Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Kalyana Samayal Saadham Movie



Kalyana Samayal Saadham is funny, thought provocative and well executed. It clearly shows the modern day attitude towards marriage and its rituals behind. Many sensitive things were conveyed subtly, which could be eye-opener to many. Prasanna, well known for soft roles, played the character at ease and performed brilliantly. All other leading characters did very well esp Delhi Ganesh as modern Brahmin father.Though few melodies were inspired, Music complemented the movie very well. On the whole a good entertainer and kudos to the entire team. 

Verdict - A perfect South Indian meal!

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Irandam Ulagam Tamil Movie Review:


Every time any Selvaraghavan’s movie creates eagerness in me and this one created even more because of the subject that he handled, a second or parallel world, which always fascinates me. A big thank you and hats off for attempting this experimental and visionary project, which very few Indian film makers would even dare to attempt. At the same time, feel sad for him that his experiments are always not welcomed well at box office.

Coming to the movie, audience not necessarily need to be entertained just by showing a different world.. For any good movie, you still need engaging screenplay, which I felt was missing. May be this could have been a better script when read but couldn’t quite connect well with the execution on screen. Lead role’s characterizations are so weak that it did not even linger in your mind for a while. Movie had only few good moments with lots of dull moments and it did not had enough love emoting scenes, which all could lead to the box office failure.

I think arya could not blend well with Selva’s school of acting, while Anushka did pretty well. My most favourite is father character (acting and voice) which made an impression even though he came for short duration.

I feel Anirudh messed up with his background score, I could hear lot of old Raaja sir melodies improvised and also could hear similar score from movie ‘3’, which diverted my attention. Harris’s songs, as usual nothing new to talk about.

Having said that, I still expect more experimental works from Selva and am sure, he can pull it off one day.

Verdict: Daring attempt but not engaging!!

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Arrambam Movie Review


How long directors are going to make movies with JUST Ajith's charisma and screen presence? Thala's mass and stylish screen presence as usual enjoyable and has done incredible job on that but is that enough forever?? DirectorVishnuvardhan had all great ingredients to make a great movie, with real life incidents (Like usage of substandard jackets-Hemant Karkare controversy and Nariman point shootout) but couldn't quite pull it off. Bad characterisation of Ajith, lagging second half with too many logical flaws made it just a watchable movie.

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Engeyum Kadhal Movie Review

Movie starts with Prabhu Deva narrating about the city of love - Paris and appears for the intro song, proceeding further to narrate about the lead pair and declares, how this couple fall in love (reminds me of SJ Surya in Kushi).

Jayam Ravi, a rich businessman comes to Paris for vacation and meets his love ( Hanshika). Hanshika falls in love with Jayam Ravi at first sight (for a change ;)) but later realises that he do not beleive in love and following commitment, how does she manage to make him realise her love is the rest of the story (Does it have one?). Raju Sundaram's comedy was irksome and do not sync with the movie.

Looks like Prakash Raj joined the sets for couple of scenes while he was vacationing at Paris. All other characters in the movie has no scope to perform including Suman.

Nirav Shah excels in capturing the romantic city and needs a special mention. Jayam Ravi performs with ease and did justice to the role. Hanshika looked fresh and bubbly with good expressions.

Harris Jayaraj's songs/BGM sounded usual. Overall Prabhu deva made a decent attempt to make an out and out romantic film with a weak story but some how fails to impress.


Verdict: Prabhu Deva's travail to make a bubbly romantic movie fails.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

'KO' Movie Review

KV Anand definetly at his best, struck the right chords again. Mindblowing song locations, picturisation and direction.

Film travels at relatively slower pace but still keeps you engaged with twist and turns. Jiiva's role is adorable (not sure, if it would have suited Simbu). I am really impressed with Ajmal's performance, be it his body language, acting esp in climax portion.

One role which was lingering in mind even after movie got over was Pia's, kudos. Karthika, welcome to tamil cinema, way to go, can have better expressions.

Richard excels for his Cinematography, sure KV Anand's expertise would have helped a lot. Harris Jeyaraj fares with his usual hit formula.

 
Verdict: Overall very good entertainer (inspite of the fact that script was inspired from Russel Crowe starrer 'State of Play')






Saturday, February 19, 2011

Radha Mohan's Payanam Movie Review



Guns, Bomb, Terrorists & hi-jack... some thing which we would not have seen in Radha Mohan's earlier movies. In fact a full fledged flight hi-jack movie is new to Tamil cinema.

Movie starts with introduction of all the passengers name & their background who are about to board the flight to Delhi. I would have appreciated if the names were displayed in Tamil too.

Radha Mohan still prefers to cast the same artists from his previous movies which could have been avoided to give a fresh look with few exception being Nagarjuna and Rishi.

Though the humour part was thoroughly enjoyable esp Chaams vs Babloo, it diluted the fear factor and gave a melo-dramatic feel.  

I just admired Nagarjuna, he was so apt for the role, be it his body language, physic, dialogue delivery, emotions, etc. Perfect choice and has done extremely well. Prakash Raj as bureaucrat did not had much scope to perform except few scenes. Thalaivasal Vijay as retired colonel has shown the perfect emotions. 

Back ground music by Praveen Mani  was ordinary. Special mention to the art director for flight interior sand airport sets.


Verdict: Melo - Dramatic Hi-jack

Sunday, December 26, 2010

ManMadhan Ambu Movie Review


Disclaimer: Dont expect a Avvai Shanmugi or Panchathanthiram or Thenali.

The quality of stuff that Kamal Hassan has delivered in MMA cannot match anyone's expectation. MMA didnt had any elements which will excite audience ..be it story, comedy, dialogues. After a tiresome project ( Dasavatharam), Kamal & KSR thought of doing a casual holiday subject. Yes watch out for locations.. loved it and it was well captured by Manush Nandan using Red One Digital Camera.

Kamal could not succeed in writing 'confusing dialogues' like Crazy Mohan & don't expect that in the movie.

None had much scope to perform barring Madhavan in few scenes. DSP's songs and RR was ok.

Watch out for Neela Vaanam song's picturization, I dont think any other Indian artist could have done that Lip sync in reverse slow motion ( in 48 frames) so easily. ( You can find that in "Nakida Nakida" line ,Kadal Sadugudu song from Alaipayuthey). But sad part is, concept was copied from Coldplay - The Scientist.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqWLpTKBFcU)

Verdict:  A Boring Holiday