What can I say about Mysskin. He, according to me is one of the most promising directors around. Anjathey is one of my favorite films. Ever. His way of narrating a scene/story is absolutely unique and that makes him in my eyes the Anurag Kashyap of the south. And Mysskin is back with vengeance in Onayum Aatukuttiyum. The Mysskin who presents his own eccentric visual style in an audience pleasing package. Not the Mugamoodi Mysskin. To be honest, I thought Mugamoodi was a disaster. It had its moments, but overall I felt it was flat and tried too hard to entertain.
I will need to watch the movie a few more times to really get the feel of it, but here are some initial observations/thoughts.
Like Tarantino's car bonnet shots or Mani's slow motion songs, Myskin too has these trademark pet fetishes which he uses in all his movies. They are all there in OA. Karuppu Kannadis, Handicapped(Blind) characters, the loner protagonists, the "single-handedly-killing-5-armed-enemies" heroism, the gratitious violence (though, slightly toned down), etc.
Naming the protagonist Chandran when the villain is named Wolf is surely not random. During the full moon, the wolf usually becomes a were wolf. But here, in the presence of Chandran the wolf is more like a lamb. Typical Mysskin.
Ilayaraja's BGM. No words. Particularly the train station scene. Mind blowing stuff.
Some of the tamil movies this year have been unbelievably good. Soodhu Kavvum, Neram, etc. But Onayum Aatukuttiyum blows them all out of contention. This is one of the best tamil movies I have seen since Hey Ram. The level of depth in scene setting, BGM, allegories, motifs, will need multiple viewings to decipher completely.
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