Putham Pudhu Kaalai Review: An engaging Tamil anthology which has mixed emotions.

This web series was shot during the Covid-19 lockdown times. Putham Pudhu Kaalai Amazon Prime Web Series brings five versatile directors together. The five film makers depict the story in a feel good manner. All the directors expressed each story through songs and music which is a very fascinating experience.

The five stories that represent the Putham Pudhu Kaalai Web Series, the first Tamil Anthology, which utilizes the pandemic and sequences of lockdown as a backdrop. Those who are alive during these tough pandemic times are lucky. They have a good time to repair their relationships with their partners. Each of the story takes 25 min roughly and the all the stories are filmed at Chennai inside the houses. It is a great experiment by all the directors and the cast.

That’s the story line of Putham Pudhu Kaalai, which is made up of 5 short stories with 5 different directors. The story revolves about the miracles, second chances that life gives us and happy endings.

In one of the stories, Gautham Menon’s Avarum Naanum/Avalum Naanam (M S Bhaskar, Ritu Varma) revolves around the grand daughter (Ritu varma) and her grandfather (M S Bhaskar). She arrives at her thaatha’s house to fetch vegetables and toiletries for him. He lives alone in the house as his house-help, stuck during the lockdown. Grand daughter is an IT professional whereas the Grandfather is a Scientist. They both try to have a good bonding during this period as they both don’t have a good communication for years due to the family’s disputes.

Ilamai Idho Ido(Jayaram, Kalidas Jayaram, Urvashi, Kalyani Priyadarshan), which is directed by Sudha Kongara the story revolves around the elderly lovers who reconnect after years. They recall all the memories they have of their past. Keeping wet towels in the bed, dancing like a lead actors in Mani Rattan’s film. This story goes back and forth in time. We can see the young couple who turns into elders and hide about them from grown-up kids, until…. one day.

In “Coffee Anyone?” ,a family drama which was directed Suhasini Mani Ratnam, you can see all the three Hassan siblings( Suhasini, Shruthi Hassan,Anu Hassan) clubbed up along with Suhasini Mani Ratnam’s mother Komalam Charuhasan and a Tamil actor Kathadi Ramamurthy. All the cousins played sisters role whose comatose mother is rescued from ICU by their father .The eldest daughter (Suhasini) has a son who has a learning disorder. The second (Anu) is first time pregnant and third (Shruti) is a late child born to middle-aged parents, with some emotional problems. The third child (Shruthi) goes away from the home as she doesn’t want to remain in contact with her family. When her comatose mother turns 75 years, she does a video call and the scene is very emotional.

Reunion which was directed by Rajiv Menno’s is a story which revolves around the widowed mother ((Leela Samson) and her doctor son ( Sakkil Gurucharan) and an unexpected visitor from her son’s past life. A a girl who is his school friend and ends up staying a long period. Sadhana (Andrea Jeremiah) played the girl role that is a bar singer, event manager. The doctor is self quarantined as he is in contact with a positive person. During this period the mother and sadhana becomes close with each other. Later, they come to know that Sadhana is a drug addict and stressd out due to some failure in her life. The emotional support which is given by the doctor and his mother to Sadhana is beautifully narrated.

And the fifth story, Karthik Subbaraj’s, Miracle is completely different from all the other stories. This story is revolves around two goons (Bobby Simha and K. Muthu Kumar) who have scarcity of money and food. One of them has a plan which helps them to cop up with their current situation. They assume that if they will succeed in the plan they will have biryani instead of tamarind rice every single day. Apart from the other four films this is the only film that has filmed outdoor.

Putham Pudhu Kaalai movie cast

Jayaram
Kalidas Jayaram
Urvashi
Kalyani Priyadarshan
M S Bhaskar
Ritu Varma
Suhasini Mani Ratman
Anu Hasan
Shruti Haasan
Andrea Jeremiah
Leela Samson
Sikkhil Gurucharan
Bobby Simha
Muthu Kumar

Putham Pudhu Kaalai Directors

Sudha Kongara
Gautham Menon
Suhasini Mani Rathnam
Rajiv Menon
Karthik Subbaraj

Putham Pudhu Kaalai Trailer

Conclusion

Finally, the idea of making the best out of the circumstances is appreciable. If you want to watch a feel good movie then watch Putham Pudhu Kaalai on Amazon prime. It just moves around the circumstances which are not life and death issues that a COVID-19 brought us.

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Putham Pudhu Kaalai Review: An engaging Tamil anthology which has mixed emotions.

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