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.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
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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