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Director:Durai
Cast:Ajit Kumar, Jyotika, Raghuvaran, Sitara, Manivannan, Rajiv, Vivek, Vyapuri.
His dream is
to become a music composer some day. And he keeps meeting the
people who matter in the film industry. It's a tedious job but
Sridhar does not lose heart. He goes through the whole gamut of
getting appointments and seeing them cancelled, bearing with all
the insults and ego tantrums, and the heartless, callous
behaviour in general. The family backs him to the hilt. His is a
middle class family and his brother is the only breadwinner.
Indulgent towards his younger sibling's dreams the sister-in-law
and kids too love him, never letting him know the financial
problems the family is going through.
Sridhar
falls in love and his girl understands his dream. She even does
her bit to push him a little towards his goal. But when he has to
take a decision between taking up a job so that he can marry the
girl as per her father's condition, or giving her up so that he
can continue chasing his dream, Sridhar opts for the latter
course. But what love couldn't make him do family-duty does. His
brother falls ill and the family is in a financial crisis. And
Sridhar after much heartburn gives up his dream for the hard
realities of life.
Through his
protagonist, the director in his debut film depicts the hard
realities of life, the aspirations of the middle class and the
aborted dreams, and the abandoning of the soul's yearning for the
body's hunger. The callousness of the show biz world and the ego
has been well brought out. It is a sensitively handled film,
simple in it is narrative style and a cut above the average. A
couple of Deva's tunes strike the right note. While Jyotika's
mercurial expressions are enjoyable, Vivek is plainly irritating.
Ajit puts in a splendid performance, his vulnerability striking
an instant empathy with the audience.
Malini