Thursday, 21 February 2019

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


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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