pudupettai - survivial of the fittest

PUDUPETTAI - The Tagline "the survival of the fittest" is a gangster movie written and directed by selvaraghavan. The film is heavily inspired from Scarface and city of god, is considered to be one of the best films of the decade in Indian cinema. Its been five years since the release of the film and still its one of the masterpieces of Indian cinema. This update is not about the story of the film as many you would have seen it numerous times.

Selvaraghavan uses two key guys in his technical crew Yuvan and Arvind Krishna. The Soundtrack of the film released five months before the release of the film, like all the Selvaraghavan films that has come out. The soundtrack covered 10 tracks overall with 6 songs and 4 instrumentals. The entire music which includes the Re-Recording has been composed at Chapraya symphony orchestra in Bangkok. People inside the industry are literally convinced that its Yuvan's and Selva's best work till date. Kamal Hassan Sir has sung Neruppu vayinil song for the film, with the visuals inspired from the song in Scarface where Al Pacino fights criminals. Oru naalil (It All comes down to this) composed and sung by Yuvan himself was the song of the year. Lyrics were written by Na. Muthukumar was very much inspiring. This is one of the different, underrated and exceptional mix and mastering of tracks that we have heard after a long time. Try to hear it with an I-Pod once to understand the feel.

Pudhupettai is the first Tamil film shot in Super 35mm format. Super 35-mm packs more details in a frame, wherein the frame is somewhat big than any other normal film. This kind of format, goes in with more detailing with a larger image area. Its a very different visual experience with matt based color correction and different color tones for different moods. If you could have a look, Scenes of dhanush in the jail will have a greener, reddish tones whereas in the scenes like selling dope would have a yellowish look. This is considered to Arvind Krishna's best works along with 7/g rainbow colony , pachai Kili Muthu charam, and kuselan. Arvind Sir has used low key lighting and understandably flat lighting in most of his movies till date.

The film was shot twice with different story lines. First one was inspired from city of god which had dhanush very little screen time than the present one. Due to in differences, the film was re shot again, this time heavily inspired from Brain de Palma's scarface. Most of the sequences have the same kind of a look and making. This film is a magical kind of an experience and won various accolades at film festivals. Pudhupettai was Sneha's and Dhanush's best work till date. Dhanush's best without a doubt. Selva Creates those strong characters that leaves a deep impact of you. The film is criticized for its violence and blood gore and the intense graphical detail of the goons in chennai. This is deserved to be in your DVD library for a long time to come. Please do not miss the DVD, heavily recommended.