Mysterious Myskkin

It was the local rajeshwari theatre in velachery. Honestly, i was bored that day and still dont know the reason why i went to watch this movie. I now try to convince myself that it must have been my friend and colleague arun's praise for the song 'vaazha meenukkum' that attracted me to watch 'chithiram pesudadi'.
I was irked by narain's performance throughout the movie, surprised by the skills of then 'new-comer' bhavana.
But i never tried to even think about the director of the movie till the climax. What would have been a routine movie dealt me a severe mental blow. I was thrown over and the movie itself became a mystery to me. How could a single sequence in the movie eclipse everything else that was there in it ?! I wanted to know the name of the director. It was Myskkin ! Again, a mysterious name !!

That was long time back. I wanted to watch 'Anjaathey' today not because it had prasanna playing an evil baddie, definitely not for narain, but for Myskkin. I would'nt say that 'anjaathey' gave me the same surprise that 'chithiram pesudadi' threw at me years back; but i was happy at the way the movie was narrated. I was also happy with the small drama enacted in the end between the ten odd characters in the movie. Narain appeared to have improved as an actor in the beginning of the movie, but in the end i realised that it was all in vain. He still has hiccups which he tries to cover up by shouting in the scenes, a plot handled by jeevan of kaakha-kaakha or should i say that it was gautham menon ?!

There was much ado about the negative role that prasanna had played in this movie; but except for the climax he hardly has five scenes. But then, it did raise some curiousities about this movie.

Myskkin - the director has given a good movie thats different from a normal tamil movie. Myskkin had commented a few days back that he should'nt be called an auteur. But going by a very basic definition, i think that he probably can be called one.