In cinema, they are saying, fortune modifications each Friday. It could be lonely on the prime, however down the ladder it’s a clamour with scores of individuals making an attempt their greatest to search out their spot within the solar. The ratio of success to aspiration is abysmal for positive, however the attract of a place larger up within the ladder by no means wanes. However regardless of all the things, similar to how a plant manages to search out its solution to the sunshine by way of crevices in a wall, some abilities do discover a solution to flip the highlight and place it firmly on them. With 2024 coming to a detailed, right here’s a listing of abilities in Tamil cinema which have managed to go away an impression on the discerning viewers.
Each romance movie is simply nearly as good as its leads. Even when the writing is prime notch, it requires competent actors who would make us really feel the love within the air may be very actual. Nonetheless, in debutant director Prabhuram Vyas’ terrific Lover, Manikandan and Sri Gouri Priya additionally needed to persuade us that the love within the air was slowly dissipating, and was additionally suffocating. Whereas Manikandan has already developed fairly a fame for such intense roles, it was refreshing to see an actor who didn’t shrink back from being the not-so-perfect girlfriend. Sri Gouri Priya ensured that her conflicted character of Divya in Lover was as sturdy as Manikandan’s Arun. Was Divya proper or fallacious? One may need contrasting solutions. However the reply to ‘Was Sri Gouri Priya efficient as Divya?’ could be unanimously optimistic.
Preity Mukundhan – Star
In a movie in regards to the starry aspirations of an actor that will get derailed because of an unlucky accident, a woman who leaves him will undoubtedly be seen as an antagonist. In Kavin’s Star, on the outset, Preity Mukundhan’s Meera may seem to be a nasty individual, she is something however. She embodies a lady who tries to be there for the person she loves. Even when he ghosts her because of his insecurities, she finds him and makes him perceive that he could be there for her. However what if, at one level, he isn’t there for himself. Now, does that imply she stays even after being requested to go away? Meera was a sensible individual with a golden coronary heart, and Preity splendidly showcased the turmoil of such a personality, and when she lastly takes the choice, the writing and her efficiency persuade us that Meera isn’t fallacious, she is simply drained. Additionally, Preity was a part of the viral 2024 music, Aasa Kooda, and effectively… viral is the brand new breakout.
Vijay Kanishka – Hit Record
Hit Record was a relatively attention-grabbing movie, backed by KS Ravikumar, and directed by Soorya Kathir and Karthikeyan. It was a gritty thriller a few man pressured to do actions in opposition to his will to save lots of his household from dying. It wasn’t a straightforward movie to hold on the shoulders of a debut actor, however ace director Vikraman’s son, Vijay Kanishka, managed to try this successfully. Though he does take time to develop on us, Vijay step by step loops us into the movie along with his earnest efficiency. With a movie that allowed him to showcase his all-round expertise, together with his motion expertise and performing expertise, Vijay is a kind of few actors of 2024 who made a powerful debut in a movie that provided him simply the appropriate platform to make an honest leap into stardom.
Pari Elavazhagan – Jama
In Tamil cinema, many actors who wish to make a reputation for themselves grow to be filmmakers first after which launch their performing careers. There are various examples of such actor-filmmakers who’re sought-after actors now regardless of beginning their careers on the director’s chair. Nonetheless, in an attention-grabbing coincidence and energy, debut director Pari Elavazhagan made the terrific Jama to showcase the expertise of comparatively new actor Pari Elavazhagan. Written, directed and carried out by Pari, Jama is a heartfelt story of therukoothu artists, and explores the concepts of masculinity, sacrifice, brotherhood, and the immense love for the artwork overshadowing all the things else. By a layered character that allowed him to cement his credentials as a gifted actor, Pari undoubtedly backed a profitable horse.
Khatija Rahman – Minmini
Being a star child is simple on some ranges, and tough on the others. However being the child of a once-in-a-generation expertise is a distinct ball sport altogether, particularly if you’re getting into the identical subject your father/mom is a legend in. It’s into such enormous footwear that Khatija Rahman, the daughter of Oscar winner AR Rahman stepped into when she composed the music for Halitha Shameem’s lovely movie, Minmini. With some lilting tunes and a haunting background rating, Khatija stamped her individuality proper from her debut Tamil movie. The best way she dealt with the media was equally good as Khatija by no means shied away from accepting her privilege, however not with out establishing that she was her personal musician. Proper from the best way she approached questions on comparisons along with her legendary father to letting her music do many of the speaking, Khatija was a shock breakout expertise of 2024. Oh, and her social media sport was on level too.
Malavika Mohanan – Thangalaan
It isn’t at all times {that a} heroine will get an author-backed function in mainstream business Indian cinema. Whereas there may be an argument made that Pa Ranjith’s Thangalaan wasn’t precisely mainstream, Tamil cinema is wired otherwise as a result of there isn’t a non-mainstream within the business. Each movie, nonetheless ‘completely different’ it’s, has to compete in the identical launch pool, and this invariably pushes actors to go for roles that maintain them commercially viable. On this journey, the heroines are most affected as a result of their roles in star-driven movies aren’t at all times correctly crafted. Regardless of starring alongside the likes of Rajinikanth, Vijay, Dulquer Salmaan, and Dhanush, Malavika Mohanan hadn’t established her credentials as a ‘good actor.’ That modified when Pa Ranjith thought she was the acceptable candidate to play the paranormal Aarathi in Thangalaan. Her function is the soul of the movie that performs out like a whimsical oscillation between dream and a nightmare. She performs the voice of motive, and the cry for hope, and it’s by way of her compelling act that we perceive the machinations of Ranjith’s imaginative and prescient. Malavika’s profession can simply be categorised as pre and post-Thangalaan.
Ponvel and Raghul – Vaazhai
It’s at all times robust for a filmmaker to direct youngsters due to their mercurial and inquisitive nature. However Mari Selvaraj, who made Vaazhai from pages out of his personal life, knew precisely what he needed. And solid Ponvel and Raghu as two mates who managed to at all times discover a motive to smile and chortle even when issues acquired harder for them. Though Ponvel did play the ‘lead’ in Vaazhai, Raghul was the proper foil. It’s this duo that basically labored in driving house the emotional core of Vaazhai. They offered the grins nearly as good as they offered the goals. They had been as pragmatic as they had been passionate. They made us tear up as effectively as they made us chortle. Two stable performers whose energy was their innocence and rawness.
Swasika – Lubber Pandhu
When there are conversations surrounding age hole amongst lead actors, there are additionally counter arguments that actors are simply enjoying roles, and in the event that they ship convincing performances, all the things else is forgotten. As a 33-year-old actor, Swasika performed the mom of a 24 year-old Sanjana Krishnamoorthy, and the possible mother-in-law of a 34-year-old Harish Kalyan. Now, actors enjoying characters a lot older than them isn’t new, however full factors to director Tamizharasan Pachamuthu for envisioning Swasika within the function of Yashodha, who zoomed proper to the highest within the checklist of favorite onscreen characters of 2024. Though she has been a part of a handful of Malayalam and Tamil movies, Lubber Pandhu has grow to be the calling card for the actor now. In truth, many had been shocked to know that she wasn’t a middle-aged greying girl in her 40s in actual life. Isn’t that the hallmark of an excellent actor? And thru her fantastic efficiency in scenes with each Sanjana and ‘Gethu’ Dinesh, Swasika ensured folks would bear in mind her as Yashodha for a very long time.
Samyuktha Vijayan – Neela Nira Sooriyan
It can be crucial for the systemically and societally oppressed to have the area to inform their very own tales. Usually in cinema, this area isn’t current, it must be created. And one such creation of 2024 was Neela Nira Sooriyan, which was in regards to the transition of a transwoman, and the challenges that come her approach. Written and directed by Samyuktha Vijayan, who additionally performed the lead within the movie, Neela Nira Sooriyan was impressed by her personal story and spoke in regards to the significance of monetary independence required in such circumstances. As a performer, she introduced in an understated nuance to the character that usually goes lacking in such roles. As a author and filmmaker, she introduced in a perspective that by no means as soon as makes us take a look at her character with a way of high-handed sympathy. The movie appears on the complete transition course of in a really matter-of-fact approach and removes the melodramatic angle that’s typically highlighted onscreen. This refreshing take spoke not simply in regards to the underlying layers of familial assist, but in addition how even the federal government’s progressive measures don’t issue within the full image.
Kani Thiru – Parachute
Disney+Hotstar’s Parachute was a welcome reduction within the Tamil OTT area, which blew cold and warm within the 12 months 2024. Some had been first rate, and a few handed muster in a 12 months that largely had disappointments in retailer from the varied streaming platforms. Nonetheless, Parachute, which was extra of a restricted sequence with 5 episodes that had the whole runtime of a characteristic movie, got here on the proper time to win the hearts of many. In fact, the children, performed by Iyal and Shakthi, are the highlights of the sequence that talks about poisonous parenting, and the struggles of a middle-class family. However similar to how such Indian households are constructed on the inspiration of the resilience of the lady of the home, Parachute too is hinged on Kani Thiru’s efficiency. Whereas it may appear that she doesn’t do quite a bit within the sequence, it’s her quiet manner that claims greater than phrases can do. Her delicate expressions when oscillating between motherly affection and concern of potential violence, and but settling down in a cautious love summarises the character, and to Kani’s credit score, she communicates it by way of her consummate efficiency in her first main function.
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