Chinna (2005 film): Difference between revisions

| director = [[Sundar C.]]

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'''''Chinna''''' ({{translation|Little}}) is a 2005 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[romantic thriller]] film written and directed by [[Sundar C.|Sundar C]]. ItThe film stars [[Arjun Sarja|Arjun]] and [[Sneha (actress)|Sneha]] in lead roles. The filmIt was released on 15 July 2005.<ref>{{Cite web |title=சின்னா / Chinna (2005) |url=https://screen4screen.com/movies/chinna |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226041722/https://screen4screen.com/movies/chinna |archive-date=26 February 2024 |access-date=26 February 2024 |website=Screen 4 Screen}}</ref>

The film begins with Gayathri marrying an irrigation engineer against her wishes. As she conductsgoes through with her marriage within mechanicalautopilot unconsciousness, her sunken heart reflects on her past. Gayathri, a marine student, goes to Rameswaram to study coral reefs and marine ecosystems while staying with her uncle and cousin in a fisherman hamlet. There, she witnesses Chinna and his assistants – local mobsters working for a gang – committing pitiless and violent crimes. Though she wanted to report these crimes to the local SP, her uncle and cousin dissuade her. Meanwhile, she asks her uncle for a guide to take her to locations that are rich in marine life. Her uncle asks Chinna to help Gayathri in her pursuit. After a couple of close encounters with Chinna, Gayathri understands his soft, childlike nature and vows to reform him asinto a socially acceptable man. Later, love blossoms between them. Even as Chinna tries to makestraighten his life straightways, a violent feud ensues between him and the local gang. Trying to save Gayathri, Chinna kills the gang leader and is sentenced to life imprisonment. Taking advantage of Chinna's absence, Gayathri's parents marry her to the irrigation engineer. As the flashback ends, the story ploughs through in the second half, where Chinna, characterised by thehis obsession with "Gayathri", kills people working against his goal to attain his ladylove. At the end, after much drama, when Chinna almost killedkills Gayathri's husband, Gayathri shotshoots him in order to save her husband. Chinna askedasks Gayathri if she had feelings for him before thisthen, for at least for a second. Just after she shakesnods her head saying yes, he jumps off the building. The movie ends there, indicating his death.

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''Indiaglitz'' wrote "Sundar C has a penchant for comedy capers that are low on logic but high on entertainment. Chinna is unlike Sundar C's film, which is not just very serious but also lacks his trademark humour. However thanks to a fast narration and good performance by Sneha, Chinna manages to leave an impression with the audience."<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 July 2005 |title=Chinna Review |url=https://www.indiaglitz.com/chinna-tamil-movie-review-7541.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412132354/https://www.indiaglitz.com/chinna-tamil-movie-review-7541.html |archive-date=12 April 2023 |access-date=17 March 2023 |website=IndiaGlitz.com}}</ref> Malini Mannath of ''Chennai Online'' wrote, "Arjun, expectedly, does his fights and stunts with flair, his intense grim look suiting the role well. It's when the story moves into the second half that the director falters".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mannath |first=Malini |date=22 July 2005 |title=Chinna |url=http://www.chennaionline.com/film/Moviereviews/2005/07chinna.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061015214310/http://www.chennaionline.com/film/Moviereviews/2005/07chinna.asp |archive-date=15 October 2006 |access-date=14 March 2022 |website=Chennai Online}}</ref> Malathi Rangarajan of ''[[The Hindu]]'' wrote, "The first aspect that strikes one as odd is the number of climaxes that stretch the length of the film beyond a point of endurance. With better control over the script, the narration would have been more interesting".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rangarajan |first=Malathi |date=22 July 2005 |title=A long winding narration |url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/fr/2005/07/22/stories/2005072200510200.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061120092427/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/fr/2005/07/22/stories/2005072200510200.htm |archive-date=20 November 2006 |access-date=18 October 2023 |website=[[The Hindu]]}}</ref> Visual Dasan of ''[[Kalki (magazine)|Kalki]]'' wrote Sundar made a masala out of mixing ''Gunaa'' and ''Kadhal Konden'' in second half, praised Sneha's acting and Sundar for casting antagonists Mansoor Ali Khan and Ponnambalam in humorous characters and concluded saying is it possible to make a new film on age old plot just for the screenplay which never stumbles.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=தாசன் |first=விஷுவல் |date=31 July 2005 |title=சின்னா |url=https://archive.org/details/kalki2005-07-31/page/n1/mode/2up |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240421144438/https://archive.org/details/kalki2005-07-31/page/n1/mode/2up |archive-date=21 April 2024 |access-date=21 April 2024 |magazine=[[Kalki (magazine)|Kalki]] |page=1 |language=ta |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> Regarding the Telugu dubbed version ''Koti'', a critic from ''[[Telugucinema.com]]'' wrote that "it is pucca [pakka] Tamil film – typical Tamil films’ clichés like a street song, silly comedy, and excessive melodrama. It hardly impresses".<ref>{{Cite web |last=G. |first=Jalapathy |date=28 April 2009 |title=Movie review: Koti |url=http://www.telugucinema.com/c/publish/moviereviews/koti.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090428164849/http://www.telugucinema.com/c/publish/moviereviews/koti.php |archive-date=28 April 2009 |access-date=26 June 2024 |website=[[Telugucinema.com]]}}</ref>

[[Category:Films directed by Sundar C.]]