They say when a man is in his death throes, he can see his entire life flash by.
Well, that happened to us last night.
Really.
No, we were not sick nor did we meet with a ghastly accident on the highway.
But we watched the Tamil film Saravana (2006).
The experience left us so shaken and at the end of the gruesome ordeal we felt our life flashing by.
Apes as Humans
Unlike the recent Hollywood film Rise of the Planet of the Apes where Andy Serkis dresses up as the ape Caesar, in Saravana two apes answering to the calls of Simbhu and Jyothika show up in human garb for the entire duration of the movie.
With their tails curled up in their dresses, the two apes ran amok on the screen, alternately screaming, laughing, eating, crying and making, well, monkeys of themselves.
From the opening scene when the eponymous hero ape Saravana (Simbhu) comes zooming into the college on a foreign motorbike to the final scene when he leaves in the company of the fat buxom female ape Sadhana (Jyothika), the movie is one epic apic torture directed by a bigger ape K.S.Ravikumar (who has a cameo in the train during the male ape’s journey to the female ape’s village).
Of course, Saravana is another obscenely crappy, crudely-made love story made for the semi-literate Tamil movie fans baboons.
What else are those bozos in Kollywood capable of churning out? That’s when the swines are not stealing Hollywood plots.
And what else do Tamil movie buffs baboons want.
The non-story is focused on obsessive distasteful love with detours over an age-old enmity between the female’s ape’s family and a neighboring bunch of whackos. Continue reading »
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