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 :)
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