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Tribute to Sujatha

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I am in a new place and a new environment where I am hardly able think of think of my routine. I am in a training and it so remembers my school days.Sadly I am leaving the office in the midnights .The news came for my in the middle of the training which made me feel that I must steal some time to write about this writer whom I liked .To begin I started reading novels because of this Writer. Yes I am speaking about Sujatha (C.Rangarajan) who passed away yesterday. Eminent writer’s demise is a big blow for the Tamil literature world and Tamil cinema.I pay my honest tribute to him.It was Pirivom sandhippom,Erandavathu kadhal,Srirangathu devathaigal,Kadaisi Mutham and many which I loved in his work.Not to mention it was Pirivom santhippom the most.When my brother called me he said what is Director Shankar going to do after Sujatha.I was thinking about it for a while amidst my hard and fast training. Yeah he was the guy who gave some techno jargons in Tamil Cinema .CPR in Shivaji,Your Chrom...

Jodha Akbar (2008)

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The re are not many actors in the Indian cinema who can take a movie with international performance. Off late I have reduced to the great extend on my fantasy towards the Hollywood cinema ,as it also sticks to some kind of formulative stuff.Hritik Roashan is unargubly an actor of international standards on his looks and performance.His outlook is never argued but did he get his real ground to perform ? Then to be very frank it was no.Lakshya gave him a mark but he never capitalised from that performance.His movies are big hit ,he is a super star but he is a great actor and ofcourse a fantastic showman in any form. Jodha Akbar is a long awaited movie from Ashutosh Gowarikar after nearly four years after his Swadesh.It about the romance between Mughul Emperor Jaluludeen Akbar(Hrithik Roshan) and Rajput princess Jodha(Aishwarya Rai).It so happens in the 16th century after Humayun ,Akbar with his macho Bairam Khan goes on a spree of war to capture the whole India.Some of the Rajput Kingdom...

Anjathey(2008)

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I want to write a lengthy review about this movie.Anjathe made me realise what is missing so badly after Ilayaraja .I have not experienced such a soulful and scintillating BGM in the recent past.Anjathe is different and it is in a different class for Tamil Cinema.The story and characters might be the usual but the creator had shown a major change to the way the movie appeal. Anjathey directed by Myskin on life of two friends who were forced to take up different paths in the life . Sathya(Narain) as a police officer who was a troublemaker once and his friend Kiruba Shankar (Ajmal) who turn up in to a social evil, once aspired to be a police officer face the life’s serious notes because of a ominous guy Dhaya (Prasanna).Dhaya does young girls kidnapping and pedalling with a small time guy Chappai and Logu (Pandiarajan).Kiruba feels disappointed when he fails in the police selection and he bursts on Sathya for illegally getting selected to selection.Kiruba joins Dhaya.The hunt is on for D...

The Deaths of Ianstone (2007)

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When the creators are left with no option to think different in making a movie based on the plot which has been successful in the past .But only some succeed in thinking different .Because difference doesn’t appear just naturally. Difference needs to be applied in every sense. Deaths of Ian stone is a old wine presented in a dusty bottle. Here the imaginations have gone weird from the beginning which has let down the movie in a bad way.I feel for some seasons we need a break from the bad blood spilling and Vampire like stories.We have seen lots and lots of it and we have seen in a nonlinear way and what ever way its different. If we just compare Ianstone story it has the ingredients of a racy blood shed movie which goes with different level of imaginations also, but still the whole movie looks so ordinary for the aspect of presentation. Ian Stone(Mike Vogel) is hunted daily by a group of killers whom we shouldn’t ask ; his task is to protect a female Jenny for a reason that she is the ...

Jab We Met (2007)

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I know I was late to this movie, but its worth waiting for the DVD version of this movie,some how the offscreen Shaid and Kareena stuff didnt interest me much so I skipped this movie.But this movie made the end of the relationship with a grand success for the movie and the signing off. Gossips apart this movie is one of the quality movie along with Chakde,TZP,Namastey London and Johnny Gaddar which i watched last year. Jab We met doesn’t have much in story but the screenplay and the scenes made it a enjoyable experience for me . Jab We Met directed by Imitiaz Khan stars Kareena Kapoor and Shaid Kapoor.Aditya (Shaid Kapoor ) a multibillionaire and CEO of Kashyap group of companies feels he is at his end of his world when his Girlfriend ditches him .His mother seeks settlement from the company because of an affair which breached after Aditya Father’s death.He meets Geet(Kareena Kapoor) a sikhni ( Female belonging to a Sikh family !!!) in a train journey which he took to nowhere without a...

Kadosh(Israeli/Hebrew-1999)

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Make a movie like this I would say when dealing with specific community. Stigmatic problems of society had to be dealt in a sensitive manner, sometimes in a blunt way.Kadosh (Sacred ) is a two way movie which deals the emotions of a female in a orthodox community. Kadosh deals with the Jewish community where Men see themselves more powered and treating women as a reproducing machines.More on that they devote every thing to God ,for their happiness and sadness.Its about Rivka (YaĆ«l Abe cassis) and her husban Meir(Yoram Hattab) who share a marriage life for years and yet no children.With consultation from a Doctor she learns her husband is infertile .She feels the disability to convey to her husband .The tolerance of Rivka gets in a stake when Malka her sister goes along with her boyfriend Yakov . Rivka’s barreness makes her disposable for her husband through a divorce. It’s one of the heinous shared Muslim society practice at the end .But the fact remains real for most of the scene. It ...

Severance (2006)

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After nearly one and a half month I switched on my DVD player with some joy to watch a horror movie.I chose Severance which I had rented nearly six months back and never watched it and so with eagerness I opted it again .This movie is a no exception to what a horror movie could be.A team from a American company travels inside woods of America for team building exercise in a Bus.They experience obstacles while traveling .Richard (Tim Mcinnernhy ) leads the team to a old mansion which the whole team except Richard is uncomfortable with.The story continues with so called horror with the feel that the team is being watched and followed by some one.The end is manipulative when one by one dies .It was a group of Russian community who kills the teams and two among the Americans escape obviously it had to be a Guy and a Gal .No guessing through out its predictable ,its Maggie (Laura Harris ) and Steve (Danny Dyer ) . With this movie I experienced how a comedy plunged in to a horror movie can b...

Indira Logathil Na.Azhagappan (2008)

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This is intolerable,irresistible and horrible ,I cant see Vadivel doing a mass hero preaching. Last night I experienced one of the worst movies in my recent past in terms of comedy,heroism and screenplay. What was the guts for Vadivel to show case him as a mass hero and what was the belief for him that people would perceive as a Mass hero.Tamil Cinema has not been spoiled to that extend.Vadivelu is still a joker and comedian he should understand that. Indira Logathil Na.Azhagappan directed by Thambe Ramaiya who was scripting comedy track for Vadivel is a so called comedy made on a stage artist Azhagappan (Vadivel ) who shuttules between heaven,hell and earth because of the romance for Ramba(Yamini Sharma ) for Azhagappan .After tasting the secrets for birth he tries saving the human kind from doing sins.It all happens too much when the movie goes by and I started eroding my friend to move out of the theatre .But for the money we paid we remained closing our eyes. Vadivel appears in thr...

Delay in Posting !!!

I havent watched Indiralogathil Na Azhagappan ,Asoka and Kalai .Due to some changes I had to delay blogging for a while .The blog will be updated tomorrow with the reviews .Thanks for waiting.