Deep Impact - Weekend

Little did I expect that my weekend would be one of such deep impact...not too serious though....I unexpectedly got to watch three movies ...over the three
days...which were the cause of the deep impact....the effect....I have had is getting translated into this weblog.

Three different genre movies..in three different languages...from directors of different statures.....doesn't look like any of the strangest coincidences..but I cant help thinking of them that way!!!

On friday I got to watch TROY on VCD(original VCD ofcourse..:-D )...the greek epic..etched on screen, with the aid of the likes of Brad Pitt and Eric Bana....

On Saturday, I watched BEING CYRUS...in theatre, a offbeat theme told in a non-chalant way with the definite aid of CYRUS MISTRY...aka Saif Ali Khan...

On Sunday, I got to watch a Tamil Movie...alas an Old one...4 years old...called VIRUMBUGIREN....a Prasanth and Sneha starrer....

Troy, I should say had the greatest effect...simply because of the fact that, though I have grown up with the greek mythology of Troy and Odessey tales, I was in a trance all through the movie....eager to see the next scene...the experience was simply exhilarating if I had to put it into 2 words..I rued the fact that I missed watching this movie in theatre....but the screenplay was stunning..coz....people already know what u r upto with the story and
screenplay..in such period films...so it is a herculean task to bring in the thrill and excitiment into a established fact...good work....

Being Cyrus, I expected it to be an offbeat movie..and it was one...but more than what I had expected...the movie once again proved and enhanced my belief that any story line will be effective if it had appropriate and powerful screenplay.....the movie will sail through purely because of the screenplay and saif's screen presence...his english tongue...is anyways very famous..and I can vouch nobody in Bollywood can be at home for such a character...Saif has certainly graduated one level on the up with this piece...I felt the movie was going along the also rans....at half-time...but the next half tossed me up completely...and I felt the impact of the movie..much after the show...literally for atleast 2 hours...it all unfolded very quickly for the viewer...and if u aren't attentive u will miss the belonging for the movie....it is slighlty heavy for the layman...such quick turners....anyways..kudos for the director....good work for a debutant....not more on this..alas...I will spell out the suspense of the movie...huh...

Virumbugiren, a relatively older movie..compared to the other two, but nevertheless, equal in impact...wow...debutant directors..I think...try to put as much effort to prove themselves...and Susi Ganesan is no exemption.....I felt a neat depiction of a simple and no-complications love story!!.. The story is a one liner which goes like this....Love between a Fire-Service man and a village girl..the tact is in the interwining story-plot of the village, their unity is at stake..how they rise in unity to separate the lovers...and how the lovers unite in the end...interestingly told...with chirpy screenplay.....I wish if other directors can take cue of the creativity and freshness of the script...there will be no dearth of love stories...and interesting and successful ones at that.... Kudos again for the debutant.....!!!

I always am a great fan of intelligent screenplay...which makes a movie out of bare land....and if you see the three movies..deep impact candidates...have got stellar scripts....the first one, keeps u interesting even if the story is epic in stature....the next one, keeps u guessing and catches u off-guard with its thriller script...the last one, fresh and subtle overtones to keep the viewer interested in a cliched story line....

For the eternal cinema lover, that I am, u should not be surprised when u see such offbeat movies creating impact on me.....I am a true cinema confidant..and will continue to be one..and keep impacting this weblog with my perspective of such deep impact movies...

-Rajesh