{"id":109,"date":"2010-12-20T14:34:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T14:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kranjani.wordpress.com\/?p=109"},"modified":"2010-12-20T14:34:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T14:34:15","slug":"ratha-sarithiram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/2010\/12\/20\/ratha-sarithiram\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratha Sarithiram – ‘Bloody’ Hell!"},"content":{"rendered":"

From an ironic beginning to a rather preachy end, nothing about Ratha Sarithiram was something I couldn\u2019t have guessed would happen. <\/p>\n

The film begins with the usual disclaimer of all \u201csimilarities to any person\/ incident living or dead\u201d being completely \u201ccoincidental\u201d. In the next frame, the director says \u201cthis is a true story\u201d. The viewer should know at this very point that he is going to be taken for a fool. <\/p>\n

Immediately after the disclaimer, people start mouthing what I assumed was Telugu. It seems totally like a Telugu film dubbed in Tamil. I lose interest. Then when Suriya comes, he starts speaking (and mouthing Tamil), which is fantastic, except for the fact that I wonder why he is speaking in Tamil to the people who are speaking in Telugu to him!<\/p>\n

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Image courtesy: movies.sulekha.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some dialogues are even transliterated to my annoyance. For example, in the scene where Surya surrenders himself to save his wife, the police officer (played by a rather thin, tall Sudeep) says, \u201cI didn\u2019t expect you to give in. I wouldn\u2019t have, for my wife\u201d. Surya says \u201cI would\u201d. So the Police officer retorts, \u201cwell, there is a difference between wives\u201d. The delivery of this in Tamil kills the joy of the witticism. Badly done!<\/p>\n

The women in the film also need a special mention. Ratha Sarithiram is a man thing. They do not kill women or children. It is only about \u2018man\u2019slaughther, taken very literally. All the wives are expected to shut up and be supportive. Surya\u2019s wife (played by national award winning Priyamani) is brave, outspoken and even contests elections, but Surya categorically tells her not to be his weakness but be his strength when she voices an opinion against his (with the very cliched enakku balama iru, baliveenama aaydaadhe).<\/p>\n

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Prathap Ravi\u2019s wife is also asked to shut up when she voices an opinion (which ironically is against the murder of another woman). She refuses to shut up. In the end, Prathap Ravi (played surprisingly well by Vivek Oberoi) changes his mind to her wish. It only turns out that she ends up apologising for what she did! She had gone horribly wrong. <\/p>\n

Having said all that about treatment of women in the film, in the least there is no violence against women, no rape, no obscenity and no cheap-talk. My thumbs up for that!<\/p>\n

After all the unsuccessful attempts portray everyone\u2019s grey shades, Ram Gopal Verma also lectures in the end about what not to be. After escaping jail and shooting a man to death, Surya comes back to tell us that he knows what\u2019s right and wrong! Yeah, right!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m away to watch Easan soon. The memories of Ratha Sarithiram are best erased!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From an ironic beginning to a rather preachy end, nothing about Ratha Sarithiram was something I couldn\u2019t have guessed would happen. The film begins with the usual disclaimer of all \u201csimilarities to any person\/ incident living or dead\u201d being completely \u201ccoincidental\u201d. In the next frame, the director says \u201cthis is a true story\u201d. The viewer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[94,135,307,312,316,365,370,419],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-the-love-of-cinema","tag-cinema","tag-film","tag-ram-gopal-verma","tag-ratha-sarithiram","tag-review","tag-surya","tag-tamil","tag-vivek-oberoi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}