We hear the first interlude of ‘Putham Pudhu Kaalai’ - and CUT TO Janaki (as in, this film’s Janaki) singing the first stanza in her voice, in front of enthralled classmates. But he keeps things earthbound and real.)Īlso Read: ‘Pa Ranjith And I Connect Because Of Our Ideologies’Īnd two, Janaki sings only S Janaki songs, a conceit that’s used wondrously to deposit us into the first flashback, as Ram recalls his days at school. Mercifully, the director, who prefers the lower key, doesn’t tug at this thread.
(I mean, besides the more mythical Ram-Janaki connection. For one, Janaki is named after the maestro’s go-to female singer. It’s as nostalgic as the title design, where the outline of the number “96” is filled with cultural signposts from an era: an audio cassette, a “C:\> prompt” instruction, the Rani Comics logo, and the name of Ilaiyaraaja, whose music plays a major role in the proceedings. It’s a heart-warming stretch, cross-cutting between the twenty-years-later selves as these old friends voice out their chat messages. First, Ram eases back into the old group, through Whatsapp. What follows - and all the way till interval point - is a beautiful reunion, but done very realistically. Soon, Ram will decide to call up his old classmates, and for a loner like him, this decision cannot be made instantly. He feels the powdered chalk under a blackboard. And when Ram wanders around the empty premises, the director doesn’t flash back to classrooms filled with boisterous students.
He fondly remembers the watchman (Janakaraj, in a lovely cameo I suppose he’s also been cast to amp up the nineties’ nostalgia). “ Yaarayaavathu paatha pesanum.” (If I see someone, I’ll have to stop and talk to them.) But something changes when they drive past his old school.
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When Ram passes his hometown, Thanjavur, he asks the driver (his student) not to stop. In his mind he probably is - he’s cut himself away from anything, anyone that roots him. The camera keeps rising, showing the sea on one side and an unpopulated beach on the other. The closing moments of that song see Ram scrawling his name on sand. In the song ‘Life of Ram’ / ‘Karai Vandha Pirage’, a line goes thus: “ Kannadiyai pirindhe / Kaankindra ellaamum naanagiren.” (I am born a mirror, I become whatever I see.) Ram loses himself in things and people so that he doesn’t have to look at his own self. Ram is unable to shake off memories of Janaki (Trisha), the girl he loved in school - he is, in other words, stuck in time. And the photography is an extension of his nature. The travel part of his job description takes him around the world, and this nomadic existence is an excuse for him to stay single - he doesn’t have to come back to a home, every day, to someone who reminds him that he’s not with the love of his life. Prem Kumar’s 96 (as in 1996, the year Ram’s class graduated from high school), is a travel photographer. It makes sense that Ram (Vijay Sethupathi), the protagonist of C. The other films in her kitty include Sugar which is being directed by Sumanth Radhakrishnan and Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan.Cast: Vijay Sethupathi, Trisha, Varsha Bollamma
The film's music is composed by C Sathya, while cinematography and editing are handled by Shakthi and M Subarak respectively. Besides Ram, Trisha has a slew of films in her kitty including Raangi, which is an action thriller film directed by M Saravanan and produced under the banner of Lyca Productions. This Jeethu Joseph directorial has Trisha playing the female lead and she will be seen as a doctor named Vineetha.
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Trisha’s current acting assignments include the Malayalam movie Ram, in which she shares the screen space with Mohanlal. Tipped to be a gangster drama, there are rumours that the film will feature Vijay in the role of a college professor with a violent past and Vijay Sethupathi will play the main antagonist. The film was set to hit the screens in April but this did not happen due to the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent lockdown. He also awaits the release of Thalapathy Vijay's Master directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj.
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