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Friday, June 26, 2009
Michael Jackson - A tribute
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
A vehicle named ..
Sunday, June 21, 2009
The Begining
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Dasavatharam vs Sivaji
Now coming to the comparison Sivaji did not meet expectations. On first viewing I even felt what was shankar doing for the 2 years? On the whole much was expected from Rajini - Shankar- ARR Combo but the movie didnt meet the expectations.
Coming to Dasavatharan first thing its not a very intelligent movie as portrayed by some groups. Its a very ordinary chase movie. This could have been accomplished on a much lesser scale but Kamal chose the grander, painful and longer route. There is nothing in the movie to say Dasavatharam surpassed Sivaji in intelligence. It cannot be said Kamal took Indian cinema to a different plane. Dasavatharam, like Sivaji is another half baked attempt. If not for the 10 roles hype it would have been a disaster.
One thing common between the movies is that both the movies had only commercial results in mind. Though they tried to entertain us in achieving those commercial goals they only succeeded partly. They were not highly satisfying attempts.
Dasavatharam not living upto expectations is tolerable to some extent because it had only Kamal's name to it and he has tried his best. But in case of Sivaji its a lot of talent which has been wasted like Rajini, Shankar, ARR, Sujatha.
Sincerley wish Endhiran - The Robot will not be another quarter baked attempt.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Build up
Monday, June 08, 2009
Anjathey
Writing about this film just after watching in DVD. When this movie was released it received lot of rave reviews but when I heard about the story of the movie though I appreciated it I was a little put off. I was put of because I felt good buy turning bad and bad guy winning kind of story is negative and I didnt want to sit through a Bala kind of Negative film.
Though I haven't watched the directors previous attempt Chithiram Pesuthadi I had seen few scenes from the movie and that is one hell of a tear jerker. I expected Anjathey to be on those lines. But in the end the movie proved me wrong. Bad guy Naren becomes a SI and good guy his friend fails the exam and all of this happens within the first half n hour of this marathon 3 hours movie. The other 2.5 hours Mysskin takes us through some familiar tracks and some unfamiliar tracks.
The movie does remind us of movies like Dalapathi, Kaaka Kaaka and other Gautham Menon style films.
So is the movie good? Yes. Is it different? Yes. Is it sad? Yes. Does it have heroism? Yes.
One thing I observed was the story doesnt make one film artistic. This movie is called art movie by many movie buffs. If the same story is given to Shankar or Maniratnam or Vishnuvardhan the movie would still have had the same story but different style and people would have called it style with no substance. So only the artists (mostly unknown faces with rough and tough look), art, location makes the movie artistic and not the story.
One other thing is the movie has enough perversion to make you cringe in your seat. Raping of minors, viewing through bathroom door a naked girl, Viewing a dress changing girl through a mirror etc etc. Could Mysskin have made the movie without these scenes? Yes I bet he could have but still he has gone ahead with such scenes.
The movie is too long it starts off somewhere and ends somewhere and at some places we do feel come on get it over with. Especially the climax scene at sugar cane field. If only it was reduced by 30 mins it might have been racier. But its Mysskin's call, its his product.
If you havent watched the movie yet, please do so you wont regret watching it.
Saturday, June 06, 2009
Air France
Monday, June 01, 2009
Smoking Ban
He has told that movies are full of rape and murder, smoking wont cause any impact worse than that.
I disagree with him for this reason that rape and murder are not copied by people who watch them in movies because it is very difficult to commit such acts in real life but smoking is something which can be easily copied in real life. So just because youngsters are not apeing rape and murder, it can't be assumed that they wont ape smoking too.
But if someone is so weak that he copies smoking from movie then he will smoke no matter what. Smoking is not some hidden act which is exposed by movies. Youngsters dont start the habit of smoking just because it is glamorised by Rajnikanth or Sharukh Khan. The next door uncle, next street ramu and the dad who lives in the same house as the youngster have greater influence on the youngster.
So at the same time I welcome Azad's act of revoking the ban to show smoking in movies, I do hope the ban on public smoking is implemented in full force.
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