- Sir, you said you will increase my salary.
- When I said?
- Yesterday you said you had good news for me.
- Good news means salary only, huh?
KUMARI SRIMATHI కుమారి శ్రీమతి (2023–) ⬖ S1E01 "Rajnikanth, Abdul Kalam, Itikelapudi Srimathi" dir. Gomtesh Upadhye
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There's something incredibly raw and beautiful about the lines,
Varanda Udhatin, Vari Pallangalil,
Kadhal Dhanadi, En Meedhu Unakku
(In the lines of your dry lips,
I can see the love you have for me)
I think it stuck out to me because I saw some advice in a video or article about how your lips should be kept nice and soft for good kissing. Meanwhile, this line is just romanticising a woman's dry lips. I'm not saying that you shouldn't drink a lot of water to be healthy, and have soft lips. But it's also nice to see very real features which are often treated as imperfections, sometimes be romanticised in romantic songs.
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Spoilers for the movie Mersal (2017)
I do not actually think much of the romance in mass action films (as in the ones with heavy action plots) because the "heroine" or the hero's love interest is either underused or forgotten towards the end of the film. It's not that I hate it hate it. It's just negligible to me - even in one of my favorite movies, Master, where there isn't actually a romance going on between JD and his love interest (I have forgotten her name see). We don't know if he reciprocates. Also, we have that one song/montage of her falling for our hero because of course she does, who wouldn't blah blah, but our hero has a bigger mission to fulfill. And that was fine with me because the focus of that movie was the action.
Which is why I really like the relationship between Vetrimaaran (Vijay) and his wife Aishwarya (Nithya Menon) in Atlee's Mersal (2017).
They're different for Vijay's character lineups because they're already married. And they have great chemistry together. Aish and Vetrimaaran tease and flirt. They're playful with each other.
With her dying breath, Aish makes her husband promise that she will be the last to die on the hill of bad medicare.
And Vetrimaaran as head of the village gets Aish's full support. She's a smart and tough woman.
And the only reason we get this absolutely beautiful couple is because... they die. Tragically.
But Vetrimaaran doesn't fulfill that promise because he also dies.
And the second reason we get this lovely couple is because Vetrimaaran isn't the main hero. It's his sons, Maran and Vetri (born months apart but look alike -- and look like their father because they're Vijay avatars too lmao).
They're together in heaven.
If Vetrimaaran were the main hero, we would get a long courting phase, maybe Aish dies and Vetrimaaran goes on a rampage and stuff. But that would be no different from other Vijay's films. The reason he gets to die and reunite with his wife in the afterlife is because he's not the main hero.
Where on earth am I getting with this rambling?
It's just the fact that the only reason we got a good married couple with actual chemistry in a masala action film ... is because they're not the main hero and heroine.
We can argue that Shyam Singha Roy is a mass action film but also not really. Like yes there's action but the focus has always been on the love story between Shyam (Nani) and Rosie (Sai Pallavi). (I'm using them as an example because their chemistry is good. Actually, Nani and Sai Pallavi make a really good on-screen couple. They are both very charming and romantic to each other.)
*Alright, I'm rambling again. I just wanted to express my thoughts on Vetrimaaran and Aishwarya and their lovely chemistry that I don't see often in many mass action films.
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Nithya Menen may be a good fancast but she hasn't made fantasy movies unfortunately.
She has black eyes, curly hair, short and chubby
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just finished watching thiruchitrabalam :’) that was kinda cute
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(via Nithya Menen In Super Girl Avatar: Wonder Woman Latest Project)
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