood moved away from moving-cinema but Tamil-cinema industry got stuck with the musical-kind. Now, that musical aka masala cinema (includes fights-sentiments alongwith music) has come to a stay, there is little chance for the birth of plot-based movies without needless sentiments-fight-song-dance. What tamil cinema need is some individual or individuals to start the plot-based cinema. But is there a possibility of this happening? 'NO' is the answer - thanks to cinema being recognised as an organized-industry rather than as an art-form. I think Hollywood suffers with a similar stigma - where innovation is harvested even before the crop matures thanks to commercial-approach.
Q: How to kill art ?
A: Recognize art as an industry!
Surprisingly, amateurs and hobbyists are the ones who bring in more ideas and not the arm-chair professionals. Guess, if movie-making is treated similar to regular art-form, things can really move for the better.