Thangalaan (2024) South Indian Full Movie
| Thangalaan | |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Released: | 2024 Aug 15 |
| Runtime: | 156 min |
| Genre: | Action, Adventure, Drama |
| Director: | Pa. Ranjith |
| Actors: | Vikram, Parvathy Thiruvothu, Malavika Mohanan |
| Language: | Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Oriya, Bengali |
| Country: | India |
| Awards: | N/A |
| Writer: | Azhagiyae Periyavan, Tamil Praba, Tamizh Prabha |
| Plot: | Based on the true events that revolve around the lives of mine workers in the Kolar Gold Fields, Karnataka |
Thangalaan (2024) South Indian Full Movie Review :
Why do we study history? What is in the past that helps the present, and understand the future? Some say we read history to avoid mistakes, and not repeat the faults of our ancestors. Some say we read history to learn of our legacy, and how we are just the pale shadows of the past. And then, some ask whose story is history? There is an oft-quoted African proverb that says the hunter will always be the hero until the lion tells the story. In every possible way, tries to tell the story of the invisibilised, the overlooked, the oppressed, and the ones left behind. In his latest endeavour, which is also his boldest attempt at storytelling, Ranjith takes up the story of how people were exploited to mine gold from the Kolar Gold Fields. Thangalaan is Ranjith’s first direct attempt at revisionist history, and he ropes in concepts like multigenerational memories and magical realism to reiterate that often the oppressed are forced to choose between ‘lesser of the two evils.’Thangalaan begins with Vikram, the titular character, waking up from a dream; a dream that has been haunting him for years. A dream that features the sorceress Aarathi (a brilliant Malavika Mohanan) and a search for identity. It is this quest that makes him and his family the only land-owning family in the village of Veppur in North Arcot. Not wanting to allow Thangalaan and his family to be independent, the village zamindar makes them his bonded labourers by using nefarious means. But this quest for identity never stops, and when a silver-tongued Britisher asks the Veppur villagers to join him on his quest to find the famed gold mines, which the villagers believe to be haunted, Thangalaan is the first to volunteer. However, Ranjith and his team of writers aren’t just invested in the life and times of Thangalaan. They also allow other characters the space to grow and express themselves.
Pasupathy plays a character who anoints himself as a Brahmin hoping for a place in Vaikunta. He believes this identity will give him a life better than being stuck in Veppur as a bonded labourer. He believes in their God in the hope that it will allow him a place in their heaven after his death. Then, there is the Britisher Clement (a terrific Daniel Caltagirone), who wants to find a place in history as the man who discovered the mines. There is Gangamma , who prides on being a mother but wants to be respected as a wife, and a woman. These characters’ search for their identity, and identifying the right ones is the bedrock of Thangalaan.








