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Circular Style

         There are a lot of techniques and art in film making. Certain films are told chronologically. Like ‘Thuppaki’, ‘Matraan’ and ‘Bommarilu’. The most common way in Indian cinema is flash back essaying style. From ‘Nenjam Marapathillai’ to this day’s ‘Mahadeera’ and ‘Ezham Arivu’ flash back plays it role. This style will create a kind curiosity in fans mind. But there is another style which less common in Indian film. It is said that this style origin from Italy films and director K.Balanchander brought it in to Tamil cinema in his ‘Aval Oru Thodarkathai’ in 1975.The unique of this technique is the movie starts and ends at the same place, completing a circle. Aval Oru Thodarkhatai (1975) The movie starts in town bus showing Sujatha going to work for her big family. The same scene repeated at the end when Sujatha again going to work for her widowed sister in law after her marriage planning fail. It creates sympathy for Sujatha’s role in the m...