Cinema is always a medium for an escape from reality and gets into the entertainment zone for a while. Cinema is the platform where different type of emotions making people connected to the characters of the cinematic universe. The silence is the place where the artist's uniqueness of acting can be established more and that vacuum creates the artist to express their extraordinary skills of acting and many mass sequences of the movie will be enhanced by the pause created by the silence before that sequence. In the mid-ocean, the dead silence is a bad alarm for a very big storm is nearby to hit us. Likewise, the silence in movies is a metaphorical expression of the storm is nearby.
Some of the best silent moments made this metaphor is literally true and made the audience to wait eagerly for the next mass scene or dialogue and theatre will be filled with the joy of the audience. Some partial silence also made us so connected and made us feel pleasured inside. One of that kind is "KADHALUM KADANTHU POGUM" climax scene in the petrol bank. This scene is not having utter silence. The sound of rain in the surrounding will be there but as an audience, our mind and soul will be filled with utter silence and eagerly waiting for their eye contact again. While they're facing again the BGM will start to roll mild and make us feel pleasure and we will feel the perfect complete for the movie when this scene started to emote us. The success of the scene is started in the two-second partial silence only.
There is another similar silence is created in the movie "ABHIYUM NAANUM" climax scene. When Trisha is about to depart, Prakash Raj will call her and play a small game which they played in her childhood and he will be thinking that her daughter is still a child who is going for school. This small play in silence made everyone to get into the shoe of Prakash Raj for some moments and made us feel pity for innocent father.
In Tamil movies, the master for creating this silence scene is director Maniratnam for me. In "IRUVAR" movie, there is such kind of scene. When Tabu came out of her house to meet Prakash Raj and she will ask a question who was she to him. After the reply from Prakash Raj, there will be a silence which made us so connected to the next scene where he will start a recite a Tamil poem to her. That Tamil poem has huge fans now after these many years. There are some other movies created this silence as vacuum and this vacuum will be the next scene. In "AYITHA EZHUTHU" when the professors approaching Suriya to stop his politics and they will insist on him. If he is not stopping he will be terminated from the college and whoever supporting him also will be terminated. After this scene, there will be silence for second and then in the next frame, Suriya will be with students of the whole and asking to terminate them all. This will be one of the mass scenes in the movie created after a second of silence.
In recent "JIGARTHANDA" movie also had a touching scene after a silence. When a small child came and said that she loved his acting the movie which was hated by him itself. After that, the people from the surrounding started rushing towards him to congratulate his performance. But he neglected their appraisal and gone to theatre to see the reaction of the audience and he knows that the audience where enjoying his acting and after this reaction of the audience, in the next frame his mother will start to talk to him after so many years and make him more emotional and great change will be happening in his character and this seconds of silence made as more involved and more emotionally attached to that scene
There is N number of mass scenes for mass actors here in Tamil were created by the marvellous BGM. But some seconds of silence before these mass BGM made hype for us to erupt in the theatre for that mass scene with that BGM. Not only mass directors, many directors of Tamil Industry like Ram, Mysskin, Selva Raghavan also made silence as a cameo in their movie and utilized it in their unique way. Silence is the perfect weapon when it is used in the perfect place.
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