Mughizh was running in theaters without any usual excitement goes with a Viajy Sethupathi film. There was no camermen and anchors to ask what you felt about the film. In fact, theater guys made us twiddle our thumbs for 30 minutes in the name of interval. As the film is only 60 minutes, they cannot have a show timing below 90 minutes. Some stupid rule.
A small world of a middle class family- working father ( Vijay Sethupathi), homemaker ( Regina ) and their daughter (Sreeja). When ever the daughter walks on the road, stray dogs come toawards her. Her father feeds these dogs. The girl is frightened of dogs. Father decides to present her a pup and drive her fear away. Predictable, she gets fond of the pup named Scooby. This pup love to the daughter and father creates a jealousy in the mother as it is she who looks after him.
Many such moments show the depth to which the pup becomes a inseparable part of the small family. Tragedy strikes when the pup gets run over by a bike. The girl feels that she is responsible and behins to sulk. Her mother too misses the pup who was her companion and it is now left to the man of the household to bring two of them to terms with reality.
The film in a way deals with the situation that arises when a family member dies in a nuclear family. The decision of the father that no amount of coaxing is going to help and better to leave the daughter alone to cope with the loss and come out of it is what applies to most of us .
The film is produced by Vijay Sethupathi and Sreeja is his real life daughter. With no frills, a short loveable tale told effectively by Kartik Swaminathan and music and BGM by Reva shows her understanding of the subject. Similarly Sathya Ponmar camerawork makes us forget that the entire story happens mostly in an apartment.
Could the change of mood in the girl be brought out with a different circumstance ? Needless to say that Vijay and Regina, two actors just get into the skin of the characters. The director approach to Sreeja, first time actor is appreciable. He has just left her do what comes to her and many seem amateurish but still it has a naturalness.
Nobody is going to talk of first day collections or high funda critics point out metaphors and what not in this film. As the title means it has given birth to a sensitive director- a child actor with a potential and a good set of technicians like Reva and Ponmar. From the titles I gather it is coming on Netflix.
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