Kavalan & Easan

Got to watch Kavalan and Easan in the last 2 weekends. I was not sure if I am doing the right thing by watching a Vijay movie, but I got some feedback like "this movie is not a typical Vijay kind, so give it a shot". Thankfully for once the comment given by my brother was right. It was a very different movie for Vijay but there was nothing too special either except for the last half an hour which turned to be little different than expected! I had not watched the original Bodyguard movie and so it seemed ok to watch once.

As for Easan, it was again my brother who said "its a decent movie, u can watch". Everything was fine about the movie except for the fact that I feel Sasikumar can never show any thing in a light manner!! Any violent activity or murder he shows, he makes it so hard. May be he feels only that will leave an impact in audience mind. The first half showing how a business man and political man fight over each other was indeed enjoyable :) May be as my brother said I would also rate this movie as Watchable once.

Manmadhan Ambu

Nearly after 6 months, I got the time to watch a movie. My obvious choice was MA as it was Kamal's latest movie. Though I enjoyed close to 2 hrs of the movie, the last part was hopeless!! I have never been this disappointed specially when its a comedy storyline (ofcourse Mumbai Express was not impressive either). Still I don't have much regrets simply because watching the stunning ever handsome Kamal was enough as always :) Neela Vaanam song deserves all appreciation. It was really nice!! His pregnant wife being murdered or killed is a repeat but still its far better than portraying himself as a 30 year old romancing a college girl!! :) I wish his next movie makes his fans and audience all happy and enjoy the movie well.

Some latest tamil movies

Naanayam

Naanayam, with the subject being bank robbery, will make you develop interest. The scenes which explains the robbery plan and difficulty behind it is quite interesting but otherwise on the whole, it missed the thrill and feel expected of a movie involving robbery. Couple of twists were attempted but then dint have great impact. Only one song was really good, rest never made an impact. But a good try and can be watched once.


Ayirathil Oruvan,

An attempt worth appreciating though not successful. There were few mess here and there, but still when compared to all the movies these days, this movie was worth watching!

GOA

I really went expecting a lot of comedy and enjoyment. Trust me, suthama siripu varala!! Jai's English was highlight and fun. But it was really hard to sit till the end. I enjoyed Chn 28 and Saroja very much. Infact I watched those movies so many times and can still watch. But GOA, there is no chance to watch again!!

On the whole, I would rate Aayirathil Oruvan first, followed by Naanayam and Kutti with GOA coming last in my list.

Kutti

Polladavan was a good entertainer and with that in mind I went to watch Kutty. Also recollecting the fact that it’s the super hit Arya in Telegu which is remade in Tamil now. I did like the story line of loving someone without expecting anything in return, even to the extent of loving them when they give hatred in return!! But then I am really not sure what’s still missing in the movie. The comedy was boring and even the sequence between Dhanush and Shreya are not giving the feel needed except in the last 10 min of the movie. It would have been very much possible to make the Dhanush Shreya sequence more nice and induce his unconditional innocent love for her far better. Altogether not a great movie to enjoy!!

Eeram

I d'ont know how the response is for this movie in Chennai. Somehow I had the feel Shankar productions movies will be too sentimental and emotional that too in the negative way like how things turn in Kadhal and Kallori. Those are movies I would enjoy and watch but somehow I would not be able to enjoy it much in the big screen as at the end of the day it leaves a negative sad feel in me. This time I had been too bored of movies online sitting in US. After Ayan I had not seen a movie in theatre and I got the chance yesterday. With hopes I will not walk out with a heavy heart like Kadhal or Kallori I decided to watch this movie.

Just as I thought we were totally 7 people in the theatre. Its not because of the movie but thats how it is here in Minneapolis. More becasue we made it for the matinee show. Probably the evening shows will have more crowd.

Getting to the movie, I would assure everyone this movie is very different and has nothing similar to Kadhal or Kallori. But the story was not totally new either. The base is very much what we have all seen in so many tamil movies but still it makes you worth the watch.

After the first 30 min, he keeps to waiting as in what next? He makes you do some guesses and after one stage though you know everything, you still wait to know how he has taken it further and finished. May be the speed was missing a little here and there. As for the songs, we only had 3 of them and all of them just flow with the movie. No necessity for the crowd to go out for a break in the name of introduction song or item numbere here :) I have no idea who this hero Aadi is but he has given a very neat performance. At the same time I never expected anti hero in Nandha which was different and quite ok.

It was good work by the camera man from beginning to end. Also the way the flashback was shown in link with the current story made it more interesting. Always thrillers should be watched in the big screen in theatres to get the feel and enjoy the movie as it runs. After a long time I watched a tamil movie in theatre and thankfully I had picked the right movie. It was a crimer thriller but a good entertainer to me :)

Vijay Awards 2008

I watched the complete show though the clarity was poor in the online links.... I dint know what was in for me but just started watching as I was bored at home.... I would not regret the 5 hrs spent in it just for the fact of watching Kamal Hassan up and down the stage and gaining laurels to his name :)

The hype for Varanam Aayiram was too much and not to forget the scene of Surya taking the award got too sentimental... Irrespective of that, he deserved the award for when I think of his looks in the movie, he looked perfect to be a boy of age 17 , or 22 or 25 or even the dad character guy. Just for the effort involved in making sure he suites the age perfect :)

A few were argumental like Bhagyaraj son Shanthanu getting the fresh face when we had amazing performance from the Anjathae guy.... Somehow Saroja deserved to have something for bringing good comedy with thrill but sad that it went home empty handed.

Subramaniyapuram and Anjathae happened to get some good deserving awards and gave a good competition to Varanam Aayiram. But at the end, Best Director to Gautham was somehow not convincing to me while KS Ravikumar really deserved it.

The show was an entertainer to me as I dint find any interesting Tamil movies in the 2 months. They dint bug us much with entertaining dances. The number were pretty less.

I am eagerly waiting for "Unnaipol Oruvan" . All the best Kamal Hassan!!!

Ayan

This is the first Tamil movie I got to watch in a theatre here. I don't think I have ever been in a theatre where just 30 viewers were seated to watch a Tamil movie :) It was such a comedy with very less people around. But at the same time I was finding it so wierd to hear so many people speak tamil in a theatre. Infact Brooklin is the only theatre screening movies from Tamil, Telegu and Hindi here.

As such I liked the movie, though it dint have anything special. I had never listened to the songs before. So i was not too impressed with them too. But one thing for sure is that after watching short movies without songs here, its really hard to accept 5 to 6 songs in a movie. But I also guess my mind will change once I come back home :)

Kamal's "Unnai Pol Oruvan"

I just got to see the short trailer today in utube and went on to read some articles on the movie "Unnai Pol Oruvan" remake of "A Wednesday" Why was that the movie named as "Thalaivan Irukkindran" renamed? Infact the name "Thalaivan Irukkindran" seems nice. I could never find anywhere the reason for the name change. Is it a sentimental feeling that changing movie name will give success or a way to get publicity? :(

But beyond all this, I wish to see yet another success from Kamal and waiting for the movie just as his other fans :) Infact as I watched the trailer today, I had a feeling " One person who reduces in age every yr - Kamal Hassan " :-)

Pattalam

This is the first movie for director Rohan Krishna but he is one person who is already popular for his big success in television for "Kanna Kaanum Kaalangal". That has been one serial which made me sit and watch the complete 30 min laughing and enjoying. A serial on school students, full of youth, entertaining and fun. They did have some serious stories as part of every students family. It was always fun to watch that serial. Guess I will write on the serial instead of the movie now :)

This movie Pattalam is almost photo copy of the serial. It may even be said for the KKK serial viewers, this might be boring.. Just the nakkal and teasing of school students have a small change, otherwise its the same as the serial except for the fact the serial story was for 300 days while this is a miniature for 2 hrs. Three of the serial team members have played good roles here too.

This will not have anything of the usual romance and fights. You need to go back to your 11th std and sit in the theatre and enjoy the 2 hrs laughing. Songs were not too good to remain in our hearts.

One sad thing I saw with the serial and the movie is that, for some reason the director brings a twist in the story to make sure one of the school boy/girl dies due to the silly immatured work or decisions taken by student at this adolocence age of 16 and 17. But in one way it shows that some decisions taken at the age of 17 are immatured and might cause fatel. It was an entertaining movie on a different story line and a movie to relax and watch.

Yaavarum Nalam

After a long time, I felt good and happy to watch a movie without fights/ love duets/mother sister sentiment and usual flow of story. Its a refreshing change to see movies like this admist crap regular masala movies.

Though I dint have the chance to watch this in theatre, I was able to get 50% effect on my television. There was nothing in the movie which scares you except that the sound effects try to give a scary tense feel. One thing which was good was the camera work. It was nice to see a movie where there is not any songs just for the sake of it :) The 2 songs went with the movie and dint irriate the viewers.

The story was nothing new anyways. Still refreshing and worth a watch as we get to see these kind of movies very rarely. Infact it was ultimate comedy in few scenes where he takes some people with him in the lift as it does not work when he goes alone :) But the first half was very slow and dragging. Some people might as well lose the interest to watch it due to the slowness.

I enjoyed the movie inspite of the few small drawbacks, Movies like "Evano Oruvan" and now "Yaavarum Nalam" are good scripts , some thing new for Maddy to work on. Wishing he finds movies with more interesting scripts like this and makes it more enjoyable for the fans :)

Padikathavan

I was so much interested to watch this movie as I expected good comedy in Dhanush Vivek combination. But I had to end up in total disappoinment after I watched it.

When u think of the Rajini movie, the name is perfect to his character. He remains uneducated as he is pushed to the state where he has to bring up his brother.

But here in this dhanush movie, he has all that he needs to get his education but he doesn't. Then how will this name be suitable for the movie?

The movie had nothing interesting but just the usual masala kind. What disappoints everyone is Vivek comedy in this movie. Vivek is not in scene till interval. Thats the first disappointment but when you see what he delivers in the second half, I was happy he was not in scene in the first half. Its complete disappointment to his fans. The comedy was never upto his mark.

With a mild script and nothing special, its not always possible to have success. Polladhavan and Yaaradi Nee Mohini worked out for Dhanush as it had many more positives like comedy , songs etc. But this movie lacked both and to add on a normal nothing interesting story.

Just hoping if we can get better quality movies in future from him.

Villu

I had been wondering since weekend, if I have ever seen a movie worse than Villu all these years. Its almost 2 days and I dont have an answer yet. I have been thinking in many ways. First and foremost what had been the worse movie I had seen before Villu... Yes it was Alwar (though i am die hard Ajith fan, I cant deny this movie was pathetic). But today I can proudly say Its Villu and I dont think I will ever find any movie in future worse than this!!

Now I can assure everyone that Thirupaachi, sivakasi, madurai, bhagavathi everything was far better and watchable as atleast the comedy in those movies were enjoyable. Here in the name of comedy Vadivelu, Vijay and Nayanthara have literally killed the audience.

Looking back at other movies of Prabudeva, Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana and pokiri were amazing in Telegu and they were pretty much decent in Tamil too. I wonder how he could ever do a movie like Villu?

The intro song goes as "Rama rama rama rama raman kitta villu kaetaen ..bheema bheema bheema bheema bheeman kitta ghadaiya kaethaen... " Audience prefer to say "director kitta first kadaya keelutaya?? "

Vaaranam Aayiram!!

Gautham has tried a lot of things.. But I wonder if its a real success. One thing I felt is "This movie is not any entertainer, but yes as they say, it makes you think of dad son feel when u move out of the place". The songs are amazing, and well i would even say its hard to pick one best as every song is special in one way or the other. The proposal and love scenes between Surya and Sameera are extremly enjoyable and it even makes you think "wow how lucky that girl is". Simran as usual does perfect justice to her role. Surya - my god i was staring at the screen not able to believe how they could show him so young as an engineering student :) amazing

I have one question here? What was the idea of bringing in so much english in the movie? May be I agree today's generation speak few sentences in English and few in Tamil but then when you make a movie like that, how do u intend to reach all crowd? Some of those dialogues are realistic like when ramya says "how dare, dont touch me" and when on phone surya speaks to his parents in english... I know even i speak that way at home :) but so much of english in a movie will make it hard to reach all levels of people..

To me it was a good time pass in the weekend when I am actually left with no other option to entertain myself. But I really dont see a chance for one more time...