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Director: Ramkumar Balakrishnan
Writers: Ramkumar Balakrishnan
Release Date: December 1 2023
Language: Tamil

Parking Movie Review: In the initial moments of Parking, we see a young couple moving into a new house as tenants, making friends with the existing tenant, settling down in the new place and just looking forward to an exciting phase in their lives. The husband, Eshwar (Harish Kalyan), has an IT job, and the wife, Aadhika (Indhuja) is expecting a baby. They have a love-filled relationship, and Eshwar would do anything to keep his wife happy. Their neighbour, Ilamparuthi (MS Bhaskar), a government official who is just a year away from retirement, is your typical old-timer. He'd rather repair a faulty appliance at his home than buying a new one, go on a two-wheeler under the hot sun than buy a car, and save as much money as possible to marry off his daughter. As they go about their daily routine, director Ramkumar Balakrishnan presents that as just life unfolding right in front of our eyes. It is just the kind of beginning that makes a viewer sit up and look forward to what comes next.

And that comes in the form of a conflict about parking space. The duplex house has parking space that can fit a car and a two-wheeler. While Eshwar buys a car so that the pregnant Aadhika can travel in comfort for her checkups, for Ilamparuthi, it's a source of mild annoyance (initially, at least) as he has to give up the space that he has been enjoying for the past 10 years. Given his giant-sized ego and Eshwar's quick temper and sharp tongue, conflicts around this parking space lead to a war of words that escalates to an ugly place from where there seems to be no going back for these two men.

Even though Parking is in the space of a domestic drama, Ramkumar Balakrishnan narrates it in the tone of a thriller, ratcheting up the thrills, with help from Philomin Raj's sharp editing and Sam CS's suspenseful background score. Agreed the structure of the film does bring to mind the films of the late Malayalam filmmaker Sachy, but the director pushes this tale into much darker territory, making us feel wistful at what a hurt ego can do to seemingly nice individuals.

The rock-solid performances of the cast adds not only realism but also an the edge to this tale. Playing a character who we might come across when we step out of our homes, MS Bhaskar is just outstanding, displaying a range of dark emotions - indignation, envy, misplaced righteousness, anger, and cold-bloodedness. There are moments when a glance sends a chill down our spine. On the other end, Harish Kalyan manages to match up to this, capturing the hot-headedness of Eshwar, his hurt and his shame. Indhuja and Rama, who play the wives, and Prathana Nathan, as MS Bhaskar's daughter, who is put in an extreme moral quandary by her father, are equally effective.

The relentless of this battle of egos does become a bit exhausting towards the end, and despite its relatively short duration, we do get the feeling that the film could have been shorter by 10 minutes. But this is a minor complaint against a film that is terrific from start to finish.