Tribute to Mr Dharumi

I know when I write this it is pretty late but still I wanted to write on one of the greatest film personalities of Tamil Cinema. The one and Only "Nagesh".
When I was a student/Kid we did not had "Kamadi Thirai" or Naguachuavai Neram" . Even a tape recorder was very rare in our houses but still every one will use to mimic Nagesh's "Dharumi","Chellapa " or " Madhu Vandhuirrukaen".. One of the rare kind of personalities who was liked by the people of TamilNadu from 1960's till he passed away.
Almost most of the famous personalities had a political background to influence them but this man was independent of politics (barring the differences he had in 70's with MGR) and has made an impact in the industry to a greater extent.
Hope his works would be recogonized by the Govt's and preserve them for the future generations to follow

New York Deserted

I was first frustrated to see my most favourite City Haunted and Empty. But thanks to the graphics /camera I could see all the important locations of NY in short time.

The movie started with the medicine cure for Virus and set some expectations that it is of a Science fiction and Medical Outbreak movie.

The story predimonently revolves around Will Smith and he has made sure that people don't get bored seeing at him. The story is based Richard Matheson's novel so not much to deviate from the base story.Cinematography is good and so are the dialogues. The scene where Smith spells out "Shrek" dialogues was nice to see and the effort to record every single action he does is really creative

The film carries a sick screen play and easily predictable story line. Though this is a Science Fiction where we cannot question on the logics the twists/turns in the story could have been better. The film seems to be of Horror category than thriller.

Will Smith has some good fan base in chennai and this movie should have some good viewership in chennai because majority of the viewer ship still loves action movies and movies of this genere. The climax many audience could not understand since most would have expected a action packed end to the story rather it ended as it was in the book with the fix for the virus found.

In short this movie can satisfy only those who wish to see this kinds of Genere's and for the rest it is a boring 100 mins

The Boss - Review

By this time most of the Tamil youths would have seen Sivaji and many websites would have given their review. So lets not discuss about the story now. We will see the positives and Negatives of this movie.

Full credits to shankar for making a movie specifically for Rajinikanth. The whole of the movie is nothing but Rajinikanth. We have not seen this Rajini Style in long time. In the previous hits Rajini either came in Young/Old roles(Padiyappa) or he was doing Urban/Rural hero based stories (Muthu/Arunachalam).

Art director Thotta Dharini has done a amazing job and Shankar has picturised the songs so beautifully. If Sivaji songs are alone sold as Music Videos it would generate good business. May be AVM can think of doing this

Though the story line is very thin and screen play not too effective ,it is Rajini who keeps the momentum going on and keeps the audience happy. Vivek has supported well.

Shankar in all his movies has taken some social cause and this time it is black money. We believe that AVM and the production team has paid to all the people who worked for Sivaji in White money. One thing to accept is all developed nations have a better way to track the business and money transactions and India has failed to do so far.

From the revenue point of view AVM has done a good job in releasing the film in maximum locations to make profits in the first few weeks. This movie may not run weeks like Chandramukhi but it should get the profits well ahead

Shankar has come down in his ideas for screen play .Anniyan itself reflected it and this further proves it. He has to seriously put his efforts here else he can be over run easily

Some times stories make a film successful,some times Music makes a film success full,but for Sivaji 'Rajini' has made the film successful. Hats of to Rajini for giving such a entertainer.

Sivaji - The boss

As all we know the entire southern film industry is eagerly awaiting for the release of SIVAJI-THE BOSS . Songs were released on April 2nd and already it is rocking every Car/PC/house. Some of the stills released were really pulsating and it shows how rich the movie is.

AR Rehaman as usual has given blasting tunes and few of them get into the mind first time itsel. Followin Rehaman's trend the rest would become hits once we start hearing them.

Super Star's introduction song and one melody with Thirupavai are really good

More than films depending on their strength ,the films getting released on Tamil New years day expect Sivaji to get released the same day aiming that people will come to their films in the event of not getting tickets to 'SIVAJI'.

Hope like Chandramukhi SIVAJI wil satisfy all audiences and keep the people involved in Film business happy

Guru - A rare expiriment

Guru - Nice Experience


We had a chance to view the film on a busy working day. ManiRathnam has given a good film all together. It is rare to get Biographies filmed as commercial movies in India and Mani has done this with courage and succeeded in it. I'm not sure how this movie will satisfy 'B' or 'C' center audiance but on Metros and in growing corporate life styile of cities in India this should be a success








Reliance Vs Shakthi


Even though the initial title claims that the move is not representing any individual or organisation for every one it is a known truth that it talks about the success of Reliance Industries.

Scenes
The initial scenes of struggles and success of GuruKanth Desai(Jr.Bachan) and the final court scene were taken very nicely taken.

Though the comparisons with Gandhi and justifying the wrong deeds look un ethical the character seems to be interesting always longing to do some thing and succeed in life.

Nice to see a dram/biographt film in the midst of romance and action dominated indian movies.


ManiRathnam has proven his skills in filming about personalities with his first work beiing Iruvar on this category of films.
Over all it is a good movie to watch and before going just read about Reliance industries/its founders and related information on web ,else it will be little bit confusing and at times irritating.. Remember this is not a movie to get your self entertained instead it is about a person who struggled from his middle class background and rose to build one of the biggest enterprises in India.



Bharath