In ‘Star’, Elan and Kavin and Yuvan put on a show that proves that the mainstream can indeed be a place for good, ambitious ‘cinema’
- Trinity Auditorium
- May 10, 2024
- 1 min read
The film also stars Lal, Geetha Kailasam, Preity Mukhundhan and Aaditi Pohankar. It is a prickly, thorns-and-all life story of a man who wants to become a star
There is a stunning moment in Star that involves someone travelling. An overhead shot captures them on the road, and then something dramatic happens – and you think the director, Elan, is going to cut from the overhead view to a POV that gives us visual detail of what exactly happened. For instance, if the hero is slapped (as he is, many times, in this film), you want a shot of Kavin’s face, to see how the slap has affected him. You have seen the “action”, and you want the “reaction”. That is how drama works – mostly. But in that stunning shot, Elan doesn’t immediately tell us what happened. He continues his overhead observation, and shows us the empty road ahead. The point isn’t about the destination (i.e., the immediate reaction shot), but the journey. The point is what lies ahead on that empty road, that… “road of life”, so to speak. That is where the “reaction” lies for the “action” we just saw.
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