The film Angadi Theru directed by vasanthabalan was heart crushing story of the guys and the girls at the corner of the fancy street where we enjoy making our shopping. Each frame of the film was focused on a particular society to bring them up to the lime light and their struggle for their life to carry out their daily mundane. I’m not a frequent vistor to Ranganathan street of T-nagar but the film name Angadi Theru stood bold and thanks to the film Director vasanthabalan who presented this film with mood to serve this particular society hoping at least a humane could be born.
The man of the film jothiligam (Mahesh) a guy from a small village in Thirunelveli was forced to take a sales man job in a famous textile mall after his father being died in a road accident. Marimuthu(Pandi) friend of jothiligam with an exited mood and lot of apprehension joins with the chunk of crowd for their first day job. Kani is a girl who works in the same shop but played a role of a peppy girl in midst of all their sadness. We could also see untold story of many who just works their to serve their poor family and also the road sellers who sells some product just to breath and only breath. .
The director kept his thoughts in a simple way and just showed us the mundane of the salesman living in the Ranganathan street. Though his thoughts were simple a lot of work around for this project which really made each one of us to move away from our seat to drop a tear for these guys. Their struggle for their lives starts from the early ray of the sun where they were woken up by a warden in large room where they don’t even have proper space to stretch their legs and sleep. The concept of the shop owner Annachi to lessen the salary by one rupee if any one reaches the shop by one minute late makes each one of the guys work there to stand on their toes to fix them in their position by the time specified was pity. The guys struggle for their food in the lunch time was shown in worse way which makes us think there are people who are ill-treated even lower than the beggars in the society. .
In amidst of all these chaos love blossoms between jothiligam and kani eventually. It’s a directors touch that “After all they are also human beings”. The floor supervisor (director Venkatesh) role tears down the mask of the supervisors of such big shops who always welcomes the customer with a grin on their face. Behind the screen they have an eagle’s eye on every worker and ill-treats the worker in a way worst than ever which can’t be put in words and to add up my words it is a fucking society we are living in and sorry put my words that way. .
It was sneha’s add film shooting which makes the guys over there to breath in patience. It was also time for jothiligam and kani to make some romance. Eventually after this kani was being ill-treated by the floor supervisor for her absence in the floor for an hour, seeing the furious act of the supervisor jothilingam turns wild to save her girl. It was the last half of the film that these two strives hard to come out of this hell. .
The film name Angadi Theru though was a colorful by its own let us not forget the tears, struggles, pains, sorrows of each of the workers behind the screen and most importantly feminism needs to revisited in every part and raise your voice in chorus. .
