‘Bottle Radha’ film review: Guru Somasundaram presents a sharp drama based on heart instead of intellect

inauguration of Bottle Radha This is an overhead shot of Chennai, in which a speaker is playing ‘Thanni Thanhtti’ from somewhere. Indubhairavi (It is a major wine anthem in Tamil). The film has more than a dozen scenes while pouring alcohol in the glass, and to the extent you will surprise how they are alive while drinking bottles one after the men. Finally, there is a once song in which men are dancing happily. But before you reach the conclusion, this is not the film that celebrates the prohibition.

Debutant director Dinakaran Shivalingam’s film is a two -hour drama which focuses on the prevailing issue of alcohol addiction. The bar song I mentioned? This is an interesting strategy to send a deep message to a medium that often uses such songs to celebrate alcohol.

Radhamani aka Sorakkalayam Radha (Guru Somasundaram) is a middle-aged person who spends most of his time and money in a liquor store, chewing bottles and small quarrels. He is a person in which there is no liberating quality, and Shivalingam does not have any obstacle in portraying the flaws of his hero. Radha also appears drunk at her work site, and her work as a construction worker is an irony in itself. He does not know anything about building a house – which you make with affection, responsibility, peace and a longing for peace and comfort – but claims to be a specialist in building a house – empty empty made of bricks, cement and sand Structures that are brought into life by families. He builds homes for other families, ruining the future of his wife Anjalam (a magnificent composition Natarajan) and his two children, it tells a subtle thing about who affects alcohol addiction, and working people Why and how it is comprehensive between- class (in many examples, the film humorously states how many addicts refuse to take responsibility because “this is the government that has a liquor shop in every corner,” but it is it It also shows what easy access can be intoxicated in recovery).

In an unexpected turn for Radha, his wife, tired of making a person with this bad behavior something, forcibly admissions her to a unique drug addiction center. Dozens of addictive patients live in a dilapidated room. Most of these early parts are presented with humor, and many scenes with the characteristic of Lolu Sabha Maran make you laugh. However, this de -addiction center is the place where there are problems Bottle Radha Also start. First of all, many characters we see in this drug addiction center adds nothing to our understanding of how these places work, or what is going on in the mind of an addict.

Ashokan (John Vijay) drives the place with a firm, fair hand – when the patient justifies his acts, he does not speak any words and reprimand his subordinate Algo, who is a strange man with a compulsion of cruelty. But in addition to a patient’s sharp remarks on the Center’s budget, we were never told what Ashokan feels about the worrying situation of this strange place. As much as they help in the humor of the film, patients add very little value to Radha’s story. Also, what was the meaning of the romance between the two bosses that did not go anywhere? Certainly, the case of Algo and the pathetic condition of its victims, how these centers work, present a clear picture of it, but what is the benefit of it when we do not understand what behind the appetite of Alango’s power The reason? You will also be surprised whether the violence of Alando towards a patient should have been so high. Something like this is also a scene The Shawshank Redemption Played in the center; Although you are influenced by this refreshing manner of a classic classic, you are feeling uncomfortable about how the sequence ends.

Bottle Radha Choices the heart in place of intellect, all depends on the play only to do heavy work, and offers scattered returns. In a difficult part, Radha has been consumed by darkness, anything like light has been consumed by her almost life-fatal addiction. His bloodshed eyes turn all that self-sage into contempt towards the world, and you almost forget that this is an act. There is no feeling on Guru Somasundaram’s face, and in many scenes the artist reveals his heart. Nevertheless, in another scene, when he hears a man saying how alcohol destroyed his family, Somasundaran appears … only as Somasundaram. Do not make any mistake, the issue is not with the actor; In fact, he is the one who gives the film the power to become much more than what to become.

The performance appears to be such that the preaching discovery of the story gives rise to many imaginary situations and scenes. The film is so focused on introducing us to the ups and downs of Radha’s alcohol addiction that it forgets to make it complete. This is disappointing because in a scene he tells Anjalam how to start his day with determination not to drink alcohol, ‘Some’ pulls him back into the bottle. It is sometimes sometimes an outsider – such as his friend Shake (Pari Ilawajgan) whose idea of ​​grand death is to die by drinking alcohol – but except for the details of her childhood, we have not much to understand Radha’s internal struggle. Get The film repeatedly tells us that every time he feels depressed, he bows down and has not seen whatever is beyond the bottle. But why does he first pursue alcohol addiction? Is this after a sense of security? Or, does it come from growing up without proper support system? Or maybe there is a disease, disease and it can never be understood; Perhaps this is a whirlpool of oblivion, but if so, then why can’t we see Ashokan by speaking about that?

A scene from ‘Bottle Radha’ | Photo courtesy: Think Music India/YouTube

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Instead, we only get Radha’s drinking, repeated repeated and recurrence of other things, and after a point you hardly care about what is going to happen next to her. Interestingly, you are more attracted to Anjalam’s story and how it deal with this uncertain marriage. His article surprisingly underlines how prohibition of alcoholism, like most other social crises, affects women from poor sections of society. In one of the initial scenes, a police officer warns Anjalam of punishment, and puts the responsibility of her husband’s behavior on her; In another heartbreaking scene with brilliant performance, she accepted all that she endured in the absence of her dead husband. How her arch takes shape may be a little prediction, but what she says forces you to look beyond the flaws of the film.

However, the flaws do not reduce the importance of such a film Bottle RadhaAnd for a feature budding artist, this is a commendable beginning by Shivalingam. For example, in a beautiful scene between Anjalam and Radha in the rain, many moments indicate a big heart and an ambition filmmaker.

Bottle Radha is currently running in theaters