#BOOKREVIEW : KANAVU THOZHIRCHALAI BY SUJATHA
Every time you post something online, you have a choice.
You can either make it something that adds to the happiness levels in the world—or you can make it something that takes away.
--- Zoe Sugg
NAME: Kanavu Thozhirchalai
AUTHOR: Sujatha
GENRE: Melodrama / tragedy
LANGUAGE: Tamizh
NO OF PAGES : 143
MY RATING : 4.5 out of 5.
SYNOPSIS:
Arun Vijay, a superstar with a broken love life struggling to maintain his stardom after four consecutive failure. Arumairasan, a poet trying to be lyricist in kollywood, Manomani, an extra with a dream to be a lead actress. Maanikam a writer turned actor with a vision of the good quality film.
It a story after lights-camera-action-cut. the author captures the cruelty of cine industry and the struggles faced by emerging star and superstars. there are three main leads arun Vijay, arumairasan,manonmani.
Arun Vijay, a village kid turned to be a superstar with a blind fan base. when his love was rejected he made a stupid decision of marrying his co-star Prema Latha after that everything goes to hell, his honeymoon was a disaster ,four back to back failure, his marriage starts to stink and he his heart refuses to move from Kalyani to Prema Latha.
Kalyani, childhood love interest rather an obsession of Arun Vijay, Kalyani's father turned down Arun's marriage proposal pointing out his job as a reason, as result arun married Prema Latha,Kalyani was married to a skeptic bank clerk who tortures her out of skepticism.
To maintain his stardom arun decides to produce and act a high budget film which turned out to be a complete disaster during the end, as per his secretary's advice arun returns to his village leaving the film to his secretary.
Arumairasan was a waiter who loses his job because of arun, he came to kollywood to become a lyricist and trapped with a money digging fraud "kittu", after many struggles and tragic death of his son, arumairasan got a chance to write one song.
Manonmani, an extra rather a sex object for producers and directors with vague promises, meets mani am, leader of junior artist association during a crisis.manikam promises to give her a good role in his upcoming movie "thirupumunai", but couldn't fulfill the promises. after a year long disappointments and casting, couches she decides to end her life.
KANAVU THOZHILCHALAI:
Well, it's a Sujatha book,that alone enough. a man who changed tamizh literature for good, this one of his best work with unpredictable yet a new narrative style, if to speak about the narrative style and techniques I have to point out each and every paragraph of the story.
Basic details, it's a third-person narrative with a lot of the fourth walls breaking, completely simple language that even a third grader can understand.now to point out the Sujatha's magic.
1.Every chapter starts with a verse or quote which is completely irrelevant to the story but relevant to chapter, it's up to us to relate those words with chapter , a simple example is what I did in the beginning of this review, it has nothing to do with this post but in general, it speaks about online posting which is kind of relevant.
2.The quote varies from thirukural to the bible to censor act to a glossary on a book for editing,one more thing to point out is that after one thirukural he wrote "3c yil Thiruvalluvar" denoting he read it on a bus. it's like a bible quote with "john the on church wall" instead of john.
3. Abrupt shifting of storyline that too in a peak emotional moment creating more tension that you have to wait for 4-5 pages to know what happened next,there is not dotted line ,hashtag,stars just sudden cuts,
4. There isn't many details about facial expression or tone in which way the dialogue was said. so you don't know whether a character is serious or scarcastic.
5. The author played very well with dialogue , the style he followed in most places of the book is by stating only the actions not instead using more words. example: "ninran,kadavu thirakapatadu,sendran" instead "avan nirukondu irrundan , aval kadavai thirandal, avan ullei sendran".
6. At one chapter author starts the chapter with "kanadhi mun nindran arun,nindran arun nindran kannadhi mun " translation would be "arun stood in front of the mirror, in front of the mirror stood arun" ,which denotes that the same situation gets reversed acknowledging that that chapter is a crucial point where everything changes.
OVERALL RATING:
A must read,the best of Sujatha,portrays the sad and ugly side of glamorous stardom,the way how cinema and censorboard works,I loved every chapter,every line feels so genuine,only issue I had is that there is scene where a father meets his newborn son for the first time, it feels so dry authour could have stressed out that part or he tried to show that charecter emoition less.this book is not for kids as it shows some sexually explict thing, my rating would be 4.5 out of 5 .this is the highest I have given so far.
--- SIDHARTH
You can either make it something that adds to the happiness levels in the world—or you can make it something that takes away.
--- Zoe Sugg
NAME: Kanavu ThozhirchalaiAUTHOR: Sujatha
GENRE: Melodrama / tragedy
LANGUAGE: Tamizh
NO OF PAGES : 143
MY RATING : 4.5 out of 5.
SYNOPSIS:
Arun Vijay, a superstar with a broken love life struggling to maintain his stardom after four consecutive failure. Arumairasan, a poet trying to be lyricist in kollywood, Manomani, an extra with a dream to be a lead actress. Maanikam a writer turned actor with a vision of the good quality film.
It a story after lights-camera-action-cut. the author captures the cruelty of cine industry and the struggles faced by emerging star and superstars. there are three main leads arun Vijay, arumairasan,manonmani.
Arun Vijay, a village kid turned to be a superstar with a blind fan base. when his love was rejected he made a stupid decision of marrying his co-star Prema Latha after that everything goes to hell, his honeymoon was a disaster ,four back to back failure, his marriage starts to stink and he his heart refuses to move from Kalyani to Prema Latha.
Kalyani, childhood love interest rather an obsession of Arun Vijay, Kalyani's father turned down Arun's marriage proposal pointing out his job as a reason, as result arun married Prema Latha,Kalyani was married to a skeptic bank clerk who tortures her out of skepticism.
To maintain his stardom arun decides to produce and act a high budget film which turned out to be a complete disaster during the end, as per his secretary's advice arun returns to his village leaving the film to his secretary.
Arumairasan was a waiter who loses his job because of arun, he came to kollywood to become a lyricist and trapped with a money digging fraud "kittu", after many struggles and tragic death of his son, arumairasan got a chance to write one song.
Manonmani, an extra rather a sex object for producers and directors with vague promises, meets mani am, leader of junior artist association during a crisis.manikam promises to give her a good role in his upcoming movie "thirupumunai", but couldn't fulfill the promises. after a year long disappointments and casting, couches she decides to end her life.
KANAVU THOZHILCHALAI:
Well, it's a Sujatha book,that alone enough. a man who changed tamizh literature for good, this one of his best work with unpredictable yet a new narrative style, if to speak about the narrative style and techniques I have to point out each and every paragraph of the story.
Basic details, it's a third-person narrative with a lot of the fourth walls breaking, completely simple language that even a third grader can understand.now to point out the Sujatha's magic.
1.Every chapter starts with a verse or quote which is completely irrelevant to the story but relevant to chapter, it's up to us to relate those words with chapter , a simple example is what I did in the beginning of this review, it has nothing to do with this post but in general, it speaks about online posting which is kind of relevant.
2.The quote varies from thirukural to the bible to censor act to a glossary on a book for editing,one more thing to point out is that after one thirukural he wrote "3c yil Thiruvalluvar" denoting he read it on a bus. it's like a bible quote with "john the on church wall" instead of john.
3. Abrupt shifting of storyline that too in a peak emotional moment creating more tension that you have to wait for 4-5 pages to know what happened next,there is not dotted line ,hashtag,stars just sudden cuts,
4. There isn't many details about facial expression or tone in which way the dialogue was said. so you don't know whether a character is serious or scarcastic.
5. The author played very well with dialogue , the style he followed in most places of the book is by stating only the actions not instead using more words. example: "ninran,kadavu thirakapatadu,sendran" instead "avan nirukondu irrundan , aval kadavai thirandal, avan ullei sendran".
6. At one chapter author starts the chapter with "kanadhi mun nindran arun,nindran arun nindran kannadhi mun " translation would be "arun stood in front of the mirror, in front of the mirror stood arun" ,which denotes that the same situation gets reversed acknowledging that that chapter is a crucial point where everything changes.
OVERALL RATING:
A must read,the best of Sujatha,portrays the sad and ugly side of glamorous stardom,the way how cinema and censorboard works,I loved every chapter,every line feels so genuine,only issue I had is that there is scene where a father meets his newborn son for the first time, it feels so dry authour could have stressed out that part or he tried to show that charecter emoition less.this book is not for kids as it shows some sexually explict thing, my rating would be 4.5 out of 5 .this is the highest I have given so far.
--- SIDHARTH
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