Monday, February 26, 2007

Sippikul Muthu

Starring padmashree Kamal Hassan and Radhika, with supporting cast of Sharath Babu, Major Sunderajan and others, the movie is about an innocent young man and a widow's life.
Siva is a very naive young man who is honest, innocent, loyal and a good man at heart. He lives with his grandmother, near his brother - in - law's house. After his sister's death, his brother - in - law has remarried and frequently harasses Siva to sign on documents to take away his wealth.
Lalitha is the widow of the man she loved. After her husband's death, her brother can't afford to support her and takes her to her in - law's place. But the father - in - law is adamant about keeping her away from the house and sends her out. So the brother takes her home, but his wife constantly harasses her.
Siva meets Lalitha at the temple and is sad for her plight. With his innocence and his grandmother's good words, he keeps trying to help her out, in the end marrying her. The family meets with lot of objections, but they live it through.
In their old age, Lalitha passes away, while Siva lives with her memories, until his sons take him to the city with them.
The scenes were really sweet and warm to watch when Siva does many of his actions in innocence and us, as mature individuals, understand the impact and the heaviness of the actions that Siva has done. The beginning of the movie where he does things to help other people, end up inconveniencing them in a funny way.
Overall, the movie was really good to watch. Kamal Hassan has done it once more with his acting and Radhika has provided him with good support and carried her role well. Although the movie was a dubbed movie from Telugu, it was really good to watch and not much of masala.

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