Mahaan Kanakku (மகான் கனக்கு, Tamil; 2011)
Since everybody is talking about the Wall Street 1% standoff, looks like even Kollywood has joined the bandwagon. This flick is more of a social drama but since they need to finance the bills, they half heartedly included some silly college romance which just died abruptly when the female counterpart told the hero (Jeeva) on the face that she came to study and speak of love and romance is only after studies (sic).
Coming to story at hand, the Jeeva's brother-in-law, an Accounts' professor has been financing Jeeva's studies all the way till MBA. He has to secure a hefty loan to enable Jeeva to sit for an external examination to work overseas.
Once word gets around that he needs a loan, all the bank agents and call centre agents starts breathing down his neck to get his signature on the dotted lines.
Trouble brews when due to the banks' inefficiencies, the professor is charged interests over interests till the payable amount snowballs.
The bank employs private collection agents to retrieve the payments. Unfortunately, these companies use strong arm tactics and public humiliation to get their work done. Unable to stand the embarrassment, the professor, his wife (Jeeva's sister) and their preteen child kill themselves!
Jeeva, only later realizing the mess that they were in after their untimely demise, swears revenge. Armed with his MBA, Kollywood philosophy, playing with technicalities of the law and how businesses function, he with a few vagabonds to act as the staff of his mega-million company, managed to bring the mega bank (OCOC Bank, which lent the Prof. the money) and the collection agents done on their knees.Yeah, right!
The interesting part, as in most Bollywood/Kollywood court drama scenes, is one when the hero has the final say. His last piece of advice is that people are trapped in lure of money (loans, credit card etcetera) constantly dangled in front of everyone hoping to entice everyone to be a debtor. Once the borrowers are under their clutches, the big banks, mostly foreign owned, who were invited by the country to stimulate business and economy have started playing the role that the colonial masters did six and a half decades ago. They exert control and dominance and it is pre-Independence days all over again. The locally owned banks followed the modus operandi of their foreign counterparts. The hero ended his rebuttal (he had his own lawyer too) by suggesting to the presiding judge that banks should be nationalized. The judge in his judgement freed Jeeva and recommended to the Legislators to look into the possibility of nationalizing banks!
(RS take note! Be a kind Ah Long!)
Since everybody is talking about the Wall Street 1% standoff, looks like even Kollywood has joined the bandwagon. This flick is more of a social drama but since they need to finance the bills, they half heartedly included some silly college romance which just died abruptly when the female counterpart told the hero (Jeeva) on the face that she came to study and speak of love and romance is only after studies (sic).
Coming to story at hand, the Jeeva's brother-in-law, an Accounts' professor has been financing Jeeva's studies all the way till MBA. He has to secure a hefty loan to enable Jeeva to sit for an external examination to work overseas.
Once word gets around that he needs a loan, all the bank agents and call centre agents starts breathing down his neck to get his signature on the dotted lines.
Trouble brews when due to the banks' inefficiencies, the professor is charged interests over interests till the payable amount snowballs.
The bank employs private collection agents to retrieve the payments. Unfortunately, these companies use strong arm tactics and public humiliation to get their work done. Unable to stand the embarrassment, the professor, his wife (Jeeva's sister) and their preteen child kill themselves!
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(RS take note! Be a kind Ah Long!)
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