Vinnai Thandi Varuvaya - Review

Have you ever fallen in love ?? Have you ever experienced the joy and pain given by love ?? Vinnai thandi varuvaya cherishes your old memories , makes you feel nostalgic, makes you happy for your successful love , makes you cry for your lost love. VTV captures all the emotions people go through when fallen in love. The script is simple , " Lovers, Different religions, Problems " . But the talent lies in filming it on screen for 2 hours without making the audience bored, and Gautam has succeeded in it.



Positives:

Simbhu : Finally Simbhu can also act. People will be surprised to see the new Silambarasan, adaki vasichufying with no finger moments & punch dialogues. He plays the role of Karthi, an engineer passout aspiring to be a film director. The moment he falls in love with Trisha , the way he handles her parents , reacts to trisha's anger,voice modulation and climax emotions, Simbhu has shown maturity in acting. No exaggeration. Irunthalum valakam pola cycle gap la adikadi kiss ah potturar.


Trisha : Trisha has never been such beautiful. Credits to Gautam again. She looks like an angel with such a haunting beauty. Trisha kaha mattum ethana thadava venalum pakkalam. Plays the role of Jessi & portrays the girl next door image. So cute , So simple & so homely. Perfect cast and she emotes well, especially when she expresses her confusions about love to Simbhu.


Manoj Paramahamsa : He has given a feel good experience throughout the movie. Be the clear waters and lake houses of kerala or the foreign locations , every frame looks fresh and crystal clear.

Simbhu's Friend : Though this character irritated me initially with his dialogue delivery, later with the course of the movie, he made his presence with his funny one liners making the audience laugh.


Gautam : Written and directed by Gautam. Needless to mention Gautam is good at penning love scenes which was evident in minnale and Varanam ayiram. VTV also has some notable love scenes. Simple characterization and effective dialogues like "Ivalo per irunthu nan yen Jessiya choose panninen ?? " fits in the apt places. Tried some twist in the end which most of the tamil audiences will not prefer as we are always used to happy ending.


AR Rahman: Well , When all the above mentioned positives tried their best to bring out the feel and emotion , it is this one man , the Mozart and his music , without which we wouldn't have felt any feeling. He scores right from frame one introducing Thrisha with the heavy bass guitar Aaromale prelude. Aaromale and Vinnai thandi varuvaya plays through out the movie. Hosanna and Omana penne were pictured beautifully. Aaromale finds the right spot and the guitar just touches you soul. Without Rahman , VTV is nothing.Bet me You can't resist humming the songs once you come out.


Negatives:

1. Most of the scenes have traditional Gautam's touch. The woo scenes are reminds of Varanam ayiram. You may find it boring at many places. The song sequences also have traces of his previous flicks.

2. As a general rule of Gautam's movie, people talk a lot of englipis.

3. Second half is little lengthy occupied with the remaining songs. Moving to a foreign location often slows down the pace of the movie. The fight scene is something which is unwanted.

4. Story wise there is nothing new to offer. For those who are interested in story and something new this movie will let you down for sure.

Final Verdict: Go for it. Sure you wont be dissapointed coz ARR & Thrisha worth watching. A feel good movie.

P.s: Getting crazy over Thrisha. Athan konjam over ah photos upload panniten.

Technorati Tags : Vinnai thandi varuvaya ,VTV, Simbhu , Trisha ,Gautam Menon , AR Rahman , Hosanna

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Prem.

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Tamil Padam Review

When I commented Ayirathil Oruvan didn't meet my expectations, my friends said its because of the mixed reviews that I read before watching the movie. So I decided not to read any reviews on Tamil padam, next much expected release. That was the biggest mistake.


Tamil Padam is just a high budget high school skit, with bits and pieces of movie spoofs that doesn't stick together to meet the expectations that the trailer has created. The director has picked the scenes that he wanted to spoof and some how tried to bake a story out of it. So the movie hangs out at some places with irrelevant scenes and story telling. More than 60 percent of the spoofs were a plain mokkai and irrelevant especially those of nattamai scenes , cinema patti , raping a boy, climax fight and a lot more. Except for few one-liners & spoofs none of the scenes were rib tickling.

The only best thing that we did was not opting for multiplexes. Also my sincere apologies to Guru, who came to the movie just because of me and was in ultimate kolaveri after watching this.

Plus :

1. Mirchi Siva: Dialogue delivery and modulation being his added advantage, occupies the entire frame. Even though few scenes are bloody mokkai , his body language saves some laughter.

2. Kannan : Only music reduces the irritation the movie. All songs match perfectly to the mood and especially ' Oh Magazeiya ' was a super melody yet wasted .

Minus :

1. Nakul, Siddharth, Bharath: Are these characters added up just because they add some more hype & expectation to the movie. The trio doesn't have anything to deliver but to cracks jokes which makes the audience irritated.

2. Dhisha : Adding up to the irritation factor is the heroine. Her on screen presence sucks. Yet another north Indian product who doesn't know to act , never tried to act btw. Looks like director should have given a bubble gum and adjusted in the rerecording. Instead of stomach ache all we got was a head ache.

Final Verdict - Wasted 3 hrs + 60 Rs + 1 hr for writing this post [ When I started writing this my roommate said padathuku time waste panninathe perusu ithula ithuku vera time waste pannanuma, so adding that as well]. The trailer is far more better than the movie.

I hope GOA doesn't disappoint me.

Cheers
Prem.

Technorati Tags : Tamil Padam Review ,Mirchi shiva, Tamil Padam Movie Review , Dhayanidhi Alagiri ,Mokkai

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YOGI - Review

Two lessons that I learnt after watching yogi

1. Never watch any movie with the same gang that watched THEE.
2. Even though lesson 1 happens, never sponsor for the tickets.

Yet another director turns into an actor. This time its Aamir who joins the list of S.J Surya , Cheran, Sundar.C. Yogi,one who does anything for the sake of money,ranging from robbery till murder. Escaping from police after a robbery, he finds a baby inside the stolen car. How the intervention of baby, changes the destiny slum rowdy is the one liner of the movie.

Aamir, someone who took tamil cinema to different heights, failed miserably as an actor. Aamir's acting was decent, he wears jeans and dances, walkes throughout the movie like Billa, excessive buildup using BGM like pokkiri Vijay, dialogue delivery like paruthiveeran karthi, Hulk mannerism.. Even the characterisation is not portrayed clearly as aamir dances & laughs with his gang only during the initial song sequence & remains silent for the rest of the frames. Madhumitha has done a splendid performance, but it's aamir who occupies 90 percent of the frames. Though the songs doesnt stay with the mind yuvan has made his presence in the BGM's. But again 'Engayo ketta Padal' . Lyricist Snehan was so amateurish.One thing that really sucks is the amount of reality and originality, directors like Aamir & Bala want to showcase in their movies. The baby only knows to which extent it has been tortured. Reality really bites. Wonder how these scenes escaped censor. Cinematography was excellent.

Not as THEE , this time we managed to watch the full movie.

YOGI - Big disappointment from Aamir.

P.S : Read that Aamir's yogi is a frame by frame copy of Tsoti , an Oscar award winning african movie. Also this movie is selected to be screened at the Dubai film festival. Lets see wat Aamir has got to answer for this.

P.P.S : Planning to watch Dr.Vijay's Vettaikaran. Should clarify the doubt, is that Amazon falls or Niagara falls that he jumps in the trailers??

Cheers
Prem.

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Sarvam - Review

1. First day, first show, Just 50 rupees.

2. No signs of SUN PICTURES to purchase this movie.

3. Plenty of tickets available at 2'0 clock . Even no reservations are done.

4. Not more than 30 members in the theater among which 15 were us.

Ivalo irunthum nanga sarvam ponathuku ore reason - THRISHA. But again Poster la mattum pottu yemathitanunga. Vishnuvardhan should understand that only trailers & good cast will not be a crowd puller. Sarvam being named a romantic thriller, offers no romance with Arya trying to woo & impress Thrisha with his stupid moves & you cant call it a thriller when the plot can be judged within a few frames (if you ve watched lot of old tamil movies even few frames is more than enough). Another thumb rule of tamil cinema, if you cant derive at a plot to describe how hero is attracted towards heroine, go for love at first sight. Latest addition to that is to remix any of the Raja sir's BGM in the background. Arya gets attracted towards thrisha, roams behind her, makes all his stupid moves to attract her & finally succeeds in his love. Sometimes I wonder whether trying these will work in reality. ? There goes another parallel story, villan's revenge against the one who killed his family in an accident.

These two lines along with unwanted song sequences with Arya's funny steps, makes the first half of the movie. Eventhough there are several ways to connect these two plots, bloody director kills Thrisha and transplants her heart to the kid. This happens during interval. From there onwards Arya's only job is to save the kid from the villan for the next one hour. Thrisha & Arya has no big scope in this movie. Arya has done his part well, but for someone from Bala's School this is not enough. Only thing enjoyable in the movie is Nirav Shah's cinematography. Anyways the 50 bucks is worth for watching Thrisha's tatoo.. :-)

P.S : For those who expect a sizzling hot kiss, Remember Expectation always hurts.

Final Verdict - There are lot of better ways to spend 3 hours.

Technorati Tags:Sarvam ,Tamil ,Thrisha ,Arya ,Vishnuvardhan

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COW-BOY returns !!!!

Can't think of a better example to explain how far technology has reached people. Enga ooru pattukaran, Karakatakaran ,Mattukaran intha varusai la adutha avathar of Ramarajan is computerkaran. At the current market level where every hero is showing getup change, ramrajan has bought a new look by eliminating his trademark potta potti & blue towel....Few possible story lines

1. village background la maadu meichutu irukura ramarajan, senbagam(maadu perunga) oda
products ah globalisation pannarathukaha e-bay la account create panni epdi google oda compete panrar nu irukkalam.

2. Mattukaran turned into IT minister to deal with the Recession & downfall of Indian economy.

Whatever happens ,this movie for sure is gonna be a box office comedy of the year. will ramarajan be able to introduce his sentimental cow in this techno filled movie??. Wait till the movie release..

Cheers,
Prem

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Thee - No smoke, No fire.

Before watching this movie I had plans to write a review for this. But I had a feel of guilt & wanted not even a single word named 'Thee' should be ever mentioned in my blog. Things have changed, after I watched Sun TV top 10 movies today where Thee was given first place & being praised for its technicality & social awareness..Sun pictures has tried everything to promote this movie. Hope after reading this post, I can save at least a few from watching this movie.

This movie has several firsts in my life. First time I felt I've wasted 3 hours in my life. First time I tried to leave the theater before interval & forced to stay & managed to escape by climax. Bala , Manirathnam ellam tamil cinema va vera stage ku kondu poga try pannitu iruntha, intha mathiri aalunga lam enga irunthu than varangalo theriyala.. Itha produce panni promote panna SUN pictures vera..

Speaking about the story, which I am still trying to figure out, Sundar.C plays the role of strict police officer who appears everywhere when something bad happens.With large amount of girl fans following, Sundar.C appears nude in his intro scene. He gives plenty of advices to the public & tries to change the society. As expected he gets punished for his honesty & gets his family dead. As usual hero does a get up change & enters into the villans place & punishes them. Epdi MGR meesai vacha oru getup meesai illama oru getup, apdinu character difference kamikara mathiri, Sundar.C also tried showing some difference by cutting his hair for the politician role. Eppo than intha trend ah matha porangalo. Instead of taking revenge, Sundar.C keeps on shouting mokkai dialogues which leaves the audience irritating. This movie has nothing except headache to offer to the viewers. Sundar.C covers almost 70% of the dialogue & u can find him in almost every frame. Camera man has tried his best to cover uncovered parts of Namitha by all angles, who plays an additional role of a actress controlling politicians accompanied by her usual stuffs ( Swim suit, Item number, Doing Jilpansss ki kilpansss with hero). One thing for sure intha mathiri producer,director irukara varaikum Namitha market koraiyave koraiyathuu.

After interval, vera padathula okkantha mathiri oru feeling, as there is an entire set of new crew in the second half. Ithula en pakathula ukkanthanvan vera "Enna machan innum 'Kathal vaibogame' patta kanom nu??" oru kelvi. Enga nelamaiya nenachuu alugaratha sirikaratha nu theriyala.. Seems Namitha has maintained good chemistry, biology on screen with Sundar.C leaving the viewers confused as wat film they are watchin.

Srikanth Deva has done his part of irritating the audience . Better its time for him to stop making music. Sivaji would have shot him dead if he watched or heard the remix of his song 'ka - ka ' followed by the lyric 'valliyama valliyama' sung by Great DEVA. Atleast Gaptun, J.K Rithish,Sam Anderson or vijay would have guarenteed some laughter but this movie is a real sucker.

Final Verdict - Intha padatha parkarathu pathil thee kulichuralam. Watch it at your own risk.

மொத்தத்தில் தீ - பார்பவர்கள் வயிற்றில்

Cheers,
Prem

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நான் கடவுள் -My Views

Disappointed. This is what I felt after watching Nan kadavul. Despite the huge build up for this movie - bala direction , 3 years of work, Arya sacrificing more than a year in his career for this movie, it didn impress much.

Few parts which I loved about the movie

BALA - Credits to him for always trying to do something different, rather than sticking to the default principles of tamil masala. Every frame we can see his perfectionism speaking. He is the real hero of nan kadavul. Really liked his guts for portraying the reality of mafia begging. Yet another national award will be in his bag.

Physically challenged people - Doesnt seem like these people are in front of the camera for the first time. Real professionalism in acting. People (So called hero's) like J.K Rithish, Santhanu & few others of kollywood ivangala parthavathu nadika kathukita seri. The timing comedy made by these characters are a real plus for this movie.The comedian who accompanies vadivelu, will be now recognised for his splendid performance as a character artist.

Visuals- Technical values were given much importance. Being the visuals of kasi or the rusty environment of the temple, the cinematographers have done well.

Villan - Raghuvaran ku aduthapadiya nan parthu bayanthathu intha villan than. Good choice for the role.

Why the movie doesnt impress much .

Arya - He had nothing much to do.His portion comprises of Growing long hair & beard, Staring the camera, Thalakila nikkarathu & shouting aham brahmasmi, fight sequence.Ithellam vachu arya nalla nadichar nu sollida mudiyathu. Traces of Pithamagan can be seen at few places of the movie. Could not pictuarise thala performing as Rudra especially in topdown posture...

Story - As usual pala idathula logic puriyala. Better Bala should have taken seperate documentary portraying the life of Agories & the life of begger, mafia. He ended up messing both leaving the audience confused. If u can bare Vijay oops Dr.Vijay jumping from Guindy to Thambaram, Gaptun doing major surgery using mobile light, appo ithu ellam oru periya matter eh kidayathu.

With promo's & trailers making huge expectation among the audience, the momentum goes off once the pichaipathiram starts. Nan kadavul is not a entertainer.

Final verdict - Watch it.. Atleast for Bala..

Cheers
Prem.

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