Nobody said it.This time it's all me.Life isn't like in the movies.Life... is much harder

Take a guess whats being remade,Whats being composed again? Ninaivo oru Paravai will be heard again for Bharathiraja’s son debut with remake of Sigappu Rojakkal.It would be definitely challenging to match the standards of Kamal,Sridevi,Bharathiraja,Ilayaraja .But the present team has roped one of the talented natural actors.Jeeva will play the role which was played by Kamal.Yuvan would be composing .Official news is yet to be released.Lets wait.

I sometimes get carried away by the eminence ,Yogi is one example.I expected a fresh movie from Ameer,who claims that he has written the story of Yogi.Yogi is a out and out copy of Book by Athol Fugard / Academey award winning movie Tsotsi,just that the climax is just remade to Tamil sentiments.Yogi is a discontinous ,slowpaced movie which never picks the pace and never lets us get involved with the movie. Yogi is written by Ameer and directed by Subramaniam siva ( Thiruda Thirudi).Yogi is the guy who has a troubled past due to his father ,he grows as the ruthless ,drugged arrogant man.The story is told in the slums of Thiruvanmiyur.Yogi when he robs a hotel he finds himself with a infant whose mother is meets with an accident when Yogi tries to steal her car.Yogi decides to live a new life with the baby but odds makes his life difficult and even worse. Ameer as yogi is good but I don’t understand why Ameer was so fascinated by this story.Why he wants to give a heroic image ? I assum...

I have booked for friday evening show for Yogi and now I hear the news that its release may be (??) postponed due to stay in Madras High court.

As I have not be reveiwing DVDs for some time for various reasons,I have decided to write more on movies ( Reviews on new releases would continue) .Hope to catch you all more often with writeups+the reviews for weekend Readers for whom the blogspot URL is blocked at their offices,you can try http://kkarthik.posterous.com/ which follows the same posts as in Woohhaa.

When these two men make film the whole Malayalam industry stands still and watches it.The magic of M.T.Vasudevanair and Hariharan deserves it and the two are the most respected and highly honoured pair in Indian Cinema.When they make a movie on a freedom fighter we need to look in to the depth of the character than the film itself.My friend Sooraj invited discussion on MT and Hariharan an year ago,and from then on I have been reading some thing about MT. Pazhassi Raja as a movie is a crafted work from the legends of Indian cinema with some constraints. MT, Hariharan , Ilayaraja , Rasool Pookutty , Mamooty .What else you can ask for ? Keralavarma Pazhassiraja ( Mamooty ) is a brave king of Kerala who stood against the British Colonial rule when his neighbour kingdom were surrendering themselves to the East India Company. Pazhasi Raja moves with his men to the Waynad woods and attack the British force with Kurichiyar natives through Guerilla warfare.British force defeated a...

I was wrong ,I thought I wouldn’t like this movie.Because I can not expect any human side of a movie in Roland Emmerich works,still the movie kept me thrilled for its visuals and graphics work.Its a wonder movie for the special effects and nothing was able to stop the imagination of Roland Emmerich.You have to be in the film to enjoy these moments in the screen ,I agree there is much in the film if you take out this.This goes discontinued but the graphics builds the movie for which it intends to. Roland Emmerich doesn’t waste our time much , he blows the whistle for global cataclysm from the beginning and we have the heroes John cusack, Amanda Peet,Danny Glover and much more who fight to survive and save the people.I don’t have any thing to say on the story line .The tag line says it all “ we were warned “.All we see how our world goes down and how some of the landmarks of the world gets destroyed .We experience the free fall of the buildings and the maps getting disorganised .End of t...

I was in sathyam for Inglorious Bastards and I was amazed to hear the shrill whistles when the name Quentin Tarantino appeared in the Title card.Its very difficult to be Quentin Tarantino because if any thing just resembles his style ,it can be easily branded as Copy cat from Tarantino.With Inglorious Basterds he just earns the uniqueness more with style and craft which he is made of. Inglorious Bastards is told in chapter and We laugh at the scenes which aren’t funny but this what the intention of Tarantino also.Jew Hunter (Christopher Waltz) allows a girl Shosanna (Mélanie Laurent) to escape.Four years later the same girl finds her opportunity to kill a Nazi premier league in a Film premier. Aldo Raine recruits a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers to France as civilians to create panic to the Nazis.The missions of the Bastards and Shosanna meet ,Jew hunter strikes a deal with Bastards, but the Bastards remain clear to their mission. Christopher waltz as the Jew Hunter is witty ,d...

This one more example to show how the task of remaking of movie is difficult.Kanden Kathalai has the perfect cast and team to remake the highly loved Jab We Met.Jab We met was enjoyed for many factors like the crazy attitude of Kareena ,The silence of Shahid and ofcourse this movie came when the duo ended their real life relationship.Kanden Kathalai had tried its level best to match the expectation but some where the magic of Jab We met was missing. Sakthi an industrialist ,heart broken meets Anjali a bit of cranky and bit of realistic girl in a train journey,lots of twirls we end up at Theni at Anjali’s house.Her parents arrange for Engagement between Anjali and Mokka Rasu.Anjali runs away with Sakthi to meet her boy friend Gautham.Sakthi returns back to Chennai while Anjali is let down by Gautham.Sakthi goes in search of Anjali to take her back to Theni . Kanden Kathalai has its moments of reality and good aspect of it is the change in the script which has helped the movie.KK works f...

Atlast I had some time to catch up Adhavan,I didn’t expect any wonder from KS Ravikumar .He is the same ,he didn’t change even a single bit since his movies with Sarathkumar.Surya on the other hand is irritating to watch with him grim face as a anti hero! Its also very difficult to write about a movie which has nothing special and impressive. Adhavan is a difficult watch for its plot .Its an age old story told with new costumes and fresh camera.Adhavan a contract killer is on a mission to kill a Judge( Murali) who is about to submit a report on Child kidnapping.Adhavan enters in to the family of Murali to Kill him .At the climax we are asked to believe that Surya is the son of Murali to some how end this story.Adhavan takes the revenge against the people who are against his Dad. Surya definitely has to come out of this hangover of exotic locales and grim face .Its irritating to imagine him as a rough assassin with this outlook.I wasn’t able to believe even for a single second that he...