Just returned from watching Venkat Prabhu's Goa. Before going to the movie, went through all the negative reviews. Some of the negatives that I read includes no story, siripu varle, offensive relationship, premji is getting repetitive, music not upto mark, no roles for heroines.
Heres my first hand review. If you liked Chennai 28 and Saroja I dont think you will complain about this movie. Both 28 and Saro were built up on situations rather than a plot and same is the case with Goa. There is no point in saying there is no story. This is mostly said by fake intellectual people who think that they are the only lovers of true cinema. I would rate Goa is better than Saroja but slightly below 28.
Major let down for Goa is the music. Though you can enjoy the music when watching in theater its not something which sticks to your heart except for the one line Go enbathu, vaa enbathu. May be if the music was better people would have liked the movie more.
Premji getting repetitive, I didnt think so. His antics still brings much laughter inside the theater. There are lot of moments where he evokes laughter.
Suddenly all Moral police is awake and have started complaining how can they show gay relationship etc. They take whatever shown in the movie very serious. They can chill down a bit.
Heroines have done well especially the white girl and Pia. Sneha is her usual.
Though the movie is not in the league of American Pie (moral police will kill the director if a movie such as American Pie is made in Tamil) its definitely a different attempt of coming up with a movie sewed together based on lot of funny situations.
Again people compare the last few scenes to Oceans 11, this is just to show that they have seen the heist movie and they are intelligent. Those scenes are very simple scenes.
Altogether the movie is a laugh riot. They can still do away with couple of songs.
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
National Awards
Looks like National Award for Indian movies has been announced and when we read names of some people and some movies which has been chosen for the awards, we can understand how the process and mindset of the jury would have been.
Especially in bollywood they have created infinite number of awards such as Filmfare award, star dust award, abc award and xyz award. Inside each of these awards they have categories like Most popular movie, Best movie, Most entertaining actor, Best actor, People's choice etc etc. Finally almost all the movie would have got atleast one award.
Vaaranam Aaiyram has been chosen as the best tamil film and Priyanka Chopra is the best actress. We dont have to add anything more the talk about these awards. Even oscar awards are not awarded to the right movies/actors sometimes so we can't blame awards in our country which is quite famous for you know what.
Especially in bollywood they have created infinite number of awards such as Filmfare award, star dust award, abc award and xyz award. Inside each of these awards they have categories like Most popular movie, Best movie, Most entertaining actor, Best actor, People's choice etc etc. Finally almost all the movie would have got atleast one award.
Vaaranam Aaiyram has been chosen as the best tamil film and Priyanka Chopra is the best actress. We dont have to add anything more the talk about these awards. Even oscar awards are not awarded to the right movies/actors sometimes so we can't blame awards in our country which is quite famous for you know what.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Interesting Places
There are many places where I can spend hours being alone but without getting bored. Infact I enjoy being alone in those places without being disturbed by silly questions. A doctors clinic for example never bores me. I can wait for any long without getting annoyed when compared to people who sometimes fight to go first. It presents a variety of people with interesting mannerisms. Similarly a salon too presents such a environment. Infact reading daily thanthi in a salon is a rewarding experience.
I never get bored when attending a wedding or wedding reception. I like to sit there and enjoy the activities going around me. You can see all kind of fake people in such places. It's a good place to observe people. I will be happy there until someone puts their hand in my shoulder and says "Enna Ramesh .."
A railway station is another interesting place especially long distance train stations. Whether I am travelling or I m there for receving someone or for sending someone a station is a very interesting place to enjoy tranquility among chaos. Sometimes bus stops and airports too offer such environment.
Beach is one place which will beat all the places mentioned above. Here you will see all types of people. You can see happy people, lonely people, tourists, locals, children, old people, rich, poor and much more
I never get bored when attending a wedding or wedding reception. I like to sit there and enjoy the activities going around me. You can see all kind of fake people in such places. It's a good place to observe people. I will be happy there until someone puts their hand in my shoulder and says "Enna Ramesh .."
A railway station is another interesting place especially long distance train stations. Whether I am travelling or I m there for receving someone or for sending someone a station is a very interesting place to enjoy tranquility among chaos. Sometimes bus stops and airports too offer such environment.
Beach is one place which will beat all the places mentioned above. Here you will see all types of people. You can see happy people, lonely people, tourists, locals, children, old people, rich, poor and much more
Monday, January 11, 2010
FM at night
Try listening to any FM station in chennai after 10. All you can hear is Ilayaraja songs. The selection of songs will be so cliched that we might feel like kicking the RJ.
Some songs which are played after 10 are
1) Kodiyile maligai poo
2) Raasathi unna kaanatha
3) Kanne kalai maane
4) Aathadi kaathadi koothada
5) Poo vasantha raja
6) Ilamayenum poongaatru
7) Poove semboove un vaasam
8) Kodai kaala kaatre
the list is endless ..
They think people will be in mood to listen to such songs only and the comedy is many people think we should listen only to such songs at night.
Sunday, January 03, 2010
Hot Fuzz
This movie got released when I was in UK. The posters looked very stylish but I didn't see the movie. Now after so many years I saw this movie in DVD. The movie is action packed though some scenes it might remind us of Indian masala movies especially the last hand to hand fight. The movie is very stylish especially the editing is awesome. Though its a comedy movie it sometimes looks like an Arnold or Jackie Chan movie.
I love the way the title card for this movie has been designed. When it comes in the screen Hot Fuzz with that awesome BGM and graphics its superb.
Sometime the movie does remind us of The Wicker Man where it is one man against an entire village.
Just fasten your seat belts and enjoy the ride.
PS : The poster above man its awesome.
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