December is a very special month throughout the world. In west it’s time for celebration, vacation,snow and fun. In Chennai it is the season for arts. You can find all music lovers in some sabha or the other to catch their favorite singers live. Everywhere you can find celebration. For me it was little different because of Chennai International Film Festival. I was so happy and enthusiastic from the month starting. This festival is organized by ICAF, Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation. I went all the way to its office in Parsen Apartments to get passes for the festival. To my surprise they asked me from which college I was. I said I am working… I was very happy still I look like a college student. Later I found out that they had issued free passes for them.
I was so thrilled to watch the films. I got special permission from my reporting manager Prasanna to bunk office now and then to watch films. Thanks Prasanna. But all my thrills and expectations turned out to be a big disappointment. This was the 5th year I had attended the festival, I am sorry to say but this was the worst of all. The standard of movie screened every year is going down drastically. You could say only very few movies were good. Out of 120 movies screened I would say not even 20 movies were worth watching. Though story was horrible few had beautiful cinematography. Retrospective movies of Kim ki duk were good. These movies also fall within those twenty movies I mentioned.
2nd International film Festival was the first festival I attended. It was organized in collaboration with NFDC, National Film Development and Corporation. They got extraordinary movies then. In that period hardly twenty movies were not worth watching. They could never get back the standard again. NFDC didn’t take part in the later festivals.
This year Tamil Nadu government had given 25 lakh for the festival, each delegate had paid 500rs and a member paid 300rs to watch movies. Above all they had got hell a lot of sponsors. With all the fund raised they failed to bring in good movies. Movies from France and Germany dominated the festival. Other countries had hardly 1 movie just for the sake of having the count of the countries. To my surprise only 2 Iranian movies were screened.
Movie screening happened in woodlands and woodlands symphony with a time difference of 15min. digital screening was going on in Film Chamber. First people used to sit for the first movie. Within 15 min they realize it’s not worth imme they move to the second movie. I always tried sit there in the hope to learn something. Most people inside the theatre doze off and you could hear people snoring. When you walk out of theatre after the movie you could see lot people waiting out for the next show. They found the second movie was also a waste. In short people sat outside the theatre hoping to see a good movie than inside watching.
The organizers of the festival apart from enjoying the money they receive. They should also concentrate on movies which are being screened. I don’t know on what basis they select the movies for screening. They can organize a committee to select the movies to be screened. In that way they could increase the standard of the festival as such and also a satisfaction to the viewers. Everyone makes it to the festival in between their hectic schedules with lot of expectations. It’s the duty of the organizers to provide them excellent movies. Hope they at least do something in the coming years. I also found the regular festival goers were missing and the response was very low from the film industry. They had tried to fill the hall by providing free passes to students. In short it was dreadful.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008
Another unforgettable weekend in the history of EM64...
It’s the first b’ day month for my blog. I started writing exactly a year before. Initially when I started I wrote only about movies. Movies are my passion and love. Slowly it turned out to sharing my experiences, views and lot more. I would like to thank my very few handful readers who found time to read the crap I scribble and comment on it... Lot of things has changed in my life for the past one year except me and my friends who I have always been proud of.
I am an electronic media student from Anna University. It’s a 5 year course after you finish your 12th and we were the first and biggest batch in the department with 64 members in class. We were always referred as the 64 batch by all the staff members and even juniors. When we completed our course we tagged ourselves as EM64. Like everybody else in the world my happiest days were college days. I used to go to college even if I am not well because I might miss the fun happening there. 1st year of my college life was little dull or standby for me. It was very difficult for me to get used to the new atmosphere, friends and people who were grown in different atmosphere. I had studied in same school from my 5th standard we were in same culture. College was big change. It took a lot of time for me to get used to it. Once I got used those were unforgettable. I changed into a new person.
Our class was like what you see in movies. People used come late and walk straight into the class even when lecturer is standing. When a b’ day boy or gal steps inside the class, the whole class starts singing happy birthday when the lecturer would be lost teaching the subject. It would take a few minutes for him to understand or realize what’s happening. One good thing was we never used to bunk classes to go to a movie. We used to cancel the classes the classes to go to movie. We didn’t have worries, pressure, problems, commitments, duties and money… Still we had the best time sitting on the Anna University pavements, red platform, kutty suvaar, canteen, gallery, gurunath and every other place.
By the time we finished college we were like a family, so attached to each other. We wanted to make sure all of us meet at regular intervals though people moved to different cities and countries for job, studies and few got married also. We meet at least once a month to celebrate b’ days and also when people come down to Chennai from other places. Every 6 months we try to go outing for 3 or 4 days. This weekend was one such occasion.
It was bakrid and our friend Jaheed used to take guys to his home town to erode, he used to avoid taking gals because most of us were veg and he thought we won’t be comfortable when the goat was sacrificed which was important event of the occasion. This time we thought we had to join. So we combined the bakrid celebration with a trip to yercaud over weekend. Monday we go to black thunder and return back to Chennai on Wednesday. We had people coming down from delhi, pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore for the trip.
As usual the trip was excellent, fabulous and it was good to be with friends and to forget every other thing else in life. It was time to fun fun fun and only fun. I was desperately waiting for the trip. I wanted a break from everything.
The trip was actually very very different. We had to walk walk and walk throughout yercaud to visit ladies, gents and children’s viewpoint. Next day we went to kilianur falls. It was like trekking but we climbed a shorter distance. It was adventurous for me. This was the second time I went for trekking. We had to walk down a narrow path similar to othai adi pathai and a small slip we might fall down. At some points it was little tricky too. Few got drenched in the falls happily. After few foto sessions there in falls we decided to get back. We were the only group with gals other people in the falls had come with beer bottles. So our organizers felt it is better to move out soon. We started to climb back.
Once we reached back to the hotel we had lunch and took vans from yercaud to salem bus stand as the buses were full. We wanted to climb down the hill in lorry together for a change. The lorry drivers were shocked and refused to take us. So we didn’t have any option we had to climb down in 3 vans. Van journey was amusing. We were rating the adult content in the songs and argued for the scores each song got out of 10. From salem we boarded bus to erode to reach my friend Jaheed home where we planned to have the bakrid celebration. As soon as we got down we started shouting Jaheed…... Jaheed……. That was the usual trend we follow when we visit one’s house in our class. It is something similar to thanking them and also to show a small trailer for our naughtiness. When we reached his home his entire family was standing out to welcome us. That crowd was literally bigger than us and we ourselves were shocked and silent for few minutes. It’s a nice big joint family with lots of kids to play.
After dinner we spoke to jaheed parents and family members, played lock and key and red letter with the kids. We explored and remembered all the games we played as kids with them... We were very tired and next day we had planned to go to black thunder. So we tried get some sleep. Kumaran had fever and he wanted to go back to his home town somehow we convinced him and took him with us to erode.
By the time we reached erode, jaheed family had got appointment with the doctor for him and they immediately arranged a van for the black thunder trip. We had planned to take the government bus initially. Next day was ultimate in black thunder. We went two times in all the rides. We didn’t know where kumaran’s fever went that day. He was literally in the water whole day. Lazy River was the ultimate. We were floating and playing around pushing everyone for almost an hour. One of the black thunder staff saw it got tensed. He came down into the water and started pushing us to reach the destination. And of course we were the last person to leave the place. Mani and satish were waiting outside for us. They had come down finishing the MBA semester exam in coimbatore Anna University to join us. We retuned back to erode tired and almost drained out. Next day we got up late and found even the youngest kid in the family was neatly dressed for the festival. After fighting laziness and for bathroom we got ready. We had a splendid briyani for lunch. We went around walking and made little shopping trying to digest the food we had. At 8 we left jaheed home with heavy heart and thanking the family members for their hospitality and tolerating our nonsense for the two days. Ashiq and Akila were celebrating their b’day that week. We had a small cake cutting celebration for them. The kids were so attached to us and they came to station with their parents to send us off.
The family was really glad to treat us guest. They were surprised and even jealous to see us all together. They wished they had friends like that too. We were very happy to hear that. We prayed that our friendship should continue forever even though we moved to different parts of the world. We reached Chennai early morning at 4.30 after playing Ass and talking all night.
The trip didn’t end there. Pain of going to office next day struck us hard. Most of them decided to bunk office. I had to go. I had work. That evening they all met in Spencer. I joined them late after finishing my work. Again with a small chat we went back home getting ready for the routine work and hoping that I will join the next trip too…
I am an electronic media student from Anna University. It’s a 5 year course after you finish your 12th and we were the first and biggest batch in the department with 64 members in class. We were always referred as the 64 batch by all the staff members and even juniors. When we completed our course we tagged ourselves as EM64. Like everybody else in the world my happiest days were college days. I used to go to college even if I am not well because I might miss the fun happening there. 1st year of my college life was little dull or standby for me. It was very difficult for me to get used to the new atmosphere, friends and people who were grown in different atmosphere. I had studied in same school from my 5th standard we were in same culture. College was big change. It took a lot of time for me to get used to it. Once I got used those were unforgettable. I changed into a new person.
Our class was like what you see in movies. People used come late and walk straight into the class even when lecturer is standing. When a b’ day boy or gal steps inside the class, the whole class starts singing happy birthday when the lecturer would be lost teaching the subject. It would take a few minutes for him to understand or realize what’s happening. One good thing was we never used to bunk classes to go to a movie. We used to cancel the classes the classes to go to movie. We didn’t have worries, pressure, problems, commitments, duties and money… Still we had the best time sitting on the Anna University pavements, red platform, kutty suvaar, canteen, gallery, gurunath and every other place.
By the time we finished college we were like a family, so attached to each other. We wanted to make sure all of us meet at regular intervals though people moved to different cities and countries for job, studies and few got married also. We meet at least once a month to celebrate b’ days and also when people come down to Chennai from other places. Every 6 months we try to go outing for 3 or 4 days. This weekend was one such occasion.
It was bakrid and our friend Jaheed used to take guys to his home town to erode, he used to avoid taking gals because most of us were veg and he thought we won’t be comfortable when the goat was sacrificed which was important event of the occasion. This time we thought we had to join. So we combined the bakrid celebration with a trip to yercaud over weekend. Monday we go to black thunder and return back to Chennai on Wednesday. We had people coming down from delhi, pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore for the trip.
As usual the trip was excellent, fabulous and it was good to be with friends and to forget every other thing else in life. It was time to fun fun fun and only fun. I was desperately waiting for the trip. I wanted a break from everything.
The trip was actually very very different. We had to walk walk and walk throughout yercaud to visit ladies, gents and children’s viewpoint. Next day we went to kilianur falls. It was like trekking but we climbed a shorter distance. It was adventurous for me. This was the second time I went for trekking. We had to walk down a narrow path similar to othai adi pathai and a small slip we might fall down. At some points it was little tricky too. Few got drenched in the falls happily. After few foto sessions there in falls we decided to get back. We were the only group with gals other people in the falls had come with beer bottles. So our organizers felt it is better to move out soon. We started to climb back.
Once we reached back to the hotel we had lunch and took vans from yercaud to salem bus stand as the buses were full. We wanted to climb down the hill in lorry together for a change. The lorry drivers were shocked and refused to take us. So we didn’t have any option we had to climb down in 3 vans. Van journey was amusing. We were rating the adult content in the songs and argued for the scores each song got out of 10. From salem we boarded bus to erode to reach my friend Jaheed home where we planned to have the bakrid celebration. As soon as we got down we started shouting Jaheed…... Jaheed……. That was the usual trend we follow when we visit one’s house in our class. It is something similar to thanking them and also to show a small trailer for our naughtiness. When we reached his home his entire family was standing out to welcome us. That crowd was literally bigger than us and we ourselves were shocked and silent for few minutes. It’s a nice big joint family with lots of kids to play.
After dinner we spoke to jaheed parents and family members, played lock and key and red letter with the kids. We explored and remembered all the games we played as kids with them... We were very tired and next day we had planned to go to black thunder. So we tried get some sleep. Kumaran had fever and he wanted to go back to his home town somehow we convinced him and took him with us to erode.
By the time we reached erode, jaheed family had got appointment with the doctor for him and they immediately arranged a van for the black thunder trip. We had planned to take the government bus initially. Next day was ultimate in black thunder. We went two times in all the rides. We didn’t know where kumaran’s fever went that day. He was literally in the water whole day. Lazy River was the ultimate. We were floating and playing around pushing everyone for almost an hour. One of the black thunder staff saw it got tensed. He came down into the water and started pushing us to reach the destination. And of course we were the last person to leave the place. Mani and satish were waiting outside for us. They had come down finishing the MBA semester exam in coimbatore Anna University to join us. We retuned back to erode tired and almost drained out. Next day we got up late and found even the youngest kid in the family was neatly dressed for the festival. After fighting laziness and for bathroom we got ready. We had a splendid briyani for lunch. We went around walking and made little shopping trying to digest the food we had. At 8 we left jaheed home with heavy heart and thanking the family members for their hospitality and tolerating our nonsense for the two days. Ashiq and Akila were celebrating their b’day that week. We had a small cake cutting celebration for them. The kids were so attached to us and they came to station with their parents to send us off.
The family was really glad to treat us guest. They were surprised and even jealous to see us all together. They wished they had friends like that too. We were very happy to hear that. We prayed that our friendship should continue forever even though we moved to different parts of the world. We reached Chennai early morning at 4.30 after playing Ass and talking all night.
The trip didn’t end there. Pain of going to office next day struck us hard. Most of them decided to bunk office. I had to go. I had work. That evening they all met in Spencer. I joined them late after finishing my work. Again with a small chat we went back home getting ready for the routine work and hoping that I will join the next trip too…
TOUCH WOOD!!!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Is it black because of rain or smoke???
It’s raining since the day break. I opened my eyes to stop my alarm. Wished it was a holiday for me too. I wanted to sleep all day. In fact I sent an sms to friend Arunsri asking her whether it was a holiday. She said, “ I don’t think so”. She also sent me the shocking news of some terrorist attack in Mumbai and asked me to check the news. I got up from bed in this shock. Just like in a horror movie electricity came all on a sudden as I read the msg. There was a frequent power cut late night due to heavy rain. I asked my dad to switch on the TV and started searching the news channels. I really don’t watch news so I literally had to search. I just catch up with the headlines. I have a very poor memory. I don’t remember any names or places or dates or figures. They don’t stay in my mind. I am a visual person. I can easily visualize things. So I always remember the incidents. They are like reading a story in a book. Whenever I try to recall about some event they come to my mind as montages. Whether it’s an historic event or something on personal life…stays in my mind only because of this nature. Other stuffs just fade off from my memory...
Today as soon as I switched on the TV, I saw the beautiful, magnificent Taj Palace smoking. I still remember the day my classmates planned to take up the last boat from elephanta caves in Mumbai just to see Gateway and Taj in night and in lights.
It was so shocking. Next thing that came into my mind was my friends living there. I called everyone and confirmed that they are safe. They were all at home or in office. Relaxed…I started to get ready for office. It had rained all night in Chennai. The roads were flooded. I didn’t want to take leave also. On the way I heard the news updates in radio.
The office was almost empty. Everyone started coming in only around 11.30 due to heavy rain they all had struck in traffic or their vehicle had stopped because of water. I was not ok. Something was disturbing me. I didn’t know what. I thought may be the shock early morning was the reason. I was not able to concentrate. I opened all the news channels on my desktop and kept reading about the attack and updates. After lunch I found everyone was too engrossed in their own work. Nobody bothered to know what’s happening. No one spoke about the attack or even the rain. They had bug to be checked out, they had issues with connecting to the database, and they were waiting for a client mail to proceed on work. This attitude is even more shocking. Just half an hour back my friend Arun found out that Hexaware Mumbai has also closed down only the corporate marketing team was working.
People are too busy. May be they had watched everything in TV today morning and forgot about it on the way to office. May be that is the idle way of life to lead for any common man. As a media student any crisis we are always on full swing to find out information. We have had arguments, ideas and solutions on all crisis at college. I had grown discussing it in detail. This looks very different for me. May be that’s why I felt odd all day at office. May be they are leading an IDEAL life and I stand somewhere in between not knowing where to jump in…whether I should also be cool or I should do something. If I am not going do something on my own, I will surely play my role at least to change make some difference. This doesn’t mean that you have to jump in and help people. Just do your duty and work for the nation.
In that case you need not worry too much about Obama becoming President of US. It wont affect your bread and butter. Rather you will start worrying about the brothers and sisters who are killed right here in Mumbai for no reason. Everyone wants to sit and comment on police or politicians for being careless and irresponsible. What have you done to nation? What have you done to change yourself?
I do know you alone can’t change everything in front of u. but obviously you can be the change what you want to see. Wish and hope they solve the crisis soon.
Today as soon as I switched on the TV, I saw the beautiful, magnificent Taj Palace smoking. I still remember the day my classmates planned to take up the last boat from elephanta caves in Mumbai just to see Gateway and Taj in night and in lights.
It was so shocking. Next thing that came into my mind was my friends living there. I called everyone and confirmed that they are safe. They were all at home or in office. Relaxed…I started to get ready for office. It had rained all night in Chennai. The roads were flooded. I didn’t want to take leave also. On the way I heard the news updates in radio.
The office was almost empty. Everyone started coming in only around 11.30 due to heavy rain they all had struck in traffic or their vehicle had stopped because of water. I was not ok. Something was disturbing me. I didn’t know what. I thought may be the shock early morning was the reason. I was not able to concentrate. I opened all the news channels on my desktop and kept reading about the attack and updates. After lunch I found everyone was too engrossed in their own work. Nobody bothered to know what’s happening. No one spoke about the attack or even the rain. They had bug to be checked out, they had issues with connecting to the database, and they were waiting for a client mail to proceed on work. This attitude is even more shocking. Just half an hour back my friend Arun found out that Hexaware Mumbai has also closed down only the corporate marketing team was working.
People are too busy. May be they had watched everything in TV today morning and forgot about it on the way to office. May be that is the idle way of life to lead for any common man. As a media student any crisis we are always on full swing to find out information. We have had arguments, ideas and solutions on all crisis at college. I had grown discussing it in detail. This looks very different for me. May be that’s why I felt odd all day at office. May be they are leading an IDEAL life and I stand somewhere in between not knowing where to jump in…whether I should also be cool or I should do something. If I am not going do something on my own, I will surely play my role at least to change make some difference. This doesn’t mean that you have to jump in and help people. Just do your duty and work for the nation.
In that case you need not worry too much about Obama becoming President of US. It wont affect your bread and butter. Rather you will start worrying about the brothers and sisters who are killed right here in Mumbai for no reason. Everyone wants to sit and comment on police or politicians for being careless and irresponsible. What have you done to nation? What have you done to change yourself?
I do know you alone can’t change everything in front of u. but obviously you can be the change what you want to see. Wish and hope they solve the crisis soon.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Whatever Happens Life has to MOVE ON……
This word MOVE ON is personally too painful for me... I hate it…. I dont want to hear it again in my life…till my last breath. Vaaranam Aayiraam also insists the same.
I always prefer watching a movie with an open mind. Like a clean black board. May be that’s why I always wanted to rush to a movie soon after it releases. I don’t read any reviews before watching the movie and also before writing the blog. Before I went for this movie I heard only two comments from many people. They said,’ I liked the movie’ and ‘I don’t like the movie’.
Vaaranam Aayiraam simply says whatever happens life has to move… This is a movie about a son who gets inspired by his dad at every stage in his life. The story is narrated by son surya. We actually see his stages in life and how the father surya supported him at each stage. I felt the bond between father and son was not established that deep. Son had in particular grabbed his father’s love story as a greatest inspiration. Importance is given to the son surya, his love, his failure, his difficulties, his expectations, and his disappointments in life.
All most all the songs were with Sameera Reddy. She looks good in jean than in salwar. My friend Arun also said Gautham’s touch was seen only in the scenes taken in United States. I also felt he was right. Simren though she plays a small role she is as always the best... Divya comes just for the sake of having a heroine.
Army scenes and scenes in which Surya goes in search of the kid is fast and Gautham has carved his niche for it as usual.
Brilliant cinematography… The cinematographer Rathinavel has captured beautiful shot in each and every frame... Either its Kashmir or US or even LIC building it was cool. Music by Harris was kind of ok... You feel you had heard some tunes somewhere in his own composition. Still you don’t feel bored. Lyrics by Thamarai was mindblowing I had only heard words like andadi, tharagai and lot more only in tamil literature. She has really given a feast to tamil lovers as always.
Editing… I still don’t believe it was antony who edited the movie. I am a big fan of him. Still at some places I don’t like his fast cuts. If you see a song you can straight away tell that it was edited by him. This movie doesn’t give a feel that it was edited by Anthony himself. You never felt that the movie was edited. All the best for ur directorial debut too Anthony sir.
Vaaranam Aayiraam is a life story of a person. Gautham’s personal story. Surya has taken over the movie completely. It is his own film. Gautham could have avoided English dialogues and too much of daddy in it... It gave an Anglo Indian feel for me.
Though it had many problems and people didn’t like it much. Technically the movie was mind-blowing. For instance, you can actually feel the difference in both the father and son’s physique. If you had noticed keenly you could feel the father is losing his strength and he also loses his weight and looks terribly weak on his death bed… Body language actually showed the difference... The movie is scripted and planned perfectly by Gautham... Bravo…. I really understand how much of home work the movie had taken. If he even misses to take a single shot it would have been a big problem… Continuity, set, co artist placement were all in proper place especially when both the surya come in the same frame… It made me awe mainly because both the characters would have been shot at different periods to match the physiques… We really have to say Hats off for the work and involvement by the crew as such.
I personally found a few messages in the movie. I don’t know how far others understood.
Whatever happens life has to MOVE ON
Love like mad
Do the craziest stuff in the world
Express yourself clearly
Work hard
Whatever you do, give ur hundred percent
Enjoy every moment in your life.
Don’t hurt others
Respect the next person’s feelings
Be sincere
And what not to……… You can also add points to the list…….
I always prefer watching a movie with an open mind. Like a clean black board. May be that’s why I always wanted to rush to a movie soon after it releases. I don’t read any reviews before watching the movie and also before writing the blog. Before I went for this movie I heard only two comments from many people. They said,’ I liked the movie’ and ‘I don’t like the movie’.
Vaaranam Aayiraam simply says whatever happens life has to move… This is a movie about a son who gets inspired by his dad at every stage in his life. The story is narrated by son surya. We actually see his stages in life and how the father surya supported him at each stage. I felt the bond between father and son was not established that deep. Son had in particular grabbed his father’s love story as a greatest inspiration. Importance is given to the son surya, his love, his failure, his difficulties, his expectations, and his disappointments in life.
All most all the songs were with Sameera Reddy. She looks good in jean than in salwar. My friend Arun also said Gautham’s touch was seen only in the scenes taken in United States. I also felt he was right. Simren though she plays a small role she is as always the best... Divya comes just for the sake of having a heroine.
Army scenes and scenes in which Surya goes in search of the kid is fast and Gautham has carved his niche for it as usual.
Brilliant cinematography… The cinematographer Rathinavel has captured beautiful shot in each and every frame... Either its Kashmir or US or even LIC building it was cool. Music by Harris was kind of ok... You feel you had heard some tunes somewhere in his own composition. Still you don’t feel bored. Lyrics by Thamarai was mindblowing I had only heard words like andadi, tharagai and lot more only in tamil literature. She has really given a feast to tamil lovers as always.
Editing… I still don’t believe it was antony who edited the movie. I am a big fan of him. Still at some places I don’t like his fast cuts. If you see a song you can straight away tell that it was edited by him. This movie doesn’t give a feel that it was edited by Anthony himself. You never felt that the movie was edited. All the best for ur directorial debut too Anthony sir.
Vaaranam Aayiraam is a life story of a person. Gautham’s personal story. Surya has taken over the movie completely. It is his own film. Gautham could have avoided English dialogues and too much of daddy in it... It gave an Anglo Indian feel for me.
Though it had many problems and people didn’t like it much. Technically the movie was mind-blowing. For instance, you can actually feel the difference in both the father and son’s physique. If you had noticed keenly you could feel the father is losing his strength and he also loses his weight and looks terribly weak on his death bed… Body language actually showed the difference... The movie is scripted and planned perfectly by Gautham... Bravo…. I really understand how much of home work the movie had taken. If he even misses to take a single shot it would have been a big problem… Continuity, set, co artist placement were all in proper place especially when both the surya come in the same frame… It made me awe mainly because both the characters would have been shot at different periods to match the physiques… We really have to say Hats off for the work and involvement by the crew as such.
I personally found a few messages in the movie. I don’t know how far others understood.
Whatever happens life has to MOVE ON
Love like mad
Do the craziest stuff in the world
Express yourself clearly
Work hard
Whatever you do, give ur hundred percent
Enjoy every moment in your life.
Don’t hurt others
Respect the next person’s feelings
Be sincere
And what not to……… You can also add points to the list…….
Monday, November 10, 2008
Strangely Intimate….
My colleague Prasanna borrowed a magazine from library. While reading it, I just came across an interesting article. I thought I should type down my thoughts on it. This article is about a women’s personal experience on her love towards her husband. I don’t want to talk about her. But I just wanted to share the crux of the article.
We may not be able to find a life partner with similar thoughts, likes etc. This generation is facing a war between love and arranged marriage. In both we don’t find our partner having similar thoughts in each and everything in life. We can surely learn to love those differences. He may not dance with you, he may not get beautiful flowers for u, he may not be romantic or she may not enjoy watching cricket with u, she may not cook your favorite food deliciously, she may not stop complaining about your mom. Still you patiently listen to her. Still she silently waits for you at door for u to return back from work.
Despite all these differences and clashes you still love each other. Just stop searching yourself within the other…trying to change them the way you like…wanting them to understand what you wish. Because you are gonna fail trying to change. Even if they change, it is just temporary or nam ke vaaste just to pose in front of you. Behind you they continue to remain the same. Instead of forcing yourself to change for others or changing others for you, learn to enjoy the differences. Enjoy the fights. Enjoy the tears. Enjoy the laugh. Only then you are unique, you don’t loose yourself.
Generations back our mothers or our grandmothers sacrificed themselves, their desires to satisfy their husbands need some times in other way around. But now we don’t want to give away our desires and dreams. Everyone wants to fly.
In tamil literature there is a beautiful word called oodaal. Oodaal is anger between the couple which will be solved at any moment. Oodaal is due to love on each other. Fight is something which can’t be solved.
So oodaal is a must in a love and not fight. Oodaal strengthens the bond and fight creates a crack. These cracks don’t join perfectly once it’s broken.
Marriage or love is a three legged race. We have one of our legs tied together and one free. With the one free we must explore our individuality, our uniqueness. And with the one tied together we must realize what intimacy is. To win the race, we need to balance both – our separateness and our togetherness.
We may not be able to find a life partner with similar thoughts, likes etc. This generation is facing a war between love and arranged marriage. In both we don’t find our partner having similar thoughts in each and everything in life. We can surely learn to love those differences. He may not dance with you, he may not get beautiful flowers for u, he may not be romantic or she may not enjoy watching cricket with u, she may not cook your favorite food deliciously, she may not stop complaining about your mom. Still you patiently listen to her. Still she silently waits for you at door for u to return back from work.
Despite all these differences and clashes you still love each other. Just stop searching yourself within the other…trying to change them the way you like…wanting them to understand what you wish. Because you are gonna fail trying to change. Even if they change, it is just temporary or nam ke vaaste just to pose in front of you. Behind you they continue to remain the same. Instead of forcing yourself to change for others or changing others for you, learn to enjoy the differences. Enjoy the fights. Enjoy the tears. Enjoy the laugh. Only then you are unique, you don’t loose yourself.
Generations back our mothers or our grandmothers sacrificed themselves, their desires to satisfy their husbands need some times in other way around. But now we don’t want to give away our desires and dreams. Everyone wants to fly.
In tamil literature there is a beautiful word called oodaal. Oodaal is anger between the couple which will be solved at any moment. Oodaal is due to love on each other. Fight is something which can’t be solved.
So oodaal is a must in a love and not fight. Oodaal strengthens the bond and fight creates a crack. These cracks don’t join perfectly once it’s broken.
Marriage or love is a three legged race. We have one of our legs tied together and one free. With the one free we must explore our individuality, our uniqueness. And with the one tied together we must realize what intimacy is. To win the race, we need to balance both – our separateness and our togetherness.
We would be happy if we are able to understand individual desires and dreams. Thus we can avoid unnecessary fights and heart breaks. Live and let live. Because most of the problems comes from not wanting to see things as they are.
This not only works for couples but also to any relation existing in this world who is close to your heart.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Meghamalhar
I am having a Malayalam film festival at home. With a stack of VCD’s and DVD’s piled near my computer my parents wonder whether I have changed my mother tongue. They rarely see me watching tamil movies. Each and every time it is some foreign language or the other. They might have even wondered do they make movies in those countries or even which country the movie belongs to. There is always a gap between us both communication and generation. I simply hope that time would change everything and they really understand my dreams and desires. Now coming back to movies, this weekend I saw few Malayalam movies.
Meghamalhar was close to my heart of the movies I saw. This movie has beautiful songs and excellent background score which are synonymous to the title of the movie. Biju Menon as Rajeevan an advocate and Samyuktha Verma as Nanditha a writer meet each other accidentally and a friendship develops between them. This friendship becomes a strong liking towards each other. Nandita finds that Rajeevan is none other than her childhood friend. They had always had a liking towards each other as kids. Due to unavoidable situations rajeevan had move with his parents and they lost track. After so many years they get back their same liking and affection. So the story moves like how Nandita tells rajeevan that she was his childhood friend and how they decide to move on in their life keeping their families and kids in mind.
It is beautiful poetic love story from the Director Kamal. The movie is edited by my favorite editor Bina Paul. She is one of the best Indian female film editors. As I have always said audience should never feel the movie is being edited. Bina Paul is the best in it. She has a rhythmic and poetic way of cutting her movies in style.
Meghamalhar is an excellent movie and it stays close to your heart. The nostalgic childhood and the attraction portrayed in subtle and powerful than the usual romantic love we see on screen.
Meghamalhar was close to my heart of the movies I saw. This movie has beautiful songs and excellent background score which are synonymous to the title of the movie. Biju Menon as Rajeevan an advocate and Samyuktha Verma as Nanditha a writer meet each other accidentally and a friendship develops between them. This friendship becomes a strong liking towards each other. Nandita finds that Rajeevan is none other than her childhood friend. They had always had a liking towards each other as kids. Due to unavoidable situations rajeevan had move with his parents and they lost track. After so many years they get back their same liking and affection. So the story moves like how Nandita tells rajeevan that she was his childhood friend and how they decide to move on in their life keeping their families and kids in mind.
It is beautiful poetic love story from the Director Kamal. The movie is edited by my favorite editor Bina Paul. She is one of the best Indian female film editors. As I have always said audience should never feel the movie is being edited. Bina Paul is the best in it. She has a rhythmic and poetic way of cutting her movies in style.
Meghamalhar is an excellent movie and it stays close to your heart. The nostalgic childhood and the attraction portrayed in subtle and powerful than the usual romantic love we see on screen.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Me and Kill Bill
Kill Bill, an action movie directed by Quentin Tarantino. This movie has two parts vol 1 and 2..
I just finished watching the first part. Yet to watch the second part L... First almost two months back I tried to watch the movie. That time I didn’t have the guts to proceed after 5 min... Action movies are too sickening to watch with a head phone. My speaker had a problem then.
Now after repairing my speakers I had the guts to watch the movie second time. I have always wondered why my best buddy was so fascinated and thrilled while he was talking about kill bill or abt the director. Now after watching the movie I too got thrilled to talk about the movie. Generally I am not comfortable watching action movies. Today I seriously thought I should take the risk. Yes I did it...
Before proceeding further I should clearly tell you guys that I am not gonna type the review of the movie. I don’t deserve to do it. First time I gonna share my experiences while watching a movie in this blog.
My experiences while watching kill bill...
As I said before I don’t have interest in watching action movies. I grew watching tamil movies. When it came to foreign movies I grew watching festivals. So action movies are almost nil in festivals. Even if I find a action movie in festival I pester Navin, my well wisher and my movie companion to shift to another screen to check out the movie screened there. He often used to get irritated still he had to go for me because he knows well that I wont let him watch it peacefully
What a movie!!! Action!!!! Cuts!!! Camera!!! Screenplay!!!! Mind blowing!!!!
I just finished watching the first part. Yet to watch the second part L... First almost two months back I tried to watch the movie. That time I didn’t have the guts to proceed after 5 min... Action movies are too sickening to watch with a head phone. My speaker had a problem then.
Now after repairing my speakers I had the guts to watch the movie second time. I have always wondered why my best buddy was so fascinated and thrilled while he was talking about kill bill or abt the director. Now after watching the movie I too got thrilled to talk about the movie. Generally I am not comfortable watching action movies. Today I seriously thought I should take the risk. Yes I did it...
Before proceeding further I should clearly tell you guys that I am not gonna type the review of the movie. I don’t deserve to do it. First time I gonna share my experiences while watching a movie in this blog.
My experiences while watching kill bill...
As I said before I don’t have interest in watching action movies. I grew watching tamil movies. When it came to foreign movies I grew watching festivals. So action movies are almost nil in festivals. Even if I find a action movie in festival I pester Navin, my well wisher and my movie companion to shift to another screen to check out the movie screened there. He often used to get irritated still he had to go for me because he knows well that I wont let him watch it peacefully
What a movie!!! Action!!!! Cuts!!! Camera!!! Screenplay!!!! Mind blowing!!!!
The protagonist of the movie Uma Thurman is cool. Even I felt like fighting with someone once I finished watching the movie. Terrorists must probably like the thrill of killing someone. The sword does give you power.
All our kollywood heros always like to be a kunda, fight, fly do everything. They enjoy doing it in movies because it is not be possible for them in real life. Who knows if I was one of them I might also prefer doing action movies.
Coming back to Kill Bill... the movie not only had action it had all emotions. Most violent scenes were shown in black and white and in 2d animation. Straight away showing blood makes you sick after a certain point. The director has easily balanced it. Since you don’t see the red color u r comfortable to watching it.
The director had violence in his movie but u don’t feel it... Rather u like in watching it. That is where the ability of a director stands communicating to the audience what is there in his mind without affecting the principles of the audience watching it.
I was inspired watching the movie... It was technically a excellent movie. As an editor I was completely awestruck at the work. It is the editor who has made the movie successful. I have always felt that a good editor is person who always cheats the audience. He should make the audience realize that he had made a cut. Editor has done his beat… All these fast cuts and ramps doesn’t certify an editor as the best one.. wish tamil industry understands that soon.
Ultimately I was happy watching the movie. I want to buy a beautiful looking Knife.. Guys do let me know where I can get a cool artistic knife… Obviously as a show piece to decorate my home and also to add homage for the love I have for the movie. Waiting to watch the second part...Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Saroja
Saroja, second movie of director Venkat Prabu after a big success Chennai – 600028. This movie is a comedy thriller. You can laugh from the start to the end of the movie. Jagapathi (S.P.B. Charan), Ajay (Shiva) , Vijay (Vaibhav as Charan’s brother) and Ganesh Kumar (Premji Amaran) are all friends. I really don’t know the reason behind why they are addressing each other as sir. I guess thats probably because they were working together.
The movie starts with cheeky cheeky song with the intro of the heroine Saroja (Vega), daughter of a wealthy business man Viswanathan (Prakash Raj).
Introduction of Shiva was hilarious. You wonder what the hell is happening, Shiva is found telling horrible dialogues. Later it happens to be a some stupid mega serial shoot. Shiva is getting engaged to Kajal the same evening and there goes my favorite song in the movie Aja mera soniyae…. The song was not that great as the audio and lyrics is. Too much of fast cuts make u difficult to involve in the song. I really felt they could have avoided too much of fast cut in the songs.
Next day the gang gets ready for a trip to Hyderabad to watch cricket match live in a so called caravan. Another friendship montage song (Dosth bada dosth) from the director after yaaro in Chennai 600028. Till this movie is very slow. On the way the road is blocked by an accident of a chemical tanker. They debate whether they should wait for the traffic jam to get cleared or they should return back to Chennai. Finally they turn back and take a short route to reach Hyderabad in to the back woods. On the way they have all weird discussions about ghost and hit a personby mistake. They g
et caught in big haunted factory with a gangster, headed by Sampath who had kidnapped Saroja for her money. Jayaram as an asst commissioner who helps his close friend prakash raj to find saroja back. So the climax is how the group of friends escape from the gangster and saves the girl caught by them.
Introduction of Shiva was hilarious. You wonder what the hell is happening, Shiva is found telling horrible dialogues. Later it happens to be a some stupid mega serial shoot. Shiva is getting engaged to Kajal the same evening and there goes my favorite song in the movie Aja mera soniyae…. The song was not that great as the audio and lyrics is. Too much of fast cuts make u difficult to involve in the song. I really felt they could have avoided too much of fast cut in the songs.
Next day the gang gets ready for a trip to Hyderabad to watch cricket match live in a so called caravan. Another friendship montage song (Dosth bada dosth) from the director after yaaro in Chennai 600028. Till this movie is very slow. On the way the road is blocked by an accident of a chemical tanker. They debate whether they should wait for the traffic jam to get cleared or they should return back to Chennai. Finally they turn back and take a short route to reach Hyderabad in to the back woods. On the way they have all weird discussions about ghost and hit a personby mistake. They g
et caught in big haunted factory with a gangster, headed by Sampath who had kidnapped Saroja for her money. Jayaram as an asst commissioner who helps his close friend prakash raj to find saroja back. So the climax is how the group of friends escape from the gangster and saves the girl caught by them. The movie is a serious of events in a night. So mostly it’s darkly lit. Camera man and the art director have done a great job. You really feel the darkness and fear in the movie. Even the shadows of the objects in the factory are neat.There are also funny jokes by premji. The movie is made light with these jokes and the fight amongst themselves. Dialogues like 'nan venumna spare purse tharaen... edu vaa irundalum paesi thithukalam.... evalovo panrom edu panna matoma.... ' make u laugh till your stomatch pains. Premji falls in love almost every girl he sees and angels start singing for him surrounding the girl thamthana namthana namthanna namthana………
He even falls in love with saroja. Lot of famous old songs are used brilliantly in RR by Yuvan.
There are no big fight sequence for the heroes flying and jumping from post to pillar. They neatly use their brain and try to escape from the gangsters. Charan’s failure engineering helps them to escape, nimirindu nil song is inspiring inthe background.
Nikitha comes as Sampath’s girl friend. There is an item song for her ‘kodana kodi’ with a funny step. That step becomes the theme step of the movie. The song reminds me kathala kannala song from the movie anjathey.
Venkat Prabu has actually kept up the expectation of the audience after his first hit movie. Saroja is a neatly packaged thriller comedy and it surely RockzZ!!!!
Jayam Kondaan
Movie is directed by R. Kannan an assistant of director Manirathnam, starring Vinay, Bhavna, SS music VJ Lekha and many more.
The story is a conflict between a brother and his half sister who fight to get hold of their father’s property to achieve their dreams.
Most of you must have known the story so I will skip the story and move to the analysis part. Vinay has to improve a lot in acting, which was a big minus. Lekha has done excellent job. Bhavna like any other heroine in tamil films comes in and out of the movie in the songs and few scenes. Few songs have been inserted just for the sake of song counts. Songs are picturised in beautiful landscapes still only the first song tune stays in my mind.
The story is neatly screen played and practical. No too much of cinematic scenes and emotions. This was good when the hero and his friend are chased by villain to death. We all would expect that he would be killed and hero starts fighting against villain. But extremely opposite happens. The hero’s friend escapes from the villain luckily. So though the story sounds little usual the screenplay was different and practical.
In short, an orderly movie and we can expect good scripts from the director in future.
The story is a conflict between a brother and his half sister who fight to get hold of their father’s property to achieve their dreams.
Most of you must have known the story so I will skip the story and move to the analysis part. Vinay has to improve a lot in acting, which was a big minus. Lekha has done excellent job. Bhavna like any other heroine in tamil films comes in and out of the movie in the songs and few scenes. Few songs have been inserted just for the sake of song counts. Songs are picturised in beautiful landscapes still only the first song tune stays in my mind.
The story is neatly screen played and practical. No too much of cinematic scenes and emotions. This was good when the hero and his friend are chased by villain to death. We all would expect that he would be killed and hero starts fighting against villain. But extremely opposite happens. The hero’s friend escapes from the villain luckily. So though the story sounds little usual the screenplay was different and practical.
In short, an orderly movie and we can expect good scripts from the director in future.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Jaane tu ya jaane naa.....
I always feel good only when I watch a movie from the start frame to the end frame. I sit for the rolling credits too. These people also play a major part of the movie. May be I feel the same because my name came twice in the rolling credits. It was the happiest moments in my life. Me and my best friends’ neelan and nithya jumped in joy in theater seeing our names roll on the big screen. Special thanks to Sabu sir and Arun sir, my gurus in editing. Here I should really thank Navin, my uncle who found a spark in me.
I think I better stop uttering non sense and talk about the movie. Truly speaking I don’t deserve to write about the movie as I went in late. Still this movie is close to my heart. Why is a secret…. J so I feel I should really write about the movie.
It’s a feel good movie, a romantic comedy. The movie depicts the life style, love and friendship of this generation. Friendship between parents and children is also neatly portrayed in the movie.
Imran and genelia have done well. Two best friends, loving each other unknowingly finds their true feel only when someone else takes their position in lives. How they realize and express their love is the story. Other characters are tied neatly along the two main characters. Imran is brought up by his mom like any other kid after his late father. This character talks to his wife from his portrait and they keep fighting for everything happening in their day to day life.
Genelia’s brother Amit is an artist is too possessive about his sister and he understands her love towards Imran. He plays with his pet rat and paint all day. He hates Imran as he feels that he took away his sister from him who was his best friend all these years.
They do have a gang of friends, u get confused whose pair is who as they mix and dance on the stage often. The story is actually a narration of these friends to a girl, who claims to be girl friend of one of them in the group at the end of the movie. I am not sure who she is as I missed the first part. The narration reminds me of the tamil movie Azagiya theeyae.
Movie was natural till the climax. Climax you find really stupid. In the flow of the movie you really don’t feel bad as you obviously know that would never happen. You simply laugh about it and forget it. The story has a branded commercial movie climax. The hero and heroine join together at the edge of flight or train departure in an airport or railway station. You obviously know that they will bond and live happily ever after.
In plain I shall say an ideal entertainer movie. Though the movie has lot of fantasy, you laugh out and enjoy.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Cricket... Business and Religion…. The 3 mistakes of my life….
I have thought twice before typing this blog. Mainly because books are not my core area and I was little worried about my writing style. I very well know its bad and my friends will find many mistakes while reading it. I am happy to tell you all that, I have got an editor for my blog. May be I am the first person to have an editor to blog posts ;)
I know that’s little too much…. Anyways it’s the readers who are going to suffer my English… So I welcome Rakesh and special thanks for joining me ;)
Chetan Bhagat the author of ‘Five Point Someone, One Night @ the Call Center’ and the recent ‘Three Mistakes of My Life’,
His third book is no different from his previous exertions. [My editor feels the three mistakes of his life are reading all 3 novels written by Chetan Bhagat]
Though the stories aren’t different, the handling and treatment of the story is good. It is targeted to a particular group of audience. This book talks about three friends and their passion in life.
Chetan’s shortcomings are blatantly obvious in this particular novel but it is quite difficult to take pot shots at Chetan who “magnanimously” accepts his pedestrian grasping of English.
Like his other books, this one too takes refuge in the first person narrative.
(My wicked Editor also prods me to mention the “co-incidence” of pre-marital “events” occurring in the life of the protagonist)
Govind, Ish and Omi are the friends with different passions in life. Govind wants to be a successful business man, Ish a cricket coach desperately tries to bring the special talents of a kid (Ali). Omi simple wants to be with his friends to avoid becoming a priest. The author describes both the brighter and darker side of his characters.
To put it short, if you had not read his other books you may find interesting to read the book. But at the same time if you had read the other books, better carry on with your work. But the guy makes you complete the story. He keeps the reader lively so you find it difficult to put it down. After you finish of course you think so what’s new in this book?
Same formula doesn’t work always. Now its time to think different!!!
Friday, June 20, 2008
Dasavatharam…..
I typed the following review of mine last weekend.. Now I am completely confused reading the reviews of several others. Probably I shouldn’t have read before finishing mine… Anyways this is my feel for the movie.
After a big struggle to get tickets I finally got it through my coll mates… Thanks to Balaji (our nattamai) who had arranged for tickets in different locations of the city and maximum people from our class managed to gathered in AVM Rajeswari for the long awaited show. As usual having fun outside the theatre we settled in our seats for the show….
For my surprise our entire bunch screamed only in the opening when Kamal on the screen for the first time. After that everyone was completely engrossed into the movie. Many of us were afraid we might miss something important even if we turn left to give a comment. The movie started with an incident happened in the 12th century. CG was the worst in this sequence. You can feel as if some sticker was pasted over the screen. They should have concentrated on the CG portion here.
Then the story moves to the main plot... Kamal a scientist finds a virus which might kill millions of people easily. His boss tries to sell it. Now Kamal decides to protect his awful invention from affecting the public. The story ends how he destroys the virus and how he uses all his ten avatars in the film. Most of these avatars are introduced just for the sake of the number 10. But I should say they have tried their best to link these characters.
I am not going to talk about the story as you might have heard so much about it. Movie could have been made simpler. I feel it attracts only few targeted audience.
I scored worst in chemistry in my class 12th. I even flunked once or twice in that subject in my school exams. I have never touched a chemistry book in my life after my 12th... you might wonder why the hell I am talking about it. I myself found out NaCl is Sodium chloride and its salt. You find such a big scientist fails to find it. All talk abt NaCl right from bush to corporation worker.
Nothing is told clear may be that is how they wanted to capture the repetitive audience.
Climax CG is good. If they had concentrated little bit on the screenplay rather than the avathars it would have been much better.
Mallika role is short and crisp. Asin irritates you with the core with her perumalae!!!!
Jayapratha just comes and goes. I would have been happy if she had a good dance in the movie.
So in brief, movie can be watched once without ant expectations and removing Kamal from your mind. May be then you might like it to a certain extent.
P.S: The chain mails talking about the movie, comments and reviews in the blogs makes me feel that the guy achieved what he wanted. Everyone should talk about/ it may be positive or negative publicity is always good. No wonder negative publicity always works for him.
After a big struggle to get tickets I finally got it through my coll mates… Thanks to Balaji (our nattamai) who had arranged for tickets in different locations of the city and maximum people from our class managed to gathered in AVM Rajeswari for the long awaited show. As usual having fun outside the theatre we settled in our seats for the show….
For my surprise our entire bunch screamed only in the opening when Kamal on the screen for the first time. After that everyone was completely engrossed into the movie. Many of us were afraid we might miss something important even if we turn left to give a comment. The movie started with an incident happened in the 12th century. CG was the worst in this sequence. You can feel as if some sticker was pasted over the screen. They should have concentrated on the CG portion here.
Then the story moves to the main plot... Kamal a scientist finds a virus which might kill millions of people easily. His boss tries to sell it. Now Kamal decides to protect his awful invention from affecting the public. The story ends how he destroys the virus and how he uses all his ten avatars in the film. Most of these avatars are introduced just for the sake of the number 10. But I should say they have tried their best to link these characters.
I am not going to talk about the story as you might have heard so much about it. Movie could have been made simpler. I feel it attracts only few targeted audience.
I scored worst in chemistry in my class 12th. I even flunked once or twice in that subject in my school exams. I have never touched a chemistry book in my life after my 12th... you might wonder why the hell I am talking about it. I myself found out NaCl is Sodium chloride and its salt. You find such a big scientist fails to find it. All talk abt NaCl right from bush to corporation worker.
Nothing is told clear may be that is how they wanted to capture the repetitive audience.
Climax CG is good. If they had concentrated little bit on the screenplay rather than the avathars it would have been much better.
Mallika role is short and crisp. Asin irritates you with the core with her perumalae!!!!
Jayapratha just comes and goes. I would have been happy if she had a good dance in the movie.
So in brief, movie can be watched once without ant expectations and removing Kamal from your mind. May be then you might like it to a certain extent.
P.S: The chain mails talking about the movie, comments and reviews in the blogs makes me feel that the guy achieved what he wanted. Everyone should talk about/ it may be positive or negative publicity is always good. No wonder negative publicity always works for him.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Fighting like Mad!!
Today morning as usual I and my friends, Arun and Nithya, went for coffee and as always the main topic of discussion was movies. We ended up in a terrific argument and I doubt if someone saw us fighting like mad.
The idea of this topic in my blog is just to share our discussion and also to welcome your valuable views about the topic. I will better jump into the topic straight way..
The idea of this topic in my blog is just to share our discussion and also to welcome your valuable views about the topic. I will better jump into the topic straight way..
Arun started talking about Salaam Cinema, a movie directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, which he saw in the weekend. Our argument started about the director’s experimental movies. Arun was so excited about these experimental movies. I guess it was inspiring for a budding filmmaker like him. I am first a big fan of movies rather than an editor.
So I started the argument saying that director should reach the audience. Ultimate goal of a movie is to take message to the viewers. If they fail to do it I feel somewhere the director has lost track. I am not against experimental movies. They are inspiring. Still only A class audience watch them.( In cinema, A class audience we call as the highly educated audience, B class are middle class audience and C class are the audience living in every corner of your country and state) People generally say that C class audience are the major viewers of a movie. If not in other countries, in Tamil Nadu it works this way.
Coming back to the topic, I feel that a director should do both commercial and experimental movie. By doing commercial movies he is slowly bringing the audience to watch experimental movies without their knowledge. In a way we are bringing good cinema to them. That is how I feel we can change the audience taste.
How long are we going to give formula movies to them and give a lame excuse that they like only that. Tollywood or Telgu industry had always been commercial with Balakrishna stopping train. But now see the quality of movies they are giving. Aarya, happy days, anand, etc.. (I have watched only few) all these are commercial movies but they are away from the usual commercial movie. When these directors take an experimental movie I feel that audience will surely watch them even though it might not relate to them. Slowly the trend will change, may not drastically or quickly but will surely change in future.
A director has to create that sort of a platform for the budding film makers. It’s easy to convey message to a literate. The challenge lies taking the same challenge to an illiterate. So I think the directors should take that challenge.
I am not sure whether I am right but I welcome your valuable comments to enrich my thoughts. Of course opinion differs.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Santhosh Subramaniam
Its been more than a month since I watched a movie. I am so afraid to go out on weekends. Sun is literally burning everyone out one the road. Sitting in AC all week days makes me further sick seeing the sunlight. Somehow I managed to see Santhosh Subramaniam last weekend at my aunt’s place. My brother always makes sure we watch a movie together whenever I manage to pop into his house. Maybe it’s really late to share my views about this movie Santhosh Subramaniam. Still I would like share few things about the movie which I found interesting.
I have always avoided watching the movie since I had already watched Bommarillu (Telgu version of the movie) three times. And I was pretty sure this is not going to be anyway different except the language and the artists. To my happiness the movie had been a literal remake of Bommarillu. You might wonder why I am happy. I can never tolerate a movie remade in a horrible way. Some things are good as they are, especially when it touches your heart.
The movie directed by Raja, casting Jeyam Ravi , Jenalia, Prakash Raj, Sayaji Shinde and lot more is good treat for summer holidays. A beautiful love story, taken in a best way attracting people of all ages. Recently this is one movie in which parents can watch with their kids and teenagers can watch with their parents. Fun and joy is guaranteed. What else you require in a movie?
Enough of my campaign let me come back to the story. More than a love story it’s a movie that describes the relationship between a father and son, father and daughter. Both are in either pole. One relation forces you into everything with its love and care while the other gives you complete freedom with the same love and care. The movie goes on how these relations come to medium state.
Jeyam Ravi is forced by his father to do everything of his father’s choice with his illusion of trying to give him the best right from shoes to shirts, job to marriage. Jeyam ravi decides he will take up a career he likes and get married to a girl he loves. This were a difference occurs between the father and son.
Jenelia brought up by a father leads a free life doing whatever she likes in life. She is very open and frank whereas Jeyam ravi is two different personalities in and outside the house. He falls in love with her. Prakash Raj who is completely against this accepts jenelia to stay with them to prove his son this is not going to work out.
The confusion starts when jenelia lands up in the house. So how the story goes, how the tussle between father and son, father and daughter gets solved. How the love birds stick together is the climax of the story.
The montage songs in telgu you will find Siddarth wearing trendy t-hirts. In tamil they had followed the proper costumes according to the story. Everyone has done a good job. Jeyam Ravi has done justice to the role. Only thing you find missing is the siddarth cuteness and is pity face he showes in the movie. If you had not seen the telgu version, you would really love it.
Generally people think that remake movies may not prove a directors skill. A director is actually in a critical position. He should do justice to the movie. He should give the real feel of the movie to the audience without affecting the original one, if they had watched before. He should also show the difference in the movie. I like movies remade without affecting the original ones. Everyone doesn’t end up watching movies in all other languages. A good movie should definitely be reached to all audience. A good work and justice is done to the movie.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Lesson Learnt to be Forgotten !!!
After reading my friend Arun’s blog about the photographer Kevin Carter’s suicide note in the following link http://centurs.blogspot.com/ , I thought its time for me to think about ethics in Media। As a part of syllabus in M।Sc I did study ethics. All the reporters and journalist across the world would have studied the same. But are they used in real life? No. Those were just thought and learnt just to pass out the exam at the end of the semester. There are just written in books and in exam papers but never ever followed in lifetime.
Shall we just rewind our mind to think of the History of journalism in India? In India newspaper started revolution started in late 17th century। Even during that period the newspapers spoke truth। There are n number of people who lived in jail, who sacrificed their blood and life for journalism. Newspapers were a biggest medium during freedom fight, to raise their voice against the British. Media united people around the country to fight for a cause. They fought together to get the independence. They worked for the people. They were purely a medium to disseminate facts and information to common people.
Coming back to the current situation, are we doing justice for such a great profession? Everything is commercialized। All are running for money. Media has no way escaped from these clutches. Of course I do understand that people don’t work for free. But we can surely maintain basic human rights.
All the ethics learnt in college are rewritten by each and every media house for their own survival. Have you seen a movie called Page 3?? If not please do watch it when you find time. An excellent movie directed by Madhur Bhandakar. The movie depicts the factual sad state of our Indian media.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Yaaradi Nee Mohini
A family drama starring Dhanush, Nayanthara, Karthick, Karunas and many more. The director Jawahar has tried his best to entertain the audience but forgot a bit to concentrate on the logical part of the movie(second half). Dhanush has tried slapstick comedy in the movie in which you can typically feel his father in law’s touch, especially in the snake scene and while delivering few punch dialogues. As many of you might have known, the movie is a remake of Selvaraghavan’s telgu movie Aaduvari matalakku artharae megurae.
Talking about the 1st half the movie is neat and crisp. Dhanush an unemployed goes in search job and fails because of his poor qualifications. Karthick and Karunas are friends of Dhanush. Raguvaran, as done his best as a typical middle class father. Dhanush falls in love with Nayanthara and somehow manages to get a job in the software company she is working with .He is madly in love with her, but Nayan turns him off saying that she is already engaged and she is getting married next month. Seeing Dhanush’s disappointment father raguvaran talks to Nayan and gets snubbed by her and he dies of heart attack.
You would simply feel bad for missing such a great actor when funeral of raguvaran is made in the movie. You are moved in tears as the actor died recently in cardiac arrest.
Dhanush is totally off the track after his father’s death. Karthick, takes Dhanush to his marriage in his home town for a change. Nayan is the fiancé of Karthick.
Dhanush slowly becomes the part of the Karthick and Nayan’s traditional Brahmin family. Nayan realizes her love for Dhanush and proposes him the day before the marriage. The climax goes like whether Dhanush and the family accept her love.
A young girl playing the role of Nayan sister has done a great job in the movie. I am sorry I don’t know her name. You would simply love her and her character. She is very cute and acted so well. I don’t want to break the suspense as you would go mad seeing her on the screen.
Karthick comes in and out of the script as and when he likes. There is no proper flow in the character. In the scene in which he requests Dhanush to sing about his fiancé is absurd. He lierally says, sing abt my wife…. Look how beautiful she is…… You can hear people shouting at the theater. There is no logic in this scene. In the same song Nayan hugs Dhanush by mistake due to sudden thunder. Karthick and the so called traditional family remains silent and Kathick simply smiles at them hugging and walks away. In get totally bugged in few scenes like this….
First half of the movie is good but the directed failed to continue it in the second half too apart from few scenes. You can say what the next scene will be easily. Yaaradi nee mohini a pure mixture of DDLJ, Jab we met….
Talking about the 1st half the movie is neat and crisp. Dhanush an unemployed goes in search job and fails because of his poor qualifications. Karthick and Karunas are friends of Dhanush. Raguvaran, as done his best as a typical middle class father. Dhanush falls in love with Nayanthara and somehow manages to get a job in the software company she is working with .He is madly in love with her, but Nayan turns him off saying that she is already engaged and she is getting married next month. Seeing Dhanush’s disappointment father raguvaran talks to Nayan and gets snubbed by her and he dies of heart attack.
You would simply feel bad for missing such a great actor when funeral of raguvaran is made in the movie. You are moved in tears as the actor died recently in cardiac arrest.
Dhanush is totally off the track after his father’s death. Karthick, takes Dhanush to his marriage in his home town for a change. Nayan is the fiancé of Karthick.
Dhanush slowly becomes the part of the Karthick and Nayan’s traditional Brahmin family. Nayan realizes her love for Dhanush and proposes him the day before the marriage. The climax goes like whether Dhanush and the family accept her love.
A young girl playing the role of Nayan sister has done a great job in the movie. I am sorry I don’t know her name. You would simply love her and her character. She is very cute and acted so well. I don’t want to break the suspense as you would go mad seeing her on the screen.
Karthick comes in and out of the script as and when he likes. There is no proper flow in the character. In the scene in which he requests Dhanush to sing about his fiancé is absurd. He lierally says, sing abt my wife…. Look how beautiful she is…… You can hear people shouting at the theater. There is no logic in this scene. In the same song Nayan hugs Dhanush by mistake due to sudden thunder. Karthick and the so called traditional family remains silent and Kathick simply smiles at them hugging and walks away. In get totally bugged in few scenes like this….
First half of the movie is good but the directed failed to continue it in the second half too apart from few scenes. You can say what the next scene will be easily. Yaaradi nee mohini a pure mixture of DDLJ, Jab we met….
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Anjathey
Anjathey is a story of two middle class families living in police quarters. Naren (Sathya) is an irresponsible guy who always ends up in unwanted fights and roams around after finishing his graduation. Kriba best friend of Sathya lives in the opposite house and aspires to become a SI. Since both of their parents are head constables, they wish their son becomes a SI. Sathya is illtreated by his father for not being responsible like Kriba. After these insultsand comparisons he appears for the SI selection and gets selected through strong recommendation. Kriba fails and gets angry on Sathya for the same. With all these frustration in mind Kriba slowly moves to illegal activities even without his own knowledge.Vijayalakshmi as Uthra plays the role of Kriba's sister and loves Sathya since her childhood. There is no romance between them. Sathya completes his training successfuly and fights to sustain in the real life scenario. He gets allergitic to blood and death and feels difficult to carry on amist the criminal world, with heartless people for whom death has become a part of life.Ooops I forgot to tell you about our villians. Pandiyarajan as logu and Prasanna as Daya leads their life kidnapping young girls, demanding their parents for money and raping them to stop them going to police.
Sathya involves in this case with ponvannan and identifies the kidnappers as Logu and daya. Meanwhile Kriba had already involved in the crime with them. How Sathya helps in resolving the case and saves his own friend is the climax of the movie.
I wish i could have typed the story still more short but i simply cant resist telling it. Hope I didnt reveal the suspense of the movie. Naren as done his best. The scenes in which he is afraid of blood and his true feel for the victims are good. He is good. Prasanna as villian as done good, though he doesnt seems to be. I think they had kept the long hair to cover his face and trying their best to give the feel of the villian. I am very sorry to say u dont feel it. Apart from the looks I should say he as done justice to the role.
Camera, editing and direction is also neat. I felt the film was little lenghty, they could have tried to cut short it. The suspense, thrill and pace was maintained throughout the film except the climax. May be the director would have thought he should give the audience so much detail to give the feel of it.. you remember the movie Dog Day when you see the climax of the movie. Small minus is acceptable in any good movie. Anjathey is comes under my personal classification of good movie.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
An interesting article I came across in my mail..... Dollar Value Depreciation....
I just came across this interesting article in my mail...
I am just sharing this article through my blog so that it reaches many more people..
A different outlook for a so called critical situation... Which is actually a time to lift our heads up and to be proud as an Indian.... To regain our lost treasure.... My hearty wishes to whomsoever who wrote this article and sorry to upload it in my blog without copywrite.. I simply cant resist reading it..
How many of us know that in 1947 when India got independence 1 Rupee was 1.2 US dollars?What type of economic strength is preferable to India?
A) A strong Indian economy fueled by its cheap labor due to a weaker rupee against dollar, where the Indians end up working in shifts, late nights, whole nights and what not… only doing low profile jobs which foreign companies want to offload to India, so that they can concentrate on high end works and become even better. For instance in IT field, providing BPO services, support and maintenance work for products…
OR
B) A strong Indian economy fueled by its strong innovations and products, no matter whether the rupee is strong or weak against dollar.. where Indians work only in regular office hours of 9 to 6, developing cutting edge technologies and solutions, selling our world class products both inside and outside India. For instance in IT field, imagine operating systems, compilers, databases etc all coming out of India..
I do not deny the fact that the IT boom in India came to a large extent because of (A). Well and good, we have had the benefits of our cost being cheap in western markets due to a weak rupee against dollar.. We have had our share because of this advantage in the past 2 decades..
But at the same time doesn’t it make sense to move towards (B), instead of crying foul against rupee becoming stronger against dollar?
What a pity! Indian IT companies are feeling bad because rupee is becoming stronger against dollar! Reason, their profits will go down when the value of rupee is stronger, as every single dollar that comes into their account now means lesser rupee than earlier..(if for instance earlier they used to get 47 rupees for every dollar that comes in, but today its about 40!)
But isn’t this a matter of celebration? Our rupee is gaining importance internationally and is becoming stronger again ..
How many of us know that in 1947 when India got independence 1 Rupee was 1.2 US dollars?These Indian IT companies instead of relying on a weaker rupee for their profit should now look at coming out with innovative products and technical solutions. What have these companies done in the arena of core system products? Why don’t we have any operating systems, compilers, database systems, development platforms etc coming out of India? Why don’t we develop tools like photoshop or flash? We have talent, but they all are working in American companies on these products… Cannot our Indian IT companies setup at least small teams to develop such products?
Instead they are planning to make their employees work on saturdays too! So that their profits can increase due to extra hours the employees put in… As if India doesn’t have any other option other than cheap labor, workaholic labor!! Are there no brains in India who can setup companies developing products and make money just by printing out more serial numbers and burning their product DVDs?If Indian companies continue to depend on its weak currency, then how would Indian economy survive in a world where all currencies have equal value? Survival of the fittest… Only greater innovation can help us in that case…
We need to have knowledge and technological advantage if India wants to become a superpower, not low cost based cheap labor advantage! Let the Chinese do it…
I hope that rupee becomes more and stronger so that Indians are forced to use their brains and come up with innovative products and next generation technologies, than to provide low end services…We need to create a situation where other countries line up to buy our F-16s, to buy our operating systems, to buy our mobile phones and I-pods, to buy our Boeing, to buy our Mercedes…
A stronger rupee means we can easily afford foreign trips!
“A stronger rupee means Indians can buy things anywhere in the world on par with developed economies! We don’t have to spend crores of rupees then to buy a Boeing! We don’t have to pay tens of thousands of rupees for international air travels! A stronger rupee means greater international exposure! There won’t be a difference between buying a Maruti and buying a Mercedes! One can go on a trip to the Grand Canyon just like the way one goes to Ladakh or Nepal! How do you think Americans are able to tour all over the world? Because they earn more? No. But because their currency USD is stronger… And this is where a strong rupee will lead us to!
“I am not saying providing low end services are wrong… It gave us a very good start in the 90s. But that should definitely not be the bread and butter fueling our economic boom indefinitely in the future… For the simple reason that it can’t continue to do so any longer… other low cost destinations, cheaper than India are already coming up in the world…
Let us move ahead… become more innovative… the journey has just started… This is just the beginning of all the beginnings.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Pirivom Sandhippom
A family drama directed by Karu Palaniappan starring Cheran and Snega after Autograph. Director is coming back with this movie after Parthiban kanavu and sivapathigaram, which gained him name and fame. Vidyasagar melodies move your heart. Director has tried his best to bring you a good story.
Cheran is brought up in a joint family consisting nearly thirty members in and around karaikudi. The story is being built in a typical chettiar family (A caste in Tamil Nadu living in a place called karaikudi and its surrounding, famous for its delicious cuisine).
Snega, a girl of same community is brought up as a single girl in the family. Like any other traditional family, Snega is arranged to marry Cheran. Snega accepts to marry him impressed by his big family and loving relatives. They get married and move into the family. Cheran expects privacy at his big home, but his wife is much happy in satisfying the elders of the house. Frustrated by her attitude, cheran gets himself transferred to a hill station and moves there. Snega is forced to be alone. She gets disturbed by the loneliness and desperately wants to get back. To avoid the loneliness she starts behaving mischievous. How cheran finds the problem and gets back to the own family is the climax of the story.
Songs are done beautifully depicting a typical chettiar family. Last song before the climax could have been avoided. Lyrics of all songs are genuinely in tamil language and make you relish. Apart from that you don’t feel bored in songs. Director must have concentrated much more in the second half. Cheran’s role and his character is also not established clearly. Some logic reasons for heroine’s loneliness could have created greater depth among the audience. You don’t feel moved in any scene or you don’t feel sorry for the heroine in any part of the movie. Little more concentration could have got a lot more rewards for the director.
Bhaskar played the role of cheran’s uncle. His character was neatly portrayed which was very different and I enjoyed most. He is a bachelor in the movie; a follower of Kavignar Kannadhasan always talks about his songs and tamil literature. He tries to explain thiruppugazh to erattai pulavargal and ends up in vain.
Ultimately the movie has tried its best to be different among the commercial blockbusters but fails to achieve its goal since it’s not narrated in depth.
Cheran is brought up in a joint family consisting nearly thirty members in and around karaikudi. The story is being built in a typical chettiar family (A caste in Tamil Nadu living in a place called karaikudi and its surrounding, famous for its delicious cuisine).
Snega, a girl of same community is brought up as a single girl in the family. Like any other traditional family, Snega is arranged to marry Cheran. Snega accepts to marry him impressed by his big family and loving relatives. They get married and move into the family. Cheran expects privacy at his big home, but his wife is much happy in satisfying the elders of the house. Frustrated by her attitude, cheran gets himself transferred to a hill station and moves there. Snega is forced to be alone. She gets disturbed by the loneliness and desperately wants to get back. To avoid the loneliness she starts behaving mischievous. How cheran finds the problem and gets back to the own family is the climax of the story.
Songs are done beautifully depicting a typical chettiar family. Last song before the climax could have been avoided. Lyrics of all songs are genuinely in tamil language and make you relish. Apart from that you don’t feel bored in songs. Director must have concentrated much more in the second half. Cheran’s role and his character is also not established clearly. Some logic reasons for heroine’s loneliness could have created greater depth among the audience. You don’t feel moved in any scene or you don’t feel sorry for the heroine in any part of the movie. Little more concentration could have got a lot more rewards for the director.
Bhaskar played the role of cheran’s uncle. His character was neatly portrayed which was very different and I enjoyed most. He is a bachelor in the movie; a follower of Kavignar Kannadhasan always talks about his songs and tamil literature. He tries to explain thiruppugazh to erattai pulavargal and ends up in vain.
Ultimately the movie has tried its best to be different among the commercial blockbusters but fails to achieve its goal since it’s not narrated in depth.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Wake Up!
After shifting our office to Ambattur I reach my home around eight. I relax for sometime talking to my mom. Slowly my sister studying 12th standard will ask dinner and switch on the TV. Because of my sister we had not paid the renewal amount to our DTH. So only one tamil channel is available free for us. She starts watching some crap serial.
I usually don’t like watching serials and also people who watch them. But I decided to watch to study the patterns in which these serials are taken.
1. A very catchy title song tuned by a famous music director. The song is visualized beautifully and edited with lot of effects.
2. Next in all these serials the woman is protagonist.
3. All these women are put into problems by their family members. These women are meaning of patience. They undergo all sort of torture.
4. Then coming to men, they either cheat their wife or lover with illegal connections or they have two wives.
5. The antagonist finds all psycho ways to trouble our beloved heroine. I really wonder what kind of a character the script must have, to come out with such vulgar or violent thoughts.
6. Not only films have vulgarity and violence. Serials also have started giving these stuffs right in your living room without your knowledge.
7. All people watching these serials irrespective of the sex get offended on the antagonist and feel sorry for the protagonist.
So these are some of the basic stuffs you come across in serial. Then I went to my neighbor home to watch what’s coming across in other channels. The same formula is followed in these channels in different titles through different character names. The TV artist is all the same who gets repeated in every serial.
In one serial you may find a female as protagonist’s mother and in the other she will come as antagonist mother. No big difference in it.
People are commenting on movies, criticizing it in all possible ways but why are they not just opening their eyes and watch what’s happening in their own living room, right in front of them.
The most affected people of these serials are little children who are growing among us watching them. Children don’t know what is right and wrong. There are lots of chances for them to adapt these unwanted stuffs. If these vulgarity and violence are sowed in their hearts at very young age, they might end up facing a tough life. Wake up! Help your kids watch good programs and show them the right path.
I usually don’t like watching serials and also people who watch them. But I decided to watch to study the patterns in which these serials are taken.
1. A very catchy title song tuned by a famous music director. The song is visualized beautifully and edited with lot of effects.
2. Next in all these serials the woman is protagonist.
3. All these women are put into problems by their family members. These women are meaning of patience. They undergo all sort of torture.
4. Then coming to men, they either cheat their wife or lover with illegal connections or they have two wives.
5. The antagonist finds all psycho ways to trouble our beloved heroine. I really wonder what kind of a character the script must have, to come out with such vulgar or violent thoughts.
6. Not only films have vulgarity and violence. Serials also have started giving these stuffs right in your living room without your knowledge.
7. All people watching these serials irrespective of the sex get offended on the antagonist and feel sorry for the protagonist.
So these are some of the basic stuffs you come across in serial. Then I went to my neighbor home to watch what’s coming across in other channels. The same formula is followed in these channels in different titles through different character names. The TV artist is all the same who gets repeated in every serial.
In one serial you may find a female as protagonist’s mother and in the other she will come as antagonist mother. No big difference in it.
People are commenting on movies, criticizing it in all possible ways but why are they not just opening their eyes and watch what’s happening in their own living room, right in front of them.
The most affected people of these serials are little children who are growing among us watching them. Children don’t know what is right and wrong. There are lots of chances for them to adapt these unwanted stuffs. If these vulgarity and violence are sowed in their hearts at very young age, they might end up facing a tough life. Wake up! Help your kids watch good programs and show them the right path.
Friday, January 4, 2008
Where are we upto....
After a big New Year blast. I decided its time to update my blog. When I was wondering what to write Nithya suggested me to write about how Indian films are lagging behind when compared to world movies not only technically but also in story. Even I was wondering the same after attending the film festival last month. So I decided it’s a good topic to write down.
As I already told in my previous blog, the festival had movies from 42 different countries around the world. All these movies were representatives of each countries culture, heritage, lifestyle and what not. Coming to the standards of their movies, they have different stories to tell be it a kid trying to unite his divorced mom and dad or an elderly couple who is not financially strong to run the family after retirement. After the story comes treatment. They all had been very organized. Each and every shot and every frame convey some message and it’s so apt to the situation. A long shot or a close up or a mid shot is been kept for reason. You never find an unwanted scene or to be specific a unwanted shot. These movies are also shorter in duration, hardly one and half hour to two hours.
Indian movies you can see unwanted sequence, songs being attached just for the sake of having it and they leave the characters hanging in the middle. You can find the heroine of the movie coming on screen only for songs and so called romantic scenes. It’s typically the Hero who takes over the entire film fighting with a Villain.
World movies have equal importance to hero and heroine. No characters are introduced just for the sake of having them. Above all they don’t have any villain. The characters themselves are villains. Either they fight for a social cause or to protect themselves. Violence in Indian movies and action in world movies – It makes a very big difference.
We are lagging behind so much.. Still I can’t completely blame Indian directors or writers. They do come out with beautiful movies like Mozhi, Tarae zameen par etc.... I think its time to think of a big revolution and come out with many more movies. We have lot talents but not tapped in a right way. Hero’s should start accepting to work in different movies and we should really work in increasing the standard. I think its time we get Oscar.
As I already told in my previous blog, the festival had movies from 42 different countries around the world. All these movies were representatives of each countries culture, heritage, lifestyle and what not. Coming to the standards of their movies, they have different stories to tell be it a kid trying to unite his divorced mom and dad or an elderly couple who is not financially strong to run the family after retirement. After the story comes treatment. They all had been very organized. Each and every shot and every frame convey some message and it’s so apt to the situation. A long shot or a close up or a mid shot is been kept for reason. You never find an unwanted scene or to be specific a unwanted shot. These movies are also shorter in duration, hardly one and half hour to two hours.
Indian movies you can see unwanted sequence, songs being attached just for the sake of having it and they leave the characters hanging in the middle. You can find the heroine of the movie coming on screen only for songs and so called romantic scenes. It’s typically the Hero who takes over the entire film fighting with a Villain.
World movies have equal importance to hero and heroine. No characters are introduced just for the sake of having them. Above all they don’t have any villain. The characters themselves are villains. Either they fight for a social cause or to protect themselves. Violence in Indian movies and action in world movies – It makes a very big difference.
We are lagging behind so much.. Still I can’t completely blame Indian directors or writers. They do come out with beautiful movies like Mozhi, Tarae zameen par etc.... I think its time to think of a big revolution and come out with many more movies. We have lot talents but not tapped in a right way. Hero’s should start accepting to work in different movies and we should really work in increasing the standard. I think its time we get Oscar.
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