Few Movie Reviews

It's been a long time since I wrote a line or two about the movies I saw ain't ?
So here it is
a. Aayirathil Oruvan (One in a thousand) [Tamil]
More adventure, wee-bit of romance, average thrill, little surprise, great camera, wonderful art direction, awesome background score, good songs, rusty karthi, stylish and sexy reema, sad andrea, perfect parthiban, super cool tamizh and little confused selvaraghavan (for story and screenplay). I guess I summarized it all. Apart from the loop holes in screenplay and the length of the film everything else was magnum opus. Andrea didnt have much to do and even her song was cut in the movie, sadly, but otherwise I wasnt bored and I was so much enthralled to hear the old tamizh language and wished that we still spoke the same. How different is it from the current tamizh language we speak , u ask ? Well it is like the difference between the Shakespearean english, where Thou, Thee etc prevailed, and the current form of english. Its that huge.

There has been very very mixed reviews for this movie. But I would definitely agree that Selva is the only person who failed in this movie , where everyone else emerged the winner. In all his previous movies, especially, Puthupettai, 7G etc, you can see the director behind the scenes very well and the treatment and the screenplay were so damn good that it must have put him on a different pedestal. Now when he tried something huge, he failed in only the editing and screenplay area. But atleast he tried and failed, rather not having tried at all. So kudos to you Selva. I liked your movie anyway.

CatchIT - for the effort and the cinematography,art direction and Reema.


b. 3 Idiots
Perfection personified Aamir, Adept Sharman and Madhavan, Short and sweet Kareena, Nice story and screenplay, funny and bone tickling dialogues (esp. the balatkar one...) , simple camera. That is 3 Idiots. Leaving aside the controversy surrounding the movie on the Five Point Someone adaptation, the movie is a real pleasure to watch, with some very funny moments. Aamir is one guy who can look perfectly like a college goer even at his age now (must be around 35-40 isnt), when compared to his other counterparts. Sharman Joshi, Madhavan and (Who was the other person I forgot, who speaks the balatkar dialogue) are all perfect for their roles. It is a simple story with a cool screenplay and dialogues which makes it more interesting, with some little twist and turns (It doesnt take one much long anyway to find out who is the scientist is..)

CatchIT - a cool breezy movie

I did see Sherlock Holmes, but it didnt impress me much. Even though the chemistry between Robert Downing Jr and Jude Law was very cute, somehow it failed to impress me. May be I still have the other Sherlock Holmes in my mind, with that hat of his. Well I am not going to write about it anyways, coz I didnt feel much about it to CatchIT or TrashIT.

So thats for now :)
Ciao

Aayirathil Oruvan

Hola. Encantado !! (Hello, nice to meet you). Finally, the weather has started changing here in Bangalore. Regular rains, cold days, aching feet :), wish to have something very hot and spicy, wow, Winter days are on their way.

I was listening to the songs of Aayirathil Oruvan (literal translation: One in a thousand) tamil movie. When I heard these songs initially, I didnt much like it, coz it was not in my league. Or that is what I thought. But slowly the songs are growing on me :D

Currently I like Maalai neram mazhai thoovum kaalam (just like the weather now. It is drizzling outside my balcony as I write this.) And it sort of speaks my current life situation also. So somehow I got hooked to this song. Then later the song sung by Dhanush, Un mela aasadhaan also seemed to attract me. There is one song in that movie, I guess it was written by Kavignar Vairamuthu depicting Chozha time frame, and it has typical tamizh grammar lines in it, which I found very intriguing. For e.g. eeru ketta edhir marai peyarecham. I am ashamed to tell that I know now nothing of the specify grammar names that are applicable to either english or tamizh. But the song is very interesting. Although, I guess there is a mix of telugu also in it.

All the whole, the songs confuse me a lot on what kind of movie it is going to be. Couldnt guess much. Except that from the news, I know that it happens in a forest and there are incidents representing the chozha period enacted by parthiban in that movie. Very interesting enough to make me watch the movie :)

No news on its release date though. Waiting....