2017 – collecting stories

Tumhari Sulu (2017) & Kaatrin Mozhi (2018)| Vidya Balan _ Jyotika

Tumhari Sulu is the new late night show on Radio Wow. I don’t remember the crucial twists in the film, so I don’t know what brought about the end! 😏 I felt it was a little too sudden, the transformation .. (spoiler alert, if you thought the film was an original)
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a one time watch since I watched it once 😉, I left the theatre and didn’t carry the film with me type of .. ..Oh wait. I loved what she did with the matar (peas). Matar aloo ya matar paneer 😂😂. Certain anecdotes are just spot on beautiful, also the stereotyping……..The plot still sits within patriarchal tones about the usual complications which arises when the homemaker bags a job of a radio jockey for a late night show. When she isn’t available for her school going son and the husband like she used to be, awake at breakfast as she hosts a late night call in show at the radio station which demands of her to be on late night shifts (no surprises there) the people who initially ‘encouraged‘ her begins to blame her for the train wreck that follows….of course, we have seen that before in English Vinglish with Sridevi (Hindi), How old are you with Manju Warrier (Malayalam)….My entertainment was the people next to me who had a sarcastic say for everything on screen 😂

..Tumhari Sulu is a 2017 Hindi film with Vidhya Balan in the lead, with Manaav Kaur & Neha Dhupia beautifully supporting her. The Hawa Hawaiii song.. it is there in the background.

There is a tamil remake with Jyotika directed by Radha Mohan is called Kaatrin Mozhi (2018)Filed in #filmtales #talkingfilms

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Mussouri (2017) 🥰🥰

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Mussouri is a 2017 film as the title says is about a grieving mother’s public howler to her town’s police chief, Bill Willoughby & force.

Most of the rest of the film is a bunch of reactions to her this action. That said, this isn’t another crime thriller, or about a wailing mother who lost her daughter crying out for justice. It is about this unrelenting gritty woman (Frances McDormand) who has separated from her husband on reasons of abuse, wants to shake up the police force from their laid back routine. Three billboards puts this quiet town on prime time TV, and gets its people talking, enraged ..

As the content is serious, there are times when as an audience we’d wonder, what is that that made us laugh in certain scenes. And we do laugh out loud often, continue to laugh at the verbal and situational humour during a serious conversation.

“Did she say begets ..?” is one such point, that also encapsulates the theme of the film in one stroke!

A teenage girl is raped, burnt, and murdered in this town. Her mother is irritated that the police force in spite of a diligent officer in charge hasn’t caught the culprits responsible for her daughter’s cruel fate since 9 months. On a spur of the moment she decides to pay to paint her messages up on three billboards on a less frequently travelled road. That act makes her the target of the ire of the (almost) whole town. They, the parish priest, her ex husband, people of her town do everything — from giving her advice to hurling objects at her, her car, arresting her friend under false allegation, beating up the owner of the advertising co. who had leased the billboards, to setting the billboards on fire– but she stays determined. Along the way she finds she has new friends and well wishers for her cause.

Nevertheless, the story doesn’t end here. That’s for you to find out when you watch it. I’m tempted to share about the God narrative tool but then if I do that I’d have to add spoiler alert to this post! 😀 (some other day), but that narrative tactic speaks out loud, about every possible ending that could play in our minds about the direction of the film 😉

Verdict: I thoroughly enjoyed the film 🥰🥰 especially after a dampening Black Panther🙄. Saw these two films back to back one night, and went to sleep peacefully thereafter.

Streaming on Hotstar