To Let Movie Review| Chezhiyan| To Let Tamil Movie Review by Praveena| Pakka’s Review
To Let Movie Review| Chezhiyan| To Let Tamil Movie Review by
Praveena| Pakka’s Review
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To Let will and should remind one of Balumahendra’s Veedu.
In Veedu, Sudha, a 22-year old working woman, who finds housing rents
exorbitant, decides to construct her own house and ends up with nothing. Here
in Chezhiyan’s drama, a family is not even trying to build a house but rent
one. Veedu released in 1988, and after three decades, things in urban India
have only gone from bad to worse. To Let is a gripping story about our cities,
which are incteasingly turning hostile for the poorer sections of the society.
Ilango (Santhosh Sreeram) and his wife Amudha (Sheela
Rajkumar) are in dire need of renting a new house since all is not well with
them and their house owner. They have to find a new house soon or else the
consequences are to be bad, warns the house owner. The couple, along with their
son, embark on a journey to find a house that fits their budget and dreams.
But soon, they realise that not only do they not have enough
money, but they are also not the people the world wants them to be. More than
money, they need to be from a certain background, belong to a certain religion,
certain caste and should do a certain kind of work. And the certain’ varies from
one house owner to the other.
One landlord asks if they are vegetarians. Amudha and Ilango
walk back without even bothering to reply. Another house owner asks, What’s
your caste?’ When the broker lies that Ilango is also from the same caste as
him, he agrees. But when the couple returns with the advance money the next
day, the house owner shoos them away. An IT professional has already rented the
place!
Back at home, things get even worse with every passing day.
The current house owner harasses her tenants. At one instance, she walks into
Ilango’s house in his absence and starts scolding Sidharth, who has the habit
of scribbling on the wall. Amudha can only watch the owner scold her child
inside her home. When you are a tenant, the house owner not only owns the house
you live in, they own you too. And that’s the hard-hitting truth Chezhiyan’s
drama depicts in this brilliantly-shot film.
Santhosh Sreeram's gloomy looks and expressions make you
feel the pain of Ilango. He is brilliant in portraying the anger of the
vulnerable and hapless assistant director, who is failing to find a light at
the end of the tunnel. On the other hand, Sheela expresses all her pain through
her voice and happiness through her eyes.
Through Siddharth, Chezhiyan keeps questioning the status
quo of our society. At one instance, he asks his dad why don’t they own a house
when they own things like TV and motorcycle. The question stays with us. It
leads to many more questions like 'why are some people owners and others are
not?', 'how and why did we end up here?'.
But even the child starts accepting the reality and tries to
bury his dreams, which is brilliantly shown with a shot of him erasing his
drawings from the wall. On failing, he says, It is not erasable, appa."
To Let starring Santhosh Sreeram and Sheela Rajkumar is a
brilliant film on family and the daily struggles of city life.
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