FOUR FILMS, A COMPARISION

• Two English films reminded me of two Manirathnam films.
• One was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid which made me think of Thiruda Thiruda.
  Everything sounded similar, both films etching out the life of two robbers, their friendship and exploits. In the English version, Etta Place gets the attention of Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Though she is with Redford she goes bike-riding with Paul Newman. In Tamil, both Prashant and Anand love Heera.
• The other films are Kannathil Mutthamittaal and Made in America.
• In the Tamil film, a girl wants to find out who her real mother is and this search leads her to Sri Lanka where she finds out that her mother is a suicide bomber.
• In Made in America, a young woman discovers that her mother, Whoopi Goldberg, conceived her with donor sperm and wants to find out who her father is. Whoppi Goldberg wanted the sperm of a black where as the donor happens to be white. Eventually, the donor comes for the convocation of the girl, that's it.
• The films have much in common though they are not remakes. If the Tamil versions were inspired by their foreign cousins, I won't be surprised.
• But maybe I am making uncalled for comparisons, the thematic resemblences are too striking to miss. Anyway, all four films are great to watch.