Suriya’s “Scene” Outshines Ramayana, Mookuthi Amman In Diwali Clash

Imagine the overwhelming stress these production and marketing teams had when a tri-cornered release for Diwali hit them! Overwhelmed audience, ruckus filled ticket sales, return on investment, star studded status of the cast and weight of the narratives. Ramayana, Mookuthi Amman and Scene clashed at the box office in TN, the gladiator of Diwali releases, a cinema tradition for the film hungry Tamilian. The Hindu minced no words in the Mookuthi Amman review it said: “Nayanthara’s Amman has Divine powers but cannot defeat bad film making”. The weight of ages of story-telling, the all-pervading divinity and a cult epic…the Ramayana retold countless times is still revisiting the beautiful Ramanand Sagar TV serial epic that closeted a milling public indoors Sunday morning –glued to TV in their home or neighbours. That leaves Suriya’s Scene. A hero who had been eclipsed by back to back Box Office debacles. Slowly the star was fighting his way through the muck of failure. His last two outings Karuppu and Vishwanath & Sons, glinting hopefully. And then comes Scene reminding us about the streets of Mumbai echoing with the cries of “De daan chutte gruhan” the next day. It is Daat de, Chutte Gruhan for Suriya with Scene. He has put himself in the capable creativity of Malayalam director Jithu Madhavan whose smash hit Aavesham beckoned like a siren song. Suriya just goes with the flow of the narrative…his comic timing of earlier hit Pithamagan echoes. Ghajini was no accidental wonder. In Scene Suriya is cautious not stealing scenes from his co-stars…Nazriya Nazim, his romantic interest and villain Naslen. Suriya is the 1000 wala cracker of this Diwali .