Iravin Nizhal film assessment: Parthiban’s movie is quirky, however feels acquainted

Actor-filmmaker R. Parthiban’s newest film Iravin Nizhal, which suggests the showdown of the evening, appears like an extrapolation of a well-known scene in Kamal Haasan’s cult traditional Guna. In the mentioned scene, Kamal’s Guna goes in a circle whereas narrating his pains and the scene ends with him working right into a wall.

Iravin Nizhal is not only a single-shot film. It additionally appears like Parthiban has tried to relate it in a single breath identical to Guna. The film flows continuous from one scene to the opposite seemingly with no pause for reflection. This movie tells the story of a tormented soul. And Parthiban covers a whole lot of floor with the plot as he assimilates the weather of social commentary and morality story into an amorphous narration.

Nandu (Parthiban) is a tough boiled protagonist. At a really younger age, he loses his innocence. His mom was murdered by his alcoholic father, who goes to jail and makes him an orphan. His foster household begins to mistreat him with the arrival of their organic little one. He’s left to wander on the streets, studying methods to outlive the chilly winds and cold-hearted males. He will get raped, and bodily assaulted and experiences all the pieces {that a} boy of his age shouldn’t. And the brutal remedy meted out by society turns him into an amoral man. But, simply when he reaches the highest of the meals chain and he’s not the prey however a predator, life throws a curve ball. He turns into a father of a child lady and that occasion forces him to get in contact together with his comatose conscience, which in flip makes his life a residing hell.

The driving emotion of Iravin Nizhal is one man’s unresolved girls issues. Nandu is a person who seemingly struggles to make sense of girls or their function in his life. It is his frustration, anger and regrets with the alternative gender that drives his each motion. For him, his greatest regrets and his solely redemption, all come within the type of females. A theme that Parthiban retains visiting time and again in his films.

His efficiency in Iravin Nizhal reminds us of his different movies like Kudaikul Mazhai (2004) and his final directorial outing Oththa Seruppu Size 7. All these movies have a protagonist, who’s pushed to the sting of madness by heart-breaks attributable to the ladies in his life.

Parthiban has additionally tried to whip up shock by displaying some tragic imagery, which often doesn’t discover a place in mainstream films. He additionally has many R-rated pun-filled dialogues that counsel the filmmaker’s effort to shed the inhibition to say issues that usually Tamil filmmakers gained’t say in films.

And he additionally does one thing else with Iravin Nizhal. Before he begins the precise movie, he exhibits a video of the efforts that went into the making of what he calls the world’s first “non-linear single shot movie”. He knew that individuals could not recognize this movie in the event that they weren’t conscious of what he was attempting to perform. The fundamental problem of creating this movie was to realize the standing of a single-shot film. He needed to shoot the entire 90-minute movie with out pausing the digital camera. So a single misstep or a lighting subject would wish him to reshoot all the pieces he did from the highest as soon as extra. So the makers took round 22 takes earlier than they bought it proper. There was even one occasion the place a mistake occurred on the final minute and compelled the makers to scrap the entire 90 minutes of the film and re-shoot it once more. Arguably, for the primary time, earlier than the precise film, comes the interval break. These are the little quirky issues the viewers permits Parthiban to drag off.

Parthiban has a status to maintain. He is predicted to do one thing completely different each time he makes a film. And so he retains inventing new methods to inform a narrative. But, it appears he isn’t altering the story a lot. He is simply altering the best way he tells it.