7g Rainbow Colony Tamil Full Movie 155
Geraldine Ferraiz
We were financially in a bad shape then, and we had to sell the film. Unlike today, the industry did not encourage newcomers and new directors then. The stars ruled the industry. The truth is, each and every frame of Thulluvatho Ilamai was mine. The entire Tamil industry knows this.
Coming back to the question, yes, it makes me nervous. And scared. I do not know what the audience expects from me. I do not know whether 7-G Rainbow Colony is what they expect from me. I just hope that the film and people's expectations match. I have made this film as honestly as I made Kaadal Kondein.
7-G Rainbow Colony is very, very different from Kaadal Kondein, which was technically advanced. There, the story of a mentally disturbed guy was experimental. It concentrated more on what was going on internally. You won't see many guys like him in society but the hero of 7-G is an average guy with whom youngsters can identify.
Nobody wants to make films on below average, middle class guys; either the heroes are geniuses or physically strong enough to beat up 100 people! My hero is a normal guy who cannot score more than 50 percent or 60 percent in school and college. If you go to any classroom, you will see that only 10 percent to 15 percent study really well, while 65 percent to 70 percent fall short of something, and at least 15 percent to 20 percent fail.
Nobody is interested in making a film on them, and these students always suffer from inferiority complex. Just think, is there a life for them? They don't finish the course in the stipulated time. If at all, they get a degree, they don't get a job. Finally, if they get a job, it will be just average, just like what they are. Does anyone love them? If you go to a college and observe, you will see that only successful guys, either academically or financially have girl friends.
Yes. You walk on the street for a mile, you may bump into at least 50 or 60 of them. I would say 70 percent to 80 percent of the guys you meet in Chennai are like my hero. I want to make them understand that they are also interesting though they consider themselves a failure. I want to tell them that even if they are not interested in studies, they should be interested in something else, and they are capable of discovering that.
We middle class people are made to believe that we have to get up early in the morning, go to school and college, study well, get a good degree and then work. Until you turn 22 or 23, nobody gives you a chance to decide what you want from life. Unless your talent comes out early in life, it will never happen. This is the character in my new film.
He's me, and nobody else. It is my story. I went to an engineering college and was okay in my studies. From the very first day, I knew engineering was not what I wanted to do. I passed out with just 70 percent. I can never become one of the best mechanical engineers in the country.
Then I wanted to become a guitarist. But there was no magic in my guitar. I knew from my birth that I was just an average person, and I couldn't discover any talent in me. There are a lot of things I can't do but there are some things I can. I can play cricket well but I will never be able to go beyond Tamil Nadu level.
We were never part of the film world though my father was a filmmaker. Our world was different from our father's. Two of my sisters are doctors, and I am an engineer. Ours was more of an academic family, and not a film family.
Now, everybody says I am lucky to have got my first break in a home production. The truth is, I had tried at several places. From 1997, from the year I passed out as an engineer, I was knocking at all doors. Nothing worked out.
Then, we were in a very bad financial position. My father had to sell our house. And we had only one film in the making. My father couldn't bear the pressure. So he asked me whether I would direct the film. That was how I wrote the script of six school students and made Thulluvatho Ilamai. Dhanush, my younger brother was the hero.
It was not a soft porn film. They said that because they had not seen mouth to mouth kisses on screen till then. I made a film that was close to reality. The problem is, we live in a closed world. I said then, 10 years from now, everybody will make movies like this. Four years after, that is what is happening. See, when a newcomer does something daring, people attack him but when established filmmakers do it, they accept. Even critics.
In Hollywood, and in Europe, you have real critics who understand what cinema is. There, the critic has an understanding of the medium. Here, anybody can be a critic. You don't need any knowledge or qualification to be a critic. Now, anybody can stop a film showing in a theatre under some excuse or the other.
If you walk along the streets of KK Nagar in Chennai, you will witness all that you will see in his film. I have made it in such a way that you should not feel that it was a movie. You should feel as if you are walking in a housing colony which you are familiar with.
I have lived in KK Nagar for nearly 10 years, and it is from all those experiences that I wrote the script. Almost 75 percent of the characters you see in the film still live there. My friends are all there as characters. Some of my friends wrote to me, 'Don't show that incident. See, I am going to get married!' It was all the fun that we had as youngsters in a colony.
When the producer heard the title first, he was shocked. 7-G is the number of the heroine Anita's house, and the colony is Rainbow Colony. I managed to make the producer see my point of view about the title. I never expected it to create such excitement. I have done my job honestly.
I will make Oru Naal Oru Kanavu next with Dhanush, Sonia Agarwal and Namita before I start the Hindi film. I can't talk about the other projects that I would be doing in Hindi because nothing has been finalised. If 7-G Rainbow Colony doesn't do well, I may not even have a Tamil film! Let's see how it is accepted. I want to finish my assignments here and then move to Hindi.
Ultimately, I want to make films for a global audience. I like challenges and get restless in one place after a while. I am not interested in the material trappings that come with films. What I am interested in and passionate about is films and filmmaking.
Rainbow Hutterite Colony near Ile des Chnes, Manitoba, was founded in 1964 as a division from the Elm River Hutterite Colony. It was a Schmiedeleut colony. The founding minister was Elias Waldner. He was succeeded by Jonathan Hofer. The manager was Samuel Hofer, who died in 1974. Jonathan Hofer then served as both minister and manager.
Starting in early 1970s, strong conflicts between Rainbow management and some Rainbow lay-people began to emerge. When ministers were sent to investigate, they found that the leadership was most often at fault. However, attempts at mitigating the situation failed as the Rainbow leadership refused to accept the counsel. In April of 1972, the church granted permission to a splinter group within Rainbow (approx. 5 families), to establish a new colony near Macgregor, Manitoba, which became the Baker Colony.
Rainbow was never formerly dissolved but separated itself from the Hutterite Church in 1990 when the leadership refused to allow any more church ministers to come on the colony property. At this point Rainbow Colony changed its name to Rainbow Farms Ltd. Jonathan and Cornie Hofer became the registered officers of Rainbow Farms. At that time (December 1990) Rainbow had a population of approximately 36 adults. At the time Rainbow left the Hutterite community, a few more families chose to leave and join other communities.
Kathir is a young underachiever who frequently vents his frustrations through public outbursts. When Anitha, a North Indian girl whose family has fallen on hard times, moves into his housing colony, he soon decides to pursue her with his love, but she keeps rejecting his advances.
A solidly crafted masterpiece from Selvaraghavan, a raw and honest romantic drama with outstandingly written characters, brilliant narrative and heart wrenching songs. Set in the middle class apartments of chennai, it follows the life, love and the transformational journey of a wayward brutish carefree youth in Kathir, after an angel in the form of anitha enters his life. It gets conceived as a story of a sinner seeking redemption with an angel being his redeemer. Though the story is nothing new, the unconventional theme and its execution make it engrossing.
strange, upsetting epic in miniature from selvaraghavan, who treats his simple set-up (apparently "75% autobiographical" - young lower middle class failure falls hopelessly in love with the once upper class northern girl who moves into his colony) with near operatic stylization on the one hand and clear-eyed, granular attention class, place, language and texture on the other.
so much to approach here - selva's complicated use of the stalkery admirer trope, the odd and often amazing use of songs and background score, aggressive and often subjective cross-cutting, the use of rain as motif, the almost aggressive need to show his male hero openly weeping, an ending which courts embarrassment unlike anything i've seen in years - that i'm not really sure what to make of it all, but clearly a guy to watch.
My perspective of the movie is that Kathir gets mentally ill right after the bus incident and everything that happens since then is all in his head, given we see the movie in his point of view from the start. It makes sense because the hallucinations helps him cope from the humiliation he faced. (Delulu is the solulu fr)
It'll take me a long time to get over this movie and to figure out how I feel about it. On one hand, I can't help but hate the way the Anitha (Sonia Aggarwal) character was used to "save" Kathir (Ravi Krishna). On the other, the film is a richly detailed experience that stays with you long after the end credits have rolled.
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