Wednesday, April 15, 2009

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.

Monday, April 13, 2009

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 :)