Like all the populistic, geekism propelled lingo, the latest entrant also earns respect among the nerds/geeks of today...
Orkutt ing (V.) - to connect with friends (long lost or otherwise); networking
I have been in orkut for quite some time, but haven't used it as much as I have used in the last week. I have also been with Hi5, another way of friend networking, but could benefit, because, I didnt have anybody to network with...and also because orkut was using gmail IDs then, when not many were having gmail IDs..now gmail id has more or less become like a household thing, so that has as well propelled things to new levels... Though orkut isn't a messenger, it is much more than the messenger thingie....
I am able to see a huge network of people from the time I started to till now...wow..so many people, unimaginable...the beauty of this thingie is that even if you hang out with this orkut for hours together, you never get bored...which I found yesterday after spending close to 7 hours in Orkut..:-)...
Orkut is fast becoming the Google of Personal Information Networking Industry...there seems to be a community for virtually everything on earth, much like getting a search result from Google for almost anything under the sun and over the moon...
I see literally everybody using it...Its like this...even if you have an MSN ID and your friend also has one, you still tend to use Yahoo for instant messaging, because you can network to a wider gamut of the society if you have Yahoo... Orkut is synonymous to what I said just now...because everybody is already onto orkut...Hi5 and others will find it difficult to catch up....
The best part is orkut is as fast a using an intranet page, it never feels like internet portal...A note of appreciation is due to the adminstrators of this wonder thing...:-)
ok...time to check my scraps again...c yaa in orkut....
Happy orkutting!!!!
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Pudhupettai - A Movie Review
The first Selvaraghavan movie, I have ever seen...had never wanted to watch his genre of films...but for a change, had revisted the logic and...went to the theatre..but somehow I feel, my senses weren't wrong all these days...I always felt for the most part of the three hours, that I am into some psycho's life....so deep it was...that I am doubtful if I would choose to watch one more of the director's films again...ohmigod....
ok...on to the movie...Dhanush is the self-proclaimed "Kokki" Kumar..witness to his father murdering his mother..escapes away from home and incidentally gets caught into the mire of goondas...who are into everything you ain't do.....drugs,girls,assault,mattai...and what not....once during "DUTY"..is surrounded by the rival group....and to survive,
he starts attacking and the force within him surfaces for the first time...after this it "erumugam" for our hero...who rather resorts to silencing his detractors/opposers by killing them, whoever it maybe...inbetween, he also runs into the warmth of a relationship with Sneha (krishnaveni) who is a part of the girl-business they do...and gets to wade through rough weather trying to protect her...his brute force along with his gut instinct....take him to the echelons of politics....and thats where he stumbles...it seems so for a brief period...but that is enough to ruin his personal life...and then the hero emerges from the bloodshed and kilings as the "THYAGA SEMMAL" KOKKI KUMAR.....the so-called Pazhutha ARASIYALVAADI...of the politics of today....
One can nominate the last 10-15 minutes of the movie...for the Number 1 spot for COMEDY TIME....:-)
The story looks like a cliche'd DON storyliner...but the clinching factor is Selvaraghavan's take on this. He has given his best...I should say...but sadly his best...is too extremist in approach....I felt...
Agreed realism is the best way of reaching out to the audience in the movie...but there is a limit...to which movies can go with a U/A censor certificate...this has crossed that line...and the movie stands out bare in this zone...too much of
bloodshed....was unwarranted...too much of delving into the "detailed" bedroom life of the protagonist was also unwarranted...for this theme...people might argue that "this is what is happening...so what's the big deal in showing it on
screen???", but the same question would have applied to both Virumandi and Boys...which were trying to show realism...albeit in a subtler way...which met with stark criticism and widespread anti-movie protests.....I wonder why this movie doesn't raise those same questions on the protestors this time around...???food for thought ??? yeah...
Dhanush...I should say is director's material...if you know how to mould your hero, then Dhanush would fit your bill perfectly...but the pity is nobody other than his brother has been able to pull out better things out of this lean chap...post Pudhupettai...Dhanush definetly would get a new lease of life...very good performance...though slightly loud at times....
Sneha...I wonder why would one choose to do such a daring role...unless you have scope to perform..which sadly the movie hasn't provided to sneha...alright the character has so much depth and impact on the movie....but why would you take up such a sensitive role..unless you can't pull it off with a stellar performance....I would say Geetha's character in "Kadamai Kanniyam Kattupaadu" is much better etched than sneha's... I pity sneha...but she looks ravishing in the movie....:-)
Sonia Agarwal...is not worth a mention of more than a line...as she has just a couple of lines to emote in the whole movie...would have been better if they could have roped her in as a GUEST PERFORMANCE...:-) :-) hehehe....
All the Rowdies..round up the rest of the movie...yes that much is the number of fat guys you get to see in the movie..surprisingly every single baddie....pulls off his role..without trouble...every single person looks natural...wow...realism in display for you....
All said and done...if movies were not for storylines and for background credits..then this violent flick has & does very well behind the screens....
The top credit goes to Arvind Krishna, the cinematographer....the handycam shoot to 70 mm screen conversion hasn't gone unnoticed...it is quite beautifull..an art on screen..so to say...very good light themes for all the scenes...which graft wavering audience if any....
Yuvi..or YuvanShankar Raja's background score is very good...songs...as usual churning out the best for Selvaraghavan movies...the "Enga Area Ullavarathe.." song bringing nostalgia of the PETTAI RAP song of Kadhalan...very good beat number...
The Director...needs a special mention for managing the ship quite adeptly....he definetely is a huge talent...but I wish he reaches greater heights....by touching on subjects ala Cheran style...which when combined with selvaraghavan's attitude, would bring great cinema to the world.....let's wish....
And one last disclaimer....please....for heaven's sake...dont take kids with you for this movie...it is not worthy to be called a family entertainer...not the kinda movies you take your kids this summer....I actually saw a kid sitting next to me in the theater..questioning his dad on all the controversial scenes...:-(...still wonder what rules / conventions does the Censor Board follow to classify "THE DAVINCI CODE" as suitable for only for Adults & "PUDHUPETTAI" as suitable for a U/A audience....politics sucks in this country...
ok...on to the movie...Dhanush is the self-proclaimed "Kokki" Kumar..witness to his father murdering his mother..escapes away from home and incidentally gets caught into the mire of goondas...who are into everything you ain't do.....drugs,girls,assault,mattai...and what not....once during "DUTY"..is surrounded by the rival group....and to survive,
he starts attacking and the force within him surfaces for the first time...after this it "erumugam" for our hero...who rather resorts to silencing his detractors/opposers by killing them, whoever it maybe...inbetween, he also runs into the warmth of a relationship with Sneha (krishnaveni) who is a part of the girl-business they do...and gets to wade through rough weather trying to protect her...his brute force along with his gut instinct....take him to the echelons of politics....and thats where he stumbles...it seems so for a brief period...but that is enough to ruin his personal life...and then the hero emerges from the bloodshed and kilings as the "THYAGA SEMMAL" KOKKI KUMAR.....the so-called Pazhutha ARASIYALVAADI...of the politics of today....
One can nominate the last 10-15 minutes of the movie...for the Number 1 spot for COMEDY TIME....:-)
The story looks like a cliche'd DON storyliner...but the clinching factor is Selvaraghavan's take on this. He has given his best...I should say...but sadly his best...is too extremist in approach....I felt...
Agreed realism is the best way of reaching out to the audience in the movie...but there is a limit...to which movies can go with a U/A censor certificate...this has crossed that line...and the movie stands out bare in this zone...too much of
bloodshed....was unwarranted...too much of delving into the "detailed" bedroom life of the protagonist was also unwarranted...for this theme...people might argue that "this is what is happening...so what's the big deal in showing it on
screen???", but the same question would have applied to both Virumandi and Boys...which were trying to show realism...albeit in a subtler way...which met with stark criticism and widespread anti-movie protests.....I wonder why this movie doesn't raise those same questions on the protestors this time around...???food for thought ??? yeah...
Dhanush...I should say is director's material...if you know how to mould your hero, then Dhanush would fit your bill perfectly...but the pity is nobody other than his brother has been able to pull out better things out of this lean chap...post Pudhupettai...Dhanush definetly would get a new lease of life...very good performance...though slightly loud at times....
Sneha...I wonder why would one choose to do such a daring role...unless you have scope to perform..which sadly the movie hasn't provided to sneha...alright the character has so much depth and impact on the movie....but why would you take up such a sensitive role..unless you can't pull it off with a stellar performance....I would say Geetha's character in "Kadamai Kanniyam Kattupaadu" is much better etched than sneha's... I pity sneha...but she looks ravishing in the movie....:-)
Sonia Agarwal...is not worth a mention of more than a line...as she has just a couple of lines to emote in the whole movie...would have been better if they could have roped her in as a GUEST PERFORMANCE...:-) :-) hehehe....
All the Rowdies..round up the rest of the movie...yes that much is the number of fat guys you get to see in the movie..surprisingly every single baddie....pulls off his role..without trouble...every single person looks natural...wow...realism in display for you....
All said and done...if movies were not for storylines and for background credits..then this violent flick has & does very well behind the screens....
The top credit goes to Arvind Krishna, the cinematographer....the handycam shoot to 70 mm screen conversion hasn't gone unnoticed...it is quite beautifull..an art on screen..so to say...very good light themes for all the scenes...which graft wavering audience if any....
Yuvi..or YuvanShankar Raja's background score is very good...songs...as usual churning out the best for Selvaraghavan movies...the "Enga Area Ullavarathe.." song bringing nostalgia of the PETTAI RAP song of Kadhalan...very good beat number...
The Director...needs a special mention for managing the ship quite adeptly....he definetely is a huge talent...but I wish he reaches greater heights....by touching on subjects ala Cheran style...which when combined with selvaraghavan's attitude, would bring great cinema to the world.....let's wish....
And one last disclaimer....please....for heaven's sake...dont take kids with you for this movie...it is not worthy to be called a family entertainer...not the kinda movies you take your kids this summer....I actually saw a kid sitting next to me in the theater..questioning his dad on all the controversial scenes...:-(...still wonder what rules / conventions does the Censor Board follow to classify "THE DAVINCI CODE" as suitable for only for Adults & "PUDHUPETTAI" as suitable for a U/A audience....politics sucks in this country...
Friday, May 26, 2006
The DaVinci Code - A Review
Cannes was right....I was wrong.....or was I wrong..???? divided..huh?? exactly....thats what I am thinking...has never occured to me in the recent past of movies.....atleast I would say the hype around the movie was pointless...and now I understand why the censor certified the movie without a fuss..precisely the movie is a NEAT and FAITHFUL reproduction of the DAN BROWN special...just that...glittering at places where it should and also failed to glitter at places where it should have....
The movie opens with Jacques Sauniere getting murdered....so the first half hour looked almost like the visualization of the book....a touch disappointed I should say, but then the movie picks up with interesting juxtapositions of scenes of Fache and Langdon....and I expected a bit more elaboration of the treasure hunt Agent Neveu & Langdon embark on..before reaching the bank.....the book exhumed so much of interest out of these sequences....which hardly had a mention here....I felt disappointed....but enter Sir Ian Mckellen, as Sir Leigh Teabing...the movie makes you sit up as it is incidentally the part of the story that gets to business, so a stellar performance I should say for the Ian Mckellen...the story picks up speed and goes on at that pace...and on and on..until the climax...so in effect, the movie shores up to its elder brother, but doesn't somehow have the poise and silken feel the big brother gave for readers....
reasons if we ponder,
one, I thought was Dan Brown, the way too much of information he packed into the novel, without breaking the pace, was difficult to capture in a 2.5 hr motion picture....that apart, no credit stealing from the makers...Ron Howard and Goldsmith have done a great job..taking liberties at will at places....and choosing not to take rightly at places....Appreciated....
two, because of lack of time, none of the characters have any depth in them...except for Teabing's...only he manages to make an impact with the viewer...otherwise...everybody..including Tom Hanks suffer from lack of depth in characterisation....I felt Tom Hanks was wasted in the movie....felt sorry for this versatile artiste...less talked about Agent Neveu, the better....she was unconvicing to say the least...I am sorry...:-(....
three, irony that this caption turned out to be.... "A picture can say a thousand words" has gone wrong...in this case....the movie couldn't successfully say what the book could....One felt that the movie makers had a presumption that every viewer would have read the book, so they take a liberty of skipping some links here and there...without which any first time davinci decoder...would feel alien....and thats what it looks like....
All said and done, a very good job done on the historical overttones...and the depictions of the history looked convincing the least to say.....
I would say I enjoyed the book more than movie...but nevertheless a Very Good Effort from Ron Howard and team..trying to match the sensation and fame of the book three years into the market...tough it is as one finds out at the theater....
How right was cannes?? !!! how wrong was I ???!!!!
The movie opens with Jacques Sauniere getting murdered....so the first half hour looked almost like the visualization of the book....a touch disappointed I should say, but then the movie picks up with interesting juxtapositions of scenes of Fache and Langdon....and I expected a bit more elaboration of the treasure hunt Agent Neveu & Langdon embark on..before reaching the bank.....the book exhumed so much of interest out of these sequences....which hardly had a mention here....I felt disappointed....but enter Sir Ian Mckellen, as Sir Leigh Teabing...the movie makes you sit up as it is incidentally the part of the story that gets to business, so a stellar performance I should say for the Ian Mckellen...the story picks up speed and goes on at that pace...and on and on..until the climax...so in effect, the movie shores up to its elder brother, but doesn't somehow have the poise and silken feel the big brother gave for readers....
reasons if we ponder,
one, I thought was Dan Brown, the way too much of information he packed into the novel, without breaking the pace, was difficult to capture in a 2.5 hr motion picture....that apart, no credit stealing from the makers...Ron Howard and Goldsmith have done a great job..taking liberties at will at places....and choosing not to take rightly at places....Appreciated....
two, because of lack of time, none of the characters have any depth in them...except for Teabing's...only he manages to make an impact with the viewer...otherwise...everybody..including Tom Hanks suffer from lack of depth in characterisation....I felt Tom Hanks was wasted in the movie....felt sorry for this versatile artiste...less talked about Agent Neveu, the better....she was unconvicing to say the least...I am sorry...:-(....
three, irony that this caption turned out to be.... "A picture can say a thousand words" has gone wrong...in this case....the movie couldn't successfully say what the book could....One felt that the movie makers had a presumption that every viewer would have read the book, so they take a liberty of skipping some links here and there...without which any first time davinci decoder...would feel alien....and thats what it looks like....
All said and done, a very good job done on the historical overttones...and the depictions of the history looked convincing the least to say.....
I would say I enjoyed the book more than movie...but nevertheless a Very Good Effort from Ron Howard and team..trying to match the sensation and fame of the book three years into the market...tough it is as one finds out at the theater....
How right was cannes?? !!! how wrong was I ???!!!!
Monday, May 22, 2006
Is The Davinci Code getting released in India after all????
What the hell is happening to THE DAVINCI CODE in India....why this protest.....I am clearly confused as to why the sudden outburst against the movie .....when the story is atleast 3 years old....
If the authorities feel Damage might be done because of the sensitive issues touched in the movie.....then the damage has already been done, by way of the book.....so why crave about the movie....worse...the book is getting translated in various languages....so where is the case of dis-allowing information in visual format....
after all the movie is a fauithful replica of the book, so what you get to read in the book, is what you get to see in the movie.....and according to the critics in Cannes, the movie is anything but controversial.....
then why all the fuss about the movie....???? It is uncomprehendable for me.....It has of late become fashionable to raise flags against movies at will and the freedom of expression is at danger ......more so evident, because the movie didnot jump out of Ron Howard's brain...it was the brainchild of Dan Brown, whose original THE DAVINCI CODE, book is still among the top sellers in the country..well into the 3rd year of sales......If the damage is the serious concern, then the remaining books of the author, should be revoked ala Kaavya Vishwanathan's issue, but no signs of that......
I really dont see the movie getting released in the next week...simply because, SONY pictures is stead-fast in providing its only disclaimer, while the govt & censor board are forced to order an additional disclaimer just because powerful houses from the country have raked up the issue, If the damage was so serious, I would have been happy if the govt was just enough to have banned the movie in India, but the authorities, know that there is nothing new that is shown, so they have given an "A" certificate, clearly winning the consent of the censor and the govt....just that the fuss is around who is going to budge now.....:-(.....
pity, we have been disallowed the right to watch the movie along with the rest of the world....
If the authorities feel Damage might be done because of the sensitive issues touched in the movie.....then the damage has already been done, by way of the book.....so why crave about the movie....worse...the book is getting translated in various languages....so where is the case of dis-allowing information in visual format....
after all the movie is a fauithful replica of the book, so what you get to read in the book, is what you get to see in the movie.....and according to the critics in Cannes, the movie is anything but controversial.....
then why all the fuss about the movie....???? It is uncomprehendable for me.....It has of late become fashionable to raise flags against movies at will and the freedom of expression is at danger ......more so evident, because the movie didnot jump out of Ron Howard's brain...it was the brainchild of Dan Brown, whose original THE DAVINCI CODE, book is still among the top sellers in the country..well into the 3rd year of sales......If the damage is the serious concern, then the remaining books of the author, should be revoked ala Kaavya Vishwanathan's issue, but no signs of that......
I really dont see the movie getting released in the next week...simply because, SONY pictures is stead-fast in providing its only disclaimer, while the govt & censor board are forced to order an additional disclaimer just because powerful houses from the country have raked up the issue, If the damage was so serious, I would have been happy if the govt was just enough to have banned the movie in India, but the authorities, know that there is nothing new that is shown, so they have given an "A" certificate, clearly winning the consent of the censor and the govt....just that the fuss is around who is going to budge now.....:-(.....
pity, we have been disallowed the right to watch the movie along with the rest of the world....
Ahhhh....the davinci code !!!!
Must be one of the latest reviews ..;-) for the BOOK...THE DAVINCI CODE.....atleast 2 years after it came to the bookstands....see I am so optimistic a person as ever.....hahaha....
As i have mentioned, earlier, I am not the Novel guy....never read Novels...but that was history, before April 2006....In the space of a month..I have read two astonishing novels....both completely unrelated to each other...but both closely related to my heart...agreed, as matter of fact, I never went to these novels, the novels found me...akin to what the davinci code says...."You dont find the Holy Grail, the Holy Grail finds you!!", Yep....I have been attracted to these two novels..(by the way they are "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life" and "The Davinci Code")...mainly due to the media hype that has surrounded these novels...albeit for not so happy reasons...the former for pliagarism charges and the latter for defamation charges...:-|.....
The Davinci Code movie was due to be released on 19 May 2006, all over the world...but it wasn't to be...atleast in India, Pity, I can't comprehend what these people in India find don't deem fit in the movie...that people in UK, the US and rest of the world find less amusing...If the movie is to be banned...the book should have been in the first place...but I still see the book being one of the best sellers of all time in India....so I was deprieved of the right to see the movie along with the rest of the world....YES...I would put it that way...
After getting to know that the movie is due to be released on May 19 2006, knowing of Ron Howard, I hurriedly got hold a copy of the book and started reading it avidly..at first...just to get the thrill and content intact, before watching the visual....but alas...my world has changed after the book read....my views on a lot of things in the world have atleast taken a beating, leave alone the change of opinion, which I can acknowledge only later....:-(....the book has left me with a lot of unanswered questions...simply because, I am just unfamiliar about ARTS and the religion in question....
So the book has opened new avenues to read on and get knowledgeable for quiet sometime to follow.....the book has been both informative and thrillerish at the same time....wow...I have never seen or heard of such things in movies...before....just can't wait to watch the movie...which I know is just a few days away.....huh....will definetely feel like an eternity....
The intrigue that is raging in my heart is more of the knowledge or rather the lack of it, that the book has left, than the thrill of story....amusement is defintely a needed feel for novels, but this one I feel has given some food for thought....I dare say / comment on the facts brought out in the book, I am literally unequipped to speak of them...
The book....the least to say....has thrill almost in every chapter...which if I were to statistcally speak has to be atleast 105 times....:-).....Starts off with the murder in the Louver in Paris, moves along at steady pace(and so many interludes of equal importance, I atleast I had difficulty in keeping things in my cache to relate to), moves to the Depository Bank of Zurich, then to Chattue Villete and then airbone to London, and then back to ground zero, the Louvre in Paris....phew....what a whirlwind tour for the reader....simply artistic, religious, seat moving stuff all at once,
though Robert Langdon would be the heart throb(even for me), I felt Manuel Aringarosa to be very good sketch, the equal blend and ideal human, good and bad in equal mix...My heart goes out for this character...not sure how much people would go with this....I atleast feel vindicated with my feeling, atleast looking at the star who has been cast as Aringarosa....; Tom Hanks....Robert langdon, not sure if anybody else could carry the role, seems to be a fitting choice for now...
The mixed feel coz of the movie teasers and the Novel's pomp have raised my expectation levels like no other movie has raised barring an exception for Shankar's blockbusters...which equate to this movie.....
I am restless....-like Robert Langdon's quest for the Holy Grail- for the movie's release date in India....
Meet you with a review of THE DAVINCI CODE...the movie....:-)
As i have mentioned, earlier, I am not the Novel guy....never read Novels...but that was history, before April 2006....In the space of a month..I have read two astonishing novels....both completely unrelated to each other...but both closely related to my heart...agreed, as matter of fact, I never went to these novels, the novels found me...akin to what the davinci code says...."You dont find the Holy Grail, the Holy Grail finds you!!", Yep....I have been attracted to these two novels..(by the way they are "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life" and "The Davinci Code")...mainly due to the media hype that has surrounded these novels...albeit for not so happy reasons...the former for pliagarism charges and the latter for defamation charges...:-|.....
The Davinci Code movie was due to be released on 19 May 2006, all over the world...but it wasn't to be...atleast in India, Pity, I can't comprehend what these people in India find don't deem fit in the movie...that people in UK, the US and rest of the world find less amusing...If the movie is to be banned...the book should have been in the first place...but I still see the book being one of the best sellers of all time in India....so I was deprieved of the right to see the movie along with the rest of the world....YES...I would put it that way...
After getting to know that the movie is due to be released on May 19 2006, knowing of Ron Howard, I hurriedly got hold a copy of the book and started reading it avidly..at first...just to get the thrill and content intact, before watching the visual....but alas...my world has changed after the book read....my views on a lot of things in the world have atleast taken a beating, leave alone the change of opinion, which I can acknowledge only later....:-(....the book has left me with a lot of unanswered questions...simply because, I am just unfamiliar about ARTS and the religion in question....
So the book has opened new avenues to read on and get knowledgeable for quiet sometime to follow.....the book has been both informative and thrillerish at the same time....wow...I have never seen or heard of such things in movies...before....just can't wait to watch the movie...which I know is just a few days away.....huh....will definetely feel like an eternity....
The intrigue that is raging in my heart is more of the knowledge or rather the lack of it, that the book has left, than the thrill of story....amusement is defintely a needed feel for novels, but this one I feel has given some food for thought....I dare say / comment on the facts brought out in the book, I am literally unequipped to speak of them...
The book....the least to say....has thrill almost in every chapter...which if I were to statistcally speak has to be atleast 105 times....:-).....Starts off with the murder in the Louver in Paris, moves along at steady pace(and so many interludes of equal importance, I atleast I had difficulty in keeping things in my cache to relate to), moves to the Depository Bank of Zurich, then to Chattue Villete and then airbone to London, and then back to ground zero, the Louvre in Paris....phew....what a whirlwind tour for the reader....simply artistic, religious, seat moving stuff all at once,
though Robert Langdon would be the heart throb(even for me), I felt Manuel Aringarosa to be very good sketch, the equal blend and ideal human, good and bad in equal mix...My heart goes out for this character...not sure how much people would go with this....I atleast feel vindicated with my feeling, atleast looking at the star who has been cast as Aringarosa....; Tom Hanks....Robert langdon, not sure if anybody else could carry the role, seems to be a fitting choice for now...
The mixed feel coz of the movie teasers and the Novel's pomp have raised my expectation levels like no other movie has raised barring an exception for Shankar's blockbusters...which equate to this movie.....
I am restless....-like Robert Langdon's quest for the Holy Grail- for the movie's release date in India....
Meet you with a review of THE DAVINCI CODE...the movie....:-)
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Black May Day
DISCLAIMER: My Views and only my views !!!!
Yeppu..Tamil Nadu and its most literate(or otherwise) have done it...have shunted between DRAVIDIAN PARTIES.....I was so optimistic that atleast this time people would reverse the trend and vote for the incumbent...but they have not failed to disappoint....
just in case, any one is inquisitive abt the reason behind my laments...
a) atleast Jayalalitha (called as J from now) would have continued what she has done...because I am 700 % sure..kalaignar henceforth called MK in this writeup, will scrap, undo, dismantle anything she has started...so the reality is TN is going to come back to square one as far as development is concerned...at the courtesy of mindless voters... MK will have tough time fulfilling his promises...that is IF at all he plans to fulfill them. so mistake 1 according to me...
b) If they had voted J back to power, the famed politicians of TN would have learnt a million dollar lesson, to not underestimate the voter public and do something so that they stay back in power, but alas, the message that is coming thru now is "WHATEVER I DO or NOT DO, I AM NOT GOING TO STAY FOR MORE THAN 5 YEARS....so let me atleast fill my pocket and not do anything"... will be the mindset...people could have avoided that....coz this was the closest any incumbent could have got to returning to power..in all these years in TN political history after MGR. so mistake 2 according to me...
c) by voting DMK+ to power, no doubt MK is returning to the helm, but how long will he / will he be able to continue....??? is the biggest question...everybody has...coz..his health not withstanding / Family pressure not withstanding MK will for sure step down and pave the way for MK Stalin to power, with which I can't imagine the "state" of the state....omigod....he has earned so much of disrespect and hatred just within DMK, think of the whole state of TN, plus he does not have the charisma or the skill levels of his legendary father....so mistake 3 according to me...
d) Politics of the Famed familiy will cut loose, and we as the people of the state should be ready to believe in and accept the OFFICIAL NEWS CHANNEL, the OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER, OFFICIAL ENTERAINMENT MAGAZINE, et all from the family...I am not going to be surprised if SUN TV is going to be the official channel of enterainment for TN and every advertiser will be forced to pay a royalty for SUN TV for any advert they are planning to play in the state...
e)And who out of the whole lot is going to pay for the increased power consumption & cable charges due to the FREE COLOUR TV that MK has promised..and who will get all the revenue for the cable TV..the omni present SCV (Sumangali Cable Vision)....mistake 5 according to me....
I can go on and on....but it will become more of a finger pointer than a lament of a helpless guy....
Anubavinga ellarum .... 5 varusam ("Reap the benefit for 5 years from now" is what it means)
Yeppu..Tamil Nadu and its most literate(or otherwise) have done it...have shunted between DRAVIDIAN PARTIES.....I was so optimistic that atleast this time people would reverse the trend and vote for the incumbent...but they have not failed to disappoint....
just in case, any one is inquisitive abt the reason behind my laments...
a) atleast Jayalalitha (called as J from now) would have continued what she has done...because I am 700 % sure..kalaignar henceforth called MK in this writeup, will scrap, undo, dismantle anything she has started...so the reality is TN is going to come back to square one as far as development is concerned...at the courtesy of mindless voters... MK will have tough time fulfilling his promises...that is IF at all he plans to fulfill them. so mistake 1 according to me...
b) If they had voted J back to power, the famed politicians of TN would have learnt a million dollar lesson, to not underestimate the voter public and do something so that they stay back in power, but alas, the message that is coming thru now is "WHATEVER I DO or NOT DO, I AM NOT GOING TO STAY FOR MORE THAN 5 YEARS....so let me atleast fill my pocket and not do anything"... will be the mindset...people could have avoided that....coz this was the closest any incumbent could have got to returning to power..in all these years in TN political history after MGR. so mistake 2 according to me...
c) by voting DMK+ to power, no doubt MK is returning to the helm, but how long will he / will he be able to continue....??? is the biggest question...everybody has...coz..his health not withstanding / Family pressure not withstanding MK will for sure step down and pave the way for MK Stalin to power, with which I can't imagine the "state" of the state....omigod....he has earned so much of disrespect and hatred just within DMK, think of the whole state of TN, plus he does not have the charisma or the skill levels of his legendary father....so mistake 3 according to me...
d) Politics of the Famed familiy will cut loose, and we as the people of the state should be ready to believe in and accept the OFFICIAL NEWS CHANNEL, the OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER, OFFICIAL ENTERAINMENT MAGAZINE, et all from the family...I am not going to be surprised if SUN TV is going to be the official channel of enterainment for TN and every advertiser will be forced to pay a royalty for SUN TV for any advert they are planning to play in the state...
e)And who out of the whole lot is going to pay for the increased power consumption & cable charges due to the FREE COLOUR TV that MK has promised..and who will get all the revenue for the cable TV..the omni present SCV (Sumangali Cable Vision)....mistake 5 according to me....
I can go on and on....but it will become more of a finger pointer than a lament of a helpless guy....
Anubavinga ellarum .... 5 varusam ("Reap the benefit for 5 years from now" is what it means)
Monday, May 08, 2006
In Defence of Kaavya - How Opal Mehta Got into Controversy
Deeply saddened, is what I could muster up for what has happened to Kaavya Vishwanathan's Literary Career...The fledgling career has been faced with rough weather...It all happened like a hazy dream...She shot up to fame first with her novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got A Life, then soon after, not even a month into her popularity, she was stripped of all her popularity...the reasons given were, some paragraphs of her work had striking resemblance, hard to ignore from another popular writer's couple of novels. People started publishing similarities as if that was their favourite past time of late....
Agreed plagiarism is not a very kind act....one needs to be very vigilant on acts like these...but please spare a thought to what kaavya should be going through, because it has become very evident that it was pressure from the publishing and packaging house that has had a major say in the released version of the book, but all said and done, it is the author who is targeted for all of the remarks...fair enough....but at the behest of the background activities, the question that is becoming conspicous is "Is Kaavya really responsible for all that happened ??"
I have read a lot on the online stories after the controversy and these seem to outnumber the lines written by kaavya in the book....surprising isn't it??? yeah but thats the truth....amongst the heap of stories that I have read on PLAGIARIST - KAAVYA, I could spot out three interesting stories IN DEFENCE OF KAAVYA... and I do second...rather fourth these articles....and Kaavya, I stand by your side, I feel after all noobody is original and can be original as a matter of fact of nature.....
1)IN DEFENCE OF KAAVYA - http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003068.html
2)IN DEFENCE OF KAAVYA - http://in.rediff.com/news/2006/may/08guest.htm
3)IN DEFENCE OF KAAVYA - http://www.sulekha.com/blogs/blogdisplay.aspx?cid=48893
Spot me a person who can vouch for originality in thought, word and action, in any work of theirs....IT SHOULD HAVE HAD AN INSPIRATION FROM SOMEWHERE....there is no escaping that....just that the source does not complain about Plagiarism
As one of the links say, the so-called copied content, doesn't in any way
a) affect the original work
b) amount to even 1 % of the derived work, which automatically means the copied content is an insignificant part....
c) Does not create any twists to the plot of the story, which has affected the story significantly...
so why make all the fuss about lifting lines, from another work.....as the second link states, Kaavya has not been skillfull at copying...had she been, she would not be into this situation now.....
I am certainly not of the opinion that plagiarism is acceptable and should not be condemned..but all that I am lamenting over here is one should not be prejudiced to cases of plagiarism.....the cases should be opinionated on an individual basis, if any body with their senses ON, reads the whole book of Kaavya and gets to the paragraphs in question....they would readily agreee "SO WHAT????", believe me, these paragraphs are that insignificant and the pity is Kaavya has had to pay the price of the two-book-deal being scraped and her novel revoked from book stores....
So I feel one should support this girl during this time of distress....and emotional block-out.......
my 2 cents.....
Agreed plagiarism is not a very kind act....one needs to be very vigilant on acts like these...but please spare a thought to what kaavya should be going through, because it has become very evident that it was pressure from the publishing and packaging house that has had a major say in the released version of the book, but all said and done, it is the author who is targeted for all of the remarks...fair enough....but at the behest of the background activities, the question that is becoming conspicous is "Is Kaavya really responsible for all that happened ??"
I have read a lot on the online stories after the controversy and these seem to outnumber the lines written by kaavya in the book....surprising isn't it??? yeah but thats the truth....amongst the heap of stories that I have read on PLAGIARIST - KAAVYA, I could spot out three interesting stories IN DEFENCE OF KAAVYA... and I do second...rather fourth these articles....and Kaavya, I stand by your side, I feel after all noobody is original and can be original as a matter of fact of nature.....
1)IN DEFENCE OF KAAVYA - http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003068.html
2)IN DEFENCE OF KAAVYA - http://in.rediff.com/news/2006/may/08guest.htm
3)IN DEFENCE OF KAAVYA - http://www.sulekha.com/blogs/blogdisplay.aspx?cid=48893
Spot me a person who can vouch for originality in thought, word and action, in any work of theirs....IT SHOULD HAVE HAD AN INSPIRATION FROM SOMEWHERE....there is no escaping that....just that the source does not complain about Plagiarism
As one of the links say, the so-called copied content, doesn't in any way
a) affect the original work
b) amount to even 1 % of the derived work, which automatically means the copied content is an insignificant part....
c) Does not create any twists to the plot of the story, which has affected the story significantly...
so why make all the fuss about lifting lines, from another work.....as the second link states, Kaavya has not been skillfull at copying...had she been, she would not be into this situation now.....
I am certainly not of the opinion that plagiarism is acceptable and should not be condemned..but all that I am lamenting over here is one should not be prejudiced to cases of plagiarism.....the cases should be opinionated on an individual basis, if any body with their senses ON, reads the whole book of Kaavya and gets to the paragraphs in question....they would readily agreee "SO WHAT????", believe me, these paragraphs are that insignificant and the pity is Kaavya has had to pay the price of the two-book-deal being scraped and her novel revoked from book stores....
So I feel one should support this girl during this time of distress....and emotional block-out.......
my 2 cents.....
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
How Opal Mehta got Kissed, got Wild and got a Life - A Book Review
My First Ever Book Review....and the first ever Novel I have read outside of academics
For a eighteen year old....this is too good an attempt....Actually, I got into this only because of a interview with Kaavya Vishwanathan in The Hindu, that I read. It was refreshing and kindled interest in me, basically because, I have gone through this admissions things much before this....
so...goto-> Landmark -> get the book -> the guy at the counter gave me a smile suggesting me the popularity of the book...!!!!
The story looks to be a leaf taken out of somebody's life...and it can't be any other way...coz...its so realistic.....thats the one reason I was attracted to this novel....basically I am not a story reader guy, am always attracted to only reality writings...and I thought for the first time, I am detouring from that, but at the end, somehow, my choice of hooking on to this book, wasn't very different from my genre of books, just that it is a very popular one, that I am reading.....
The opening chapters of the book, straight take you into the groove, which was very well done, so that people dont be slack at the book, at the very beginning itself, interesting the tempo is maintained at the jet speed one is used to in the beginning, I was more amazed and amused at the language and the contemporairiness of the story and the author's dictum of the same....It was fun all the way....
The middle of the novel, is well in the expected levels, and one is taken into too much of details, of each of the exploits the protagonist, which I felt was lil too much, coz If I were the author, I would have trimmed those to nicety, but maybe I am not aware of the modalities of novelists...and maybe, this is how novels are written...it would take another novel of this kind for me to realize it.....
the mind for detail is very evident in the places when Opal goes to the hair stylist; the proud Mehtas planning HOWGAL with all the music CDs, recordings of The O.C et all, are very interesting....actually catches the pulse of youth in the United States today...
So the story goes ,like this,
Opal Mehta, a Desi teenager, whose only aim all her life has been to enter Harvard, which according to their parents, the ebullient Mehtas, will secure a future for her, for which she has been working meticuluously and following the plan HOWGIH (How Opal Will Get Into Harvard) crafted by the Mehtas, only to find it isn't enough , harrowingly at the near end of the admissions, when the interviewer Dean Anderson in Harvard laments on the need of well rounded people into harvard, and not Automatons......All hell breaks loose when Opal returns home, only to comforted by her parents with yet another plan HOWGAL ( How Opal Will Get A Life). Here goes the second innings, where Opal tries to be the cool girl and makes her best with the tryst to become the Hot Commodity in school. In the process of HOWGAL, she befriends the very few people she thought, she could talk meaningfully to in school, the science group...In comes her changed persona...and along with it numerous new situations...the parents arranged date with Jeff Akel, the peer-counselling sessions with Sean Whalen, the escapades with HBz, the act of getting wild with a party at home, kissing Sean Whalen, after seeing Jeff with another girl, swapping blackberries with Prsicilla Ming, which turns out to be her undoing tearing her image to pieces, when priscilla bulk-forwards her HOWGAL plans in an email to the whole class, How Sean Whalen breaks up with Opal and so many other things...which are literally fun and frolic...Then she meets her cousin which turns out to be for the better, then the second chance at Harvard, which quite ironicaly she flounders in a pool of tears, unknowingly blurts out the fermiculli theorem she is trying to prove, and after much trauma of waiting for the Harvard admission letter, it comes as a huge relief and all ends well....
Hopping onto the characters other than the Mehtas that really need a mention are Jeff Akel the School Students Union president, with political aspirations, the HBz ( Haute Bitchezzz) complete with the Asian Sensation Priscilla Ming( the cool girls in school) are very well knitted into the story, I thought the physics partner Natalie, could have been deliberated a llil more, considering the fact that she plays a great part during the closing stages of the story, the little cameos by Dean Anderson, the interviewer at harvard, the harvard host for Opal the second time around, med dropout cousin sister Kali, all do their bit. I have seen Dean Anderson ish people during my US Student Visa interview...and infact I was interviewed by a guy similar in sketch to Dean Anderson who rejected my student visa petition..:-(....so I was moved by Opal's situation and could readily relate to it....:-)
Sean Whalen, the love interest of Opal, what a character he has been in this story, starting from a no hope guy to the main love interest of Opal Mehta, his character was well etched, I should say.....the desi effect of the story was very evident and enjoyable, much like what we are used to in movies like Bend It Like Beckham & Bride and Prejudice...funny..I should say....the never say die attitude of the Mehta's was very inspiring...the cousin Kali..the dark horse of the story I should say, the fulcrum behind the change of attitude in Opal was a real smash of a charcter...
True to being a reviewer, only when Opal meets Kali at the Market place, does the USP of the story spill out...coz...I was wondering why Opal Mehta was just obeying her parents, when she didn't love doing what she was doing, I am talking abt HOWGAL....so Kali's character is a revelation both for Opal and for the readers....do what you think you will suceed in...... How many of us get that option, mainly because any caring parent like the Mehta's would want their kids to do nothing different from Harvard...rite????
Though Funny and amusing all the way, the understone has been staunchily put up..DO WHAT YOU LIKE and BE WHO YOU ARE...is the success recipe in life......infact, the story would have been a paradox if Opal hadn't toured HARVARD the second time around, when she got to know that's where she wanted to be, so in a way, she wanted to be in Harvard and she has been.....so I liked the way the story was summed up...though a little cinematic..like THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER.....;-)
Eager in seeing how the movie shapes by in the hands of Dream Works....:-)
Good work...over all...I should say....a vibing teen author's bubbling book, its a fun ride, thoughout.....
For a eighteen year old....this is too good an attempt....Actually, I got into this only because of a interview with Kaavya Vishwanathan in The Hindu, that I read. It was refreshing and kindled interest in me, basically because, I have gone through this admissions things much before this....
so...goto-> Landmark -> get the book -> the guy at the counter gave me a smile suggesting me the popularity of the book...!!!!
The story looks to be a leaf taken out of somebody's life...and it can't be any other way...coz...its so realistic.....thats the one reason I was attracted to this novel....basically I am not a story reader guy, am always attracted to only reality writings...and I thought for the first time, I am detouring from that, but at the end, somehow, my choice of hooking on to this book, wasn't very different from my genre of books, just that it is a very popular one, that I am reading.....
The opening chapters of the book, straight take you into the groove, which was very well done, so that people dont be slack at the book, at the very beginning itself, interesting the tempo is maintained at the jet speed one is used to in the beginning, I was more amazed and amused at the language and the contemporairiness of the story and the author's dictum of the same....It was fun all the way....
The middle of the novel, is well in the expected levels, and one is taken into too much of details, of each of the exploits the protagonist, which I felt was lil too much, coz If I were the author, I would have trimmed those to nicety, but maybe I am not aware of the modalities of novelists...and maybe, this is how novels are written...it would take another novel of this kind for me to realize it.....
the mind for detail is very evident in the places when Opal goes to the hair stylist; the proud Mehtas planning HOWGAL with all the music CDs, recordings of The O.C et all, are very interesting....actually catches the pulse of youth in the United States today...
So the story goes ,like this,
Opal Mehta, a Desi teenager, whose only aim all her life has been to enter Harvard, which according to their parents, the ebullient Mehtas, will secure a future for her, for which she has been working meticuluously and following the plan HOWGIH (How Opal Will Get Into Harvard) crafted by the Mehtas, only to find it isn't enough , harrowingly at the near end of the admissions, when the interviewer Dean Anderson in Harvard laments on the need of well rounded people into harvard, and not Automatons......All hell breaks loose when Opal returns home, only to comforted by her parents with yet another plan HOWGAL ( How Opal Will Get A Life). Here goes the second innings, where Opal tries to be the cool girl and makes her best with the tryst to become the Hot Commodity in school. In the process of HOWGAL, she befriends the very few people she thought, she could talk meaningfully to in school, the science group...In comes her changed persona...and along with it numerous new situations...the parents arranged date with Jeff Akel, the peer-counselling sessions with Sean Whalen, the escapades with HBz, the act of getting wild with a party at home, kissing Sean Whalen, after seeing Jeff with another girl, swapping blackberries with Prsicilla Ming, which turns out to be her undoing tearing her image to pieces, when priscilla bulk-forwards her HOWGAL plans in an email to the whole class, How Sean Whalen breaks up with Opal and so many other things...which are literally fun and frolic...Then she meets her cousin which turns out to be for the better, then the second chance at Harvard, which quite ironicaly she flounders in a pool of tears, unknowingly blurts out the fermiculli theorem she is trying to prove, and after much trauma of waiting for the Harvard admission letter, it comes as a huge relief and all ends well....
Hopping onto the characters other than the Mehtas that really need a mention are Jeff Akel the School Students Union president, with political aspirations, the HBz ( Haute Bitchezzz) complete with the Asian Sensation Priscilla Ming( the cool girls in school) are very well knitted into the story, I thought the physics partner Natalie, could have been deliberated a llil more, considering the fact that she plays a great part during the closing stages of the story, the little cameos by Dean Anderson, the interviewer at harvard, the harvard host for Opal the second time around, med dropout cousin sister Kali, all do their bit. I have seen Dean Anderson ish people during my US Student Visa interview...and infact I was interviewed by a guy similar in sketch to Dean Anderson who rejected my student visa petition..:-(....so I was moved by Opal's situation and could readily relate to it....:-)
Sean Whalen, the love interest of Opal, what a character he has been in this story, starting from a no hope guy to the main love interest of Opal Mehta, his character was well etched, I should say.....the desi effect of the story was very evident and enjoyable, much like what we are used to in movies like Bend It Like Beckham & Bride and Prejudice...funny..I should say....the never say die attitude of the Mehta's was very inspiring...the cousin Kali..the dark horse of the story I should say, the fulcrum behind the change of attitude in Opal was a real smash of a charcter...
True to being a reviewer, only when Opal meets Kali at the Market place, does the USP of the story spill out...coz...I was wondering why Opal Mehta was just obeying her parents, when she didn't love doing what she was doing, I am talking abt HOWGAL....so Kali's character is a revelation both for Opal and for the readers....do what you think you will suceed in...... How many of us get that option, mainly because any caring parent like the Mehta's would want their kids to do nothing different from Harvard...rite????
Though Funny and amusing all the way, the understone has been staunchily put up..DO WHAT YOU LIKE and BE WHO YOU ARE...is the success recipe in life......infact, the story would have been a paradox if Opal hadn't toured HARVARD the second time around, when she got to know that's where she wanted to be, so in a way, she wanted to be in Harvard and she has been.....so I liked the way the story was summed up...though a little cinematic..like THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER.....;-)
Eager in seeing how the movie shapes by in the hands of Dream Works....:-)
Good work...over all...I should say....a vibing teen author's bubbling book, its a fun ride, thoughout.....
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Dishoom - Movie Review
"Impressed" is the solitary word I could pick out from my vocabulary.....I have already mentioned the fact that new directors, particularily in tamil movies...make great impact..and sasi is no exception......An excellent movie...I am amazed at the fact that freshers...can indeed bring refreshing ideas....
A novel idea, like what if a Fight Choreographer gets caught in the mire of love...and what the parties at stake go through...told in the most realistic perspective one can think of....thats when one gets involved in the movie....and is sensitive to the ups and down of the characters..thats the victory for the movie, director..et al,.
If one song can summarize the movie...and make a mark for itself in all aspects like lyrics, music, and picturisation..it should defienetly be "Nenjangootil Neeye Nirkirai..", such soul searching music, is rare to come by, and lyrics..which are intune to the whole theme of the movie, asthetically picturised....
Agreed Dialogues being the strong point is one point, but plugging them in at the right scenes...to make an impact, is another art which the director seems to have perfected...Every dialogue is important, and crucial dialogues do make an impact on the viewer..and he is made aware that it is a crucial dialogue by its depthness...hatz offf....
Jeeva, looked to tread the chocolate boy hero..with his initial couple of movies...and I felt that he will become the grist of the mill stuff..but starting with RAAM, he has made a conscious effort to break even and does well in the act...emoting comes naturally to him, and his dialogue delivery doesn't stick out, which is very important for an actor...am sure he will make waves as an actor, by his choosy way of picking roles, what with his "E" promising much more...Lets let this young lad go places..and he sure deserves it...
Everybody literally everybody have essayed meaningful roles, including the under-nourished comedian, have been useful..I appreciate that....I thought Nasser was wasted in his role...but good twist at the end courtesy his role....
Overall, a pleasurable experience watching this movie...
I would give 8 out of 10 for this refreshing story line...
-Rajesh
A novel idea, like what if a Fight Choreographer gets caught in the mire of love...and what the parties at stake go through...told in the most realistic perspective one can think of....thats when one gets involved in the movie....and is sensitive to the ups and down of the characters..thats the victory for the movie, director..et al,.
If one song can summarize the movie...and make a mark for itself in all aspects like lyrics, music, and picturisation..it should defienetly be "Nenjangootil Neeye Nirkirai..", such soul searching music, is rare to come by, and lyrics..which are intune to the whole theme of the movie, asthetically picturised....
Agreed Dialogues being the strong point is one point, but plugging them in at the right scenes...to make an impact, is another art which the director seems to have perfected...Every dialogue is important, and crucial dialogues do make an impact on the viewer..and he is made aware that it is a crucial dialogue by its depthness...hatz offf....
Jeeva, looked to tread the chocolate boy hero..with his initial couple of movies...and I felt that he will become the grist of the mill stuff..but starting with RAAM, he has made a conscious effort to break even and does well in the act...emoting comes naturally to him, and his dialogue delivery doesn't stick out, which is very important for an actor...am sure he will make waves as an actor, by his choosy way of picking roles, what with his "E" promising much more...Lets let this young lad go places..and he sure deserves it...
Everybody literally everybody have essayed meaningful roles, including the under-nourished comedian, have been useful..I appreciate that....I thought Nasser was wasted in his role...but good twist at the end courtesy his role....
Overall, a pleasurable experience watching this movie...
I would give 8 out of 10 for this refreshing story line...
-Rajesh
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
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
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
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Kalvanin Kadhali - Movie Review
A one liner for the movie would go like this: Story line - cliched; Screenplay - Refreshing !!
To put it bluntly, the prejudice I had before entering the Hall expecting the movie to not be anything but mediocre, vanished into thin air...when I came out of the hall....mildly surprised....with a neat screenplay and clear characterisation.....the movie comes out unscatched with the viewer...which in itself...is a great tribute for the debutant director....
Few from the general public would know that this is not a SJ Suryah directed movie...but he pulls his weight purely as an actor in this movie.....real talent, though without the looks... The movie starts with suryah's now familiar pranks..and to be frank.....the first half hour was slightly uncomfortable with cheap dual tone dialogues and scenes. Agreed that Suryah's character is a womanizer..but the scene's take it too far...
Wading through the first half hour....and then you are made to situp with Nayanthara's entry...wow.....the real star or you can call flag bearer of the movie....she moves around the camera with such poise, beauty, freshness...you feel for nayanthara's portrayal in Ghajini..where she was shown in poor light...photographically..I mean..... Any hero would want to act with Nayanthara after seeing this movie....she carries herself..excellently well...the reason for this is her neat characterisation...one is at home with her portrayal...
The story moves around with beautifully picturised and composed songs....credit to Yuvan..who churns out such tunes non-chalantly like his father...not exactly in his father's class though!!! Songs as well are a major plus for the movie.....actually the director has proved that with neat character sketches, screenplay, music and direction, one can get away with such cliched subjects as well....
Overall an enjoyable movie if you are an youngster !!!
-Rajesh
To put it bluntly, the prejudice I had before entering the Hall expecting the movie to not be anything but mediocre, vanished into thin air...when I came out of the hall....mildly surprised....with a neat screenplay and clear characterisation.....the movie comes out unscatched with the viewer...which in itself...is a great tribute for the debutant director....
Few from the general public would know that this is not a SJ Suryah directed movie...but he pulls his weight purely as an actor in this movie.....real talent, though without the looks... The movie starts with suryah's now familiar pranks..and to be frank.....the first half hour was slightly uncomfortable with cheap dual tone dialogues and scenes. Agreed that Suryah's character is a womanizer..but the scene's take it too far...
Wading through the first half hour....and then you are made to situp with Nayanthara's entry...wow.....the real star or you can call flag bearer of the movie....she moves around the camera with such poise, beauty, freshness...you feel for nayanthara's portrayal in Ghajini..where she was shown in poor light...photographically..I mean..... Any hero would want to act with Nayanthara after seeing this movie....she carries herself..excellently well...the reason for this is her neat characterisation...one is at home with her portrayal...
The story moves around with beautifully picturised and composed songs....credit to Yuvan..who churns out such tunes non-chalantly like his father...not exactly in his father's class though!!! Songs as well are a major plus for the movie.....actually the director has proved that with neat character sketches, screenplay, music and direction, one can get away with such cliched subjects as well....
Overall an enjoyable movie if you are an youngster !!!
-Rajesh
Saturday, March 11, 2006
Internet Explorer 7 Beta - PREVIEW
Was hanging around at Novell's new desktop news site...when they said...Novell will have the edge over Windows Vista by about 6 months..so I went straight to Windows Vista page...I have been having a keen interest on Vista...coz...I alpha tested Vista way back in 2003, when it was doing the rounds....
this time around, the website does look impressive..as always and like any other microsoft page....Got interested in IE 7 beta....Signed up for that...knowing well the alluring danger in Microsoft Beta products...(I had a tough time with Windows Media Player 10, in 2004-2005), the temptation was too much...to resist...
downloaded IE 7 Beta 2,
Installed it...
Took 5 minutes....restarted Windows....
Opened IE....surprised to see IE looking refreshing....with TABS...and the toolbars have been given a face-lift...
A search toolbar akin Firefox, Opera...Finally IE has succumbed to the needs and has followed suit with most of the features that the competitors provide....
Does not look like such a memory hog...except for some javascript pages...the memory usage was pretty ok.....thats until now...only over course it will mature...
Have already suggested three enhancements to the IE mailing list..:-)
Without any outstanding improvements to boast about, IE as standalone will not succeed...but when given with Vista..will sail in as a successful browser...looking to match the advances Microsoft has made to the OS as whole...a significant forward movement from Windows XP...one would say..!!!
More comments after a couple of weeks..when it will be stress-tested...:-))
-Rajesh
this time around, the website does look impressive..as always and like any other microsoft page....Got interested in IE 7 beta....Signed up for that...knowing well the alluring danger in Microsoft Beta products...(I had a tough time with Windows Media Player 10, in 2004-2005), the temptation was too much...to resist...
downloaded IE 7 Beta 2,
Installed it...
Took 5 minutes....restarted Windows....
Opened IE....surprised to see IE looking refreshing....with TABS...and the toolbars have been given a face-lift...
A search toolbar akin Firefox, Opera...Finally IE has succumbed to the needs and has followed suit with most of the features that the competitors provide....
Does not look like such a memory hog...except for some javascript pages...the memory usage was pretty ok.....thats until now...only over course it will mature...
Have already suggested three enhancements to the IE mailing list..:-)
Without any outstanding improvements to boast about, IE as standalone will not succeed...but when given with Vista..will sail in as a successful browser...looking to match the advances Microsoft has made to the OS as whole...a significant forward movement from Windows XP...one would say..!!!
More comments after a couple of weeks..when it will be stress-tested...:-))
-Rajesh
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Thambhi - Movie Review
Thambhi....literally meaning younger brother...but colloquially used to represent any lovable fella in ur neighbourhood....so here is this fella caring about his neighbourhood...that is the crux...a social movie...
A violent movie without violence and blood shed...to sum it up..!!!! aint' different???? True...I was impressed with most part of the movie....which is in itself a credit for the movie, though low key in publicity and openings....:-) The opening sequence of the movie...though remniscent of many a hollywood war movie...was truly impressive...setting the expectation levels for the plot.....and to top it, the title sequences....given as much care as the screenplay & dialogues.... When the title card for the director says...ACTION & IMPACT -- SEEMAN, you would definitely have clap for this thambhi behind the scene for the confidence he had in his plot....I appreciate it !!!!
I read that Madhavan, had foregone his primetime host position in DEAL YA NO DEAL....to concentrate on his career in tamil film industry....Looks true, when one watches the movie...he has shown ample signs of that....Kudos for his commitment to the role -Hardwork..for sure pays off - Such characters are all the more difficult because, madhavan is not the cool dude and heppy guy...he is used to being....so u get to see a rustic madhavan in this action flick... good characterisation....and emotion from Madhavan..this is definetely a break for maddy, the chocolate boy hero....the hair-do has aided and jelled with the characterization..!!!
Enough of bragging about the director and movie....though they are the fulcrum for this movie....the movie in itself..demands some comments....So lets do justice to that part...??? what say..???
The movie...is a classic TAMIL movie...with very little shade of english dialouges and deviod of english music...for once Dr. Ramadoss..and the supposedly Tamil Fanatics cannot complain about this movie....a true TAMIL movie...all characters have been named consciously and carefully... Velu Thodaiman...aka Thambhi....you are forgiven if you have heard that name yet...??? coz....such names are a rarity in movies...hah..one more compliment...these small things...which were appealing..have forced me to write a review for this movie...!!!
Depicting the hero as a Karate exponent and keeping the fight sequence in complete realism to karate needs a pat....but the jarring fact was Maddy's belly...it was lil too much for such a powerful character....people will never know if it was intentional...nevertheless.....stunt choreography is simply stunning....to go with the excellent camera work.....
The story in a nutshell.....The protagonist is a middle class family man...gets pulled into a Dada's trial as a witness..the price he pays for this is the loss of his family...., which forces him to take up to clearing up the mess in the society....not ala the normal hero, who sets out on a holy mission to decimate the villains..... here the protagonist...instead chooses ahimsa and preaches the villain to stop these brutalities...the reasoning sounds logically and need a revisit for the depth of thought that has gone into that...Ultimately though..in reality..how much of this is practiceable is up for dicussion....once the scene gets over....tough actually....
The dada gets pulled into the trap he lays for creating havoc in the city...and here as well, the hero comes to save the villain's family...amidst all the hungama...this rivets the ideas of the hero into the villain, but it is too late...as the hero..is drawn into another trap and killed...taken revenge on..... might not be a fantastic story line, but this story line sails through mainly because of four reasons...
4) Madhavan's acting
3) Dialogue of the movie
2) Impact of SEEMAN
1) Screenplay of the movie
Overall an enjoyable experience for the true cinema lover..who expects substance and clean narration in a movie...I am certainly game for this movie...!!!
See ya,
Rajesh
A violent movie without violence and blood shed...to sum it up..!!!! aint' different???? True...I was impressed with most part of the movie....which is in itself a credit for the movie, though low key in publicity and openings....:-) The opening sequence of the movie...though remniscent of many a hollywood war movie...was truly impressive...setting the expectation levels for the plot.....and to top it, the title sequences....given as much care as the screenplay & dialogues.... When the title card for the director says...ACTION & IMPACT -- SEEMAN, you would definitely have clap for this thambhi behind the scene for the confidence he had in his plot....I appreciate it !!!!
I read that Madhavan, had foregone his primetime host position in DEAL YA NO DEAL....to concentrate on his career in tamil film industry....Looks true, when one watches the movie...he has shown ample signs of that....Kudos for his commitment to the role -Hardwork..for sure pays off - Such characters are all the more difficult because, madhavan is not the cool dude and heppy guy...he is used to being....so u get to see a rustic madhavan in this action flick... good characterisation....and emotion from Madhavan..this is definetely a break for maddy, the chocolate boy hero....the hair-do has aided and jelled with the characterization..!!!
Enough of bragging about the director and movie....though they are the fulcrum for this movie....the movie in itself..demands some comments....So lets do justice to that part...??? what say..???
The movie...is a classic TAMIL movie...with very little shade of english dialouges and deviod of english music...for once Dr. Ramadoss..and the supposedly Tamil Fanatics cannot complain about this movie....a true TAMIL movie...all characters have been named consciously and carefully... Velu Thodaiman...aka Thambhi....you are forgiven if you have heard that name yet...??? coz....such names are a rarity in movies...hah..one more compliment...these small things...which were appealing..have forced me to write a review for this movie...!!!
Depicting the hero as a Karate exponent and keeping the fight sequence in complete realism to karate needs a pat....but the jarring fact was Maddy's belly...it was lil too much for such a powerful character....people will never know if it was intentional...nevertheless.....stunt choreography is simply stunning....to go with the excellent camera work.....
The story in a nutshell.....The protagonist is a middle class family man...gets pulled into a Dada's trial as a witness..the price he pays for this is the loss of his family...., which forces him to take up to clearing up the mess in the society....not ala the normal hero, who sets out on a holy mission to decimate the villains..... here the protagonist...instead chooses ahimsa and preaches the villain to stop these brutalities...the reasoning sounds logically and need a revisit for the depth of thought that has gone into that...Ultimately though..in reality..how much of this is practiceable is up for dicussion....once the scene gets over....tough actually....
The dada gets pulled into the trap he lays for creating havoc in the city...and here as well, the hero comes to save the villain's family...amidst all the hungama...this rivets the ideas of the hero into the villain, but it is too late...as the hero..is drawn into another trap and killed...taken revenge on..... might not be a fantastic story line, but this story line sails through mainly because of four reasons...
4) Madhavan's acting
3) Dialogue of the movie
2) Impact of SEEMAN
1) Screenplay of the movie
Overall an enjoyable experience for the true cinema lover..who expects substance and clean narration in a movie...I am certainly game for this movie...!!!
See ya,
Rajesh
Merger Announcement
This is a formal announcement that involves the merger of my other blog, http://reviewkorner.blogspot.com, with this weblog. The blog "In Perspective", has been in operation since September 1, 2005. The Initial idea behind the blog was to dedicate one for movie reviews....but I never had any traffic interests..then....so didnt care to make it public....but my friend sujay, has conciously sowed the "traffic...and counter funda" into my mind....so I have decided to make the merger, after ..................."much thought"..you would have thought, but in actuality, "without an after thought"....so you would be able to see my reviews....in this web stop itself......what with everybody going in for convergence.....I didnt want to be left behind....hahaha...;-)
Saturday, February 11, 2006
An Incredible Experience
Yeah.,..that's what I should say of what I have had today...!!!! the 30th of December 2005......coz....today will go in MY history as the day when I have had my first flying experience..!!!! Yes....my first flight...certainly not a la THE AVIATOR, but a domestic flying experience... from Bangalore to Coimbatore... an exact 50 minute flying experience.....incredulously incredible..............
It all unfolded rather unexpectedly....I had tripped on the road...on road to office...yesterday...morning....and it was diagonalized as a marginal hairline fracture...and I couldn't keep continuing at my house in Bangalore due to logistics..:-) so had to rush to my residence in Coimbatore at the earliest. For all the logical reasoning I had reasoned and scored in GRE...during my college days...I couldn't find a better way than traveling by train....and that too right on new year's eve...with this fractured leg..but for my friend Sriram, who sparked off the idea that I could travel by air, provided flights are available to Coimbatore...I knew they were available and got it checked by one of flight travel savvy friend Pankaj......So he had booked an online ticket for me in AIR DECCAN, which boasted of 2.5 Grant as its worth in Rupees...so I had finalized the travel...but was little concerned and slightly remorse that my first flying experience had to be so quick, unplanned and at a not so happy moment...when I am left limping...but regrouped myself..and called up the customer service of Air Deccan and checked if I could use the services of a wheel chair till I board the flight ...
I waited patiently for 15 minutes and then got a friendly sounding lady online, told my situation, for which she readily identified a work around, and said would cost another half a grant...and I could do nothing but to oblige for it....
So came the moment, at 5.30 AM, on 30th December, my kind room-mate Lakshmi Narasimhan, had given me hand (literally) till the airport in Bangalore from where a courteous Air Deccan employee reassured that he would help me until I take my seat in the flight...........huh... I was relieved....had already checked in at 6.10 AM...so started my 2 Hour wait.....my iPod came handy here...so never felt lonely...couldn't even call any of my friends...coz....It was still early morning for my ilk of people....got to see Bappi Lahiri, Mahesh Bhupati and Shabana Azmi...during my 2 hour long wait..and finally got to the moment when the clock showed 7.50 AM......I was allowed out of the waiting space of the bangalore terminal. While others got into the Air Deccan shuttle, I was special....;-D.........was taken straight to the airbus in my wheel chair on the runway.....was the first to get into the flight....
It was quite a small ferry, relative to what I had seen in movies...:-)...was greeted by a couple of amicable air-hostesses.....and escorted to my seat..which was just near the exit..to ease my movement ... I wasn't exactly surprised with the hospitality...because we indians are also getting used to such world class hospitality elsewhere outside the airport cordons as well.....but nevertheless good customer care is always pleasant...so was I..pleased with Air Deccan's hospitality....though it was short-lived..just 50 minutes..
Yeah..the flight started at zero eight zero zero hours..... I was preparing myself mentally for the first up-lift..........and it came 7 minutes later..and when the flight lifted into the air....blup.........butterflies fluttered in my stomach......and my ears got locked out..............and then bailed out of the lock, by my cap...It was extremely good to see myself in the ranks of the clouds...and above them as well....the cliched, “ I am on top of the world”...was the only thing that came to my mind...laughed it off....hehehe...
Then before, I could recuperate from this incrediblity....I could see TN government buses on road..below me....and I was amazed...in short...and when I looked at my watch..it showed 8.50 AM and then thud.............the flight landed in the civil aerodrome in Coimbatore, the landing---pulled people in front..and it was as though, I would fall in front of th vechile's wheels...:-)....and in another 5-10 minutes....the flight came to a grinding halt...and another courteous (customary trait of any native coimbatorian) gentleman escorted me in a wheel chair till the car at the entrance of the airport....my parents had mixed feelings while seeing me, happy to have me back in Coimbatore, but sad to see me in a wheel chair...:-I.......
yeah....this brings the 1 hour long episode to an end...rather naturally............ and see you sometime later.. with some other experience...............
Cheers,
Rajesh
It all unfolded rather unexpectedly....I had tripped on the road...on road to office...yesterday...morning....and it was diagonalized as a marginal hairline fracture...and I couldn't keep continuing at my house in Bangalore due to logistics..:-) so had to rush to my residence in Coimbatore at the earliest. For all the logical reasoning I had reasoned and scored in GRE...during my college days...I couldn't find a better way than traveling by train....and that too right on new year's eve...with this fractured leg..but for my friend Sriram, who sparked off the idea that I could travel by air, provided flights are available to Coimbatore...I knew they were available and got it checked by one of flight travel savvy friend Pankaj......So he had booked an online ticket for me in AIR DECCAN, which boasted of 2.5 Grant as its worth in Rupees...so I had finalized the travel...but was little concerned and slightly remorse that my first flying experience had to be so quick, unplanned and at a not so happy moment...when I am left limping...but regrouped myself..and called up the customer service of Air Deccan and checked if I could use the services of a wheel chair till I board the flight ...
I waited patiently for 15 minutes and then got a friendly sounding lady online, told my situation, for which she readily identified a work around, and said would cost another half a grant...and I could do nothing but to oblige for it....
So came the moment, at 5.30 AM, on 30th December, my kind room-mate Lakshmi Narasimhan, had given me hand (literally) till the airport in Bangalore from where a courteous Air Deccan employee reassured that he would help me until I take my seat in the flight...........huh... I was relieved....had already checked in at 6.10 AM...so started my 2 Hour wait.....my iPod came handy here...so never felt lonely...couldn't even call any of my friends...coz....It was still early morning for my ilk of people....got to see Bappi Lahiri, Mahesh Bhupati and Shabana Azmi...during my 2 hour long wait..and finally got to the moment when the clock showed 7.50 AM......I was allowed out of the waiting space of the bangalore terminal. While others got into the Air Deccan shuttle, I was special....;-D.........was taken straight to the airbus in my wheel chair on the runway.....was the first to get into the flight....
It was quite a small ferry, relative to what I had seen in movies...:-)...was greeted by a couple of amicable air-hostesses.....and escorted to my seat..which was just near the exit..to ease my movement ... I wasn't exactly surprised with the hospitality...because we indians are also getting used to such world class hospitality elsewhere outside the airport cordons as well.....but nevertheless good customer care is always pleasant...so was I..pleased with Air Deccan's hospitality....though it was short-lived..just 50 minutes..
Yeah..the flight started at zero eight zero zero hours..... I was preparing myself mentally for the first up-lift..........and it came 7 minutes later..and when the flight lifted into the air....blup.........butterflies fluttered in my stomach......and my ears got locked out..............and then bailed out of the lock, by my cap...It was extremely good to see myself in the ranks of the clouds...and above them as well....the cliched, “ I am on top of the world”...was the only thing that came to my mind...laughed it off....hehehe...
Then before, I could recuperate from this incrediblity....I could see TN government buses on road..below me....and I was amazed...in short...and when I looked at my watch..it showed 8.50 AM and then thud.............the flight landed in the civil aerodrome in Coimbatore, the landing---pulled people in front..and it was as though, I would fall in front of th vechile's wheels...:-)....and in another 5-10 minutes....the flight came to a grinding halt...and another courteous (customary trait of any native coimbatorian) gentleman escorted me in a wheel chair till the car at the entrance of the airport....my parents had mixed feelings while seeing me, happy to have me back in Coimbatore, but sad to see me in a wheel chair...:-I.......
yeah....this brings the 1 hour long episode to an end...rather naturally............ and see you sometime later.. with some other experience...............
Cheers,
Rajesh
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Thavamai Thavamirundu - Movie Review
Thanks to Cheran,.....let me tell it upfront.....It was and is a scintillating experience to watch this movie and write about it as well. If Autograph was any indication of Cheran maturing...this is proof that he is one of the best movie makers in the business in Tamil Nadu....or better known as Kollywood......more because he does films that he loves doing....and gets critical acclaim for his movies...plus gets the return in terms of the success of the movie with the masses....this last one is the most elusive, missing link for almost all directors...which Cheran seems to be making with a child's ease...atleast in his last two movies.....both have been declared as commercial successes now...
Onto the movie.....real good selection for the storyline....not delved into such detail..in movies..prior to this. And I read in a magazine that Cheran, briefed Rajkiran the story and said, if and only if you are ready to don the hero's role would I be interested in making this film, else would take up some other storyline for a film. Such was the trust that the director had in Muthiah's character, for which he firmly believed, only Rajkiran would do justice.
Yes, you guessed it right...Rajkiran is delightful, refreshing and picture perfect for the role...all at once...it is so natural for him to do this role....he can rest assured that he had donned a life-time role for the better. It would take a political imbroglio or a geographical bias to stop him from getting the national award for his role in TT.
Getting down to the hero of the film, the storyline and the deft handling of the story with apt screenplay and direction, one cannot stop admiring the director for his skill. The best part is that.. the director has not succumbed to the guile of making a screenplay out of the story line, rather he has allowed the story to take center-stage and made the screenplay an ally for the story, which is rather unusual in the grist of the mill stuff, prevalent at present which mainly harps on fast screenplay. He has never cared to bring in startling twists at interval time, another one just before the climax or any stuff of that sort, which is the bane of modern day film makers.
Each character in the film does exactly what it has been created for.......not doing an inch extra...that's where the movie scores. Be it Sathyapriya as the courteous daughter-in-law or Saranya as the caring, understanding house wive, Cheran as the repenting son, or Senthil as the elder son, wow..the characters have not been created, rather just picked out straight from any tamil family you can choose. This is not a surprise considering what Cheran says about his subjects.....” I dont create stories...I search for stories from our tamilian life styles”...Hatz offff to Cheran for his bold foray with such subjects......
One more interesting filmi stuff I saw in the movie....If I am right, is the first for any tamil film. It goes like this:
We are used to seeing flash-back narrations in BLACK-AND-WHITE, while the current narration in COLOUR, just to make the needed difference for the viewer. This movie made this difference with a difference..yes..you are reading it right. BLACK-AND-WHITE scenes are those which are not very happy even though they happen at present, while scenes in COLOUR are those, which you can associate with bright moments in the movie...which I thought was new, very relevant and worth mentioning... Good work...TT team.. !!!
Gosh,....It looks like more of a Cheran's appraisal than the review of the movie Thavamai Thavamirundhu... That must be telling you in summary about the movie...It is an out-and-out a cheran show.... Fantastic....!!!!
Onto the movie.....real good selection for the storyline....not delved into such detail..in movies..prior to this. And I read in a magazine that Cheran, briefed Rajkiran the story and said, if and only if you are ready to don the hero's role would I be interested in making this film, else would take up some other storyline for a film. Such was the trust that the director had in Muthiah's character, for which he firmly believed, only Rajkiran would do justice.
Yes, you guessed it right...Rajkiran is delightful, refreshing and picture perfect for the role...all at once...it is so natural for him to do this role....he can rest assured that he had donned a life-time role for the better. It would take a political imbroglio or a geographical bias to stop him from getting the national award for his role in TT.
Getting down to the hero of the film, the storyline and the deft handling of the story with apt screenplay and direction, one cannot stop admiring the director for his skill. The best part is that.. the director has not succumbed to the guile of making a screenplay out of the story line, rather he has allowed the story to take center-stage and made the screenplay an ally for the story, which is rather unusual in the grist of the mill stuff, prevalent at present which mainly harps on fast screenplay. He has never cared to bring in startling twists at interval time, another one just before the climax or any stuff of that sort, which is the bane of modern day film makers.
Each character in the film does exactly what it has been created for.......not doing an inch extra...that's where the movie scores. Be it Sathyapriya as the courteous daughter-in-law or Saranya as the caring, understanding house wive, Cheran as the repenting son, or Senthil as the elder son, wow..the characters have not been created, rather just picked out straight from any tamil family you can choose. This is not a surprise considering what Cheran says about his subjects.....” I dont create stories...I search for stories from our tamilian life styles”...Hatz offff to Cheran for his bold foray with such subjects......
One more interesting filmi stuff I saw in the movie....If I am right, is the first for any tamil film. It goes like this:
We are used to seeing flash-back narrations in BLACK-AND-WHITE, while the current narration in COLOUR, just to make the needed difference for the viewer. This movie made this difference with a difference..yes..you are reading it right. BLACK-AND-WHITE scenes are those which are not very happy even though they happen at present, while scenes in COLOUR are those, which you can associate with bright moments in the movie...which I thought was new, very relevant and worth mentioning... Good work...TT team.. !!!
Gosh,....It looks like more of a Cheran's appraisal than the review of the movie Thavamai Thavamirundhu... That must be telling you in summary about the movie...It is an out-and-out a cheran show.... Fantastic....!!!!
Thursday, October 13, 2005
World...BG...AG...
World ... Before Google....After Google...
This is the first thing that came to my mind immediately after seeing the email forward about gOFFICE......Google’s latest adventure...and earth shaker for established companies....nightmares to be precise...
Google(Verb): to search for information about a specific person through the Google search engine
Have you googled yet???
It all started in the late 90's when Google came out as a dedicated search engine...though Yahoo had monopolized the business and people seldom knew about any search engine in the periphery of Yahoo and AltaVista.... I still remember the days in my graduate course when Internet was a far-fetched dream for Indians in India like me...My college library was generous enough to provide free internet for students that too after 6 PM and we used to book slots until 9 PM between friends so that we get a prolonged tenure with that system....we started using Google and Yahoo mail then and myself not for a moment knew the significance of what I was doing....using the world leading technology during its nascent years.. We used to search for long hours on technical subjects for paper presentations and used to post technical queries to many sites and university portals mainly through Google and would search for my Yahoo ID on google, and be fascinated to see my email ID fetching atleast 10 results....a sense of accomplishment. As a matter of fact, one of my long lost friends used Google to search my name and found my email ID and sent me a mail..I was pleasantly surprised to witness the use of technology in human relations....:-).....
So Google slowly but firmly entered the search engine market...I have been a faithful follower of Google's innovations....amused and eagerly logging in each day to see what Icon Google had for that day...each significant day in history would have a related cartoon...that impressed me in a long way..because I am a person who always appreciates different ideas in place of monotony. It could make no difference for the user to see these different icons..each day..but it definitely has its share of image building for Google as a company...more than just searching..!!!!
The enthusiasm and passion for their work in Google's employees is epitomized by the founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They insisted on the company being a technical company and is still the single largest technology company and will continue to be so...At the same time sensing business and doing justice to their existence at every possible extent..was Google harnessing its skills as a search engine founder....and also as a multi-faceted company growing leaps and bounds....
Knowing that India had a huge market for Internet, Google localized it's search for all the major indian languages,....me...thrilled...to get a search result in my native tongue..!!!, then Google expanded by extending its image beyond just information searching, but to information maintenance and information transmission, in addition to acquiring a host of tools..equally productive in their own rights...
Yes you guessed right.. I am talking about GMAIL and Google Desktop Search.....these I would say gave the Invincibles in the respective businesses a run for their money, sudden jolt in the form of an advanced technology competitor. Nobody could take the user for granted when innovation is your competitor. Yahoo and Microsoft have had to bear the brunt in the upcoming of Google as a technology company. GMAIL giving 1 GB of email space, and holding one such account was a matter of pride until late last year....now has set standards for people to expect from email service providers. People were happy with 10MB provided by yahoo..until GMAIL came ....but people want more now...and expect atleast of 1 GB of email space..and 1 Terra Byte of email spaces are becoming common place..because of the invasion of Google into this market.
Google Desktop Search was again a revolutionary Idea, because people were getting sick with MS Windows' F3....which would use all your CPU time and would still return empty handed....on most of the search queries...Agreed the technology for these searches were different, but I would not mind trading off some hard disk space for getting Information on demand..that too with HDDs of 40 + Gbs of space. I use GDS to the best possible extent in my workplace. No more should I have to remember where I kept that mail my customer sent me on a trivial issue which doesn't require immediate attention!!! The clinching factor here is that GDS as opposed to the other worthy contenders like Copernic, MSN DS or Yahoo DS, doesn't use too much of memory for Indexing and the fastest to return the information, that too with a Web Interface...more like accessing the web. I still remember people having been fascinated seeing with my efficiency in “information on demand”.....courtesy GDS... an open secret. When you have GDS, you can offload the information searching part of your work with Google and concentrate on more productive things.. food for thought for managers out there!!!
Google realized in due course that just in-house innovations will not keep it hot, and started acquiring smaller technology/product companies...going the Microsoft way...a few examples being Picasa, Hello Blogger, Google Earth and a host of others..I don't even remember the names...to hell with my memory....anyways...Google Earth surprised one and all with its utility value particularly within US...all this during the time Googlewas preparing its gOFFICE and launched its Google Talk. The applications of Google somehow unfailing have the Killer Punch to knockout the competitor's stuff..hahaha...but the winner is the user...who has very good choice now, with Google having broken the monopoly in almost all personal computing domains, like IM, Mail, Desktop, Web, etc.,
gOFFICE, I would say would be the beginning of a new way to look at technology and IT. A helluva idea of Web based office suite...would definitely reduce piracy of office suites, esp. in India...A revolutionary concept indeed, I am completely justified with the adjective here...revolutionary..!!!!
I read tech-blogs floating information about a web-based OS, also called WebOS, as Google's next poser for cutting-edge information technology, Earnestly waiting to see the architecture of this supposedly tech marvel!!!
Lets keeping googling around till that day when GoogleOS is flashed as a news at www.google.com
This is the first thing that came to my mind immediately after seeing the email forward about gOFFICE......Google’s latest adventure...and earth shaker for established companies....nightmares to be precise...
Google(Verb): to search for information about a specific person through the Google search engine
Have you googled yet???
It all started in the late 90's when Google came out as a dedicated search engine...though Yahoo had monopolized the business and people seldom knew about any search engine in the periphery of Yahoo and AltaVista.... I still remember the days in my graduate course when Internet was a far-fetched dream for Indians in India like me...My college library was generous enough to provide free internet for students that too after 6 PM and we used to book slots until 9 PM between friends so that we get a prolonged tenure with that system....we started using Google and Yahoo mail then and myself not for a moment knew the significance of what I was doing....using the world leading technology during its nascent years.. We used to search for long hours on technical subjects for paper presentations and used to post technical queries to many sites and university portals mainly through Google and would search for my Yahoo ID on google, and be fascinated to see my email ID fetching atleast 10 results....a sense of accomplishment. As a matter of fact, one of my long lost friends used Google to search my name and found my email ID and sent me a mail..I was pleasantly surprised to witness the use of technology in human relations....:-).....
So Google slowly but firmly entered the search engine market...I have been a faithful follower of Google's innovations....amused and eagerly logging in each day to see what Icon Google had for that day...each significant day in history would have a related cartoon...that impressed me in a long way..because I am a person who always appreciates different ideas in place of monotony. It could make no difference for the user to see these different icons..each day..but it definitely has its share of image building for Google as a company...more than just searching..!!!!
The enthusiasm and passion for their work in Google's employees is epitomized by the founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They insisted on the company being a technical company and is still the single largest technology company and will continue to be so...At the same time sensing business and doing justice to their existence at every possible extent..was Google harnessing its skills as a search engine founder....and also as a multi-faceted company growing leaps and bounds....
Knowing that India had a huge market for Internet, Google localized it's search for all the major indian languages,....me...thrilled...to get a search result in my native tongue..!!!, then Google expanded by extending its image beyond just information searching, but to information maintenance and information transmission, in addition to acquiring a host of tools..equally productive in their own rights...
Yes you guessed right.. I am talking about GMAIL and Google Desktop Search.....these I would say gave the Invincibles in the respective businesses a run for their money, sudden jolt in the form of an advanced technology competitor. Nobody could take the user for granted when innovation is your competitor. Yahoo and Microsoft have had to bear the brunt in the upcoming of Google as a technology company. GMAIL giving 1 GB of email space, and holding one such account was a matter of pride until late last year....now has set standards for people to expect from email service providers. People were happy with 10MB provided by yahoo..until GMAIL came ....but people want more now...and expect atleast of 1 GB of email space..and 1 Terra Byte of email spaces are becoming common place..because of the invasion of Google into this market.
Google Desktop Search was again a revolutionary Idea, because people were getting sick with MS Windows' F3....which would use all your CPU time and would still return empty handed....on most of the search queries...Agreed the technology for these searches were different, but I would not mind trading off some hard disk space for getting Information on demand..that too with HDDs of 40 + Gbs of space. I use GDS to the best possible extent in my workplace. No more should I have to remember where I kept that mail my customer sent me on a trivial issue which doesn't require immediate attention!!! The clinching factor here is that GDS as opposed to the other worthy contenders like Copernic, MSN DS or Yahoo DS, doesn't use too much of memory for Indexing and the fastest to return the information, that too with a Web Interface...more like accessing the web. I still remember people having been fascinated seeing with my efficiency in “information on demand”.....courtesy GDS... an open secret. When you have GDS, you can offload the information searching part of your work with Google and concentrate on more productive things.. food for thought for managers out there!!!
Google realized in due course that just in-house innovations will not keep it hot, and started acquiring smaller technology/product companies...going the Microsoft way...a few examples being Picasa, Hello Blogger, Google Earth and a host of others..I don't even remember the names...to hell with my memory....anyways...Google Earth surprised one and all with its utility value particularly within US...all this during the time Googlewas preparing its gOFFICE and launched its Google Talk. The applications of Google somehow unfailing have the Killer Punch to knockout the competitor's stuff..hahaha...but the winner is the user...who has very good choice now, with Google having broken the monopoly in almost all personal computing domains, like IM, Mail, Desktop, Web, etc.,
gOFFICE, I would say would be the beginning of a new way to look at technology and IT. A helluva idea of Web based office suite...would definitely reduce piracy of office suites, esp. in India...A revolutionary concept indeed, I am completely justified with the adjective here...revolutionary..!!!!
I read tech-blogs floating information about a web-based OS, also called WebOS, as Google's next poser for cutting-edge information technology, Earnestly waiting to see the architecture of this supposedly tech marvel!!!
Lets keeping googling around till that day when GoogleOS is flashed as a news at www.google.com
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Ghazini / Ghajini - Movie Review
Surya has matured as an actor, versatility is his forte and is setting standards that one can expect safely from him movie after movie....Technical gloss and Surya are the main armoury for this Ghajini...:-)
Being a die-hard Shankar fan, I was pretty sure, that Tamil Cinema or for that matter Indian cinema will take its own sweet time to reach or match the technical brilliance on display in any Shankar film...and u know what, I had to eat my words..for the better of Tamil Cinema, for once I was proud...because here is a movie which is very good advertisement for Tamil Cinema. It was out and out technical extravaganza on display for close to 60 minutes, split over 2 halves in the start and the end of the movie.
Yeah...and according to me that was it.....nothing more extravagant about the movie...Believe me....the excitement that is setup with the introduction of the indisposed surya....had it been matched in entirety or at half of it....the movie would have gone far beyond diwali date, coz the movie will have to pay the casualty for the delayed release...as it has already eaten too much into the diwali deadline...and the producers of the movie..will have to pay for it...dearly...because the movie does not have the killer punch of Ramanaa..or the purpose of Kaaka Kaaka....
The main drab part of the movie...is the flashback of the Hero...that extends beyond the bar, a tad too far...spilling over three separate narrations which is quite irritating for the eye and the mind..because there is nothing special in the flash back....except for Surya's looks..
--which are stunning...he is getting smarter by the day....and is getting there for the tag that his father once held as his forte...young and sweet at heart--
Asin is looking the damsel she needs to be...nayantara..disappoints with her emoting....unwanted skin show is not expected out of this movie...which is devoid of any serious comedy...so the song sequences are just fillers for such a strong storyline...and the movie could as well go without atleast 3 of the five songs...If you ask me....
and yes..coming to the other credits holders...the music..Harris Jeyaraj..I am seriously at dismay with the kind of re-recording he has been dishing out movie..after movie....too loud...and unnecessary for the scenes..I felt exactly the same with Thotti Jaya, as well. So I felt a sense of distaste here. Songs..one felt a sense of belonging only for the melodies...just two in number..:-)
The video-editing is absolutely great...and visually grand...good work...the climax fight sequence is one very good example for this..plus the song sequences., Locations are equally grand to fit Sanjay Ramaswami's attitude....mood..and costume in the songs.
The other characters in the movie..not many in number...though played their part..Riyaz Khan did well in whatever he got...a raw deal in the meaty role I would say...Pradeep Rawat..the usual Villain..the only difference being double the villainy...hahaha....
The biggest credit to the movie..inspite of all these snides...is that the story line, though quite complex has been dealt with aplomb in the screenplay and reality never taking a beating. Surya..I would say has done his role exceedingly well...full marks to him....but one felt he was under utilized if we take Nanda and Kakka Kakka as standards....
Overall, happy with the movie...but...not satisfied..rest assured that this movie will surely treat the audiences until Diwali...thats for sure...
Being a die-hard Shankar fan, I was pretty sure, that Tamil Cinema or for that matter Indian cinema will take its own sweet time to reach or match the technical brilliance on display in any Shankar film...and u know what, I had to eat my words..for the better of Tamil Cinema, for once I was proud...because here is a movie which is very good advertisement for Tamil Cinema. It was out and out technical extravaganza on display for close to 60 minutes, split over 2 halves in the start and the end of the movie.
Yeah...and according to me that was it.....nothing more extravagant about the movie...Believe me....the excitement that is setup with the introduction of the indisposed surya....had it been matched in entirety or at half of it....the movie would have gone far beyond diwali date, coz the movie will have to pay the casualty for the delayed release...as it has already eaten too much into the diwali deadline...and the producers of the movie..will have to pay for it...dearly...because the movie does not have the killer punch of Ramanaa..or the purpose of Kaaka Kaaka....
The main drab part of the movie...is the flashback of the Hero...that extends beyond the bar, a tad too far...spilling over three separate narrations which is quite irritating for the eye and the mind..because there is nothing special in the flash back....except for Surya's looks..
--which are stunning...he is getting smarter by the day....and is getting there for the tag that his father once held as his forte...young and sweet at heart--
Asin is looking the damsel she needs to be...nayantara..disappoints with her emoting....unwanted skin show is not expected out of this movie...which is devoid of any serious comedy...so the song sequences are just fillers for such a strong storyline...and the movie could as well go without atleast 3 of the five songs...If you ask me....
and yes..coming to the other credits holders...the music..Harris Jeyaraj..I am seriously at dismay with the kind of re-recording he has been dishing out movie..after movie....too loud...and unnecessary for the scenes..I felt exactly the same with Thotti Jaya, as well. So I felt a sense of distaste here. Songs..one felt a sense of belonging only for the melodies...just two in number..:-)
The video-editing is absolutely great...and visually grand...good work...the climax fight sequence is one very good example for this..plus the song sequences., Locations are equally grand to fit Sanjay Ramaswami's attitude....mood..and costume in the songs.
The other characters in the movie..not many in number...though played their part..Riyaz Khan did well in whatever he got...a raw deal in the meaty role I would say...Pradeep Rawat..the usual Villain..the only difference being double the villainy...hahaha....
The biggest credit to the movie..inspite of all these snides...is that the story line, though quite complex has been dealt with aplomb in the screenplay and reality never taking a beating. Surya..I would say has done his role exceedingly well...full marks to him....but one felt he was under utilized if we take Nanda and Kakka Kakka as standards....
Overall, happy with the movie...but...not satisfied..rest assured that this movie will surely treat the audiences until Diwali...thats for sure...
Monday, September 19, 2005
Ah ... Aah...[Anbe..Aruyire..] - Movie Review
A unique name...to begin with and a unique subject as well for a base. Appreciable if I could say in a solitary word. But there is a lot more for a successful film and maybe...just maybe for the first time in 4 movies has SJ Suryah faltered in his quest. This could be attributed to the umpteen number of problems that have befallen him after his last venture NEW.
Anyways on to the main course...the movie starts off with Suryah giving a short intro and what to expect in the movie...fast becoming his opening style...infact very relevant to this one...more so because of the new way of story narrating technique that has been given form...he clearly spells out what the audience have to bear in mind.
It all starts off with the petty fights between the happy lovers.:-)...looks cliched..but thats the way it is...each deeply in love for the other..caring for each other...this slowly starts to become possessive in Suryah's case..mainly because of the restaurant business that she partner's with a friend's brother..that they split in a bit of madness from both Nila and Suryah. It is Interval...and u have already had 3 of the 6 songs...
Come back after a break and it is all blue...:-)...yeah..the feelings that one have for each other...have been given form, shape and dress..blue at that..you cant complain because you have been mentally prepared by the director saying.."people who roam around in blue costume in the second half are not literal humans..but their inner-self and the feelings of that person". So the inner-self of the lead pair happily roam around the split couple..and try to woo their dreams of uniting the couple...and succeeding at the end..which in any case should happen..;-)....because the inner-self characters are imaginary..the director has taken liberties at will and crossed bars at places...and made it completely hilarious at places..certainly enjoyable...
One should admit that songs from AR Rahman are certainly a big..big PLUS..for the movie...because the picturization leaves a lot to be desired...I really dont understand why half of the songs have been shot completely with graphics...which in this case is certainly a fall-out...as the graphics used are stale...and begin to irritate the eye..I thought....just because the audio has become popular..people would bear these songs..I believe...Suryah...you haven't scored here...
The handicap of the movie I should say..are Suryah's HANDY skills...they stick out...and are sick...one gets irritated again here...I really did...too much of hand movement distracted the scenes ..I felt....could have controlled a chunk of it...for...the fortune of the movie is at a balance now...
On the outlook from a viewer's perspective...though the movie sparkles with the story handling....suryah's directorial touch and the songs from ARR..a handful of the sequences are loaded with double meaning..unwanted diagloues which definitely makes faces go askew...the movie lacks the freshness NEW had....looks pointless at places..
Ah..Ahh.. is Average..but..still..enjoyable..:-)
Anyways on to the main course...the movie starts off with Suryah giving a short intro and what to expect in the movie...fast becoming his opening style...infact very relevant to this one...more so because of the new way of story narrating technique that has been given form...he clearly spells out what the audience have to bear in mind.
It all starts off with the petty fights between the happy lovers.:-)...looks cliched..but thats the way it is...each deeply in love for the other..caring for each other...this slowly starts to become possessive in Suryah's case..mainly because of the restaurant business that she partner's with a friend's brother..that they split in a bit of madness from both Nila and Suryah. It is Interval...and u have already had 3 of the 6 songs...
Come back after a break and it is all blue...:-)...yeah..the feelings that one have for each other...have been given form, shape and dress..blue at that..you cant complain because you have been mentally prepared by the director saying.."people who roam around in blue costume in the second half are not literal humans..but their inner-self and the feelings of that person". So the inner-self of the lead pair happily roam around the split couple..and try to woo their dreams of uniting the couple...and succeeding at the end..which in any case should happen..;-)....because the inner-self characters are imaginary..the director has taken liberties at will and crossed bars at places...and made it completely hilarious at places..certainly enjoyable...
One should admit that songs from AR Rahman are certainly a big..big PLUS..for the movie...because the picturization leaves a lot to be desired...I really dont understand why half of the songs have been shot completely with graphics...which in this case is certainly a fall-out...as the graphics used are stale...and begin to irritate the eye..I thought....just because the audio has become popular..people would bear these songs..I believe...Suryah...you haven't scored here...
The handicap of the movie I should say..are Suryah's HANDY skills...they stick out...and are sick...one gets irritated again here...I really did...too much of hand movement distracted the scenes ..I felt....could have controlled a chunk of it...for...the fortune of the movie is at a balance now...
On the outlook from a viewer's perspective...though the movie sparkles with the story handling....suryah's directorial touch and the songs from ARR..a handful of the sequences are loaded with double meaning..unwanted diagloues which definitely makes faces go askew...the movie lacks the freshness NEW had....looks pointless at places..
Ah..Ahh.. is Average..but..still..enjoyable..:-)
Salaam Namaste - Movie Review
Let me tell you at the outset..this one is for the lovable rascals of today..so contemporary it is in its theme..that It would take some time for the elderly crowd to come to terms with the concept of Salaam Namaste
Realistic are the characters and cool is the outlook of the director that you never feel like watching a movie...but you are led to believe that this happens for a friend of yours in Australia..or United States..
Living-together is new for India, but will fast catchup here in Mother India as well, going by the pattern and craze for westernization...this will soon become the next hep thing...courtesy Salaam Namaste...as far as most of the public goes...this would be their first exposure to this concept...
But one should admit, the treatment has been decent and dignity personified..not just rosy and passionate. The current crop of hindi movies have been passionate...all about passion..bold but senseless at times... anyways that's not the case here..
Nik..aka Nikil Arora..is a chef-cum-architect, Ambar is a RJ-cum-Doctor in the making, as usual as the script goes, they are always at locker-horns...they have completely different perspectives of life, marriage, kids..but get attracted to each other at a point of time and decide to make a logical and rational decision to stay together and get to understand each other rather than calling themselves lovers...run around trees and do the also-rans stuff...good for them...;-) then comes the usuals and one fine morning, ambar is pregnant, and wants the baby much to the chagrin of nik, who is against this...and there begins a china wall...which grows bigger..all the way...through a script which makes sure that it grows stronger and stronger until the last few scenes...Nothing much to crave about as such in the story after the rift..but there is a lot to crave about in the realism and freshness of the treatment.
The climax comedy, I would say was unwarranted..the comedy pun intended there...was out of place, that could have been avoided..safely and still the movie would have been pleasant as it has been...
Little caemos as well, are not ruled out in this movie...Javed Jaffrey...wow...it was throughly enjoyable..harshad warsi's remarks... and abishek bachhan as the doctor...are all great...
->Saif Ali Khan as nik..is “cool as a cucumber” in NS Sidhu's very own terms..fits exactly..with his looks, fashion statements, accent..perfect..you could say...
->Preity Zinta as Ambar is intellectual and emotional all at once..good sketch of a character and given a pretty shape by preity..good work.
-> The locales in australia..are stupendous and absoultely eye-catchy..fantastic..the choice of houses..would make any indian crave for such houses here..:-)
Over all – a feel-good movie..with its share of emotions, rationales and sluggish parts..though the theme is slightly out of place, the movie will surely catch up riding on its stars..very good rendition from the lead stars...I would say...
Realistic are the characters and cool is the outlook of the director that you never feel like watching a movie...but you are led to believe that this happens for a friend of yours in Australia..or United States..
Living-together is new for India, but will fast catchup here in Mother India as well, going by the pattern and craze for westernization...this will soon become the next hep thing...courtesy Salaam Namaste...as far as most of the public goes...this would be their first exposure to this concept...
But one should admit, the treatment has been decent and dignity personified..not just rosy and passionate. The current crop of hindi movies have been passionate...all about passion..bold but senseless at times... anyways that's not the case here..
Nik..aka Nikil Arora..is a chef-cum-architect, Ambar is a RJ-cum-Doctor in the making, as usual as the script goes, they are always at locker-horns...they have completely different perspectives of life, marriage, kids..but get attracted to each other at a point of time and decide to make a logical and rational decision to stay together and get to understand each other rather than calling themselves lovers...run around trees and do the also-rans stuff...good for them...;-) then comes the usuals and one fine morning, ambar is pregnant, and wants the baby much to the chagrin of nik, who is against this...and there begins a china wall...which grows bigger..all the way...through a script which makes sure that it grows stronger and stronger until the last few scenes...Nothing much to crave about as such in the story after the rift..but there is a lot to crave about in the realism and freshness of the treatment.
The climax comedy, I would say was unwarranted..the comedy pun intended there...was out of place, that could have been avoided..safely and still the movie would have been pleasant as it has been...
Little caemos as well, are not ruled out in this movie...Javed Jaffrey...wow...it was throughly enjoyable..harshad warsi's remarks... and abishek bachhan as the doctor...are all great...
->Saif Ali Khan as nik..is “cool as a cucumber” in NS Sidhu's very own terms..fits exactly..with his looks, fashion statements, accent..perfect..you could say...
->Preity Zinta as Ambar is intellectual and emotional all at once..good sketch of a character and given a pretty shape by preity..good work.
-> The locales in australia..are stupendous and absoultely eye-catchy..fantastic..the choice of houses..would make any indian crave for such houses here..:-)
Over all – a feel-good movie..with its share of emotions, rationales and sluggish parts..though the theme is slightly out of place, the movie will surely catch up riding on its stars..very good rendition from the lead stars...I would say...
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Inspiron, iPod and Me
This is my first article in about three months...have been through a very tight schedule in my work place. This is my first document in my new laptop....and yeah...u guessed right...this is about my laptop. I am now an owner of a DELL Inspiron 6000. This is my first face-off..if you can call it that way..with a laptop of any kind. Truly amazing is technology....technology that is driving the world......Have been fortunate enough to be part of this Tech freaky band wagon...of late.... Bcoz... I am using an Industry standard MP3 player...called iPod. A Industry standard notebook DELL and an Industry standard mobile phone..NOKIA...all making a statement of their own..in terms of technology advancements they provide.
DELL though a veterean in the space of Notebooks....is fascinating enough and shores up to face any newcomer in its domian. iPod has certainly revolutionized the space of portable audio devices...and has its competitors still groping for foot hold after the iPod storm....the variety of solutions that iPod provides is amazing..not one who has checked out my iPod ...has not said.."amazing..true technological marvel"..still waiting for a person to say something else...:-)
What these gadgets give you is complete mobility and unmatched comfort..that is if you are a tech freak..and would be wanting to use them all through the day..live with the technology it provides...then you are game for it and it snugly fits where you want it to....in your daily chores.... certainly I am one such...geek...who is passionate about these technological advancements...and thrilled to use them...so..here I am sharing the same with the readers...
Never have I dreamt of using these till my college days..though have fancied myself to use them..hahaha..yeah fancied fits the place holder for an adjective here.. :-D Having these gadgets...and getting inspired to write something about these might sound out of place for some people...I can sense some askew faces....but my friends..and people who relate to what I say will be able to identify with the passion I am sharing.
I am basically passionate about music..not the hep kind of music....I seldom listen to English music...not even Hindi Music...I feel tamil music has enough to feed tamilians...tons to explore..and identify and enjoy....for example...Illayaraja's Thiruvaasagam ..what helluva quality music that is...haven't heard such in years...you get transported to Illayaraja's mesmerising world..the world he wants us to be in when you listen to him... so a music player for me is a logical progression....
Laptop has been in my dreams for the past one year...and has become a reality now...
So its time for me to enjoy these funky devices...and stop blabing about....
Cheers,
Rajesh
DELL though a veterean in the space of Notebooks....is fascinating enough and shores up to face any newcomer in its domian. iPod has certainly revolutionized the space of portable audio devices...and has its competitors still groping for foot hold after the iPod storm....the variety of solutions that iPod provides is amazing..not one who has checked out my iPod ...has not said.."amazing..true technological marvel"..still waiting for a person to say something else...:-)
What these gadgets give you is complete mobility and unmatched comfort..that is if you are a tech freak..and would be wanting to use them all through the day..live with the technology it provides...then you are game for it and it snugly fits where you want it to....in your daily chores.... certainly I am one such...geek...who is passionate about these technological advancements...and thrilled to use them...so..here I am sharing the same with the readers...
Never have I dreamt of using these till my college days..though have fancied myself to use them..hahaha..yeah fancied fits the place holder for an adjective here.. :-D Having these gadgets...and getting inspired to write something about these might sound out of place for some people...I can sense some askew faces....but my friends..and people who relate to what I say will be able to identify with the passion I am sharing.
I am basically passionate about music..not the hep kind of music....I seldom listen to English music...not even Hindi Music...I feel tamil music has enough to feed tamilians...tons to explore..and identify and enjoy....for example...Illayaraja's Thiruvaasagam ..what helluva quality music that is...haven't heard such in years...you get transported to Illayaraja's mesmerising world..the world he wants us to be in when you listen to him... so a music player for me is a logical progression....
Laptop has been in my dreams for the past one year...and has become a reality now...
So its time for me to enjoy these funky devices...and stop blabing about....
Cheers,
Rajesh
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Iqbal - Movie Review
Parallel cinema - anything that is away from the run of the mill should be parallel cinema...if this is your definition for the term...then you will fit the audience criteria...this one is certainly for you..to gladden your senses...I certainly am an avid parallel cinema fan of Bollywood...the rahul boses, nagesh kukunoors are my likings...and this IQBAL did nothing to weaken my opinion....
One movie which is so refreshing in this masala world....three cheers to kukunoor...for this brave effort..one should not call this brave..because that is what Nagesh kukunoor is known for..his clan of movies...
The characterization is strong, powerful and stays in your senses....even long after the movie..which is definitely the greatest plus for the movie....ever actor fits snugly to their character...the small girl..and naseeruddin shah to be precise apart from shreyas talpade.......he is a real find....he emoted quite brilliantly and well enough for everybody to relate with him. The victory for the character being, nobody would sympathize with Iqbal but would enjoy his character, had Iqbal been slightly remorse..the central theme of the movie would have taken a beating...
Credit definitely to the director for the cheerful narration of the struggle of the young man against all adversities...the first half especially the naseeruddin shah sequences...are seriously hilarious yet meaningful and relevant to the central theme of the movie..
Naseerudin Shah is not at all surprising in this role....he is absolutely great as MOHIT..the former Ranji Cricketer...I enjoyed every minute of his on-screen presence and charisma.....
Everybody...every character is neatly etched out as lines in a ruled notebook, no incongruity...that was one thing very evident right through the movie.....mostly to the credit of the movie....girish karnad, Iqbal’s father, the other boy kamal, every body displayed just the needed emotions for their roles....
Climax...that arrived without too much hype or hoopla...and stayed at that same vein and we were at the end of the movie....which was actually enjoyable.... I would say this is much better and real-to-life narration of a cricket story.....than Lagaan, which was more fantasy oriented...playing cricket with physically disabled in a normal game....was like asking too much from them.....anyways..no snide intended at lagaan, just a perspective in comparison to Iqbal....
Overall, glad at heart..at the end of the movie...would certainly vouch for this movie..among my friends....which is the best way you can popularize a movie...my opinion...:-)
One movie which is so refreshing in this masala world....three cheers to kukunoor...for this brave effort..one should not call this brave..because that is what Nagesh kukunoor is known for..his clan of movies...
The characterization is strong, powerful and stays in your senses....even long after the movie..which is definitely the greatest plus for the movie....ever actor fits snugly to their character...the small girl..and naseeruddin shah to be precise apart from shreyas talpade.......he is a real find....he emoted quite brilliantly and well enough for everybody to relate with him. The victory for the character being, nobody would sympathize with Iqbal but would enjoy his character, had Iqbal been slightly remorse..the central theme of the movie would have taken a beating...
Credit definitely to the director for the cheerful narration of the struggle of the young man against all adversities...the first half especially the naseeruddin shah sequences...are seriously hilarious yet meaningful and relevant to the central theme of the movie..
Naseerudin Shah is not at all surprising in this role....he is absolutely great as MOHIT..the former Ranji Cricketer...I enjoyed every minute of his on-screen presence and charisma.....
Everybody...every character is neatly etched out as lines in a ruled notebook, no incongruity...that was one thing very evident right through the movie.....mostly to the credit of the movie....girish karnad, Iqbal’s father, the other boy kamal, every body displayed just the needed emotions for their roles....
Climax...that arrived without too much hype or hoopla...and stayed at that same vein and we were at the end of the movie....which was actually enjoyable.... I would say this is much better and real-to-life narration of a cricket story.....than Lagaan, which was more fantasy oriented...playing cricket with physically disabled in a normal game....was like asking too much from them.....anyways..no snide intended at lagaan, just a perspective in comparison to Iqbal....
Overall, glad at heart..at the end of the movie...would certainly vouch for this movie..among my friends....which is the best way you can popularize a movie...my opinion...:-)
Thursday, September 08, 2005
Oru Naal Oru Kanavu - Movie Review
I really expected stuff of a different kind from this versatile technician Fazil. How many stellar movies we have seen from him in Tamil itself, leave alone his malayalam movies...... I should say I am completely shocked, at dismay after having watched this 2.5 hour school drama. Frankly, this should compete only with school plays....still can’t comprehend or come to terms with how Fazil could come up with such a slip-shoddy tale-telling......
To begin with, you get to see srikanth as a youthful, enthusiastic guy...little did he know that he was over-doing what was expected out of him....he has been good when he is subdued like his role in Manasellam....these kind of roles somehow don’t suit him well, he should be careful and choosy about such roles....his characterization lacks clarity, he being skillful in all jobs under the sun... somehow doesn’t gel with the plot....the characters in his workplace...stick out and never fit the story line as one is used to in Fazil’s movies....nevertheless, there are couple of scenes which evoke a grin or two in the audience...
Characterization is the weak link all through the movie..infact a big hole in the ship....and particularly the faces that render the characters on screen are pathetic..to say the least....particularly when srikanth is so affectionate towards his sisters and family, you expect the characters and their portrayal to be powerful on screen, but they never stir a bit of emotion, save his mother’s character.....This is primarily because of a host of malayalam faces on screen, which seriously sticks apart from the whole tale....
My first after thought on the movie was that fazil must have been in kind of a real hurry to get this movie out of his box..and never cared about a thing except the music....the only saving grace and inspiring thought about the movie.... Music would be the only thing that can take this movie any far....Il(s)ayaRaja is as usual his genius self. The song “Kaartil Varum Geeetham” is a lilting number that would linger in our ears for years...seriously some soul stirring stuff from Raja....I am yet to recover from his Thirvaasagam and here he has dished out another gem from his stable....except for a couple of needless songs...all the others are good...and of Raja’s standard....
Over all Disappointment..to the core....at the exit point from the theatre...visible in the faces of the people who payed for this lack lusture and listless serving from Fazil......where is the fazil we have known....sir..?????
To begin with, you get to see srikanth as a youthful, enthusiastic guy...little did he know that he was over-doing what was expected out of him....he has been good when he is subdued like his role in Manasellam....these kind of roles somehow don’t suit him well, he should be careful and choosy about such roles....his characterization lacks clarity, he being skillful in all jobs under the sun... somehow doesn’t gel with the plot....the characters in his workplace...stick out and never fit the story line as one is used to in Fazil’s movies....nevertheless, there are couple of scenes which evoke a grin or two in the audience...
Characterization is the weak link all through the movie..infact a big hole in the ship....and particularly the faces that render the characters on screen are pathetic..to say the least....particularly when srikanth is so affectionate towards his sisters and family, you expect the characters and their portrayal to be powerful on screen, but they never stir a bit of emotion, save his mother’s character.....This is primarily because of a host of malayalam faces on screen, which seriously sticks apart from the whole tale....
My first after thought on the movie was that fazil must have been in kind of a real hurry to get this movie out of his box..and never cared about a thing except the music....the only saving grace and inspiring thought about the movie.... Music would be the only thing that can take this movie any far....Il(s)ayaRaja is as usual his genius self. The song “Kaartil Varum Geeetham” is a lilting number that would linger in our ears for years...seriously some soul stirring stuff from Raja....I am yet to recover from his Thirvaasagam and here he has dished out another gem from his stable....except for a couple of needless songs...all the others are good...and of Raja’s standard....
Over all Disappointment..to the core....at the exit point from the theatre...visible in the faces of the people who payed for this lack lusture and listless serving from Fazil......where is the fazil we have known....sir..?????
Monday, June 20, 2005
Anniyan - Movie Review
Howdy,
First things first..... Overall a roller coaster ride for the Tamil Movie Goer. Shankar should be definitely credited for this masterpiece.
The movie had built-up so much of hype due to many a reason..some not so comfortable.....
a) Boys had brought in a lot of reputation damage for Shankar.
b) Shankar, splitting up with ARRahman and teaming with Harris Jeyaraj....for the first time in his 10+ years of cinema....
c) A huge gap of 2 years for Shankar..filled with expectations.
d) Teaming with Vikram, who had become a top grosser product by the time the movie was made....expectations were literally sky-high for this supposedly Social entertainer...
e) Adding to all these were the initial promos, showing Vikram in various make-overs....each one, exiciting...
Every Tamil movie buff waited for this one to arrive...and it finally arrived on the scene on 17th June 2005....
The movie starts off with the "I Hate Disorder", Rules Ramanujam....that 3 word sentence really summed up the character's sketch...nothing more would have been needed. I would say, I really enjoyed the first hour more so, because I was able to relate to his idealogy though I would be grossly against the ideology, if I say I am able to follow all of his ideas..;-)....but nevertheless, a forthright stickler to principles...a very good make-over to match his ideology...I would say.. each of his experience could have happened to any of us in our day-to-day life...so realistic were they, that I got completely engrossed into the plot and started to sympathise for Ambi...
Each of his experience, leading him to the www.anniyan.com website was interesting stuff. One definite applause should be for the they were able to visualize the search technology through graphics, it could have easily been a straight serach result display, but hatz off to sujataha and Shankar for visualizing the web search, which is definitely new to the general public. The interesting and skillfull use of Special effects and graphics are the high points of the movie, which really adds to the fizz of the movie....and lights up the viewer's mind with Joy... Appreciable work.
What should one comment of Vikram- the Real Life Saga..now turning into a perfect story line for a new movie...;-)...or an epic should I say....One is left wondering how much of vikram we would have seen if he were given the right break 15 years back..???? anyways...on to the maincourse.... he was simply stunning. Be it looks, dialogue delivery, facial expressions, the homework he has done for each of the roles...his screen persona....wowwww....I am getting excited....
He gets acrosss as a clear stickler to rules..in Ambi's role...much to the chagrin of one and all..including his lady love, Sada...aka..nandhini....
He is absolutely kewl...in REMO...the Ramp walk model...dudes..have u ever seen a more handsome tamil hero, who hits your heart straight with that One song sequence, Kaadhal Yaanai.....I would say that role fitted him just like the fairytale story's charcters.....so kewl was his outlook , that you almost mistoook him for an american dude....;-)
Anniyan...the Society Saviour...this character though having clear traces of SENAPATI, the old man, you would get to the seat edges with each of his encounters....such was the excitement generated.... It is clearly evident why, Vikram did not accept any other movie offer until Anniyan was completed...So much is the intensity involved in each role, that you would do injustice to these roles, if given step-motherly treatment....Think of the number of heroes who would do this.....not even a handful.....:-)
The story and screenplay....looks like shankar decidedly took a clear subject and carved it as a winner all through... One cannot withhold the skillful and deft handling of the storyline, esp.. the screenplay..logical reasoning for each turning point....Shankar has learnt his basics right...I should say... The Garuda Puranam as the guiding factor is a good feature addition for the strong social message that the film tries to convey.... Each endeavor and encounter of Anniyan are meaningful and would have happened to most of us... The MPD...has been given clear and lucid treatment which wasn't the case with many earlier tamil movies....perfectly logical and reasonable, that I felt that even I and you would have these personlities within ourselves....what say????
SONGS....I hope by now this article is getting too predictable....but cant help it....:-)...The songs 5 in number have elevated song sequences to an all time new high, which would be unreachable by any indian cinema for quite some time, simply beacause of the fact that, nobody else puts in so much of effort into songs...which Shankar does painstakingly and I belive he loves that...... Each having a theme, and not being thrust into the movie are definite plusses....
Kumari.....visually stunning,
Ayyangaaru veetu ..... artistically beautifulll.....
Kaadhal Yaanai ...... All about Yana Gupta and Vikram...the song seems to have run through in jiffy...so fast and peppy...
Kannum Kannum Nokia ..... Wow....can Sada look more better ever...???? Terrific locations from Kuala Lampur Airport.....
Randakka Randakka .... A true folklore....feel....They have painted government roads and bridges for this sequence...shows how far people can go for their passion towards their cinema....:-)
Sujatha...I am wondering if he reallly deserves the age he is ...??? He is so young and refreshing in his dialogues that people who dont know Sujatha...the writer...will be pleasantly surprised to meet the original sujatha....I loved so many clinchers and snippets nicely interspersed with the other wise heavily loded subject.... the "mooku oootai mathiri veedu" ....the "nee oru nasai" ... " I hate Disorder"....the sarcastic Vivek's interludes....so many and so little space to write...I have really started to await movies with Sujatha's expertise...
It is not true that Like Poles REPEL.......... Like minded people like Shankar, Sujatha and Vikram will always jel and when in unison can give you something like Anniyan....thats the talent levels KollyWood can boast of...
One can say, only Shankar could have given such a once-in-life-time role for Vikram.... and
only Vikram could have given this refreshingly new and stellar performance for Shankar's brainchild ANNIYAN...
So its an out and out SHANKAR and VIKRAM COMBINE...which has taken a vow to give true and high quality entertainment and have done the STAND-AND-DELIVER to perfection.....
Thaanks to everyone..who have bared with my opinion so far....quite long ...in fact.....
now its time for you to head straight to the theatres..to watch this action flick....if you haven't seen it yet.....
or go on and see the movie a second time, if you have already seen this epic from Shankar like me......which is what I am gonna do this weekend....again...;-)
Bye,
Rajesh
First things first..... Overall a roller coaster ride for the Tamil Movie Goer. Shankar should be definitely credited for this masterpiece.
The movie had built-up so much of hype due to many a reason..some not so comfortable.....
a) Boys had brought in a lot of reputation damage for Shankar.
b) Shankar, splitting up with ARRahman and teaming with Harris Jeyaraj....for the first time in his 10+ years of cinema....
c) A huge gap of 2 years for Shankar..filled with expectations.
d) Teaming with Vikram, who had become a top grosser product by the time the movie was made....expectations were literally sky-high for this supposedly Social entertainer...
e) Adding to all these were the initial promos, showing Vikram in various make-overs....each one, exiciting...
Every Tamil movie buff waited for this one to arrive...and it finally arrived on the scene on 17th June 2005....
The movie starts off with the "I Hate Disorder", Rules Ramanujam....that 3 word sentence really summed up the character's sketch...nothing more would have been needed. I would say, I really enjoyed the first hour more so, because I was able to relate to his idealogy though I would be grossly against the ideology, if I say I am able to follow all of his ideas..;-)....but nevertheless, a forthright stickler to principles...a very good make-over to match his ideology...I would say.. each of his experience could have happened to any of us in our day-to-day life...so realistic were they, that I got completely engrossed into the plot and started to sympathise for Ambi...
Each of his experience, leading him to the www.anniyan.com website was interesting stuff. One definite applause should be for the they were able to visualize the search technology through graphics, it could have easily been a straight serach result display, but hatz off to sujataha and Shankar for visualizing the web search, which is definitely new to the general public. The interesting and skillfull use of Special effects and graphics are the high points of the movie, which really adds to the fizz of the movie....and lights up the viewer's mind with Joy... Appreciable work.
What should one comment of Vikram- the Real Life Saga..now turning into a perfect story line for a new movie...;-)...or an epic should I say....One is left wondering how much of vikram we would have seen if he were given the right break 15 years back..???? anyways...on to the maincourse.... he was simply stunning. Be it looks, dialogue delivery, facial expressions, the homework he has done for each of the roles...his screen persona....wowwww....I am getting excited....
He gets acrosss as a clear stickler to rules..in Ambi's role...much to the chagrin of one and all..including his lady love, Sada...aka..nandhini....
He is absolutely kewl...in REMO...the Ramp walk model...dudes..have u ever seen a more handsome tamil hero, who hits your heart straight with that One song sequence, Kaadhal Yaanai.....I would say that role fitted him just like the fairytale story's charcters.....so kewl was his outlook , that you almost mistoook him for an american dude....;-)
Anniyan...the Society Saviour...this character though having clear traces of SENAPATI, the old man, you would get to the seat edges with each of his encounters....such was the excitement generated.... It is clearly evident why, Vikram did not accept any other movie offer until Anniyan was completed...So much is the intensity involved in each role, that you would do injustice to these roles, if given step-motherly treatment....Think of the number of heroes who would do this.....not even a handful.....:-)
The story and screenplay....looks like shankar decidedly took a clear subject and carved it as a winner all through... One cannot withhold the skillful and deft handling of the storyline, esp.. the screenplay..logical reasoning for each turning point....Shankar has learnt his basics right...I should say... The Garuda Puranam as the guiding factor is a good feature addition for the strong social message that the film tries to convey.... Each endeavor and encounter of Anniyan are meaningful and would have happened to most of us... The MPD...has been given clear and lucid treatment which wasn't the case with many earlier tamil movies....perfectly logical and reasonable, that I felt that even I and you would have these personlities within ourselves....what say????
SONGS....I hope by now this article is getting too predictable....but cant help it....:-)...The songs 5 in number have elevated song sequences to an all time new high, which would be unreachable by any indian cinema for quite some time, simply beacause of the fact that, nobody else puts in so much of effort into songs...which Shankar does painstakingly and I belive he loves that...... Each having a theme, and not being thrust into the movie are definite plusses....
Kumari.....visually stunning,
Ayyangaaru veetu ..... artistically beautifulll.....
Kaadhal Yaanai ...... All about Yana Gupta and Vikram...the song seems to have run through in jiffy...so fast and peppy...
Kannum Kannum Nokia ..... Wow....can Sada look more better ever...???? Terrific locations from Kuala Lampur Airport.....
Randakka Randakka .... A true folklore....feel....They have painted government roads and bridges for this sequence...shows how far people can go for their passion towards their cinema....:-)
Sujatha...I am wondering if he reallly deserves the age he is ...??? He is so young and refreshing in his dialogues that people who dont know Sujatha...the writer...will be pleasantly surprised to meet the original sujatha....I loved so many clinchers and snippets nicely interspersed with the other wise heavily loded subject.... the "mooku oootai mathiri veedu" ....the "nee oru nasai" ... " I hate Disorder"....the sarcastic Vivek's interludes....so many and so little space to write...I have really started to await movies with Sujatha's expertise...
It is not true that Like Poles REPEL.......... Like minded people like Shankar, Sujatha and Vikram will always jel and when in unison can give you something like Anniyan....thats the talent levels KollyWood can boast of...
One can say, only Shankar could have given such a once-in-life-time role for Vikram.... and
only Vikram could have given this refreshingly new and stellar performance for Shankar's brainchild ANNIYAN...
So its an out and out SHANKAR and VIKRAM COMBINE...which has taken a vow to give true and high quality entertainment and have done the STAND-AND-DELIVER to perfection.....
Thaanks to everyone..who have bared with my opinion so far....quite long ...in fact.....
now its time for you to head straight to the theatres..to watch this action flick....if you haven't seen it yet.....
or go on and see the movie a second time, if you have already seen this epic from Shankar like me......which is what I am gonna do this weekend....again...;-)
Bye,
Rajesh
Monday, May 02, 2005
Sneak Preview to my next Article
Howdy,
Do remember to return back to this site for my next article on "How is it to be a software engineer in India?" .....Its all about what a software engineer-the new found buzz word in India- goes through in the face of the community.....
Coming soon....
Rajesh Prakasam
Do remember to return back to this site for my next article on "How is it to be a software engineer in India?" .....Its all about what a software engineer-the new found buzz word in India- goes through in the face of the community.....
Coming soon....
Rajesh Prakasam
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