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Appuchi Gramam Review
- 11/15/2014 11:14:14 AM
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Synopsis: A meteorite is bound towards Tamil Nadu and the experts predict it will cause destruction on a large scale. Meanwhile, the people of Appuchi Gramam, where the meteorite is expected to hit, try to come to terms with the fact in their own way.
Movie Review: Appuchi Gramam opens with the information that at least 20,000 meteorites hit Earth every year. We are then shown images of the people of Appuchi Gramam grimly waiting for a meteorite to strike the place. It is a gloomy visual that recalls the beginning of Lars von Trier's Melancholia. Then, we are shown the events that occurred during the week earlier. We are introduced to Nallamuthu and Chinnasamy, who are stepbrothers and big shots in the village. The village has suffered because of their antagonism and is even without a deity because of their constant squabbling. Then there are Selvam and Dheeran, the village's youth, who are in love Chinnasamy's daughter Selvi and her cousin Sangamithra. There are some oddball characters as well — an educated man, an old man who uses any reason to have a drink, a miser, a dancer and her fan who plans to steal from the miser to pay the dancer and have her perform in the village, a kindhearted widow with a son abroad...
After Mundasupatti, here is another Tamil film that uses a meteorite to narrate a story about village life. But what Appuchi Gramam lacks is the quirkiness of that film. This is a somewhat sombre film that suggests that society,
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