Filmmaker Arivazhagna has taken on a really topical theme for his debut internet collection, Tamil Rockers. The notorious piracy web site has been a nightmare for filmmakers not solely in Tamil Nadu however throughout the nation. The collection, starring Arun Vijay and Vaani Bhojan, intends to point out victims of piracy. Instead, it humanizes these working piracy rackets.
The eight-episode collection, written by Manoj Kumar Kalaivanan and Rajesh Manjunath, stars Tamil rockers as Frankenstein’s demons created by highly effective members of Tamil cinema. In the present, the individuals who contributed to the piracy are a community of people that have been wronged by the film house owners. For instance, an affiliate director, who’s about to jot down one thing unique versus sabotaging a Korean play, receives no producers or actors to help him. A producer’s automotive driver, who will get no assist from his boss when he wants cash for his spouse’s most cancers therapy, is one other crew within the equipment. Anyone who’s in want of cash or has been duped by his colleagues within the career is a possible ‘Tamil rocker’.
The makers of Tamil Rockers deserve credit score for turning the gaze inward. The collection throws gentle on the moral and ethical chapter of the business which provides rise to all types of issues. The menace of piracy just isn’t a brand new downside for the movie business. However, because of piracy web sites like Tamil Rockerz, what was earlier obtainable in shoddy print on DVD, has been transformed to top quality HD print. When the readability of the video is sweet, an informal viewer, who just isn’t passionate concerning the artwork of cinema or not a staunch fan of a star, is unlikely to overlook out on the theatrical expertise. And to perform that process, Tamil Rockerz members have to interact in some type of social engineering, discover the correct sources, nurture them, and harness them on the proper time.
The makers of the present had an amazing concept, however they’ve finished a horrible job in terms of turning these plot factors into partaking sequences. The execution additionally feels amateurish and may be very predictable. Even although the viewers has an fascinating topic, they resort to clichés to point out the internal workings and methods utilized by piracy rackets. Says a producer who misplaced his fortune after his movie flopped, “They (the viewers) noticed my movie, on which I spent all my life’s financial savings on a pirated CD value Rs 30. Not to downplay the seriousness of the ache of individuals affected by piracy, however the truth that everybody is aware of and the road has been in vogue since DVD gamers turned a major a part of house leisure. Now, we’re within the digital age, the place HD high quality of films are leaked on-line on the identical day they’ve theatrical launch. This is a special monster. And the viewers ought to have seen the story with an open thoughts that may have appreciated the size and seriousness of the piracy.
The construction of the present looks as if a riff on director Gautham Menon’s Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu. A bunch of boys brutally crushed up in police custody flip into psychotic criminals. Instead of serial killing, you embody serial leaks of latest motion pictures, and you’ve got the principle plot of Tamil Rockers. Arun Vijay as Rudra, a cop on the way in which to Tamil rockers, and Ishwarya Menon as Keerthana, Rudra’s spouse, who’s a movie buff, are just like watered-down variations of Kamal Haasan and Kamalini Mukherjee’s characters in Vettaiyadu Vilayadu Sons. seem as. No actual chemical substances. Vani Bhojan can come throughout as an unbiased girl within the type of Sandhya. But she acts much less like a cop and extra like a university woman with undeclared emotions for her senior. Audiences didn’t permit her to change into an expert, with out making her swoon over the manhood of her colleague. Such a cliché.
Tamil Rockerz is streaming on SonyLiv.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
