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Touring Talkies Review
- 2/11/2015 9:21:05 PM
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SA Chandrasekaran, Abi Saravanan, Papri Ghosh, Mano Bala, A Venkatesh, Sunu Lakshmi, Robo Shankar, JayabalanDirection: SA ChandrasekaranGenre: DramaDuration: 2 hours 16 minutes
Synopsis: A 75-year-old man, who is one the verge of dying, goes searching for the lover from his youth. Does he find her? A school girl from a lower caste is raped and murdered by two powerful upper caste men. Her elder sister takes revenge in her own style...
Movie Review: Supposedly his swansong, veteran SA Chandrasekaran gives us two separate movies put together as one in Touring Talkies. In the first film, Love @ 75, he plays the lead for the first time as a 75-year-old man who is searching for the love of his life, who, 50 years ago, walked away from him under parental compulsion. He learns that she is in Shimla and goes there with barely a month to live. A couple of small-time thieves help him in the search. Does he find her?
SAC tries to go all emo with this old couple romance but the film is overlong and the premise hardly novel. He does better as an actor, playing a character who is young at heart but is counting his days. We get his love story as flashbacks, and even that one isn't fresh. He also seems to have been least bothered about staying true to the period (a character talks about AIDS, which was identified only in the early 80s, though the scene is happening 50 years ago!),
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