When he was nine, he saw his older sister being murdered in the woods by a man whose face he never saw and who has gone unpunished for 15 long years. Jovan Adepo (" Fences," "Overlord") plays Daniel, a 24-year-old trying to get into the Marines in order to escape his small town and put his tragic family past behind him. But by then it's too late for "The Violent Heart" to do anything but make you mourn all the promising artistic and narrative pathways it refused to explore. Imagine an early Bruce Springsteen ballad worked over in a fiction writing workshop until the life has been bled out of it. Hell breaks loose in the film's final stretch, and sure enough, that's when things finally start to cook. Written and directed by Kerem Sanga, and unfolding in the type of desolate rural American landscape where movie characters tend to either battle over ownership of farmland or participate in demonic rituals, this movie arrives preceded by claims that it's a melodrama in the tradition of Douglas Sirk ("Magnificent Obsession"), embracing coincidence and tragic fate.īut what's onscreen feels more like a hushed, emotionally constipated middle-American indie drama, where pretty much everybody is weighed down by the horrors of the past even though they go about their days in clueless innocence or lie about everything being fine. The times may have changed, but not small-time thieves, god-men and their world.The problem with "The Violent Heart" isn't that it goes too far, it's that it doesn't go far enough. It also has a god-man who delivers religious sermon, as any other guru in India would. It has Muthu Kumar and Subbaraj's frequent collaborator Bobby Simha, attempting a robbery as COVID-19 adversely affects their lives. The title, Miracle, itself denotes that god exists and has a plan. There are indirectly related characters here whose worlds collide through some sort of divine intervention.
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It is full of Subbaraj films' quirky twists and trademark camera work, somewhat reminiscent of his debut movie Pizza. Talk about saving the best for the last, it is just that kind of a short film. Then, there is Karthik Subbaraj's 'Miracle'. This is true of most shorts in Putham Pudhu Kaalai. Menon conveys powerful views about drug addiction in Reunion, but it is the dialogues that work better than the whole short itself. Sikkil Gurucharan and Andrea Jeremiah's characters are forced to spend some days with the former's mother, played by Leela Samson. The fourth short is Rajiv Menon's 'Reunion', about schoolmates meeting after a long time as the lockdown starts. Take, for instance, Shruti Hasan's character being emotional and slightly awkward as she talks to her mother. Suhasini's short seemed the most rushed film of the five, but it has its moving moments. While two of the sisters and their father react logically to her condition, one seems to harbor resentment to her. The short is about three sisters getting used to the gravity of their old mother's new illness. Then comes Suhasini Mani Ratnam's 'Coffee, Anyone?', which arguably features the best of Shruti Hasan. Watching Urvashi and Jayaram briefly takes you back to the 1990's, the time they did many classic Malayalam films.
It is feel-good, has some filmy references and has its moments. You only need to know that it has actors Jayaram, Urvashi, Kalidas, and Kalyani Priyadarshan. I will not reveal anything more about Kongara's short for doing so will amount to a plot spoiler. It has well-known actors playing characters who find themselves stuck in their homes after the Indian government announces a nationwide lockdown. The anthology starts with Sudha Kongara's 'Ilamai Idho Idho', a nod to an Ilaiyaraaja chartbuster. There is no thread common in the shorts except for the fact that these are all set in the coronavirus lockdown period. This is to say, almost every short film in the anthology comes and goes so quickly that it only leaves you with a melange of good and quirky moments. The anthology is rather elaborately mounted, and each short in it makes you feel excited only in brief spurts. Seeing Putham Pudhu Kaalai on Amazon Prime is like watching lightning bugs do their glowing thing at night.
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