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

Eesan is the second movie for Sasikumar as a director after his cult classic Subramaniapuram.After making one of milestone movie in Tamil Cinema,what is least expected is a movie with a brilliance.We are not running along with hypes but its not needed to get in to a different space .for the sake of versatility.Sasikumar lacks the sophistication in his movie,he lacks the Urban touch in a movie which speaks mostly about the Super rich spoiled society.Sasikumar has forgotten his razor sharp screenplay which he presented in his earlier movie.I have no intention of comparing with any movie ,but Eesan is a movie which lacks Good editing,Screenplay and plot. Eesan is about the super rich spoiled brats who ruin the lives of women .Sezhiyan(Vaibhav) ,son of State minister Deivanayagam is a fellow who spends his time with his fellow friends in pubbing and flirting.They ruin many women lives and they hide the crimes with the power of Sezhiyan’s dad .Sengayya ( Samuthirakani ) an IPS officer is f...

Naan Mahan Alla comes in shades of Pollathavan and Suseendran knowingly or unknowingly has lots and lots of resemblances of Vetrimaran’s movie.I was impressed with the way movie went on the first half with humour and no nonsense romance and All along the movie was able to hold the grip of an entertainer genre. Jeeva (Karthi) an easy going guy gets in to the job search because of his romance with Priya (Kajal agarwal)and he had to get in to a job to prove his worth .Jeeva’s father Jaiprakash gets targeted by a gang who kidnaps women for their lust.At one point Jeeva looses his dad and he goes in search of the gang through his network.Its just the two parallel track of the Mobs and the Jeeva which meets in his dad’s murder. Suseendran should have worked upon the resemblances and similarities of screenplay with Pollathavan.The feeling of Pollathavan in the characters and Climax popped out so naturally that some how I was hesitant to rate this on a high note.Suseendran has studied well for...

Raavan brings Technical brilliance at its believable and reachable point for Tamil Cinema. Raavan redifines the mythological inspiration in a celluloid form with its imagination and intelligence.Truly this movie is one of the landmark in Vikram’s character and different from his earlier version since he has changed his much praised dialogue tone and accent.Vikram has just been very mighty and powerful and has over taken the creator of the movie.Manirathnam should have been watching quietly a hungry wild beast when Vikram was performing rather than moulding him to his frame.But though Raavanan looks mighty the movie is weak for its simplified direct inspiration and very closed approach of Mani Sir. Raavanan is an intelligent but simplified resemblance from Ramayanam ,the motivation and emotions are similar with Raavan being the powerful and true human being than Raaman .Veera ( Vikram ) the extremist who is been searched by SP Dev (Prithivi Raj ) and team for his rebellious an...

Singam roars,Definitely the movie is a Masala Briyani prepared well.No nonsense a typical Tamil film with out and out Action and Romance Singam succeeds and comes in as a rescue for this summer.Singam directed by Hari looks for the safest bet in all the aspects with very intelligently handled action sequences. Duraisingam a honest and aggressive sub Inspector of Police at Nallur village is the most respected and beloved Cop in and around the village.Mayilvahanam ( Prakashraj) who is a Mob in Chennai tries to brawl with Singam at Nallur but he fails so badly because of the power and influence Singam had earned in his village,Mayilvahanam returns back to chennai and brings Singam by transferring him to Chennai to take revenge at his fort.Singam is humiliated by the Mayilvahanam by restricting him to take action against the illegal activities of Mayilvahanam ,which Mayilvahanam effects through his link in Police Department.Singam stands against Mayilvahanam after he meets Kavya(Anushka) w...

Linguswamy is always lucky .He gets a good hype and expectation for his movies before its release, but he fails off late . Be it Ji,Bheema or now paiyya.What would you expect from a director who gave Run and Sandaikozhi; an action bolt but not similar to his earlier ventures.Paiyya is a technically superior movie but we don’t have a plot here to support it.Paiyya fails in the midway due to lack of logic and substance. Paiyya is a ride from Bangalore to Mumbai in a sexy Black Lancer with Karthi and Tamannah.Tamannah wants to escape from the people who are chasing her due to property issues,Karthi a guy who stays with his friends falls in love with Tamanah from the moment he sees her in Bangalore.Karthi helps Tamannah to escape from Blore ,in the mid way both face the Gundah power .The fun part and the only different part is there is a different group who searches Karthi and different one who searches Tamanah.It gets usual with Bad guys searching Good Guy,Scorpio,chases,Songs,Love,S...

Its difficult when you dont have many movies for Diwali,The ultimate joy of Diwali ends when there isnt much movies around your city.This Diwali is one of the dry diwali for movies .Peranmai is a much expected movie from SP Jananathan who had made E and Eyarkai .SPJ tries to be different and he succeeds in most of the parts.Movie will mark a difference for Jayam Ravi who has given a great performance in this role. Peranmai is about a NCC trainer Dhuruvan who hail from a tribal caste.He takes the responsibility to take five girls to trekking in a dense forest as a part of the training program.Dhuruvan and team find a group of Foreign men who intrude in to the forests for a deadly reason.Dhuruvan along with the girls fight against the men for a cause. Movie boldly speaks about how the society treats backward class person even he attains a respectable position.Ponvannan as the Forest ranger speaks how people humiliate the reservation quoto and their allocation to jobs.Movie doesn’t lashes...

There are some things which you can not change in tamil cinema and its directors .One is Learning from experience and the other is repeatability ! If there is a big budget movie then its going to be only Robin Hood type movie ! How much years we are experiencing the same story line and the same old climax before the court with the hero supported by masses.I am fed up with this type of story line.A blend from Shivaji and Anniyan looks really funny and I had thought Susee Ganesan as a intelligent director after watching his previous movies but he has fallen as the same victim.Kandasamy is not a movie which you don’t know nor its going to give you a new experience .Kanthasamy doesn’t live up to expectations and hype. Kanthasamy IPS( Vikram) is the CBI officer who targets filthy rich industrialists for IT raids.In the mean while prayers of devotees in Lord Kanthasamy temple gets answered in a unique manner.Kanthasamy with his team of his friends help the poor people prayer in a super hero ...

Dhan tana tan! This brings the magic for the movie. The magic is there all over the characters and music .Kaminey is the much anticipated movie of the year and it proves that it has got the things to make it a special movie.Shahid Kapoor’s much needed elevation to the big league has come through this movie.Shahid didn’t dissipate any of the chance provided to him and he is the gripping dynamism in the movie. Kaminey by far is the best movie in this year. Kaminey pays tributes to lots of old Hindi masala movies and its a unpredictable ,engaging journey of twin brothers.Charlie(Shahid 1)who chose to follow the wrong route finds himself messing with Narcotics department because of his greed to chase his dream.Guddu(Shahid 2) who marries Sweety (Priyanka Chopra)is put in to problem because of her brother who is a Gangster and also in to political movement . Kaminey easily breaks many of the usual formula though touching many usual styles,Those were infact brought to us in a very intense an...

I don’t know the releases are not in full flow as it was three months ago,We see a release only two weeks once and then the distribution gets stagnated for months.This week we got Thoranai,Vishal was banking much on this after his debacle Satyam. Thoranai is a movie which has the story of 70’s and 80’s.Younger brother Murugan ( Vishal ) comes to Chennai in search of his brother .He gets entangled with the gang war of two Dons of the city Tamil Arasu ( Prakash Raj ) and Guru ( Kishore).Its left to Vishal to clean up the gang to take his brother home . Movie is not worse but couldn’t be treated as a good entertainer thought.Movie entertains in parts with Santhanam doing the magic again through out the first half.He can switch off from his double meaning verses.Vishal doesn’t want to try any thing new as he did stupid in Satyam.This time what makes him loose is the PUNCH DIALOGUES.I couldn’t sit for a second when he speaks those dialogues.Its irritating and it had made the movie miss the ...

Once when Farhan Akthar director of Dil Chahta Hai was interviewed on his passion on movies ,he said “one day I want to make a movie like Mean streets”.I didn ’t realise what could be this movie that day.Some day when you feel so dull or with your usual things ,you got to watch Scorsese.Scorsese is a specimen which can be never matched.Name any of his movies; every thing has its unique style ,though mostly it revolves around drug,Mafia or violence.The other day when Mathi and I were discussing on Scorsese Mrs. Mathi was furious to say Scorsese repeats his movie in different names. Mathi jumped to justify but I kept quiet,She should watch Mean streets for it uniqueness as a movie and style. Meanstreets also involves Mafia ,Violence but it moves around friends .It deduces among two friends Good Guy Charlie( Harvey Keitel ) who is the nephew of Local Mafia boss and the other guy Johnny boy ( Robert De Niero )who is mentally unstable . Charlie is tested by his friendship with John...

I didn’t manage to grab the tickets of Ghajini because of many reasons but when one of my friend called me to watch it on the first day, I thought I was lucky because the black tickets were selling at 300 /-.Ghajini the movie which made waves in Tamil is a stylish and neatly made movie for many reasons.Asin’s humour and the elegance of Sanjay Ramasamy played by Surya and the ferocity and intensitly of Surya made this movie a blockbuster three years ago.Ghajini when remade in to Hindi with Aamir Khan by the same director everybody expects a great work.But I am very disappointed to say that it failed to live up to the expectations which it earned through promos and the team’s calibre. Ghajini is a scene by scene ,dialogue by dialogue remake of the Tamil Ghajini till the climax.Superbly stylish Sanjay Singhania falls in love with small time model Kalpana concealing his real name and position.Ghajini is the revenge of Sanjay Singhania’s revenge on the person who killed Kalpana.In Hindi th...

I remember watching X files when it came in Star Plus( It was actually in FOX channel where X Files started its series ) during the 90’s but I didn ’t follow it as I wasn ’t able to understand during that age.I wanted to watch X files when its sequel got released recently. This movie released in 1998 was expected much because of the hugely successful TV series X files .I am not a Sci Fi movies fan though I liked this concept of X Files. X Files starts with a Bomb threat and when FBI Special Agents Mulder (David Duschovny ) and Scully (Gillian Andesron ),draw up their attention towards it ,they smell some thing seriously going on hidden from real world . A team is trying to cover up a virus so brutal, so fast and so unassailable that nothing can stop it extinguishing the human race. Mulder reaches the alien sources , and Scully with her medical expertise determines that effects of the Virus.Mulder’s Father’s friend gives some important information about the team which hides .Mulder a...

Daniel Craig’s second edition as Bond has lots of difference from the tradition way of looking at Bond.This is the first Bond movie to be made as a sequel and this is one movie with out any high level promotions made for any brands which is always omnipresent in Bond movies.Traditionally Bond is a high speed emotion less secret agent we knew but here Daniel Craig puts this quantum of Solace for his murdered lady in Casino Royale Bond seeks revenge for the death of Vesper Lynd and is assisted by Camille Montes (Olga Kurylenko ) .Bond continues to the last scene of Casino Royale by bringing Mr.White to Siena and due to things get in to mess during interrogation due to M’s Body Guard Mitchell.He reaches Dominic Greene ( Mathieu Amalric ), a member of a environmental organisation who wants to take the control of water supply in Bolivia .Bond fights for revenge of Vesper and also against Greene.Bond finishes his mission by killing Vesper’s ExBoyfriend Yusuf and being aware that White...

Back again to halls for Movies! A week of no movies in theatres made me feel I was doing nothing.How stupid it was for me to think as such.But intentionally I wanted to give a skip of some movies like Durai ,Babylon A.D ,it didn’t gather any good reviews too.This time worth a watch with Body of lies. Ridley scott is an inspiring maker and he is back after American Gangster,And this time with Leonardo De Caprio and Russell crowe. Roger Ferris (Dicaprio) is a CIA operative in Iraq who tries to uncover a Jihad terrorist Saleem who operates from Jordon.His boss Ed Hoffman (Russel Crowe ) helps him to reach out AlSaleem network through series of plans .Ferris seeks the help of Jordan Intelligence Chief Hani (Mark Strong ) to reach Saleem.Things travel from U.S to middle east and series of events make up this body of lies. Body of Lies is far from being a great movie like Black hawk down but its definitely a racy movie which can make the pulse faster .If there is one actor we audience seen f...