Yutham sei and Mouna guru are good cop thrillers in this year. Can you spot the other similarity ? When I was coming out after watching a crap movie, a guy was asking his friend — Machaan.. What was the last good film we watched ?! Do you know the basic expectation of a regular cinema fan while parking his two wheeler in the lot ? Simple. At least this movie
It was like after watching Pudhupettai in Bangalore PVR and thinking much about the content/making of the film in the late hours. I felt the same after watching Adukalam [ AK ]. Also, it once again proved my choice of films based on Director and not based on actors ! The first challenge of any creator is to express something which was never told before. Cockfighting is one such bloodsport
Maaveeran The tamil version of Magadheera has run equally well in the context of a telugu dubbing film. This once again proves the power of a good film. The good outcome is that this film is saved from a Tamil remake. Remakes and sequels will come out good in very rare cases [ exceptionals like the Dark Knight ]. This is one of our family movies where in all the
Vaadu leftlo Veedu rightlo I’m not comfortable with remake or remix or any tinkering to an original piece of art — even though it’s mostly done based on the business aspects. Good or bad or ugly — once the piece is done, it’s done. There’s no point in redoing the entire stuff — waste of time, energy and money. Especially when it comes to good films/songs. Could you imagine
The illutionist [ 2006/Drama ] Directed by : Neil Burger One of the most attractive forms of art is magic – even it fascinates a rationalist not as a belief just as science. It’s always better not to know the secrets behind them. It’s like doing an autopsy to a fantastic IR song – better to let it be like that. I followed the entire series of David Blaine’s program
Disclaimer : Do you have the in-depth knowledge of raaga, scales, kamagam, sangathi, melakartha raagam, misra chapu thaalam [ appdinnaa ?! – 7 beat rhythm cycle] ? If you don’t have, don’t worry – IRs music requires just 2 ears and a slight interest in songs. * 2 more songs on counterpoint technique are “poonthaliraada” from panneer pushpangall and “Edho Mohan” from kozhi koovuthu [ the first interlude has the
Unnaip pol oruvan. There are 2 possible crowds watching this movie- one which has watched the Hindi movie ‘A Wednesday’ and the other one have no idea about the Hindi film and watching this Tamil version.I belong to the first type. Raajkamal films has produced this kind of songless police story long back in 1987. So what’s new ? I better don’t waste lines, describing about the story. I strictly
Reel Classics – Mullum Malarum [ 1978 ]. World cinema need not necessarily be an Iranian, Spanish, Chinese or a Japanese movie. We do have the best in Tamil. For any art, it is more essential to note the time it is shared to public. If Jayakanthan had written the story ‘Agnipravesam’ in 2009, it wouldn’t have created the same shock waves as it did in 1965 [ A modern
This is the 2nd part of my previous blog ‘Kite runners-I’ – pls click the link below.http://film4thwall.blogspot.com/2009/09/kite-runner-not-afghan-film.html As usual, the next part is in our home town. Along with other sports[?!], [ Goli [ heard of “oorgaa bendha” ?!:) ] , Tops, Gilli [ for every sport I know the village term too – pullu koti or kitti pul ], Mudhugu puncture, cycle race, Thirudan police, exam pad cricket, book
ஆத்தாடி.. என் காத்தாடி Out of the mighty sports of Aminjikarai, I was fascinated much towards flying kites. Anything related to kite is a form of art and for every sport, there’s a season. I remember, mostly the quarterly exam leaves in September was the period, when people choose to fly kites. In Aminjikarai, I stayed in one of the high rise apartments. From our terrace, I could see Chetpet railway
