About HAPPY BIRTHDAY Tamil Thriller Short Film
Happy Birthday is a story of a few simple people and a fateful night. At the stage of life, they are in, each of them has different aspirations for their future. But, what does this night hold for each of them? How is this night going to unfold? Starring Radha Manalan, Aravind Seiju, RK Vilasini aka Haasini, Vignesh Pavithran, Sujith Gee Vee and directed by Parthiban Kannan and Kausthub Ravi. Kudos to the whole team. Especially to the editor and cinematographer. Both have done an excellent job.
Simple dialogues with no much noise. A totally happy birthday made us happier. The story starts with an innocent dad buying a black forest cake for his son as it’s son’s b’day that day and two police officers are discussing a case in which they have encountered criminals. Really interesting, a normal storyline with great non-linear screenplay, cinematography, and editing made this movie really good. Including “prank stuff” from youtube in this screenplay made the script a little bit fresh in watching it.Thriller is a genre of fiction, having numerous, often overlapping subgenres. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation, and anxiety. Successful examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
Thrillers generally keep the audience on the “edge of their seats” as the plot builds towards a climax. The cover-up of important information is a common element. Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists, unreliable narrators, and cliffhangers are used extensively. A thriller is often a villain-driven plot, whereby they present obstacles that the protagonist must overcome. Likewise, this short film had a good edge seating experience. Also no matter how many mistakes you make to cover up a mistake, the red man cannot escape. Suspense is a crucial characteristic of the thriller genre.
It gives the viewer a feeling of pleasurable fascination and excitement mixed with apprehension, anticipation, and tension. These develop from unpredictable, mysterious, and rousing events during the narrative, which makes the viewer or reader think about the outcome of certain actions. Suspense builds to make those final moments, no matter how short, the most memorable. The suspense in a story keeps the person hooked to reading or watching more until the climax is reached. In terms of narrative expectations, it may be contrasted with curiosity and surprise. The objective is to deliver a story with sustained tension, surprise, and a constant sense of impending doom. As described by film director Alfred Hitchcock, an audience experiences suspense when they expect something bad to happen and have (or believe they have) a superior perspective on events in the drama’s hierarchy of knowledge, yet they are powerless to intervene to prevent it from happening.
Suspense in thrillers is often intertwined with hope and anxiety, which are treated as two emotions aroused in anticipation of the conclusion – the hope that things will turn out all right for the appropriate characters in the story, and the fear that they may not. The second type of suspense is the “…anticipation wherein we either know or else are fairly certain about what is going to happen but are still aroused in anticipation of its actual occurrence.” According to Greek philosopher Aristotle in his book Poetics, suspense is an important building block of literature, and this is an important convention in the thriller genre.
Thriller music has been shown to create distrust and ominous uncertainty between the viewer of a film and the character on screen at the time when the music is playing. This short film is also suspense-driven. The main protagonist is a comedian but he did his part to perfection. Common methods and themes in crime and action thrillers are mainly ransoms, captivities, heists, revenge, kidnappings. Common in mystery thrillers are investigations and the whodunit technique. Common elements in dramatic and psychological thrillers include plot twists, psychology, obsession, and mind games. Common elements of science-fiction thrillers are killing robots, machines or aliens, mad scientists, and experiments.
Common in horror thrillers are serial killers, stalking, deathtraps, and horror-of-personality. Elements such as fringe theories, false accusations, and paranoia are common in paranoid thrillers. Threats to entire countries, spies, espionage, conspiracies, assassins, and electronic surveillance are common in spy thrillers. Characters may include criminals, stalkers, assassins, innocent victims (often on the run), menaced women, psychotic individuals, spree killers, sociopaths, agents, terrorists, cops and escaped cons, private eyes, people involved in twisted relationships, world-weary men, and women, psycho-fiends, and more.
The themes frequently include terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, or romantic triangles leading to murder. Plots of thrillers involve characters who come into conflict with each other or with outside forces. The protagonist of these films is set against a problem. No matter what subgenre a thriller film falls into, it will emphasize the danger that the protagonist faces.
The protagonists are frequently ordinary citizens unaccustomed to danger, although commonly in crime and action thrillers, they may also be “hard men” accustomed to danger such as police officers and detectives. While protagonists of thrillers have traditionally been men, women lead characters are increasingly common. In psychological thrillers, the protagonists are reliant on their mental resources, whether it be by battling wits with the antagonist or by battling for equilibrium in the character’s mind. The suspense often comes from two or more characters preying upon one another’s minds, either by playing deceptive games with the other or by merely trying to demolish the other’s mental state. Here the theme is prank shows might cause death. A practical joke, or prank, is a mischievous trick played on someone, generally causing the victim to experience embarrassment, perplexity, confusion, or discomfort.
A person who performs a practical joke is called a “practical joker” or “prankster”. Other terms for practical jokes include gag, rib, jape, or shenanigan. Practical jokes differ from confidence tricks or hoaxes in that the victim finds out, or is let in on the joke, rather than being talked into handing over money or other valuables. Practical jokes are generally lighthearted and without lasting effect; they aim to make the victim feel humbled or foolish, but not victimized or humiliated. Thus most practical jokes are affectionate gestures of humor and designed to encourage laughter. However, practical jokes performed with cruelty can constitute bullying, whose intent is to harass or exclude rather than reinforce social bonds through ritual humbling. Some countries in a Western culture traditionally emphasize the carrying out of practical jokes on April Fools’ Day.
An atmosphere of menace and sudden violence, such as crime and murder, characterize thrillers. The tension usually arises when the character(s) is placed in a dangerous situation, or a trap from which escaping seems impossible. Life is threatened, usually, because the principal character is unsuspectingly or unknowingly involved in a dangerous or potentially deadly situation. Hitchcock’s films often placed an innocent victim (an average, responsible person) into a strange, life-threatening, or terrorizing situation, in a case of mistaken identity or wrongful accusation. Thrillers take place mostly in ordinary suburbs and cities, although sometimes they may take place wholly or partly in exotic settings such as foreign cities, deserts, polar regions, or the high seas. These usually tough, resourceful, but essentially ordinary heroes are pitted against villains determined to destroy them, their country, or the stability of the free world.
Often in a HAPPY BIRTHDAY Tamil Thriller Short Film, the protagonist is faced with what seem to be insurmountable problems in his mission, carried out against a ticking clock, the stakes are high and although resourceful, they face personal dilemmas along the way forcing them to make sacrifices for others. Some authors have tried to explain the “paradox of suspense”, namely: a narrative tension that remains effective even when uncertainty is neutralized because repeat audiences know exactly how the story resolves.
Some theories assume that true repeat audiences are extremely rare because, in reiteration, we usually forget many details of the story and the interest arises due to these holes of memory; others claim that uncertainty remains even for often told stories because, during the immersion in the fictional world, we forget fictionally what we know factually or because we expect fictional worlds to look like the real world, where exact repetition of an event is impossible.
The position of Yanal is more radical and postulates that narrative tension that remains effective in true repetition should be clearly distinguished from genuine suspense because uncertainty is part of the definition of suspense. Baroni proposes to name rappel this kind of suspense whose excitement relies on the ability of the audience to anticipate perfectly what is to come, precognition that is particularly enjoyable for children dealing with well-known fairy tales. Baroni adds that another kind of suspense without an uncertainty can emerge with the occasional contradiction between what the reader knows about the future (cognition) and what he desires (volition), especially in tragedy, when the protagonist eventually dies or fails (suspense par contradiction).
Happy Birthday | Tamil HD Short Film | Crime Thriller | Kichdy Productions | A4 Media
Cast :
- Radha Manalan
- Aravind Seiju
- RK Vilasini aka Haasini
- Vignesh Pavithran
- Sujith Gee Vee
Direction :
- Parthiban Kannan
- Kausthub Ravi
- Story, Screenplay: Parthiban Kannan
- Editing : Kausthub Ravi
- Music : Shajith Humayun
- Cinematography: Faheem Ashique, Kausthub Ravi
- Audiography: Sivanesh Natarajan
- Poster design: Gayathri Vasu
These are my ratings:
- Direction – I want to give away 7/10
- Script – I want to give away 8/10
- Screenplay – I want to give away 8.5/10
- Editing – I want to give away 7/10
- Cinematography – I want to give away 7/10
- Lighting – I want to give away 8/10
- Music – I want to give away 8/10
- Sound effects – I want to give away 8/10
- Dubbing – I want to give away 7/10
- Artists acting – I want to give away 9/10
- Climax – I want to give away 9/10
- Creativity and Innovation – I want to give away 8/10
From my side, I give HAPPY BIRTHDAY Tamil Thriller Short Film an overall rating of 8.5 out of 10.
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