Monday, November 18, 2019

"96" A TAMIL MOVIE

Normally a person is able to remember things from the age of 7. Some may remember even things happened earlier.  A person becomes an adult by the age of 18 and becomes matured by the age of 24. From the age of 7 until the age of 18, so many things happen in one's life. It stands engraved in his memory. 

Some of the early incidents in one's life may be good or bad. After getting matured at 24, a person may even laugh at certain incidents of the past, regret about certain bad decisions, and relish certain interesting episodes that are good from his perspective. That is the reason why people write their biography.

The attraction towards the opposite sex early in life is experienced by most of the people. This is called infatuation. For some, the feeling may be light and for some, it may be strong depending upon his life situations. If a man remains without marrying any girl and lives in the memory of the girl even after many years, it is not infatuation but it is pure love. 

Occasionally I have written about politics, religion, communal and cinema in a broad sense and not in any way particular. I am a cinema buff but I do not relish Indian movies as long as the hero and heroine sing duet songs in various costumes anywhere in the open, the hero crushing ten people at a time without dirt on his dress, and vulgar dance, and comedy scenes.

Sometimes you get classic movies in Hindi and in regional languages, especially Malayalam and Bengali without any glimpse of the above qualities of a popular movie. The Tamil movie "96" released in 2018 was such a movie without the formula ingredients. Some people are apprehensive about the movie on moral grounds.

The movie "96" is different from other popular movies. There are no duet songs, violence, vulgar dances and dialogues, meaningless comedy, etc., I would like to analyze the psychological aspect of the movie to establish its worthiness. I give my analysis as under.

1. If a man is not married:
A. In case he happens to meet the girl and if she is unmarried, he can propose to her to marry him. 
B. In case the girl is married, and his love is pure, he can only avoid meeting her and not to embarrass her.

1. If a man is happily married: 
A. He may forget about the infatuated girl and may even laugh at it or even tell his wife openly.

2. If a man is not happily married: 
A. He may be brooding over the infatuated girl and about his misfortune. 
B. In case he happens to meet the girl later, he may not be willing to re-establish the old relationship for fear of repercussions if he is morally good.  
C. If he is not morally good, he will try to re-establish an illegal and immoral connection with the girl.

Now let us see the position from that of the girl. 

1. If a girl is not married: 
A. If she has come out of infatuation, she may not even recognize him. 
B. If she still loves him deeply as he loves her she can accept if he proposes for a marriage.

2. If the girl is happily married: 
A. It means she does not have any infatuation and she may tell him how happy she is and advise him to get married soon. 

3. If she is not happily married: 
A. She will curse her fate and avoid meeting him if she is a good girl. 
B. If she is not a good girl, she will only try to exploit his love to her favour by trying illegal and immoral means.

In this movie, the hero remains unmarried due to pure love and the heroine is married. Though she is not happily married, she does not resort to exploit the situation. She simply enjoys his company by sharing about their younger days and she also advises him to live the life by marrying his student. before wishing goodbye

The following points are also to be considered.
1. It gives a warning to the adolescents about the perils of infatuation.
2. It gives entertainment for adults to enjoy brooding over their past infatuation if any.

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