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Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Tom The film starts out with the charmingly simple and playful narrative one expects from Indian cinema. A small village romance is disrupted when a young man, and others, are convinced by a kangany to go and pick tea in the hills. Surely the lives of tea pickers were not great, however they were not much different to those of other Indian labourers at the time. The beatings and the scene in which the protagonist's leg is cut after he attempts to "run away" were completely made up. Of course labourers were free to leave, although those with debts would still need to find a way to pay them off. The idea of night patrols chasing down run aways and mutilating them is pure fantasy.The head planter on the estate was not even played by an Englishman, and speaks with some odd American/German accent. There was little effort to replicate the fashion and costume of the time, with him wearing American aviator shades in one scene. Perhaps this film does provide a little insight into the hardships of the Tamil tea pickers, and the cinematography is quite delightful throughout, but it is too theatrical and too historically inaccurate to appeal to me.

chandrasekar91 Paradesi is by far Bala's best film. With no compromise on commercial aspects the movie literally relives the lives of the famine stricken people of southern India under the rule of the British.One can watch this movie simply to enjoy the language and the Tamil slang the people of that age used.At the end of the movie one would have gone through all emotions; happiness, sadness, laughter, pain, fear, pity. Though the story is adapted from 'Eriyum Panikadu' a Tamil translation of the 1969 novel Red Tea by Paul Harris Daniel this film has got a flavor of its own. The narrative style of the Director makes you feel as though you are one of the characters in the movie. The movie actually sucks the audience into it for its entire length leaving the audience much to think about in the end.Any person who enjoyed the movie would want to read the novel, any person who has already read the novel will enjoy the movie even more. Coming to the technical aspects, the film has already won the National award for Best costume designs. The Camera work is noteworthy,specially in the initial scenes. The background score is descent and the songs go well with the flow of the movie. The lead characters have excelled individually however the rest of casting could have been a little better.All in all Paradesi is a movie to watch, a movie to live,a movie to learn from..

yunusitboss Paradesi (U) "Aatma"Feel It Around You - DOLBY ATMOS (A) Rangrezz (U/A)Complete Review and more Hot news .... LIKE THIS PAGE : Facebook : Movie Review by Yunus Irshadhttps://www.facebook.com/YunusIrshadsMovieReviewParadesi (U) TAMIL ----------------- my Rating : ★★★★ EXPENSIVE ONEWON NATIONAL AWARD FOR COSTUME ....STRENGTHS : - * Story and Direction : Shows the Reality behind the concept ..... * Background Score : was perfect and takes the movie to the next level.... * Costumes : deserves the award.... * Casting and Performances : will make u cry and feel in some scenes .... * Lighting of the movie : hats-off to the Camera man ....WEAKNESSES : - * Songs : are not special whereas the lyrics are powerful.... * Movie not completed * First half : was small less than a hour but was very draggy ....FINAL VERDICT : - Overall ... it is must watch movie by all .... Superb movie especially the climax was unbelievable "U will keep Ur hands on Ur head " ....Go watch it .....This movie is an adaptation of a Malayalam novel 'Eriyum Thanal'. The movie shows the trials and tribulations that a couple working in a tea estate undergo to raise their son. Adharva, Vedika.

Ganapathy chandra durai N PARADESI movie review by me.Paradesi movie is about lost paradise.(Just juggle the words paradise,paradesi will come,actually the story is about people who leave their place on lookout for better future (paradesi looking out for paradise) but here as how the words can be juggled their life was juggled to Hell.Just now seen "Paradesi" movie,I got involved in the movie so much,the tears came when exactly the climax came even though I don't know it is Climax,that is Direction at its best,kudos Bala.Cons:The movie reminded me of Apocalypto at some scenes but it is the story about "paradesi's" who were same and who were cheated and tortured like this.Pros:Whenever we go to tourist places in TamilNadu and Kerala border we just take picture of Tea estate and Tea plantation but this movie rather pictures their History,sufferings,life in ancient India.I never seen a Indian movie hero living in a Hut in a movie or be it shots shot inside a Hut or treated like beggar in the Indian movies of this past decade.Verdict:If you love drinking a cup of tea,please see the movie and feel the aroma of this movie,which extracts not tea from tea leaves but Blood from this leaves.This movie is adapted from the novel named "Red Tea" by Paul Harris Daniel ,which I believed and the people who watched this movie or those who have read the novel will believe as aptly named.Director:Bala