Bala’s ‘Vanangaan’, with Arun Vijay, is not bad, but it needed to dig deeper
- Trinity Auditorium
- Jan 11
- 1 min read
The film has interesting characters and plot points. But they don’t come together as well as you’d hope. The rest of this review contains spoilers.
The opening shot of Vanangaan has a man bringing out a statue of Lord Ganesha that has fallen into a well. He has “saved” God, in other words. The closing shot of Vanangaan is a mirror image. It has the same man, the same well – but this time he is bringing out something else. I cannot reveal what this is, but we get a hint early in the movie, in GV Prakash Kumar’s beautiful song, Irai nooru. Lyricist Karthik Netha writes: “Kadavulai kaapaatra manidhan undu, manithanai kaapatra kadavul undo?” There’s always a man to save God, but is there a God to save man? My translation is clumsy, but this is the film’s existential crux, and in a way, you can say that this has been the existential crux of every Bala movie.
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