Sarvam Thaalamayam - My thoughts

Sarvam Thalamayam

Peter Johnson, a college student is a fan of Vijay. He is a integral part of fans club, does blood donation and good in the name of his Idol.

But this creates problems when he even cuts his exams to celebrate his heros films. That's when we get to understand who he is, when he gets inspired by an idol, he goes to any extreme to celebrate the idol, which is termed later in the movie as "Asura Veri Pidicha Bhakthan".

Once he gets into a fan fight and ends up to get treated from the heroine. She asks to sing a song to forget the pain of stitch. He sings a song from his idol's movies, at the end the heroine sings the remaining part, he gets stunned by her it, and asks if she is a fan of Vijay - there is no answer.

They already establish Peter playing drums to celebrate his idol. He is not trained, but he is inspired, which is enough to get to wherever he wants without the necessity of a guru.

We have Vembu, the mirudhangam meastro, who only plays in kachheri, but not in cinema or any stage shows as according to him it is preserving the culture. He stands against competition. How one can lose oneself competing, but one can only learn when he is free of competition.

When Peter meets Vembu Iyer by coincidence - he delivers the mirudhangam from his fathers shop, he gets to watch Vembu's performance on mirudhangam. He gets awe struck from hearing Vembu playing with so much ease, but also gets involved, dissolved into it making him forget his problems, (like his pain referred before), with his mind only celebrating, making him aloof from the world. He enjoys like anything, he wishes to play like him, by becoming a student.

But when he reaches out to him, he says there needs to be discipline and culture that needs to imbibed to learn the skill as how it was before. Peter, a christian, puts vibuthi, goes to temple and meets Vembu. Vembu seeing his dedication and asks him to join as a student.

Initially he struggles, but by his non-stop persuit for excellence he transforms him to get noticed and appreciated by Vembu. When he gets played by his competitors who envy his background, later his skills, which stands against ideas that Vembu opposes, he gets asked to leave the school.

Peter's life gets shattered. Here again the heroine helps him come over his situation by restating that one doesn't need a guru, where rhythm, music are present in the nature and it can be a teacher too.

When Peter goes to his native he understands a larger group are like him, who are the makers of the instruments but not the players. They get paid less and they never get to get the claps like the person who plays it. And Peter understands he can be someone who will connect both the ends.

Peter travells the world, learns music from various instruments. Later when Vembu changes his opinion and asks peter to come back to him and participate in the show.

Its Peter vs a former Vembu student who left him, as he didn't get any shows to perform, as initially Vembu had a clash of whether he stands important or the singer.

Peter wins for his music that exceites poeple not bound by Vembu's style, but his own style he gets from various instruments. Other end is a contrived play which sticks to boundaries to what it can play. 

Peter wins for his versatility. He stands as an example for how the instrument makers not only make one instrument, but various kinds, but they were not in the playing part.

Peter meets the ends as one who gets to stand as a voice to all the people thus playing all the instruments on the mirudhangam.

Vembu asks Peter if he has forgetten all he has thought. Vembu laters understands that he guru can be not just one but many, from many types of arts, those that are identified, appreciated, those that are still unidentified.