Happy birthday, Sir!
People are celebrating the Ulaga Nayagan's birthday in their own ways. So I thought to myself, "Why not watch one of his best works again?" On any other day, I would have preferred either "Michael Madana Kamarajan" or his other equally hilarious "Pammal K Sambandam". But having sat through several classes of psychoanalysis, I decided on "Anbe Sivam" instead. It's been thirteen years since it released, and I remember watching it several times during the summer of that year as a child. As someone who merely watched movies for entertainment and couldn't understand subtleties or notions of communism, even if it was blatantly obvious. So this time around, I paid attention to all of it. The street play song, the direct and indirect references to the bourgeoisie, the suffering of the proletariats, the painting and the domination of the color red throughout the movie. It's no coincidence that Madhavan is an ad film maker in the movie (...