tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29416197384674853492024-03-21T18:59:55.184+05:30Chirps of a Cinephile..Cinema. Blah Blah blah..!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2941619738467485349.post-18553482735775793302016-07-27T05:12:00.003+05:302016-07-27T16:06:40.777+05:30About Kabali and Societal themes in films<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Around seven years ago, I watched James Cameron’s <i>Avatar</i> with a bunch of school buddies and happily walked home, thinking about the CG grandeur and visual effects of the film. When I was discussing the film with my close friend, a visual communication student, he asked me.</div>
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<i>‘Did you get the concealed theme of the movie’? </i></div>
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<i>‘What? Do you mean the ritual practice scene, afterlife and the spirit transfer concepts that resonated with Hinduism and Tibetan beliefs?’. </i></div>
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My friend: <i>‘Well it's good that you noticed it but more than that it talks about….’</i></div>
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He went on and on for hours about the underlying themes on Avatar that he had noticed such as militarism, capitalism, conservatism, Imperialism, environmental preservation, the importance of one’s roots, cultural beliefs and lots. I was flabbergasted, to the say the least. It was absorbing to hear him and comprehend the themes he had explained me about. It was confounding to know how a CG-loaded, sci-fi film can speak volumes about appealing societal issues even though it catered the same platter to a fellow like me, a regular movie goer and my friend who is a critic, art student and more than all a socially conscious person than myself. I kept on thinking how I missed or failed to see these elements in the film. The more I thought about it, I understood, it’s not that I’ve failed to notice these themes in the movie but I neither had the fundamental understanding or concerns on some of the themes nor the communal awareness to consume them in the first place.</div>
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The more I started watching films coming across all borders, I learned how critical, important and global an art form such as a film is and how responsible and aware a filmmaker must be to put forward the same. Fast forward to 2012, <i>Titanic</i> was re-released in 3D format. I took the girlfriend to see it at a theater. What was supposed a to be a romantic movie date watching a classic movie with fun talks, holding hands and gulping sugar garbage turned out to be a dedicated 3-hour gyaan, focus session for me. I was utter silent during the whole runtime of the movie. I had seen Titanic for countless times in TV earlier but this time, I saw the movie in a different outlook altogether. Just around the corner of its romance and emotions tied the themes of the class divide, Marxism, inequality etc. Now, few more mainstream Hollywood movies have started carrying undercurrent themes concerning civil issues. The creators are even taking big beef from the fans on the portrayal of Black and Mexican characters in films and TV, gender stereotype in animation films, LGBT portrayal, Bechdel test, feminism, white actors playing non-white, Asian and European characters etc. </div>
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Though the number of films is less, Indian cinema is no exception in the forte of films on social issues. The recent Hansal Mehta's <i>Aligarh </i>on LGBT laws in India, Nagraj Manjule's <i>Fandry </i>about the life of a young Dalit boy and Chaitanya Tamhane’s <i>Court </i>on how screwed up and totalitarian a judicial case can get are the some of the best examples. In Tamil cinema, off late, we can notice some of the mainstream films that had stirred a debate or a conversation on critical communal topics. Siddharth’s <i>Enakkul Oruvan</i>, the mercilessly butchered remake of the famous Kannada film <i><a href="http://kanna89.blogspot.ie/2013/10/confessions-of-lucia-addict.html">Lucia</a></i>, was criticized for the actor’s portrayal of an uneducated theater usher with a black/ mud makeup. Vetrimaaran’s <i>Visaaranai</i> voiced about police brutality and human rights violation, Karthik Subbaraj’s <i>Iraivi</i>, well, not totally about feminism but more about women’s stand in men’s world, Manikandan’s <i>Kakka Muttai</i> on the problems of globalization, alienation and the role of news media, Bramma's <i>Kuttram Kadithal</i> on the topics of school corporal punishment and the necessity of sex education for kids and Vijay Kumar's <i>Uriyadi </i>on caste-based politics. After a long period, Tamil film industry is churning out some of the best films in the mainstream, on collective issues. When was the last time a mainstream Tamil film had stirred a debate? Meaningful or not, impactful or not, worthwhile or not, an art starts a conversation, a healthy one rather. Its purpose has been achieved here and its creator’s core vision of the art has surfaced the daylight of the masses. And, that’s all it matters.</div>
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I didn’t like Pa Ranjith’s debut <i>Attakathi</i> in the first watch but I loved how the director handled a coming-of-age, rom-com story of a roadside romeo, set in semi-urban outskirts of the city. I loved his second work, <i>Madras</i>. <i>Madras</i> spoke the Dravidian politics on the Dalit on the basis of land. In a way, <i>Madras</i> voiced about Dalit's plight and the politics on a higher note than <i>Kabali</i>. <i>Kabali</i> speaks oppressed Tamil people’s issue in Malaysia on the basis of their skin color, dress, and other community-based dogma. A film starring superstar Rajinikanth is being debated for its political theme and social context. The man who shied away from acting in Shankar’s <i>Gentleman</i> and <i>Mudhalvan</i>, for its cast divide and political undertones, had finally dared to act his age and do a film that speaks about an oppressed community and the political concerns surrounding them. Yes, <i>Kabali</i> is bit of a weak film. It has its own flaws, pitfalls in the execution and it could’ve been definitely better but without a doubt, <i>Kabali</i> has arrived with a bang and Pa Ranjith’s deed is done.</div>
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The central theme of Oscar-winning film, <i>The Revenant,</i> directed by my most favorite director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s is a man’s quest for survival in the wilderness but it evokes lots of connotations on wildlife poaching, capitalism, colonization, magical realism, westerner’s injustice to the native folks of the land and some leitmotifs that one can notice in Iñárritu’s works such as death, loss, survival, human suffering etc. In the movie, there is a conversation between Hugh Glass (Leonardo Dicaprio) and his mixed-race son Hawk.</div>
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Hugh Glass: I told you to be invisible, son! </div>
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Hugh Glass: If you want to survive, keep your mouth shut! </div>
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Hugh Glass: They don't hear your voice! They just see the color of your face. You understand? You understand? </div>
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In his Oscar speech for winning the Best Direction for <i>The Revenant</i>, Iñárritu said <i>“So what a great opportunity to our generation to really liberate ourselves from all prejudice and, you know, this tribal thinking, and make sure for once and forever that the color of the skin become as irrelevant as the length of our hair.”</i></div>
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In every art form, symbolism, motifs, creator’s motives, nuanced themes can be noticed, reviewed, spoken about by critically analyzing and dissecting them into every granular bit. Films are no different. The need for assimilating an art is not a requirement to enjoy it but one can try assimilating it at least to hate less, No? I see so many vicious posts online thrashing Pa Ranjith and <i>Kabali</i>. Tear down a creator for his work of art but not for his personal moral, ideologies and political stand. </div>
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With <i>Kabali</i>, Pa Ranjith has donned a prestigious suit and suited himself in a majestic chair, amidst some of the important, socially responsible filmmakers from Tamilnadu. Let’s respect and welcome Pa Ranjith with open arms and that’s exactly the same thing he envisions to happen for the very people he speaks about in his films. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2941619738467485349.post-71358257081477423622016-06-04T01:02:00.001+05:302016-06-04T01:24:23.309+05:30'Award winning Tamil short film' - Based on multiple true stories₹<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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An idea for a short film struck <i>Saravana Subramani</i> after he walked out from a bar. No, after a night show at Sathyam theater. No, after a DVD watch of a foreign film by <i>Flickard Flinklater</i>. He is a bored techie with a broken love life and currently dealing with a quarter life crisis. He reads lots of film reviews online in Tamilpadamglitz.com and an active participant of Sajith vs. Sijay fan rants in twitter. Thanks to his roommate’s 500 GB Seagate HDD, he delved into the films of Darantino, Zcorsese, Hong Kar Woi and of course, Guy Mirchi. One fine day, he realized he can direct a film now.</div>
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He called his friend <i>Camerapal</i>, proud owner of the Facebook page <i>Santo Fotography</i> with 172 likes and 220 HD pictures that includes flowing tap water, metro train crossing Tambaram, the broken bridge near Puzhal, Royal Enfield headlight, Mahabalipuram rocks etc.. Camerapal owns an <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;">₹</span>22700 Canon autofocus DSLR, which already qualified him to be the cinematographer of this untitled short film project. They discussed this project over a beer and prepared to make an award winning, romantic, cult comedy, Tamil short film.</div>
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He called his childhood buddy, the charmer, <i>Arjun Arvind</i> who is still friends with him in WhatsApp & messenger. Arjun, a big fan of <i>Sheath Sledger</i> & <i>Sajith</i>, is highly passionate about acting and stardom. Right from his 8th standard annual day dance event, Arjun knew that he always wanted to be a star, a performer, a method actor and all at once. His rugged beard traits and the ability to do the chest press with 125 kg load showed his commitment and passion for his acting craft. Arjun instantly agreed to do the lead.</div>
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Subramani was always afraid to make the first move with his yesteryear, super hot, first year, college crush <i>Aishwarya Nandhini Iyer</i>. He took a bold move and dropped a text to Aishwarya and asked if she is interested in starring as the female lead in his award winning short film. Aishwarya was already busy with her GRE classes but spared some time to do the role, without her father’s knowledge, after our Camerapal made an offer for shooting her 27 profile pictures in a beach backdrop</div>
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Subramani’s friend from 'Sunday Rockerz' cricket team <i>Aaron Paul</i> is good in piano and had taken lessons in his Sacred Hearts school. He was appointed as the composer and his junior <i>Vimal Anand</i>, who had made a couple of Macromedia flash video presentation for college symposium has been appointed as the editor.</div>
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Subramani told about this short film project to his friends from work and convinced them to help him. They planned to do this short film with a shoestring budget of 3 lakh rupees. The colleagues chipped in a couple of thousand bucks each with a hope of getting cast in the film as extras.</div>
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Subramani had to sell his Royal Enfield and settle for a TVS Star. He also convinced his parents for burning his father's savings a little bit. Camerapal managed to rent an EOS 5D camera for a steal deal price of ₹12000 a day. They rented an ECR beach house for 7 days and shot the film mostly in the same spot and the street used in the tamil horror, slasher film <i>Thinnaiyathaandi Tharuvaaya</i>. They shot the film mostly on the weekend for 4 months. They edited it in 3 weeks, followed by a ten days dubbing session. They spent 4 days in a post production lab and finally cut a 27 min short film in a 41.7GB output size.</div>
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Thanks to the power cut and Internet speeds of Chennai, Subramani took a flight to Bangalore to upload the film on YouTube, from his uncle’s apartment at Whitefields. He shared the YouTube link of the film in an email, facebook, twitter, google talk, google maps, Quora, Pornhub, reddit and what not.</div>
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<i>‘Kaadhal Koffee'</i>, the fantasy love story short film directed by <i>Saravana Subramani</i>, milked <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;">₹</span>9.2 lakhs in total to be made. It broke the internet with 1012 views on YouTube, counting 301 likes, 278 dislikes and 42 shares. Praises flowed from everywhere with lot of polarized comments like ‘<i>Machan kalakkita... sir,</i> <i>super love story.. mams gethu pannita da you are the next Gotham Basudev Meghan.. boring film not worth the time.. timepass short film all the best do well.., the heroine is sexy plz share her phone number.. free Airtel recharge 4G click here.. camera angles good but stupid romance story... what is ur next film bro.. click here to download hot sunny leone pictures' </i>etc...</div>
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Subramani sent it to 25-30 short film festivals spending one more lakh. With a million INR mark, the Tamil short won the prestigious <i>‘Best romantic short film of the month’</i> award, finally, ending up as a real award winning short film, in an online poll event conducted by visual communication department of Zapollo arts college.</div>
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<i>A year later..</i></div>
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<i>Saravana Subramani</i> flew to Australia for a long term onsite project. He is currently engaged to his cousin.</div>
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<i>Camerapal</i> is still passionate about photography. He frequently shoots and uploads HD pics online. His recent project is ‘<i>My unforgettable honeymoon in Maldives</i> – 34 pictures’.</div>
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<i>Arjun Arvind</i> recently ran a 10k TZS Marathon. He dedicatedly shares diet related posts & movie quotes in WhatsApp. He still supports <i>Haam Haadmi </i>party <i>Hejiriwal.</i></div>
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<i>Aishwarya Nandhini Iyer</i> moved to Dallas for her master’s degree and often checks into Chipotle for a Vegan Burrito. Now a budding feminist, she enjoys <i>Gossip Girl</i> and a big fan <i>Game of Thrones</i>.</div>
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The colleagues & friends who helped to chip in money for the film are still paying back their ICICI, HDFC, and Canara Bank personal loans.</div>
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Reflecting on this process and talking about it over Skype, Subramani once told me, <i>‘Maybe, I should’ve written the idea as a script first’.</i></div>
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The frame opens. We witness Mahesh cleaning his slipper and soaping himself and jumping into the small water body. We as the audience dive into in the life of Mahesh, his life, daily routine, town, home, dad, photo studio, buddies etc. All of this is rendered in a sequence of montages with a beautiful opening song that sets comfortable as niche edited initial pages of the first draft in a pleasant novel which you luckily happen to chosen and flip on a warm Sunday evening. This is a surprise, fresh breeze of the wind for someone like me who come across so many mundane regional movies and every ‘<i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=award+winning+Tamil+short+film">award winning Tamil short film</a></i>' ever with an opening sequence nauseatingly voiced mostly by the director or one of his film buddies that go like …. '<i>Alarm clock sound while suprabatham plays in another side. </i>A fellow wakes up slowly and a disgusting voice-over begins… <i>Idhu dhaanga Mahesh. Namba Hero. Idhu avanga appa and amma.</i> Appa: <i>Ne urupadave maata da. Tharudhala.</i> Amma: <i>Appa solra interview ku po pa.</i> Voice over continues.. <i>Idhu avanga udhavadha close friends. Idhu Mahesh oda girl friend Priya.</i> Priya: <i>Ne eppayumey late dhaan da Mahesh.</i> A phone conversation montage followed by the voice over P<i>arunglen namba hero Mahesh phone la epdi kadala podran</i>. <i>Mahesh love enna aachu. Mahesh enna aana nu namba paaklama</i>.' Why don't you cut the audience throat already? We don't see any of this in <i>Maheshinte Prathikaram</i> or stumble upon an opening sequence with the hero sitting in a bike outside a tea shop mocking his dad and eyeing a girl in the opposite bus stand. Hence, this is indeed new to folks like me. You see where I'm going right. As Mahesh says to his customers in the studio, I adjusted my posture, chin up, shoulder down, eyes open and ready to be genuinely clicked and moved by the art itself over the next few hours. </div>
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After this brief sneak peak into Mahesh's life, we immediately go back to the current time. As a routine, he prepares a drink for him and his father in the night and finds his dad missing. We meet his 2-3 close buddies who help him out in this situation and take him to the police station to file a complaint about the missing father. From his buddies, he learns how odd his father's behavior changed off late. Something that Mahesh hasn't noticed being in the same house with his dad. Just like the fact we realize about our own family/ close one's change in character or behavior from someone else, though we live under the same roof. Disappointed Mahesh comes back home with his friends and finds his father in his own garden taking pictures in the night with a camera. </div>
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After the briefing of Mahesh's life in a song, we see this ‘Daddy is missing' sequence as a guest moved into Mahesh's home and we feel that we were indeed with Mahesh right at this home where all this happened that night. We moved little close to Mahesh now. </div>
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A character named Crispin comes in as a Photoshop assistant for a flex printing shop next to Mahesh's photo studio. Crispin was more like a meta reference to us, the audience. We move even further closer to Mahesh's life and his studio and this is a sign that we are going to meet Mahesh often and get to know him better along with his life circumstances, as the film progresses. </div>
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We then hear about a death of a farmer who Mahesh and his adjacent shop owner were just talking about over their lunch. Mahesh figures out that he is going to meet his childhood crush/ girlfriend at the death ceremony. We get to know more about Mahesh's interest on her, their long distance relationship and the cute romance they share between them. This actually reminded me of the over dramatic <i>Emdan Magan</i> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_a6-1_Iz10">sequence</a> when Barath shouts in joy as if he is now free from his chastity and is all set ready to meet his girl after ages. Now we slowly start to realize how every character, event happenings, actions, and choices are well connected and how everything in the movie has a command and an impact in the film and Mahesh's life in general. </div>
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A scene opens on a comedy note, leading to a funny brawl between two folks and a middleman who finally takes the beating in the fight. This scene blows up in a grand way to a whole cause and effect scene leading to a big embarrassment for Mahesh and he ends up getting his arse kicked by a fellow named Jimson in front of everyone in the center of his town. He vows not to wear his slipper again until he beat the hell out his bully. Here, right here, I waited for the frame to freeze and fade to interview card but It didn't. Mahesh comes back home and a news awaits to get his heart kicked out cold now. He learns that his girlfriend has chosen someone else. He hears her breaking down in the phone and saying <i>‘I am a coward but this is good for both of us'</i>. Mahesh understands her rational choice and situation and realizes she moved on already quick and quiet. He doesn't frown upon days and days and ends up drunk in his father's lap. We don't see his father bathing him clean from his own vomit and advising him to move on like <i>Autograph</i> Cheran's father. Mahesh does not sing <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yjy7djTUDc">‘Ava enna enna thedi vandha anjala'</a></i> over few beer with his friends. Mahesh definitely goes through pain. Of course, a huge traumatic one after a heartbreak from his childhood crush, but he handles it smooth, gentle and matured. Perhaps, he was always emotionally prepared for this unfair reality and knew that his heart would be crushed someday, maybe. He decides and prepares to move on. He tries to mend his emotional self and on the pursuit of mending his physical self too, by kicking the bully Jimson's arse. He gears up for a brawl but it's too late that Jimson moved to a foreign country. We all left puzzled now and the frame with Mahesh's barefoot fades to Intermission card. </div>
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This whole sequence, the core of the film, reminded me of <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5xt0cKasDw">Ship of Theseus</a></i> fame Anand Gandhi's decade old short film <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVAokeqQuFM">Right Here, Right now</a></i> based on the whole paradigm synchronization of our life choices, the cause-effect of our moods and behavior, and the impact it has on others elements around us. More like a Chaos theory butterfly effect ideology. It would sound funny but I highly advise you to watch it, if not. It's totally magical, how it unfolds, just like life itself. </div>
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The first half alone is so alluring. A lot of events occurred organically in Mahesh's life and you are cliff hanged in the present situation without any reason or answer and you just stand there barefooted, physically and emotionally, with your spirit and existence shocked and staring a plain wall right in front of you. You can choose to end this and leave right here if you are a Nihilist. If you aren't, please continue. </div>
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The spiritual connection with different characters and factors continues. We get to know that Mahesh has now joined in a Kungfu class to train and beat his bully. He is still in his routine but without a slipper now, a loyal oath keeper. He meets Jimson's sister Jimsy. Jimsy is undoubtedly a special one in Mahesh's life. We realize this not after a complete character focus on her in the story but by the way she emerges in Mahesh's environment. They fall in love eventually. This is not a typical love at first sight, followed by a rain and <i>‘<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LOLg0Ir5hE">Engeyo paartha mayakkam'</a> </i>song sequence. It happened after a cause and effect sequence again but not after a casual meet and greet at Jimson's home. They don't even get to see each other at Jimson's home during Mahesh's visit. </div>
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Her question and remark on Mahesh's profession and his knowledge of the craft shakes his ego deeply. Why did he not just pass her comment as a casual claim on his stereotypic profession and shake it off but takes seriously? Of course, he would've encountered this scenario earlier. But why Jimsy's question is so personal to him.? A result of a cosmic connection he has with her, maybe. </div>
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He learns more about his profession and himself in the next few days. It doesn't happen like a sudden spark of an idea or a brain freeze. He naturally liberates his traditional perspective and gets a better understanding of his craft's potential and senses an artistic awakening. All of this unwraps beautifully in a soulful sequence where his dog, who was always chained in the first half of the film, breaks free and runs in front of him, turns and gives him a stare. We understand how important the dog is to Mahesh, even though we aren't spoon fed in any scene about Mahesh's affection for his dog by hugging him or playing Frisbee with him or practice a romantic proposal or poem in front of him like our actors from other regional films does. Remember, every character and object in the movie has a significance and purpose. </div>
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He then encounters a <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-bLpzyb7_Y">Mayakam Enna</a> </i>esque realization in the woods. He tries to create a similar magic with his craft on Jimsy and it works. He gets her picture published in the cover of a local magazine. He finds a small, sweet victory and a pat on the back. A little win that we all expect and necessarily want in the dire times of our lives. Jimsy understands his life situation from her friend and sorts out a big conviction between them over a phone and suggests to talk to her on the face if he is okay with her hard truth of being Jimson's sister. All of this quickly over a phone, you see, and not in a dramatic scene built up with tight close-ups and emotional bursts and vigilante promises in a rain backdrop. Mahesh ultimately chose love. The angst to avenge Jimsy's brother still lies within and in a dramatic fight he wins Jimson and wears his favorite slipper back. He goes to hospital meets Jimson and asks for his sister's hand and wins her. All of this happens and we feel nothing here as clichéd. Just like Mahesh we and walk away but we realize and understand that all of this is part of a grand design. Everything happens here for a reason solely based on an outcome of an event or a previous choice by another entity in one's ecosystem. </div>
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Every one of us is Mahesh in our town, own comfort zone, with our little happiness, joy, anger, limitations and worst fears. Even a slight disturbance in this ecology has an impact, creates a story and it changes us for the better or worse. We see the movie not just from Mahesh's axis but also from the other dimensions too. We laugh, feel sad, left puzzled and finally share a win along with Mahesh. For someone who is obsessed with catching up details in every frame of a movie and embrace every character in a film, <i>Maheshinte Prathikaaram</i> is a treat and a visual delight to watch. The blend of realism in a mainstream commercial film is nothing new to some exceptional Indian films especially the Malayalam ones. Even <i>Fahad </i><i class="">Fazil'</i>s earlier films like <i>North 24 Kaatham</i> and <i>Annayum Rasoolum</i> are a testimony for the same. We need more films like this in Tamil and a <i>Kaaka Muttai</i> and <i>Visaaranai </i>alone cannot satisfy our immense appetite for the art.</div>
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The frame opens with a few
historical facts and anecdotes in post independent India and Bombay in
particular. You see a kid (Johnny Balraj) and his mom just landed in the port
of Bombay and struggling to m̶a̶k̶e̶ ̶start a living and ready to take any odd jobs.
Johnny scales his way up by committing crimes, loves a girl, fights the city,
makes loads of enemies, loses everything and breaks totally bad in the end. For
cinephiles this wouldn’t be something new but a dejavu of Sergio Leone’s 4.5
hour epic <i>‘Once upon a time in America’</i> or AL Pacino’s <i>Scarface</i> or Brando’s <i>The
Godfather</i> or Scorsese’s <i>Casino </i>or <i>Goodfellas </i>or<i> Gangs of New York</i> or EVERY
FUCKIN GANGSTER MOVIE PLOT. <o:p></o:p></div>
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With so many plot elements taken
up, awaiting in the movie table for a well-balanced, perfect alchemy, they all
ended up getting aimlessly sprinkled in a broken furnace boiling at a lukewarm
temperature. There’s nothing more special, twisted, non-linear or highly
cerebral in Bombay Velvet. Everything in the plot is set plain, laid out straight
and happens so smooth and linear.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As a Kashyap’s fan, I would love
to see the madness in the characters, their untouched and unexplored villainous
gray matter, their <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8peqARfhT4">hilarious </a>black matter, the translucence in their <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC1BQQ9wjaE">shyness</a>, steamy awkwardness in their sexual <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JWdW1v6D6Y">arousal</a>, not punch dialogues, but day-to-day use powerful lines of the
characters that you can <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKVg-XxKqZ0">quote </a>and remember on top of your head. Do you remember
the countless, memorable scenes from Gangs of Wasseypur with Sardar Khan and
Faizal or the pain, remorse and redemption seeking part of Dev D or every
single character in Ugly or the investigation room <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3G47Tra1jY">sequences </a>from Black Friday…. Even
now, the stabs in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV2TwtTnB0E">Pehalwan killing scene</a>, and the Dubstep to which the
characters in <a href="https://youtu.be/ZGnqtxA0NNs?t=89"><i>UGLY</i> </a>move and groove, gives me a shiver. That Kashyap’s magic touch is totally missing
in this movie just like a totally lost, non-cohesive, non-impactful plot in the
film. Largely, it seemed like a wannabe film made by an amateur who was so obsessed
with making a period, rise and fall gangster film and brand/ affix his version
of ‘Bombay’ in it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I feel that Kashyap was too passionate
and obsessed with this film project that seeing its final outcome itself was
way too overwhelming for him and that had engrossed and overshadowed in
witnessing all the pits and shortcomings in the project. Like, how I got so
absorbed with the disappointment of this movie experience that I keep on
writing its flaws here rather a wee bit mention of the best performances and
the movie’s brilliance in its making process. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As I write this, I try to
remember how drenched my ears were to the sweetness of Hindi Jazz and the
glitz, glamour and glory of<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwMwMHFQZ9k"> Noir-esque</a>, 60s Newyork-esque Bombay, which has
been spectacularly recreated and captured in the frames that audaciously
trumpeted Kashyap’s passion and creativity in the making of Bombay Velvet, but
I standup lost at some point. The experience that I wanted to take away from Kashyap’s
film has been totally robbed, I feel, in spite of all this grandeur in the
film. Emotional chord hasn’t been stricken,
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Most of us largely loved
Kashyap’s earlier works, as a whole, and appreciated them by observing the
small nuances and moments that stole our hearts. In case of Bombay Velvet, one
should try to forget the pitfalls and shortcomings, which is way too hard, and somehow
cope up with it. Hey, after all, this young lad, Anurag Kashyap, had reached
Bombay years back, struggled to make a living, stood up against the traditional
movie business, broke or at least shook and questioned the monopoly and quality
of Bollywood films and blazed us all with so many brilliant movies like a powerhouse Tommy gun
on a leash. This boy had stridden against high tides so many times and this one
time he deeply bruised an ice rock but didn’t hit a rock bottom. Let’s give him
a hand, put this behind us and wait to see what else he has in store for us. I’m
sure he will be back with a bang, once again. After all, he is our Johnny who
loves to take a beating, every now and then, but doesn’t wait long to give back
one. <o:p></o:p></div>
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P.S. As a hardcore <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1cisq1Pnr4">Pudupettai</a> </i>fan, most of the time, I couldn’t stop myself thinking and comparing few <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdnshhKHmVk">scenes</a> and dialogues of <i>Bombay Velvet</i> with <i>Pudupettai</i>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7XuuedyJ9A">Kokki Kumaru</a> character and
Pudupettai will never fail to amaze and amuse me. <o:p></o:p></div>
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How’re you feeling now, my little
ghost? On 8<sup>th</sup> Nov 2014, you’d watched Interstellar, the latest baby
of Nolan brothers. It’s one of the memorable day in your life. You can very well
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‘Did you understand each and
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‘Do you give a righteous fuck and
have the IQ to dissect and explain the scientific accuracy in the film?’ No, you
idiot, you flunked in the high school physics test that involved escape
velocity and Kip Thorne’s theories, you remember. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Since its first <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WzHXI5HizQ">trailer</a> release,
you’ve waited a year for this day and went through random wiki pages and blogs on
time dilation, light years, wormhole, singularity, theory of relativity, five
dimensional space, black hole, quantum physics and even attempted reading
Stephen Hawking’s ‘<i>A Brief History of Time</i>’ etc... And ended up confused
like the time when you failed to understand Binary to Hexadecimal conversion in
7<sup>th</sup> grade computer class or when your 9<sup>th</sup> grade math teacher,
that arrogant bastard, explained cos^2 θ + sin^2 θ = 1. You felt that there is
no point in even trying to understand all these concepts in one read. So, you
went and watched/ re watched your favorite sci-fi and time travel films like films
like <i>2001: A Space Odyssey, Contact, Solaris, Gravity, Moon, Blade Runner, Sunshine,
Inception, 12 Monkeys, Time crimes, Back to the future, Dark City, Another
Earth</i> etc...You even watched that 3 hour long ‘<i>The Right stuff</i>’ that
Nolan had mentioned as one of his biggest inspiration for making this film. You
did all this for no reason but for the profound love of films, especially the
Nolan ones. Remember how you were
feeling so happy and proud while watching and grasping even the tiniest bit
from Nolan’s earlier films. <o:p></o:p></div>
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During the movie’s release, you have
thought about it quite often, even in your dreams. You heard it OST underwater,
during your melancholic long swims. You geared up for the weekend with a few
buddies, entered the theatre and found your favorite <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zIY6DQSlbY">S.P.O.T</a>. in the dark
screen, yes, that same old middle row middle seat of yours. You’d always felt a
movie experience so complete, while you sat there and watched a film without
hearing any lewd comments, mobile flashes and the never ending cries of small
babies. Those little rowdies, where do their parents get the faintest idea of
bringing them to theatres? Morons. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The frame opened, there was a
flash of light in your eyes. It prevailed and remained undisturbed for the
entire runtime, except when it’s clouded with the occasional tears. The earth
and dusty apocalypse scenes scared you. You felt that it’s not that far, while
the images of Beijing Air pollution scenes flashed in your mind. There were
even some scenes where people talk about their life and holocaust, like the
interviews from the 8 hour epic <i>Shoah</i>, which you were procrastinating to
watch it in a stretch, for ages, you lazy idiot. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The space scenes not just took your breath
away but left you dumbfounded. Like the Alfonso Cuaron fellow from ‘<i>Gravity</i>’, our Nolan didn’t just
showed the vast space from the top angle or aerial shots. Can I call it aerial
shot when it’s shot altogether in space? What about Supreme aerial or aura
shots? Something similar to the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EEIeH7ymwA">god-camera</a> that Terrence Mallick uses? You see,
Nolan could’ve very well blow you away by showing the vast space, all the time,
but he rather treated his IMAX and the regular camera like a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4V-SRWG4SM">GoPro </a>camera and
captured the haunting emptiness with tight, intense, close-up shots. When the
crew in film left earth and reaches space, looks at how lone the earth is and
starts hearing the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VFfClIQUg8">sounds of nature</a> in space, you related it to how everyone
wants to explore life outside their comfort zone, reach a point, feel lonely
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People are drawing comparisons
and conclusions to do their best at showing off their IQ and knowledge. They’re
stereotyping the father-daughter relationship from <i>Contact</i> and the limbo,
aging, locked up state from <i>Inception</i> and <i>2001: A Space Odyssey</i>. Even
they are drawing references from Nolan’s earlier films on how the Spacecraft looked
like a Batmobile, the spherical cooper station, like the ones from Inception
universe. Well, Nolan has prepared himself and his audience all these years for
this one film. <i>Inception</i>, <i>The Prestige, Memento</i> and other films
of his now looks like a decade long foreplay for Interstellar. He has even said
it in an interview on how close the film is to him. Most of them are giving
loads of reasons to hate the film and they fail to harbor the beauty of it. The
same approach to life and existence, no? We worry, suffer, complain and quarrel
loads and miserably fail to understand life, its reality and that it’s a gigantic
puzzle which we can never fit all of its parts cohesively at any given instance
of time. You seriously felt bad when someone debated about this movie by
consuming so little inside and try to learn/ know more to hate it better. Oh,
you poor humans. <o:p></o:p></div>
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You always tried and understood
art in your own personal way, my ghost. To you, the perception and conclusion
on an art or science or technology is an ever changing phenomenon, but the only
advantage of art is, today, one will enjoy it in one view, tomorrow an another
one altogether. You might love it or even hate it more in any given day, but
still, it will definitely stay closer to you in a more personal way than the ever
debated science, with its never ending accuracy or anomaly. Art can never be
quantified or equated. Oh dear, to you, science is always like this ‘hot
girlfriend’ material that always fights, quarrels and tries hard to fool itself
and advance its presence, but art, on the other hand, is like a ‘wife material’,
the last oasis resort to your soul and well-being.
This Nolan here has pushed his bounds and limits, did his best and converted
his ‘GF material to wife material’. It’s such a beautiful marriage, you see.
How could one not see this, but picture the 'art and science' marriage like Mal and Cobb’s
marriage from <i>Inception</i>? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Now you’ll go back and try reading
all the blogs and dissection posts that will be up online by geeks, nerds and
also assholes. Don’t worry, read it. Unlike many, you are not going to dislike
this movie ever in your life. You need to understand more and love it loads. Each and every time, you are going to cherish
watching it and think about how it moved you, shocked you, jolted your emotions,
left you with a heavy heart and made you cry in many moments, especially the final
20 minutes. Holy!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Do you still feel lost, after
finding and reading this? Don’t be. You’ve loads of moments engraved in your
mind that you can think and feel lively all over again. As a fellow <a href="https://twitter.com/NotSoSnob/status/531184390273908739">Twitterati</a> says ‘<i>If you didn't
enjoy Interstellar, the loss is entirely yours. We are lucky that way</i>’. We
truly are, my adorable ghost. I don’t know if there could be a next time, but until then, adios. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In these recent years, <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="56ac20f5-4e37-4fa9-a592-f8534152f73e" id="077b3d87-d661-4261-bfc9-0fe76cd12173"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="3732f0d4-b404-45e9-81fb-f8e223b37e12" id="c70743c6-8e08-446c-b8a8-b0ab1496e159">lot</span></span> of
genre breaking Tamil cinema has been released, right from <i><a href="http://kanna89.blogspot.ie/2013/05/soodhu-kavvum-my-thoughts.html">Soodhu Kaavum</a></i>
to the most recent <i>Jigarthanda</i>. Young filmmakers are on a roll and
<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1260eb13-cd51-4513-ac55-59e924de0ff0" id="3659fbb1-b7b6-418c-a00f-5729c5f1d205"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="48dc8576-d519-4c43-8728-f713bf861af8" id="dd307053-9010-44a7-9f71-5b9ba9b2b80d">mission</span></span> to change the system which has been polluted, populated, pissed, puked,
corrupted, drugged, seduced, BDSMd by assholes with money and cinema background.
Young filmmakers, and the awareness that they’d created, are a potential threat
to mainstream filmmakers and star actors who are making desperate attempts to
make a brainless, commercial, money making film.</div>
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I watched Anjaan in a European city
where very few Tamil films <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="21e3c331-5fda-4ca9-9acd-5758347d2af9" id="aeb88e15-ec97-4b00-8b3f-72bf3dad0888"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ea45229b-9270-4c2c-8ce5-c722b3586e46" id="384f2a36-b853-4e26-b849-3209f448cd21">gets</span></span> released. The last release was <i>Irandam
Ulagam</i>. The <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0930d752-4a3e-4555-b1ac-2745efcff01b" id="0e5e3719-5e91-4130-9041-757402cced6a"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0cebaed6-ef03-46c1-a92d-13219c954f3c" id="432da490-951b-4114-b2d7-6ae59b347815">tamil</span></span> distributor at my place become almost homeless after releasing
the movie it seems. After that disaster, he tried to release <i>Anjaan</i> <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2c04f538-46ca-4e09-9cb6-ff7daa9e12f7" id="aa393ac4-acb7-4567-8470-ecf37a0000a9"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c8871692-a5ac-4b3b-a592-2c4daa89ac8c" id="94e78e55-2188-493e-9b10-b84d0d37b2b4">but
poor</span></span> fellow, I guess, is homeless now.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9b70a565-014d-4079-bf27-96c97f4ed679" id="89f13b87-4905-4381-89d4-62ca1b15001b"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="cfba8f26-a177-4720-b0fa-2f94505d01b6" id="495531b4-7980-4aca-8962-1fa3082b2216">Anjaan</span></span> is a revelation in <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9b70a565-014d-4079-bf27-96c97f4ed679" id="64afa73d-62d3-413d-a52f-1d3e96b95950"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="cfba8f26-a177-4720-b0fa-2f94505d01b6" id="0eb7e9da-d61b-4aab-a3a1-849a04bf7f1f">tamil</span></span>
cinema. No, in Indian cinema. No, in world cinema. I guess the audience
didn't understood the story and plot line exactly. We don’t have an
innovative, knowledgeable <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="723ad407-d398-4728-af5b-c52c36772074" id="099a89f1-5f5a-4232-a445-4bb61920a0ca"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="8729331c-834e-4881-be33-775e7557c433" id="62073166-cf57-4d26-ab6c-736a2c1f2f24">tamil</span></span> crowd, you see. Let me break down the story for you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Raju <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ecc63fa9-62ea-496b-bdfa-a230d1c429a0" id="36002669-be72-4c8a-917f-37755da44484"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="dae5eb31-cb66-4962-b43e-0859d9cd65d2" id="bd603649-4066-4d68-8f56-cd04ca6273d7">bhai</span></span> and Chandru are a
passionate, homosexual <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ecc63fa9-62ea-496b-bdfa-a230d1c429a0" id="25d922b3-6a50-4839-b9cd-de990ad882f3"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="dae5eb31-cb66-4962-b43e-0859d9cd65d2" id="35860eab-5b53-49f8-9b76-a6f6a25d51ab">gangsta</span></span> couple. They’d fallen in love after moving to
Mumbai, even before turning as gangsters. They workout, go to male
salon, do whole body waxing, pedicure, manicure, <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="72b07065-4721-4381-bc25-3b2d90ee5a22" id="3e7bc3e7-19fe-44ee-a638-e57f1a8fd9d5">eye brow</span> threading, lip job,
nose job, <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="72b07065-4721-4381-bc25-3b2d90ee5a22" id="92efa07b-3539-4279-9fb4-52f5b1f69d3b"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="72b07065-4721-4381-bc25-3b2d90ee5a22" id="92efa07b-3539-4279-9fb4-52f5b1f69d3b"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="72b07065-4721-4381-bc25-3b2d90ee5a22" id="92efa07b-3539-4279-9fb4-52f5b1f69d3b"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="72b07065-4721-4381-bc25-3b2d90ee5a22" id="92efa07b-3539-4279-9fb4-52f5b1f69d3b"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="72b07065-4721-4381-bc25-3b2d90ee5a22" id="92efa07b-3539-4279-9fb4-52f5b1f69d3b"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="72b07065-4721-4381-bc25-3b2d90ee5a22" id="92efa07b-3539-4279-9fb4-52f5b1f69d3b"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="72b07065-4721-4381-bc25-3b2d90ee5a22" id="92efa07b-3539-4279-9fb4-52f5b1f69d3b"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="72b07065-4721-4381-bc25-3b2d90ee5a22" id="92efa07b-3539-4279-9fb4-52f5b1f69d3b"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="72b07065-4721-4381-bc25-3b2d90ee5a22" id="92efa07b-3539-4279-9fb4-52f5b1f69d3b"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7a8a52ae-dcf7-451f-bdc4-7f2c08fa634d" id="1b6bf45c-1fd9-450e-a8f9-eb03dafc4d2e"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="72b07065-4721-4381-bc25-3b2d90ee5a22" id="92efa07b-3539-4279-9fb4-52f5b1f69d3b">blo</span>…</span> and everything together. Raju <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a663bf03-155f-4a0d-8ce1-239c08ffb3f0" id="b3097c4f-989d-48d0-867d-11260de27cb1">bhai</span> is greatly feared by the
entire <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a663bf03-155f-4a0d-8ce1-239c08ffb3f0" id="0638a879-b51a-4dde-8ea0-20af0befc989">city but</span> loved passionately by Chandru. Raju <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7e27efcd-3acd-43ac-b6a1-c3b5c1c9ea80" id="1724f407-be94-4465-9b96-3138d2bd3c7a"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7e27efcd-3acd-43ac-b6a1-c3b5c1c9ea80" id="1724f407-be94-4465-9b96-3138d2bd3c7a"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7e27efcd-3acd-43ac-b6a1-c3b5c1c9ea80" id="1724f407-be94-4465-9b96-3138d2bd3c7a"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7e27efcd-3acd-43ac-b6a1-c3b5c1c9ea80" id="1724f407-be94-4465-9b96-3138d2bd3c7a"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7e27efcd-3acd-43ac-b6a1-c3b5c1c9ea80" id="1724f407-be94-4465-9b96-3138d2bd3c7a"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7e27efcd-3acd-43ac-b6a1-c3b5c1c9ea80" id="1724f407-be94-4465-9b96-3138d2bd3c7a"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7e27efcd-3acd-43ac-b6a1-c3b5c1c9ea80" id="1724f407-be94-4465-9b96-3138d2bd3c7a"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7e27efcd-3acd-43ac-b6a1-c3b5c1c9ea80" id="1724f407-be94-4465-9b96-3138d2bd3c7a"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7e27efcd-3acd-43ac-b6a1-c3b5c1c9ea80" id="1724f407-be94-4465-9b96-3138d2bd3c7a"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7e27efcd-3acd-43ac-b6a1-c3b5c1c9ea80" id="1724f407-be94-4465-9b96-3138d2bd3c7a"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7e27efcd-3acd-43ac-b6a1-c3b5c1c9ea80" id="1724f407-be94-4465-9b96-3138d2bd3c7a"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7e27efcd-3acd-43ac-b6a1-c3b5c1c9ea80" id="1724f407-be94-4465-9b96-3138d2bd3c7a"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7e27efcd-3acd-43ac-b6a1-c3b5c1c9ea80" id="1724f407-be94-4465-9b96-3138d2bd3c7a"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7e27efcd-3acd-43ac-b6a1-c3b5c1c9ea80" id="1724f407-be94-4465-9b96-3138d2bd3c7a"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7e27efcd-3acd-43ac-b6a1-c3b5c1c9ea80" id="1724f407-be94-4465-9b96-3138d2bd3c7a"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7e27efcd-3acd-43ac-b6a1-c3b5c1c9ea80" id="1724f407-be94-4465-9b96-3138d2bd3c7a"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7e27efcd-3acd-43ac-b6a1-c3b5c1c9ea80" id="1724f407-be94-4465-9b96-3138d2bd3c7a"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7e27efcd-3acd-43ac-b6a1-c3b5c1c9ea80" id="1724f407-be94-4465-9b96-3138d2bd3c7a"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="48c67222-fa3c-48a0-997a-f1ed46d8fa4c" id="9b5bd7dd-4826-4051-ada3-aa7ef5a61039"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7e27efcd-3acd-43ac-b6a1-c3b5c1c9ea80" id="1724f407-be94-4465-9b96-3138d2bd3c7a">bhai</span>,</span> Chandru and his
gangster aren’t like the typical Mumbai gangsters or India or Pandora or Mars
planet gangsters. They are cool, hi-fi dudes, successful modelling stars and
Gold gym platinum card members who drive <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="d0c79865-8a6d-4e7c-831e-4775060e8be4" id="a3458997-5158-467d-af1a-53098ba0160b"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="b1e4cb0b-a561-4b9c-adca-c0ca502e04bc" id="49255fc9-5da9-4784-ac6f-f2f48b216f05">Range Rover</span></span>, Mini cooper and use <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="d0c79865-8a6d-4e7c-831e-4775060e8be4" id="8098271c-21d0-4abb-8fea-a4cbcb7ae43f"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="b1e4cb0b-a561-4b9c-adca-c0ca502e04bc" id="f1b74ad8-23ac-478f-950c-dbe5d5fb06e9">Apple
Mac laptop</span></span>, iPhone, do roof top barbecue, use GRE vocabulary and all in their
regular conversation (clumsy crowd). <o:p></o:p></div>
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Raju <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4a351e96-7c3d-41cb-8d8e-217898a69338" id="047d9bf9-37ad-4187-aa55-5c9e5471c4e2"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f2875533-487c-418b-bacb-b6c1d5a3d2cf" id="f790f05f-1eef-448c-8830-1b4c811aa50f">bhai</span></span> come across Jeeva, the
heroine, who resists and avoids marriage as she is not sure about her own gender,
sexuality and existence. This 10<sup><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="caa586f3-38db-484e-8d40-f0158e83958d" id="76c90cda-682e-44f6-a9a3-bf2176d459da"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="722ad8f1-b706-426a-91b4-7c9ad96eecbd" id="022df567-6e63-4563-a96e-53b64c886b3e">th</span></span></sup> <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="33e9cc45-5bd7-47c1-ae96-df8a6d2d4e4d" id="908435b6-e9e8-42a6-a3e1-5c9d140e45ca"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="cffc305d-1eba-4794-a0e6-a9bdff230ccc" id="c081f541-60ab-44da-aead-ec8b657f0c5d">grade</span></span>, bikini, <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="33e9cc45-5bd7-47c1-ae96-df8a6d2d4e4d" id="ee36d044-9d37-411c-9f88-7a034f762283"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="cffc305d-1eba-4794-a0e6-a9bdff230ccc" id="d5df3ff4-ee54-4d2b-b9c8-8bd361006a29">barbie</span></span> girl from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAOmTMCtGkI">Mean girls </a>movie hits on our Raju <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="33e9cc45-5bd7-47c1-ae96-df8a6d2d4e4d" id="85f323f5-9f75-40f9-a11b-3f547eda38ec"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="cffc305d-1eba-4794-a0e6-a9bdff230ccc" id="29307484-7eed-4da5-990f-fd142c706fc0">bhai</span></span> without realizing that he is gay. Raju
<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7a0dca56-467d-47c6-98b2-fd02d3f5daa1" id="a0810f57-38ef-409d-b40f-f2aa235ed879"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6888fec4-2c28-4f0f-8ba8-aa0e13738f90" id="d9bfd0c8-2e20-49cc-9778-8f85db161eb5">bhai</span></span> gets confused <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7a0dca56-467d-47c6-98b2-fd02d3f5daa1" id="4ff7159a-b0b3-4bad-b947-d71571ed1957"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6888fec4-2c28-4f0f-8ba8-aa0e13738f90" id="18a6a898-4b1c-449e-b064-58c58c931892">of</span></span> his own sexual orientation, after the heroine’s encounter and
approach towards him. He plans to turn straight or bisexual or whatever. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The villain, the CEO gangster of
the city, dislikes the popularity and attention that these gay gangsters had got themselves. He despises them and uses a P word (<i>Panni</i> meaning pig, which is
even worse than <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="57549602-315d-4951-976e-a8ca2d125d8b" id="4b338683-d4dc-4c04-9ce1-071a49591c51"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="fce0e43d-ece1-4640-8356-84b948402482" id="a8931f92-aced-4740-9f30-07471ecf99e8">N word</span></span> <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="57549602-315d-4951-976e-a8ca2d125d8b" id="3c51eea5-5d87-4e9c-b07d-29973e58e6d0"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="fce0e43d-ece1-4640-8356-84b948402482" id="655135e9-af89-4a03-869b-12fb3e6f563a">nigga</span></span>) on Chandru. As his gay partner was cursed, Raju
<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7a303b74-c63d-42ac-b943-6b38ee0ef2b7" id="56e5bbfe-c864-4c7e-aceb-0fc2bffa88de"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c4ef54b7-5f68-43fe-9888-ff6e99d48dd6" id="d9df1c2b-dd8e-4939-9497-749cdc315a99">bhai</span></span> kidnaps the villain and strips him in front of Chandru for a pole/ lap
dance. <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="837748fb-0ebf-4b78-8e92-0f3a85a6535b" id="3851c683-00d5-4687-90a6-6f0ba02ea1f4"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e4a34d79-95cc-48ca-9faa-725252e841f6" id="c90a260b-501c-4602-9ffe-3d36fba2157f">Chandru</span></span> gets deeply touched, not <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="837748fb-0ebf-4b78-8e92-0f3a85a6535b" id="1103cb6f-857f-4d30-b880-72fd9ae65f7a"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e4a34d79-95cc-48ca-9faa-725252e841f6" id="9b7e36db-a512-4aea-91da-c36245c66b5d">physically but</span></span> emotionally, because of
this act. There was almost a close, up tight sexual encounter and a steamy lip lock in a scene
where Chandru gifts Raju, his boyfriend/ husband (or whatever role play they
are into) a Mini Cooper. I <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c987b7fa-e4a3-419a-ae91-1b5aaf92d9c7" id="e20a529d-d27f-441f-87cb-5644575ccb05"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="442410ea-f8c2-431b-afcb-c2b861eaa44c" id="fd62da6d-e04b-4029-89c6-1fd801e4676c">told you</span></span> know, they were hi-fi <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c987b7fa-e4a3-419a-ae91-1b5aaf92d9c7" id="29748db6-6d7b-4a47-8738-10eec5382b33"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="442410ea-f8c2-431b-afcb-c2b861eaa44c" id="febd3555-9ccc-435f-b2e5-dd05a160ad7d">gangsters</span></span> bitches! I
guess the sex scene was censored or trimmed for U certificate. The villain gets
irritated and kills both Chandru and Raju.<o:p></o:p></div>
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BANG BANG BANG!! Intermission. A
Short break for taking the guy/ girl next to your movie <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4a4f21cd-c304-4219-863e-e88c51d5a58e" id="899c1eb3-faf8-4126-a228-7f390a705379"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e39b0ec1-7ac0-4051-8a64-b7b1ec3ee8cf" id="389a6795-db21-4364-ae82-bc8af10b2ee4">seat</span></span> to <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4a4f21cd-c304-4219-863e-e88c51d5a58e" id="66df1f18-91da-4daa-9f33-4950aa411de7"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e39b0ec1-7ac0-4051-8a64-b7b1ec3ee8cf" id="fb3f3008-4600-4c59-a2d6-8a6b3e8c62b0">loo</span></span> and BANG BANG
BANG!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Raju escapes the shootout and
comes back to find the villain and the traitors of his gang who were
responsible for the death of his Juliet, Chandru. Raju disguises himself as
Krishna and claims himself as <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="fbfc5fff-777b-4a06-b78f-09adc15dbb67" id="a9c4d2ef-7d5a-49ee-b6ae-35e105016a06"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="22dc745f-f10f-48cc-bd5e-014b401e77e6" id="52a377ba-39f2-42c0-92ba-8c72153bc0ab">brother</span></span> of Raju, with a clean shave, spectacles
and a <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="fbfc5fff-777b-4a06-b78f-09adc15dbb67" id="f5b5a61e-9321-4208-bb4b-c17f98878f90"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="22dc745f-f10f-48cc-bd5e-014b401e77e6" id="3b382955-8514-4fad-8952-d6800d168220">walk</span></span> stick. This makeover is something similar to the twin or negative
double in MGR movies where a character wears a small mole or <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a95ea1db-1930-4107-8e31-5090f8b74665" id="ed746170-13f8-49c5-bc92-468fdfe86628"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="b5463570-5d90-490b-b692-73ff19188166" id="72270a92-4f82-44b1-b041-f386a6b55e5e">lungi</span></span> or mud/ black make up
and performs the role of the hero’s twin. The changeover from Raju to Krishna
is remarkable. Screw these make-up artists from <i>Cloud Atlas, Hobbit</i> and <i>The
curious case of Benjamin Button</i>, I say. The make up man who had made a Photoshop make up to the kid version of Surya in <i>Aadhavan </i>might've done this film. </div>
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where the heroine finds the homo stuff between Chandru and Raju and asks them
about it. She even tries for a threesome, but, as Raju <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6e07d93e-f194-4b37-911c-2cd12fcf28d3" id="a43b5a83-bdbd-4827-8278-040676196f7b"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="dac95503-064b-475a-9d72-722fb21602ef" id="e12ae996-39fe-4a5b-bbcf-b5e25dfbb702">bhai</span></span> and Chandru gets
<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6e07d93e-f194-4b37-911c-2cd12fcf28d3" id="5b27035d-7da3-4edf-b6bd-133baebb92d2"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="dac95503-064b-475a-9d72-722fb21602ef" id="ae848a9d-3069-4a84-840a-3e15d985146f">intimate</span></span> and avoids her in their conversation and sexual act, she leaves the scene with despair
and broken heart. She even acknowledges Raju bhai's love for Chandru and blesses them to live happily ever after. As she couldn’t change Raju’s sexual orientation, she
converts her religion and wears a Purdha. Please don’t ask me why.</div>
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Krishna finds the killers and
traitors by roaming from Bar to <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="b62db577-8732-4489-a95b-cccaff62e8c8" id="38c75aec-1cfa-45c7-ab51-ac1c8ad30fc5"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="77ef9546-92ee-4d0c-a7ce-bef5fb2421b0" id="a3f294f4-e1df-4a17-b7d3-7156ecbcd572">club</span></span>, pub, Whore house, Real estate office, Merriot hotel, Car parking etc.. He almost kills the villain by shooting at the
holographic projection of villain., Remember the one made for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGbrFmPBV0Y"><i>Tupac</i> </a>and <i><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e12f7ee5-15dd-4d60-b217-72e84e528cff" id="3c786771-f27b-40a3-a03d-66c6985c74c7"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7f5ecace-0e61-46de-a701-5608e7e23cde" id="7f60f481-36ee-4f4a-b30d-0c1ca7ab22d4"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRpflaqQnSY">NaMo</a></span></span>?.</i> Yeah, Science <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJZNVGpuQ7o">bitch</a>!! After
missing the chance he finally kills the villain and settles with <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="12a945ef-08ed-42ac-a8fb-a92fe716e5b6" id="d3d9e5fa-6476-4066-9544-3935cee744ab"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a1b69768-cb53-4382-8245-2187f897cac9" id="19116595-27b3-4bba-b6cf-08910c5c3570">heroine</span></span>. This
is Anjaan’s real story.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I guess the director, editor,
musician, actor, producer and everybody associated with the project were either
high with weed and marijuana, the whole time, or simply wanted to make fun of the
audience and society. No sane or conscious person can pull off a script (not
sure if they’d one) or a movie like this. This is a benchmark in Indian cinema
and <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="334e99fd-5fed-415c-b1cb-b6cb5020bfde" id="a879d319-6ae2-4594-b324-e75d34b5275e"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="def8958a-8494-47db-b702-038cee84fcb1" id="27550fe5-addd-4362-b368-0bf039dee6c2">a</span></span> LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) awareness film that nobody has had the patience, guts, passion, ambition
and knowledge to create and understand in our society. The makers must consider sending this
to Cannes or Busan or Toronto or Tribeca film festival. They celebrate
movies with homosexual context and it wins so many awards at lot of
International film festivals. Sex sells in film festivals, man, and only that
intellectual crowd can decode and dissect the inner meanings of films of these
sorts.</div>
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The entire movie is so unreal. The
story happens in a whole different universe. You’ll never come across any of
these characters in any world. May be, there is a less possibility to find them
in Irandam or Moondram <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="fb27ebd8-0c49-42d0-b9a4-c7e596471d6b" id="96676310-5495-4928-8ad0-a6abd30709ac"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2f2f9d64-93c8-4867-8a69-103c5a28182b" id="d59ecd67-1fab-4aca-b45d-2e5bae457a6f">ulagam</span></span>. I was surprised to know that the marketing team
of <i>Chennai express</i> movie is still promoting and advertising their movie,
even after a year <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2a40f885-53db-486c-8499-8bdc2be6de64" id="4cd4a2e4-c2c0-4230-8964-6391c2ddfd7f"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="39fa185e-4757-4398-b7f3-9bbdadedf92b" id="8045acfd-3eb0-4b8e-b030-c990d49c7da9">from</span></span> its release. Pepsi, Apple, CAT boots, Rayban, Range
Rover, BIG Cinemas were also sponsors of the film, it seems. The second half of
the movie gives a big tribute/ ode to Hans Zimmer, <i>Slumdog Millionaire </i>OST
Dreams on fire, 70s exploitation and Blaxploitation films, their music, Hologram etc.. I
guess this is the spoof comedy movie <i>Azhuguni Kumar</i> directed by Karthik
(Siddarrth) in <i>Jigarthanda, </i>starring Bobby Simha.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rather than Anjaan, they should’ve
titled this film rhyming something similar to <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2OLRrocn3s">Blue is <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="611b06e3-3045-487a-b445-b8f18c7140ca" id="fe0c5981-2db4-478a-9a2f-4f9532c04dd9">the Warmest</span> color</a></i>
or <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2852458/">Strangers by the Lake</a></i>, two great films about the topics <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="611b06e3-3045-487a-b445-b8f18c7140ca" id="2cc3cc54-166c-4799-88d5-b653f42eb157">on</span> homosexuality
and love, that I’d watched recently. How about renaming the title to <i>Mumbai
is the warmest city</i> or <i>G<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="15295a44-7f15-4fc4-be85-57091a838cdc" id="e5bee46d-5117-45c1-9a2b-c5a61db5d80b">(</span>h<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="15295a44-7f15-4fc4-be85-57091a838cdc" id="03c21071-8ed5-43af-a6e1-27b0b835001a">)</span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="15295a44-7f15-4fc4-be85-57091a838cdc" id="c618353f-0f9c-46ea-9b1f-e477cb25d213">ay</span> by the Shore</i>? Oh, poor me, English
title means no tax exemption, right? But boobs, cleavage, booty, brothel,
violence, bloodshed and vulgarity are allowed for U Certificate? Whatever man. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I wonder why no one yet had found
out or made a claim that this violent, gay, gangster, revenge saga is copied
from the 2012 South Korean film <i>Ambalaingalin Gajagajavo</i> by <i>Jing-Jangke
Jhuk</i>. Drop me a message for torrent link of this Korean film, if you need. <o:p></o:p>I am also looking forward a <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2a90846e-aae6-48e5-8cd1-65019c1dba1d" id="71bd53c2-5bfd-4229-b39f-40326aa8104b">success</span> party by the makers, titled "'<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2a90846e-aae6-48e5-8cd1-65019c1dba1d" id="98216c90-2b54-4dc8-ae20-7d703b57cacb">Firstu</span> girl from Pammal to wear <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2a90846e-aae6-48e5-8cd1-65019c1dba1d" id="b667ff23-eae5-4b52-aa7b-2251423c2e51"><a href="https://twitter.com/iKannan/status/500256033617768448">bikini</a></span>: SUCCESS MEET" (Courtesy: <a href="https://twitter.com/wothadei">@WothaDei</a>).</div>
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If you still haven’t seen
Ahhhhhhhhhhnnnnjhhhaaaaannnnnn, go watch this masterpiece, a fine work of art
from director marijuana <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6fe3efdf-87b4-477d-9a95-3fa6bfa875a5" id="fa34e3c2-de25-4aab-ab91-2a17fa6015a9">funded</span> by modern day corporate #$%#$^<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6fe3efdf-87b4-477d-9a95-3fa6bfa875a5" id="a534b54c-760c-43ed-a142-15462c63e7d9">!</span>$^<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6fe3efdf-87b4-477d-9a95-3fa6bfa875a5" id="2ac21977-f1e6-4757-b903-6784c92ba252">!</span>$^<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6fe3efdf-87b4-477d-9a95-3fa6bfa875a5" id="f7cfaf71-1b58-4044-9d42-15df19d7411c">!</span>$^%^&$#<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6fe3efdf-87b4-477d-9a95-3fa6bfa875a5" id="4fd462b5-9e31-4a9c-9772-36460c083b9f">!</span>@<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6fe3efdf-87b4-477d-9a95-3fa6bfa875a5" id="c1fc5906-fac9-405f-9439-549d0adbd0b3">!</span>#~#.<o:p></o:p></div>
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P.S. The next time, if you enter
a gay bar and find a tattoo or entry stamp sealed ‘<i>Raju Bhai</i>’, Please
don’t be surprised, and a guy with toothpick basically passes you an erotic signal
for giving you a<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="37df1dbc-c066-4403-b2df-b2bfa3f8c8cc" id="36df6e83-1c86-4fac-a16e-afb033b1e41d"> blo…</span> *BEEEEEEP*<o:p></o:p><br />
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There goes my €10 down the drain. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2941619738467485349.post-54288846052535245342014-07-12T05:26:00.001+05:302015-05-02T21:15:28.173+05:30Thoughts on 'Boyhood' and the films of Richard Linklater<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Before Sunrise introduced Richard Linklater to me. I watched it 8 years back by the time I
started to break free from mainstream movies and delved into foreign films,
period films, Art and Independent cinema. Actually, Mr. IMDB recommended it to
me (People who liked <i>Notting Hill</i> also like <i>Before Sunrise</i> and <i>Before
Sunset</i>). It was unlike any other films that I’d seen. Yes, I’d seen our Woody
Allen’s films where he <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="40e9b498-8b7e-4eb9-be18-3373d15ca43b"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="be3c9c9b-ffad-4050-87fc-089f3cae0991" id="683b399d-10d1-4755-b5ab-38e440823650"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0d786b56-45f8-44cb-a03d-4c0a2775906e" id="3f2f49dc-dc07-45dd-90bc-1928f74fb7b1">always talk</span></span></span> and talk and blabber and talk right from psychology
to nature to religion to <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="9dbc0fe8-8371-455b-9b15-606e7f9e9590"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="be3c9c9b-ffad-4050-87fc-089f3cae0991" id="f2bd5c71-dba7-4cc6-9f13-3bb5ab4b5fb0"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0d786b56-45f8-44cb-a03d-4c0a2775906e" id="f7760d77-2ad5-4947-be93-b03e28bd3880">relationship</span></span></span> to ‘<i>men are from mars and women are
from </i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i>venus</i><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f">’</span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="54a8bb06-ac2f-45f6-8123-cb4cbbc2102f"></span> to communism to world war <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="579c4350-22d5-45e6-beb6-bb19838a3b90"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="be3c9c9b-ffad-4050-87fc-089f3cae0991" id="fc4b0ee8-9880-4844-8d5d-39bf64761b98"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0d786b56-45f8-44cb-a03d-4c0a2775906e" id="89bb43e9-082b-4353-b480-a548ddbe80cf">to</span></span></span> dating <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="b5daf10c-33a5-4786-a173-f7eefda826dc"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="be3c9c9b-ffad-4050-87fc-089f3cae0991" id="80c2748e-1c7b-41a3-8df2-db44e885d7a7"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0d786b56-45f8-44cb-a03d-4c0a2775906e" id="ae5d2814-f51e-45eb-967b-c827ba0d495d">to</span></span></span> French women to Italian
artistry to film making to smoking to claustrophobia to kids to anarchism to narcissism
to nihilism to New York to Manhattan till <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e9afe29-15cb-493f-899b-0a24ab0b87dd" id="4dfc548d-66cb-455c-a90c-6b465d0f9bb6"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="be3c9c9b-ffad-4050-87fc-089f3cae0991" id="877d55ec-1752-4ba8-beb2-8ef99023258b">life</span></span>. Either Woody or his lead actor/
actress will be dominant on-screen and make the other party numb/
dumb/ weak in the conversation. Here, in Linklater’s films, two lives talk
their heart and soul out. This is what makes his movies (Linklater’s artistic
works aren’t just movies, but yeah, I don’t have a term to suit up for this argument) a special one.
A man and a woman just don’t talk about love and relationship. They talk life
itself.<br />
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Now, my fellow movie buffs will wage
a war against me for leaving out the films of Jean Luc Godard where the
male-female conversation has always had a huge part. The conversation between the Hero and
Heroine, right from the road to her apartment room in <i>Breathless (1960)</i>, the
silent stands scene of the trio from <i><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="661aa296-da23-478b-99db-ecf086ee4026" id="57aab895-a49f-48ce-84ea-a110c20530e4"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="006e555d-6553-46cc-a440-b48003d4a866" id="3a317c51-0ddf-41cb-bb65-7bb569f5e7af">Bande</span></span> à part (1964)</i> and Post-sex/
sleepover conversation between the writer and his girlfriend in <i>Le mépris (1963)</i> are classic without a doubt. On a deeper perspective, the dialogues, conversation
and the theme of their speech would be way too abstract, sketched, impulsive, highly
cerebral, Kafkaesque or tough to connect. I feel, maybe, the French-to-English
subtitle translation of Godard films might’ve lost/ added a different context
to the narration. Isn’t it? But we all owe a big time to these French folks for
many things. The Inception of subtitling, Coffee& Cigarettes combination, new cinematic
frames, wonderful filmmakers and last but not least their film noir.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Back to Linklater, from his
popular </span><i style="text-align: justify;">Before</i><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="d8abcb79-e392-4fcc-910c-f650d0b3258c" id="a5bbceb0-e2d1-41d3-abe6-d5b54007d877"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c6301b39-ef29-43db-9220-92eda61d9f12" id="2453c019-69aa-4389-8a13-6fef1a24dde3">series</span></span></span><span style="text-align: justify;">, I moved to </span><i style="text-align: justify;">Dazed and Confused</i><span style="text-align: justify;">. It came to
me as surprise package in a period where I was watching classic coming-of-age
films like </span><i style="text-align: justify;">Fast Times at Ridgemont High</i><span style="text-align: justify;">, </span><i style="text-align: justify;">The Breakfast Club, </i><span style="text-align: justify;"><i>The 400 Blows, Stand by me</i>, </span><i style="text-align: justify;">Rushmore, Ferris
Bueller's Day Off, Dead Poets Society </i><span style="text-align: justify;">etc.. The life lessons that one can
take from the coming-of-age films, man, it’s unexplained. They must be termed
as a coming-of-life films, I say. This is applicable to </span><i style="text-align: justify;">Boyhood</i><span style="text-align: justify;"> too.</span><br />
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And then his <i>Tape</i>, a
typical high school reunion of three friends that builds up to heated,
traumatic conversation and drastic actions. It’s similar to the
type of domestic trauma, tension and heat that develops amongst the characters from
Asghar Farhadi’s films like <i>A Separation, About Elly, Fireworks Wednesday </i>and
<i>The Past</i>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Next comes <i>School of Rock,</i>
which I’d seen on HBO and thoroughly enjoyed. It made me to watch Linklater and
Jack Black combo again in <i>Bernie</i>, a wonderful ‘based on a true story’, black
comedy about a charming criminal and a murderer. <i>Bernie</i> is Linklater’s
take on black comedy at its best. I progressed to <i>Waking life,</i> next. Even
though it was thematically, philosophically, morally inclined at heights beyond
my consciousness and understanding, the grasp and sniff of it, like a dope,
made me go high and elated. Must re watch it again, someday. <o:p></o:p></div>
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All this led to my 5-year hunt
for a good print of <i>Slacker</i> (1991), the film that mapped Linklater at
Sundance and the film world, which was unavailable for years, until our dear,
beloved, doer of good deeds, grand Uncle Mr. <a href="http://www.criterion.com/films/408-slacker">Criterion Collection</a> restored it
in a gorgeous Blu-ray. Sudden encounters, hookup, walk
by, pop-in, drop-in, checking up, going-out <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9d72b876-ad82-4fc1-b3ad-fd8244cfc52b" id="0867cc52-018e-400d-8b7b-f2ba5a5b19b5"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="852a01a9-dbe6-447d-ac78-3141ca2a0a60" id="aa93ca38-6783-4b17-9a13-e43932917e65">etc</span></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="852a01a9-dbe6-447d-ac78-3141ca2a0a60" id="a03f98fc-89d7-4042-9b2c-954763a64670">…</span>happen amidst the Texan population
and the characters discuss right from poop to weed to accident to love to death
to science to Scooby Doo to Meta physics to mattress to burglary to world war
to what not. Slacker is a full course meal which will make your stomach and
mind full <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="eaf79c90-3dd6-40c5-b7cd-fca192616fa1" id="dd201b6e-b56b-4ac0-adc8-69e82e9e4245"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ef8e1976-6fbf-48b9-9251-137e716c5663" id="62f764c2-5aab-4ddd-af19-2b08e8c8418e">for</span></span> months.<br />
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Coming to Boyhood, 12 years in
the making, it traces the life of a boy from age 6 to 18. We witness not just
this boy, but his father, guardian, mother, friend, sister, grandma, grandpa
and various important folks in the boy’s life, for the entire 12 years. Like
us, he experiences everything that one needs to experience in their 6 to 18s.
Right from pestering elder sister, childhood friend, new school, shifting
homes, first crush, mom-dad fights, first porn, kiss, night out, party,
inspiring school teacher, finding the true calling and passion, junior school,
senior school and college etc... Linklater loves to play with them.</div>
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Unlike the movies where we
witness characters unfolding over time (In films like Cameron Crowe’s <i>Almost
famous</i>, Paul Thomas Anderson’s <i>Boogie Nights</i>, Bergman’s <i>Scenes
from a Marriage</i>, Scorsese’s <i>Gangs of New York</i>, Anurag Kashypa’s <i>Gangs
of Wasseypur</i>, Jim Carrey’s <i>Truman Show</i>, to name a few) in Linklater’s
films we see time unfolding the characters. Time revolves at the apex of
his narrative content and everything / everyone <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c1a7cf21-1934-42e7-9e50-d9a5c1658ebe" id="4f04c875-d862-43e5-ad3a-3a5df2db3030"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6233f0f9-fcbb-4b99-821c-1a8add8c02c4" id="9d4f958c-3814-4f9d-b315-813874e7e62d">( </span></span>including the plot / story<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c1a7cf21-1934-42e7-9e50-d9a5c1658ebe" id="883d4630-106b-4094-86fd-e878870b2752"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6233f0f9-fcbb-4b99-821c-1a8add8c02c4" id="2e4e728c-5145-4f78-b0c3-8852f1fc2039"> )</span></span>
around it. All his films are such a piece of art. <o:p></o:p></div>
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One might say that Boyhood doesn't have a proper story, but yo!, the movie unfolding right in front of your eyes and
trailing these characters life itself is a one helluva story, I say. Right <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a4c2aa59-5427-4d8a-a305-bc4b1aaf3bba" id="b8e54cbf-1250-4505-b486-8996ba10bb97">from</span>
the Coldplay track, Beatles reference, life lessons from father Hawke, emotional
outburst of busy/ working mom, Gameboy, Nintendo, Wii, Big ass desktop
computer, flip mobile phones, long hair style, retro <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a4c2aa59-5427-4d8a-a305-bc4b1aaf3bba" id="3f261001-71e2-4d5b-8fff-436b978533dd">t-shirts</span>, film roll camera, faded
denims, art obsession, the traces from his life’s early 2000 till 2013 were aesthetically
captured. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Being a late 80s kid, I would
already feel nostalgic with 90s reference, but Linklater made me even more sad
and nostalgic by showing early 2000s and 2010s as a flash of sweet memory and <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5be4f9fa-2ad2-48af-9038-d39376e77434" id="4b3baa26-b433-47f0-bc4a-1a955c6ded9a">dejavu</span>.
This <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="214a95ef-2b94-498a-bb43-1953d406fa8f" id="37550fe0-ea10-430f-b046-aed4b7ef8a04">make</span> me wonder, yell and ask myself ‘Man, Am I getting fucking old and aged?’
Dammit. Fuck You Linklater. I am in my prime 25s and your films makes me <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="92685020-633a-4d7d-b320-da75b1dc21d5" id="122d8615-62db-4418-90cc-b9f3ab65c054">to
feel</span> old already and think like <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="92685020-633a-4d7d-b320-da75b1dc21d5" id="829e48f5-1e5d-4804-9c78-cfc73e19f184">mid</span>-30s. Fuck you, seriously.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One must see Boyhood as the
gateway to Linklater’s films. Watch it first and then move on to his other
films. As discussed above, Linklater has a <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="b8679b0d-8cc0-4be4-bf5f-a4d7ccf25862" id="d1333bb2-de4a-4f91-ae54-be8eab30d64d">foot print</span> in coming of a̶g̶e̶ life, romance, Life
philosophy, dark comedy, animation (<i>A Scanner darkly & Waking life</i>) and
what not. So enter Boyhood and pick your favorite department/ DVD later on. I would like to discuss more and more about
Boyhood and the profound impact it had on me, but at the same time I don’t want
to spoil your movie watching experience. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Boyhood is a new landmark and a remarkable
achievement, not just in film making, but on the whole cinematic process itself.
There is a little piece of life in every poem, art, essay, music and movies.
And there is Richard Linklater's Boyhood as the collective sum. Experience this
delicatessen that will serve you the real meaning of existence with a cocktail blend of time,
life and emotions, unveiling right in front of your very eyes and get lost in
its serenity and gargantuan beauty. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Not really, but <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9923a61b-8925-46ab-a01c-50c187e453ad" id="8a3bb1aa-06db-4811-be39-b36b4f495e97">miiiiiiiiild</span> mild
plot spoiler alert, in the following lines. Don’t worry, it won’t hurt your
morale so read on. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Now that I’d seen Boyhood from 6
to 18 and the frames ceased out right when he enters the college, 2 decades
from now I would love to sit in front of my home theatre and watch Boyhood
sequel that traces his life from college to adult <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a3f18afa-135c-4063-a0ee-92ad0e74faef" id="e7ab156a-65ae-40f3-b674-98a88f03541b">to</span> relationship to marriage
to kids. Oh wait. I’d already seen that in his <i>Before Sunrise, Sunset &
Midnight</i> Trilogy. Holy, You fucking Linklater. What, man? Is this a prequel
to <i>Before</i> trilogy? <o:p></o:p></div>
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And Hey, the only thing that I’d missed
witnessing or I would’ve loved watching in <i>Boyhood</i> is his pet and a death of his closed one. Had Linklater touched upon the Pet and human/animal loss, would that
have been even better or worse or Clichéd?... And that’s how I start/ strike a random conversation,
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<span lang="EN-US">If you’re
the guy who yells “<i>Dei, this is the first epic novel attempt in the Indian
cinema of the Tamil cinema with Rajinikanth and this is a Marana mass, theri
story of the motion capture blah blah blah.. How dare you talk about Thalaivar,
Dei ne oru…</i>.” Please kindly stop reading this post further and move the F on. If you want some fun, pun and jolly post about Kochadaiiyaan. Go on. <o:p></o:p></span>HEAVY PLOT SPOILER ALERT.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Ever since
they started the project, so many had double and triple face palm moments.
Cheers, me too bro. When the first teaser poster of Kochadaiiyaan was released with ruthra thandavam looks resembling the book cover of <i><a href="https://www.google.ie/search?q=the+immortals+of+meluha+kochadaiyaan&espv=2&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=T_mFU_yENaOy7AaAyYGIAQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=775">The Immortals of Meluha</a></i>, my
mindvoice was exactly the same as <i>George Clooney'</i>s from <i>Gravity</i>. Remember his
opening dialogue in the film ? <i>“Houston in the blind, Houston in the blind, I have a bad
feeling about this mission”.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Here goes
the plot. Kochadaiiyaan is a successful, much loved warrior of Naseer's county. His popularity and fame makes the king Naseer to go jealous and evil on him. Kochadaiiyaan and team has been
tactically attacked and captivated as slaves. Our poor Kochadaiiyaan fellow is left
cornered and helpless. Naseer sentences him to death calling a traitor and
betrayer. Kochadaiiyaan is beheaded (Hum <i>Game of Thrones</i> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EU8UXtu-4k">sad theme</a>). <o:p></o:p></span>(2<sup>nd</sup> Half) </div>
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<span lang="EN-US">His son Rana escapes to the enemy’s city, grows up there, becomes the
Thalapthi (captain) of opposite army. Frees the slave who are his own country men, makes
them to join in the army and takes them back to their own county to avenge Naseer
for killing his father. He gets caught red handed by Plastic Padukone while he
attempts to kill Naseer, her father. Rana is sent to jail for this. <o:p></o:p></span>(1<sup>st</sup> Half)</div>
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HAHAHAHAHAH. LOLOLOLOLOL. (Ok, stops laughing). Thalaivar Rana escapes Jail, killing
not some poor animated security guards but few leopards, tigers, cheetah or some dog fucked
wolf face creature (Not sure if that creature has been animated by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdo9AhfGFpo#t=82"><i>Irandam Ulagam</i> animators</a>). Whatever. He returns to the battlefield, kills Naseer and
JOCKEY Shroff. While he attempts to kiss our Plastic Padukone and grope her
improvised anime butt, douche bag bro Sena, comes outta nowhere, whose sworn
duty is to protect Naseer, arrives to the scene like the delayed Policeman entry to crime scene in Tamil
movies. We get a Thodarum (To be continued…) card there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“WTF, Dei,
Adanga…!!” Is that what you feel. Cheers. Same feeling mate.</span><br />
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I thought that the
crisp run-time of 2 hours was really good. But again, that crisp run-time was
ruined with frequent, useless songs like the ones from<i> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCbdQZndiPo">Thiagaraja Bagavathar</a></i>
films. Hero arrives. Song1. Countrymen claps. Song 2. Hero, Heroine looks at each
other. Song 3. Marriage. Song 4. Past story sequence. Song 5. Sad feeling. Song 6. Happy
comeback feelings. Song 7. DEEII. Songs has been misused and Rahman’s craft hasn’t
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<span lang="EN-US">Many of
them were raving that KS Ravikumar has done justice to the screenplay. I was
like, Dude WTF. Even <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanuman_(2005_film)">Hanuman </a></i>or<i> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhota_Bheem">Chotta Bheem</a></i> or some Tamil Aesop fable has the
same shit. To me, it seemed like this current plot of Kochadaiiyaan is the least script writing work one
could do, just for the heck of it. If you are really into fantasy stories of
dynasty, do watch <i>Game of Thrones</i>. Being a big fan of <i>Game of Thrones</i> series, I
can’t stop myself connecting and noticing the similarities, I am not saying
that it’s inspired and intentional, I just found it so funny. Imagine Kochadaiiyaan (<i><span id="goog_1267134569"></span>Ned Stark<span id="goog_1267134570"></span></i>) – Beheaded by the Mad King (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MgjP_0iFm0#t=284"><i>Joffrey</i></a>). Rana (<i>Arya Stark & Daenerys Targaryen</i>) sees his father’s beheading, runs to JOCKEY Shroff's county to free the unsullied slaves and he makes them to join the army. Only
nudity, wine and blood shed of GOT series missing. Guess they spared it for procuring a 'U' Certificate from Indian censor board. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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They’d reincarnated the legendary Tamil comedian <i>Nagesh </i>in the
movie. Yes, I did loved it. One big positive note in this overly ambitious stupidosaus project. The guy who had given voice and typical Nageshesque
gestures had really done well. Ho! Did Sarath
Kumar was also a part of the cast, I thought he just gave voice for Naseer’s
son’s character, as the animated figure looked like the face of actor <a href="https://www.google.ie/search?q=actor+prem+krodham&espv=2&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Zv2FU6bpIcOy7AbH9ICgCA&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ">Prem </a>from
<i>Krodham </i>(Remember the one who looks like a cross between our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ir_7w79Uuw">Gaptun VijayaKanth</a>
and yesteryear <i>Thillu Mullu</i> Rajinikanth) or Suresh Babu of <i>Annamalai </i>fame. One of my friend told that "<i>Idha Sarath Kumar na appo Raadhika va kalyanam pannadhu yaaru!</i>"</div>
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Naatiya Peroli <i>Rukimini </i>(<i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BK12em11H8">Kana Kangiren Kana Kangiren Kannalaney</a></i>..) is casted Kocha's daughter and Nadana
Thaaragai <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fasalA-tw78">Shobana </a></i>as Kocha’s wife. Well that some what makes sense, No?. Similar facial looks, both of them are dancers, easy to animate, one
inflated figure and another one deflated figure. Deepika Plastic Padukone animation
was like the strip down minion version of <i>Kim Kardarshian</i> and by any chance, was Shobana animation
is inspired from <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savita_Bhabhi">Savitha Bhabhi</a></i> comics?. Boo. </div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Kochadaiiyaan's character animation looked like a topless, angry <i><a href="https://www.google.ie/search?q=Toshiro+Mifune&espv=2&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=P_6FU5Y10sDsBtyPgKgG&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=775">Toshiro Mifune</a></i>, a mandai with a big kondai and a dark skin texture</span><span lang="EN-GB">. He is an ardent follower of Lord Shiva, intro with Ruthra Thandavam dance and all. Edit that dark skin to white color palette, apply smiles, rajini’s grace, change hairstyle. Boom. We get Rana. WoW. Now magnetic lasso cut the face, add a beard and long hair. Boom. We get his bro Sena. Yo!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">Rajini’s grace and facial looks, being both the save face and decoy for bringing in the audience crowd, the makers of Kochadaiiyaan tried their best in getting the graphics right in Rajini’s face as real as possible. Compared to the worst menial, mediocre, shitty graphics throughout the whole movie, Rajini’s face (Rana) was somewhat saved and spared, I would say.</span></div>
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Why use a (<a href="http://t.co/33EomrpSxC">Loose </a>or lost) Motion capture picture in the first place when you can’t capture neither the motion nor the emotion of characters? The big lecture on motion capture during the start and ending of the film is even more nauseating and irritating than the typical “<i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMiz7sSNqP8">Naan thaan Mukesh.</a></i>.” Hey foreign folks, check this "<i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMiz7sSNqP8">Naan thaan Mukesh.</a>" </i>video. It’s fucking hilarious and creepy as well. Statutory warning ad played before each and every film in Indian theater, as a government and film chamber’s rule.<br />
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The lecture on the technology, to me, felt like a gentle disclaimer card that goes like “Yo Homies, we wanted to do some serious pioneer, motion capture animation stuff with big actors. We neither had prior experience nor huge budget like Hollywood films but did our best, which is shitty and worst. So please shut the fuck up, pay Rs. 120 or 150 (If you’re in Chennai, Pune or Hyderabad) Rs. 500 – Rs. 700 or One Kidney ( If you’re in Banglore or Mumbai) and watch this 2D, 3D piece of shit and walk off home praising and singing the hymns of Thalaivar.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYunRlQDHtM"> Rajini IN DA HOUSE</a>” (Try and read this again with Hiphop, rap style song) </div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Being a big
fan of animation films and the recent motion capture technology, I can’t stop
watching the film and getting my cornea ruptured. The makers could have done
justice by making it as a good Animation film and adding the voice overs of Rajini,
Nagesh, Naseer and others. Remember how<i> Robin Williams </i>voiced for Genie
character in <i>Aladdin</i>, <i>Tom Hanks</i> voiced for Woody in <i>Toy story</i>, <i>Jesse Eisenberg</i> and
<i>Anne Hathaway</i> voiced for <i>Rio 1 & Rio 2 </i>etc.. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Indian
animation films, though very less, few like <i><a href="http://vimeo.com/48765287">Arjun: The warrior Prince</a></i>, Kashyap’s<i>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx0fGyVHKok#t=206">Return of Hanuman</a></i>, <i>Hanuman </i>and even <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432283/"><i>Fantastic Mr. Fox</i> </a>styled <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BFkTmU90_0">Roadside Romeo</a></i> had some good animation. Again, I
know the budget constraints for an Indian movie and I am not comparing Kochadaiiyaan with
<i>Avatar, Tintin, Planet of the Apes </i>or <i>Gravity </i>but.. Man.. rather than making a shitty motion capture with
hard work and big budget, why not make an excellent animation film with the
same budget and work. Even Soundarya Rajinikanth, the director, has a good experience on animation works, I guess. In another case take Selvaraghavan’s <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nh0SgWo5G8"><i>Aayirathil oruvan</i> </a>or
Kamal’s <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJk835sPoeY">Dasavatharam </a></i>for example. They attempted to narrate a Tamil mythological
fiction, best used the graphics wherever necessary and made their best they
could. (Don’t expect me to talk about Selva’s <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdo9AhfGFpo">Irandam ulagam</a></i>. I ordered a MIB
Style <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuralyzer">Neuralyser</a></i> to forget the gory moment and movie experience).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To the
fellows who make mokka<i><a href="http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/chuck-norris-top-50-facts"> Chuck Norris jokes</a></i> on Rajinikanth (without even knowing
the reference), you can laugh your ass off during the animation fight scenes
saying “<i>Abhe Yaar Rajinikanth beats 5 villains at a time and make them fly both
in animation and real feature films. Hilarious LOL ROFL</i>”. Poda dei, you accept the same if Salmon <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ZhYJvHbxw#t=71">Bhai</a>, SWAG
Rukh Khan, Jr. NTR, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT7BPeFWks4#t=84">Nagorjuna </a>and Ravi Taja does the same in Hindi and Telugu
movies, No?. Same KOMMERCIAL formula for us. Yeah, racial and linguistic pun in-un-intended.<i> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgjtSo5Dn34#t=197">English pesnaalum tamizhan da</a></i>. Ada Poda!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Having said all this, let me confess. I somewhat liked and enjoyed this movie. Yes, you read that right. I know it will sound sarcastic but its not. I liked it as guilty pleasure of sorts, obviously, for watching Thalaivar Rajini's gestures, moves and hearing some of his trademark punch-packed one liners, after long time. And yes, in a bomma padam which could've still been enjoyable even if it has been done by perfect voice impersonation artists or mimics like Robo Shankar, Siva Karthikeyan or Lollu Sabha Jeeva. There, I said it.</span></div>
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rocks. Period. This time it’s just an experimental, high jump slip between his over enthusiastic
daughter and an unexpected commercial slaughter. <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_(2002_film)">Baba </a></i>type legacy, it seems. He He.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Can you fall in love with someone whom you
might not have known fully? Well, Yes, It depends. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Can you fall in love with someone whom you
might not have seen? Oh..!! Yeah, may be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Can you fall in love with someone who might not
even be real or alive? Huh!! Oh Wait. WHAT?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">"</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's
like a socially acceptable form of insanity</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">"</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"> – </span><span lang="EN-US">This is Director Spike Jonze’s response to the previous
question via his character Amy played by Amy Adams in the film ‘HER’.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Plot spoiler alert: Set in the futuristic Los Angeles, HER is the romantic
tale of Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) who works for BeautifulHandWrittenLetters.com
as letter writer #612 (Satire for identify & existential crisis in a
corporate, capitalized environment). He is a loner, antisocial and has an only friend/
neighbor Amy who wants be a documentary film-maker but struck in a game
developer job. Theodore struggles on his divorce with his wife Catherine
(Rooney Mara) and ends up falling in love with his new, highly intuitive, advanced,
Artificial Intelligent Operating System OS1 Samantha (Voiced by Scarlett
Johnson). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unlike Robin William’s '<i>Bicentennial Man'</i>,
Steven Spielberg’s '<i>Artificial Intelligence'</i>, <i>Minority Report</i> or
any other Sci-fi films, the Human-Computer interaction in HER doesn’t seem
plastic, unreal and unnatural. OS1 Samantha doesn’t act/ voice like a robot/slave
rather she extends herself and keep on learning, growing, evolving more and
more during her perpetual existence which most of our human kind fails to address
or achieve. It can be well observed when she voices down about her experiences,
wishes and expectations to Theodore. <i>‘I want to know everything about
everything’</i>, she says. Spike Jonze trolls the entire humanity and mankind
with the rhetoric questions, deductions and conclusions, as the voice of
Samantha. Those Cliché Philosophical annotations, existential questions asked
by Samantha to Theodore doesn't seem like the questions that a stupid AI device
ask the humans in the most silly, rhetoric and childish way. Samantha sounds humanly
rich and very much alive like complex homo
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<span lang="EN-US">Spike Jonze’s touch and stroke to the characters
and the aura that entire movie has in itself is remarkable. Theodore as a
letter writer in a futuristic world seems like a straight ode/ tribute to the
professional letter writers/ messengers who used to sit in common places, transport
service stations and help people with writing letters, passing written messages
etc... Remember the old lady from Walter Salles <i>Central Station</i> movie?
One might come across similar characters in Italian Neo-realism films, historic
and World war films.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Being a Sci-fi, fantasy film the beauty of HER
lies in the way it connects with its audience. Just like how the OS1 Samantha
seduces Joaquin Phoenix in a particular conversation, Spike Jonze seduces us,
draws us close, soaks deep down into the film and makes us to fall in love with
HER, irrecoverably. The conversations between Joaquin Phoenix and OS Samantha
has been penned really well. Plenty of dialogues strike a deep chord in heart. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It’s truly heartwarming and thought provoking to
hear the characters uttering dialogues like <i>‘The Past is the story we tell
ourselves’, ‘What it feels like to share your life with someone’, ‘This
beautiful piece of music is our photograph together’, ‘You’re beautiful’, ‘I
wish I could touch you’, ‘ I feel like I can be anything with you’</i>.</span>
The scene where Catherine finds out that Theodore is in a relationship with his
computer OS and says <i>"You're dating your computer? ...You always wanted to
have a wife without the challenges of actually dealing with anything real”</i>, it is definitely
a slap on face for many. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9teBt8bu5OY">The Moon song</a> that Scarlet Johnson sings to the music
of Theodore is such a sweet melody/ lullaby that you would ever hear since your
childhood. The scene where Theodore searches to find Samantha will shake you
upside down, like a father trying to find a lost child or a soul searching for
his lost love.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">During the climax, when the screen fades out to
black, brace yourself, you will definitely start weeping and beware, you might hallucinate
the closest electronic device to you (Your laptop or TV or Smartphone) trying to
console you and pass a napkin or Hanky to wipe your tears. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">HER wrenches your heart, makes you weep and
you’ll keep on searching within yourself, probing loads of questions with a
daunting feel that Theodore gets when he loses Samantha all of a sudden. Spike
Jonze, just like in his previous films ‘<i>Adaptation’</i>, ‘<i>Where the Wild
things are</i>’ and ‘<i>Being John Malkovich</i>’, has created a dystopian
world within HER where one would long and dare to go, live and love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Having said that, HER has a heart, soul, an
aura, an ambiance, a silence, a sheer touch of sense and sensibility within
itself that most of the Sci-fi or Romance drama films lacked big time. To my
knowledge, the last time that a Sci-fi, fantasy films had so much of heart and
romance was in ‘<i>Wall-E’, ‘Robert & Frank’ </i>and Michael Gondry's<i> ‘Eternal
sunshine of a spotless mind’</i>. Though the OSCAR panel failed to recognize
Joaquin Phoenix’s acting skills, I am happy that HER is nominated for Best
Picture, Best screenplay, Best original song, Best original score and Best
production design. I wish it fetches and deserves more and more awards and
accolades. HER releases by February 14<sup>th</sup> Valentine’s Day, in most
parts of the world. Go watch it in theaters and it would be the best Valentine’s
Day that you could gift someone or in a better state to yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">After all, if you want to know/ feel the love
and pain of being with someone remotely, emotionally, virtually, verbally conversing with
someone who doesn't exist near/ next to you, the one whom you miss in the best
and worst of your times… Go talk to someone true in a long distance
relationship for years. You’ll almost hear and feel the same story. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">P.S. Don’t forget to check this intense<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7055226"> discussion post</a> about HER’s gorgeous production design and <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/26/5347424/snl-parody-her-jonah-hill-is-his-own-os">parody videos, spoof skits</a> of HER.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2941619738467485349.post-4605547470646301192013-10-22T04:50:00.002+05:302015-05-02T21:26:14.262+05:30Confessions of a Lucia addict<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: justify;">In accordance with my prejudiced
stupidity, I’d always assumed that the world of Kannada films has always
remained hidden, dented and tainted (</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mom0pQTM6yE" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">term courtesy</a><span style="text-align: justify;"> Abhijit Mukherjee) for the
film buffs mainly because of their utter crappy, <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="17012bd5-a1d2-49ed-86c6-acd217f11a08" id="fb7fbda1-6726-4db8-80d2-9b2bc090393c">howlarious</span>, <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="17012bd5-a1d2-49ed-86c6-acd217f11a08" id="3337599f-c6df-43e0-8696-6e1b9d28e827">masala</span> films and lack
of English subtitles. I’d even wondered why there was not even one single good
Kannada film that came out remarkably <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="d5702633-847b-48d1-a5b0-b080c535faa0" id="d993cd83-8b8b-4aa9-b228-cdc5da953cd8">well whereas</span> Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi,
Gujarati, Bengali and even some commercial Telugu film names made good rounds
on the best regional movies list, among the Indian audience. To relieve me
from this stereotypical notion, </span><i style="text-align: justify;">Lucia</i><span style="text-align: justify;"> came out of the blue, like the
magic pill that the hero of the film consumes.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">I started hearing about this
crowd-funded Kannada Indie ‘<i>Lucia</i>’ in my Facebook and Twitter feeds when
reviews broke out and filled my whole timeline during its release. An Insomniac
movie theater usher consumes a colorful ‘<i>Lucia</i>’ pill that helps him to
lucid dream, live the dream and also rest well. His reality looks like a total sarcasm
to his dream life which goes to an extent where he prefers living his dream but
not his reality. His dream-scape crashes down, reality fades and engulfs in a
scenario where he gets lost in the <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5a58ce50-ce1c-4ff7-8c1a-c725d33175f5" id="335b2ef5-6379-4404-8cff-27242a198cd0">sane</span> line between his dream and reality.
What makes and takes <i>Lucia</i> to the next big level is its stunning ‘third
act’ that will leave you perplexed and get your minds blown away into <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="3fe63ef2-6a25-47e3-81e4-ef20dfe12ede" id="67ab5fbe-4dd7-4397-9382-e170481b9910">nanos</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">All it takes to succeed in a
mystery and psychological thriller is the third act, one stunning Abracadabra third
act, to win the <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="daac8529-0669-4ce4-9a9c-88a48b2da73f" id="d3a6cb30-3d3e-4a83-927c-fd59d466ef55">audience</span> heart. One can define this by Syd field’s <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_act_structure" target="_blank">Three-act structure</a></i> in <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="711e4c32-b0c4-46a3-930e-cfd8973de8e5" id="30b0d7b3-bb64-4c45-bd4f-c2dfd54fa20f">screenwriting but</span> as a film buff, I would like to go the Nolan
way of Three-act structure approach as inferred in <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU0uiGAm_SY" target="_blank">The Prestige</a></i>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i>Three
parts of a magic trick while performing a ‘disappearing bird trick’ for a
little girl.</i></b><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>First, there's "The Pledge,"
where the magician shows you something ordinary, like a bird.<u1:p></u1:p></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> - The
director introduces us an Insomniac lead, a roadside Romeo and his ground
reality.<o:p></o:p><u1:p></u1:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Then, there's "The Turn," where
he does something extraordinary, like make the bird disappear.<u1:p></u1:p></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> - The dream
sequence of him as a prodigy figure.<o:p></o:p><u1:p></u1:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>But this isn't enough.<u1:p></u1:p></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>There always has to be a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>third act</b>, "The
Prestige," where you have a twist, and bring the bird back, before the
audience will clap.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span> - <span lang="EN-US">In<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Lucia</i>,
the Twist and The Prestige is when director/ writer Pawan <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1ec3ca6c-dbcf-4b60-a60b-dbdc278ba8b7" id="df9da8a1-9b65-4234-b23f-fcdd172cc60d">kumar</span> stuns us with
the miraculous third act of the STORY where he push us, <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1ec3ca6c-dbcf-4b60-a60b-dbdc278ba8b7" id="8d2551f1-0adf-41cd-8810-e52a11eb2ea6">audience</span>, along with
his story and characters to get lost in limbo state where a whole new story
unfolds.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">Icing to this spectacular
screenplay and colorful cinematography (dreams in black and reality in colors, wow) is the crisp editing and beautiful melodies,
songs that doesn't bore the <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2b984b49-62ce-4a06-99ce-935d97ed7656" id="eefb3b2d-a4a7-4eeb-ad7e-17e3d13981d1">creep</span> out of us. The lead actors along with the total cast has performed soulfully. What I liked most about <i>Lucia</i>
is its high attention towards the slightest detailing over the subject. Take
any random frame and watch it closely, you can sense the level of perfection
and visualization that Pawan <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="bdddb7a1-5e9a-4b61-a8fd-08ee7f8e0e81" id="6ac40c4b-e31f-4ba9-bf59-c833f243337e">kumar</span> has conceptualized. It will seem that he’d
kept the narrative scenes simple but yet it consumes and draws the audience
fully in and force us to lucid dream until the end. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">In mystery and psychological thriller genre, there
are directors who <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="27f4d190-d3d0-4fef-af22-64b3bf58ae8e" id="04de7355-453b-49ba-948e-25d02c30f48f">prefers</span> giving minimal details or no detail and others who
loves to give all sorts of clues and details and still leave us boggled. Pawan
fits the second set. I liked the same with films of legends like Alfred Hitchcock,
Stanley Kubrick, Darren Aronofsky and Christopher Nolan. There is no <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="10977298-0f2c-4fb5-8dd5-8eb6e23a6805" id="6cc884da-7c1e-47a2-ba2a-cf96f86e3b1c">random</span>,
fast, fading cuts over the details that he gives us. <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a0314736-c7ad-4d24-8c2b-d360fba3b356" id="fe78ebfc-dd5e-430c-ba88-996068ee5232">Instead he</span> is happy to
furnish and throw everything open and still keep us interested, engaged and
guessing ‘What next?’. This proves how Pawan is confident and tough enough
about his script. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">Shades, patterns, cuts and
signatures of popular Hollywood and sci-fi films can be traced in <i>Lucia</i> but its restricted only to the shots, cuts and tonal color of the film but not
the concept and writing. So many <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a87c9f31-6687-473c-b610-1778a9ab3fca" id="56bc5799-82b7-45f7-a950-74b3d37feb47">netizens</span> brand <i>Lucia</i> as ‘Inception of
India’ ‘Indianized Inception’ ‘India’s reply to Inception’ ‘Blah Blah Blah of
Inception’, NO it’s not. Inception is <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="bca4afac-7a9d-4265-af73-74ac45f03ac4" id="7bf2e0b9-b50e-490c-a190-119027304ae1">class</span> apart, so as <i>Lucia</i>, in its own standards. </span>Recently I’ve watched two mesmerizing,
black & white Indie, psychological thrillers <i>The Untitled Karthik
Krishnan</i> <i>project</i> and <i><a href="http://kanna89.blogspot.ie/search?q=kshay" target="_blank">Kshay</a></i>. Both of the films have their own
level of standards and wonderful art/ experiment tag branded to it but they were
successful as well. A year back <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eega" target="_blank"><i>Eega</i> </a>was praised for the same reason, in
commercializing the Sci-fi concept well and feeding it with perfect regional
and Indian flavor thereby delighting the entire audience. <i>Lucia</i> took not
just a step <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1f55721b-5137-4114-9f5a-73f0ea265833" id="eb3c8deb-9b1d-4083-9ae4-4a7aa27f29d7">forward but</span> a giant leap in all aspects such as production values, crowd
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received by the audience and making good rounds <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="286cc777-1dab-4b1f-ac1e-22cecb4e5b4a" id="8d2cfc4b-39e8-47a6-99c4-3f6ff9a4f9d1">in</span> various film festivals. Also
the Tamil and Telugu remake rights of the film has been procured by the
revolutionary, new wave Tamil film producer C.V. Kumar of <i>Pizza</i> and <i><a href="http://kanna89.blogspot.in/2013/05/soodhu-kavvum-my-thoughts.html" target="_blank">Soodhu Kavvum</a></i> fame. To my limited knowledge, <i>Lucia</i> is one of best Sci-fi Indian
Indie with all the aspects of so-called ‘Indian commercial cinema’. <i>Lucia</i> is a unique product/ pill, for the fellow movie buffs, which makes us not just lucid
dream about watching a standard and successful Indie but to make one. Director
Pawan Kumar has not just shaken the traditional film making model of Kannada/
Indie films but totally stirred it. Bravo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">P.S. You can pay a minimal price and legally watch it online <a href="http://www.hometalkies.com/lucia/watch/?utm_source=Distrify&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=Widget-3254&distrify_affiliate=110791#distrify-player-3254" target="_blank">here</a>. Please support Independent <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a590e476-3496-4b07-8d08-9e1e862d4286" id="849649df-7fe6-4727-998f-9e06a0294539">film makers</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">Here’s my favorite films <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7ff6577b-9c82-4763-bc06-57a0c25bb674" id="2b890896-5c61-4f1b-b895-72d5b7fe8e84">on</span> the genre
of dreams, lucid dreaming, surrealism, hallucination and mind-fuckery.</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2001: A
Space odyssey & Eyes wide shut by Stanley Kubrick</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Holy
Motors by Leos Carax</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Eternal
sunshine of a spotless mind & The Science of sleep by Michael Gondry</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Midnight
in Paris by Woody Allen</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jacob’s
ladder by Adrian Lyne</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">The Day
he arrives by </span><span style="background-color: white;">Sang-soo Hong</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dark
city by Alex Proyas</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Being
John Malkovich by Spike Jonze</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="fbf36f85-b5b4-401f-b17e-39b86869628e" id="b50a1957-3ad3-4fa3-880f-cc3e59f87ac0">Kshay</span> by
Karan Gour</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Inception
by Christopher Nolan</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e593c472-94dc-4af3-9ea7-76aa5e2ea843" id="2c9d0b57-14e8-444b-b40a-2a9df81ceadc">Abre</span> <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e593c472-94dc-4af3-9ea7-76aa5e2ea843" id="bbc4af4d-6a7b-4a22-bea4-bea32721ad9d">les</span>
Ojos (Vanilla sky) by Alejandro Amenábar</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
Machinist by Brad Anderson</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mullholland
Drive, & Lost Highway by David Lynch</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Untitled
Karthik Krishnan project by Srinivas Sunderrajan</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="d05bd7a8-a89c-463a-ace2-1a5e36940755" id="2719cf90-680a-4345-a86e-90abccdcc8e3">Gandu</span> by
Q A.K.A Qaushiq Mukherjee</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fight
club & by David Fincher</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0f2f2187-9ea2-4173-98bb-5b3c7301f4e4" id="9308df73-b433-49f3-8afe-a463cb083955">After
life</span> (2009) by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Enter
the void by Gaspar Noé</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Antichrist
by Lars von Trier</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">The
Matrix trilogy by </span><span style="background-color: white;">Wachowski brothers</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ce13784c-9a26-428c-88c7-1323073e72b8" id="b2b4015a-3011-4205-98c1-91a63c3acd74">Persona
by</span> Ingmar Bergman</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Waking
life <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="b5caf214-3ca4-49e6-a9bb-58a4ed6e7189" id="9f449164-188d-48f0-b887-4f8a89cf8787">by</span> Richard Linklater</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Requiem
for a Dream, Pi & Black <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="bc2acba7-fce2-4b29-8686-bb2d12e9963a" id="5d0ed8c0-68f0-475f-974c-c450d3b500c6">swan</span> by Darren Aronofsky</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">Videodrome
by </span><span style="background-color: white;">David Cronenberg</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie & The Exterminating Angel by Luis Buñuel.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tasher Desh by Q</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Melancholia by Lars von Trier</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Synecdoche, New York by Charlie Kaufman</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dreams
by Akira Kurosawa</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mood
Indigo by Michael Gondry</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Solaris by
Andrei Tarkovsky</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Perfect
Blue by Satoshi Kon</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">Thirst by
</span><span style="background-color: white;">Park Chan-wook</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Eraserhead
& Inland Empire by David Lynch</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">Crash,
<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="bab3c221-f3c1-40e9-8ebc-e8303a40920b" id="aa128587-e3f2-4a09-a221-da3fd63baac2">eXistenz</span> & Naked lunch by </span><span style="background-color: white;">David
Cronenberg</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The City
of Lost Children & Delicatessen by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.</span></li>
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comes from a guy who did his schooling at Sanjay Leela Bhansali public school
and graduated from Anurag Kashyap University. Vikramaditya Motwane’s debut <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udaan_(2010_film)" target="_blank">Udaan</a> is based on Anurag Kashyap’s life story.
<i>Udaan’s</i> plot deals with a expelled teenage guy who has no choice
in life than to stick with his tyrant father until he takes a giant leap in his
life. Each and every one of us could relate to this movie, in some frame,
especially the ones stayed in boarding schools and stayed away from home during
their teen phase. It was selected to compete in Cannes under <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_Certain_Regard" target="_blank">Un certain regard</a></i> category and won a cult status globally. <i>Udaan</i> will leave you
spellbound with a triumphant smile and simultaneously with an ecstatic tear and
a heavy heart. His <i>Lootera, </i>a poignant period drama, does almost the
same but on a different emotional note.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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could hum themselves as ‘Once upon a time, long, long ago, there
lived a beautiful princess called Pakhi Roy Chaudhuri’. The story and premise
of <i>Lootera</i> can be stripped down in two lines. After hearing a story
about a prince whose life has been locked up inside a parrot, a diseased Zamindari
girl believes that she will die on a day when a last leaf falls from a tree. Motwane
juxtaposed a good old Indian mythological short story with O’Henry classic <i>‘<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Leaf" target="_blank">The Last leaf</a>’</i> and baked a whole delicious, saccharine flavored love story
under the Bollywood mainstream grammar. He has proven that one can make a
successful, sensible and a soulful story without the mainstream clichés and
compromise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit_Trivedi" target="_blank">Amit Trivedi</a> has composed, sorry, crowd sourced some
of the best tones, orchestra & OST from Hollywood and world music. We
definitely owe this guy big for bringing in the best world sounds, Indianize
few and sync it perfectly. The main theme of <i>Lootera</i> has been ripped from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsaqT7hOESI" target="_blank"><i>One day</i>’s theme</a> by
Rachel Portman and you can also hear Hans Zimmer’s <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srrAm9Eiqcw" target="_blank">Time </a></i>from <i>Inception</i>
in a long run before the Intermission. But apart from few rip-offs he has
composed few original scores too. Music will make you to linger around the spectacular
aura on-screen, captured flawlessly by Mahendra shetty. It will be a treat, for
all those who drool and jaw drop for dim lighting yellow, groovy gray and
blusih black frames with gorgeous lightings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">All the characters have justified their roles
perfectly. Even the ones with limited screen space won’t make you to forget
them. It was a great transformation to see Sonakshi Sinha on-screen after all
the brainless, sultry skin show roles that she had done right from <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabangg" target="_blank">Dabangg</a></i>.
She sizzles and sets the screen on fire not with her flesh but with her elegant
grace and looks dashingly beautiful in a traditional Bengali Saree. From sex siren,
item number dancer to an artistic performer, she made quite a great leap and
Ranveer Singh is equally good, matching her charisma, paring up with her and
rendering an adorable and heartwarming on-screen romance and chemistry. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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aesthetically cam-captured, soulfully acted. Like a fairy tale romance, one can
witness the magic of pure love story on-screen after ages. I don’t remember the
last time I've seen an Indian romance, period drama which is as genuine and as
good as <i>Lootera. </i>Not in the recent years at least.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Motwane elevates and transcends you into a whole different
era in the first half, immerses you in an ocean of heart wrenching, melancholic
emotions in the second half and finally sweeps you off completely in the climax.
Amongst the big family tree domination in Bollywood industry, Motwane stands
tall, stiff, solo and firm as a masterpiece ‘<i>Last leaf’</i> amongst
Kashyap’s kitties. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Latha; mso-bidi-language: TA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Opening the frame with a small, glowing, hot fire
flame and closing it with sad, sorrowful snow at the end, Motwane casted his
magic spell throughout the film. <i>Lootera</i> is an original piece art and Motwane,
you’re a magician.</span><br />
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Bitch!. *Breaking Bad series Jesse<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMR-VBN7NyM" target="_blank">tone</a>*</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I am fully charged up with blood boiling
intensity, tones of audacity and ground-breaking curiosity… DEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!
Adraaaa, VAAAAADAAA, Thoooku raaaa, Paaaaakrayyyaaaaa daa.. DDAAAAAIIIIIII!!!
Never felt this confident, strong, sound and profound even after
watching <i>The Dark knight</i> series or the recent <i>Man of
Steel</i>. Yay! Our very own Desi <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Harry" target="_blank">Dirty Harry</a></i> DURAISINGAM is
back with a huge ultra heavy ONDRA TON WEIGHT bang this time.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Usually I do blogpost only when I love a
movie from the bottom of my heart or hate it and puke it out. But this time I
wanted to do a special mention post and write about this Saint, Savior and
Superman of Thoothukodi.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Hari is the man with the best local plan.
He won’t showcase the use of Macbook pro, Hi-tech devices, flashy gadgets and
all in his films rather he makes his SINGAM to use Windows XP, MS-office tools,
Google Earth, SMS, Black market pistol, IMEI tracing, Google Maps, Phone signal
Jammer, Whatsapp etc.. This man has a particular style, spice, flavor and
signature in almost all his movies like <i>Saamy, Arul, Vengai, Aiyaa, Vel,
Thamirabarani</i> etc.. No one would've know their roots, people, hometown, railway
platforms, bus stand, Flight timings, pump set switch, one way road route, train
Tatkal fare, Hotel & Lodge bookings like the way Hari does. I am damn
sure about it.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">If Kubrick and Spielberg were praised for
their attention to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXq5rcY4_TU" target="_blank">detail</a>,
our man Hari too deserves the credit, No?. Whatay attention to detail, Man. (Don’t
take eggs and tomatoes) If Tarantino has some signature scenes (violence and bloody massacre) and stereotyped shots
like his very famous <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_whQnqwEYk" target="_blank">Trunk shot</a>, our Hari has his own shots
like Mass murder in marriage hall, 144 notice bandhobasth sequence, gang riots,
caste clashes, Top angle crane shot and Helicopter cam, Aerial view, Hunt down
in Harbor, Flight landing close-ups, Bus & car bombing, lorry
flying, Planting drug and arresting, property round fight with Kovil mani and
Kuthu vilaku, sketch pottu thukradhu, Retta paalathu kita vetradhu, otrai
sandhukulla odradhu, Murugan textiles pink and blue costumes, Small town girl’s
adamant love etc.. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I felt so many goosebumps, lightening,
thundering instances and jumping-from-seats Jhapak moments while watching
SINGAM 2. In one scene where Surya utters a continuous English dialogue and
slams his desk yelling ‘Power of Indian police’, I almost spilled my Soda on an
Aaya sitting in front row. The only saving face of Singam 2 is that it’s not as
horrendous or crappy as SalmOn Khan's<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabangg" target="_blank"><i>Dabbang<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i></a>franchise or Ajay DevBUM's <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2344678/" target="_blank"><i>Himmatwala<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i></a>remake or PAAn Kalyan’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabbar_Singh_(film)" target="_blank"><i>Gabbar Singh</i></a>. No, I ain’t a linguistic
or a demographic or a cultural racist. Even we Tamil folks have our very own Korathi's<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siruthai" target="_blank"><i>Siruthai<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i></a>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Pandian" target="_blank"><i>Hoax Pandiyan</i></a>, VishOl's <i>Vedi,
Sathyam</i> and all, I agree. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I wish Singam 3 is made starring not 2 but
3 glamorous malgova Heroines with Surya getting transferred to Hong Kong police
department, taking help of Malyasian special squad, beating the hell outta
Mexican drug lord and outsmarting Scotland yard, NYPD & LAPD. INDIAN
POLICE DA. Paaaaakrya daa. Bet katryaaa da. Paaru Da. Weight pannu da.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Do some 100 push ups, run/ jog few kms,
stuff your ears with sponge, wear a tight T-shirt and Boot, Take a dumbbell and
march to a nearby heavily crowded local theater with sweat, shit and piss
stained aroma and watch SINGAM 2. You’ll definitely like it. I did the same and
quite liked and enjoyed it actually, though I needed an Aspirin later on.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">First half tests your acoustic decibel
level, second half tests your patience, tolerance level and Climax was like<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gta_vice_city" target="_blank">GTA Vice city</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Miami or Malibu episode. With league
of extra-ordinary gentleman cast, safe-face Santhanam, a black villain like<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://gta.wikia.com/Lance_Vance" target="_blank">GTA's
Lance Vance</a>, Thoothukodi<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://cooking.jingalala.org/2012/12/thoothukudi-macaroon-recipe-cashew-meringue-tuticorin-macrons/" target="_blank">cashew macroon</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>shaped Hansika in School costume;
SINGAM 2 is the TRANSFORMERS OF THOOTHUKODI with SUPERMAN DURAISINGAM SURYA as
the OPTIMUS PRIME carrying the supreme energy of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark_(Transformers)" target="_blank">Spark<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></a>cube
in his rugged game face. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">And yeah, there is some fundamental Vastu and Feng-shui problem if you shoot a climax in ship, no?. <i>Thuppaki</i>, <i>Sura </i>.. ain't tat Vijayish. Oh wait, even Mani Ratnam's <i>Kadal </i>dealing the same problem in climax, Right?. *Scratches head*. Also that Singam dance reminded me of the climax of <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0351283/" target="_blank">Madagascar </a></i>movie where the real singam <a href="http://madagascar.wikia.com/wiki/Alex" target="_blank">Alex </a>& friends dances for '<i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a91pJDut50E" target="_blank">I like to move it move it!</a></i>' song. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Yo! Hater pellows, Going to a Hari movie
and complaining that it’s too loud, noisy and racy and all is like going to
Saravana stores and asking for a Giovani suit or Tommy Hilfiger accessories and
ordering Kotthu Parota and Kepan koozhu with Urugai in Hilton hotel, No?. Post
the movie, I speeded up my bike to 127.5 kmph and drove home, personally booked
a fitness trainer, extended my gym annual membership and placed an order for
Ray Ban Black Aviator sunglasses in eBay.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Looks like the dubbed English version of
SINGAM 2 i.e. <i>Pacific Rim</i> is releasing next week. But Yo! I
don’t mind it even after watching the big hugonomous robot slamming other one
with a real big ship in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5guMumPFBag" target="_blank"><i>Pacific Rim</i> trailer</a>. I
almost had similar moments in SINGAM 2 itself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">*Insert Hans Zimmer’s <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRuTAzqzuYg" target="_blank">BWAAAAAAAAHRRRRRRMMM </a>sound from
TDKR*</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">P.S. You won’t believe me. Once the crowd
got disbursed after the show, the parking bay gate was still locked and none of
the theatre authorities were there to open it. Few guys barged the gate, banged
the lock, yelled ‘<b><i>Ondra ton weight da</i></b>’, broke the lock and opened the gate. I was like
“HOLY SHIT, This movie must be subbed and telecasted in Egypt as an energy
booster for their Revolution”. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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COMMMENT PANRAA. TWEET PANRA. YENNI EZHE NAAAL LA PADATHA PAAAARDAA. ADINGAAAA!! </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">*Takes Bolero jeep and rushes off *</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2941619738467485349.post-412219862917843372013-06-22T16:06:00.004+05:302015-05-02T21:29:19.596+05:30This part of my life... this little part is called HappYness.!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">On June 16, 2013, In a fine Sunday morning, a sweet shocker article
about myself appeared in Deccan Chronicle's Chennai Chronicle edition under the
title "Movie Buff Goes Places" quoting about my passion for movie
watching and my blog posts. I am yet another nano speck of dust in the big
universe of Bloggers and Cinemaniacs. Yet, I feel so proud that I was recognized
for it. Feeling so positive and inspiring. Now, I understood the seriousness of
it and planning to spend more of my time and resources for the same. Thanks to
all of you my blog visitors, followers, my virtual buddies, FAM members,
Twitteratis, friends and fellow critics for sharing with me your views,
opinions and recommending good movies. That dramatic '<i>The pursuit of
Happyness</i>' movie's<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bklNWWoJyzE" target="_blank">job offer</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>moment for Chris and '<i>Nuovo Cinema
Paradiso</i>' climax moment for adult Salvatore when he was offered the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TflvNm22cpk" target="_blank">complete montage of deleted film shots</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with intimate scenes. *Wipes Happy
Tears*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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newspaper column. Check this<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130616/entertainment-kollywood/article/movie-buff-goes-places" target="_blank">Deccan Chronicle's web link</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for the same.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2941619738467485349.post-90680589886780105572013-05-03T13:21:00.000+05:302015-05-02T21:29:56.699+05:30Soodhu Kavvum - My thoughts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="text-align: justify;">This is not a review. This is a passionate discussion
post about the tamil movie ‘<i>Soodhu Kavvum</i>’ directed by Naalaya Iyakkunar fame NALAN
KUMARSWAMY, starring ‘</span><i style="text-align: justify;">Nightingale of Tamil Indie films</i><span style="text-align: justify;">’, ‘</span><i style="text-align: justify;">Joseph
Gordon-Levitt of Kollywood</i><span style="text-align: justify;">’, </span><i style="text-align: justify;">'Darling of the Masses'</i><span style="text-align: justify;"> VIJAY SETHUPATHI. Stop reading this right here, if you haven’t seen the film. Do step back once you've watched it.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">There are plenty of articles out there in net
which reviews <i>Soodhu Kavvum</i> and praise the cast, crew, story, script and music
of the film. In this post I have tried discussing, dissecting it and expressed the
instances, scenes and shots which I loved and the way I felt about it. *Story Spoiler
alert*.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">The genre of Soodhu Kavvum is mentioned as Dark
humour & Crime comedy. But one cannot stick Soodhu Kavuum under a
particular genre, I feel. It’s a mix and total troll on almost all genres and
the best part is that it parodies, spoofs and makes fun on the
grammar and template that was ever followed in Hollywood, Bollywood, kollywood
and other foreign films. CS Amudhan’s yesteryear’s hit movie ‘<i>Tamizh Padam’</i>
predominantly spoofs only tamil fims but Soodhu Kavvum trolls every single cliché
on all kinds of cinema. Each and every character, shot, ambience of the scene, music,
crispy hilarious dialogues and cuts iterates the same. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">There are hardly few directors who break the
standard procedures and grammar followed during writing/ making a particular
scene or shot. With my little knowledge and observation on films, I personally
consider <i>Quentin Tarantino</i> is the master in it. One can notice the hilarious,
breaking the genre attempt in almost all QT films. Take his recent ‘<i>Django
Unchained’</i> for example, he gives a hat and horse to a nigger and makes him
a cow boy/ bounty hunter, making fun of the evil K-Klux-Klan with their own
signature masks and portrays them as a bunch of lunatics. The White and
Mexican owned Spaghetti western genre has been totally trolled in <i>Django
Unchained</i> and that’s the way QT paid homage for his favorite Spaghetti
western genre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Quentin Tarantino’s ‘<i>Reservoir Dogs’</i> was
a big hit and it was mainly spoken for its authentic writing and making. The
success of Reservoir Dogs is that it paid homage for heist and crime genre by portraying
the aftermath of a failed heist rather than a sequential/ linear discussion
about the plan, mode and success of the heist. But, QT would’ve seriously
handled it with his own signature style of cold blood, violence and revenge.
Even this legend has been marked with a template, for now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If one form of paying homage &tribute to a classic by explicitly liking it and making an art form </span>inspired from it, paying homage to the classics by breaking/
spoofing about is an all-together different style and tribute. It doesn't infer that one
dislike/ condemn it. One familiarized, liked, loved and consumed it more and more that he
starts to joke and mock about it. Nalan Kumaraswamy rightly fits the bill here.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Dark comedy or black comedy is a new genre to
Tamil cinema. But Nalan, a new-face to the feature film industry, has broken
the cliche, film-making grammar and totally revolutionized the tamil film industry with Soodhu Kavvum.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Vijay Sethupathi as ‘Das’ & his idiotic
trio team</b> – Parody take on perfect teams undergoing heist or Crime in movies
like '<i>Sword fish', 'Oceans Series', 'Italian Job', 'Bank job'</i> etc... It will
seem like Guy Ritchie’s <i>‘Snatch’</i> stylish movie, where the characters
would be completely unaware of their actions, but here the idiotic bunch does
all the mad, insane things genuinely and with perfect sense. This is the main reason
it tinkles your laughter bone with perfect desi-humour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Hallucinated heroine character</b>- Big troll and ‘on-your
face Indian cinema’ attempt. Pacing and placing heroine just for a glamour
material, fantasy object, item song in most of the Indian films has been hilariously
thrashed. Vijay Sethupathi hallucinates that he lives with an invisible girlfriend
and listens to whatever she says or comment to him. I felt it as big spoof
attempt on various Hollywood films like the giant Bunny rabbit character in '<i>Donnie
Dorko'</i>, Danny’s invisible friend from Stanley Kubrick’s '<i>The Shining'</i>, Norman
Bates character from Alfred Hitchock’s '<i>Psycho'</i>, the character of a
mysterious man in black car who professor Nash sees in ‘<i>A Beautiful Mind’</i>.
Just like the above mentioned characters, Vijay Sethupathi acts and performs
whatever his invisible GF says, to some extent. When his invisible GF dies, Nalan
has used a musical, the one that would appear in an emotional, sad scene amongst
lovers in <i>Billy Wilder</i>’s films, early black & white Hollywood film
scenes where the couple bid farewell to each other and walk away or die in their
arms, such effect. There is even an angel song <i>‘Sa Ga’</i> in the movie
where she pampers and consoles Vijay Sethupathi. Hiralious take on all the dream sequence masala songs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>The silent ‘Psycho Police’</b> – Good cop, Bad
cop, Serious Cop, Rowdy police, Encounter police etc.. we’ve fed-up and done
watching lot of stereotypical cop
characters in Tamil/ Indian cinema. These characters yell, scream and utter mediocre
punch dialogues and give us grim/ cold bad-ass looks at all situations. Nalan
has broken this template by making the villain police character dead silent
without speaking a single dialogue. The best cliché/ laughter part is when the bad-ass
cop gets his face punched by one of the trio member with a pistol yelling the
dialogue <i>‘Kaila gun vechruken, sirikira’</i>. There was a thunderous laugh
for this scene in theatre. The last but not least, the </span>ultimate '<i>Iruttu arayil murattu kuthu</i>' sequence looked like a parody take on torture sequences from '<i>Zero dark thirty</i>' & <i>'Body of lies' </i>climax spoof.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Vijay Sethupathi’s elder brother <b>‘Dr. Film
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<span lang="EN-US">The music and BGM is a big plus and even they don’t
lack their part on breaking the template. <i>‘Mama douser kayanduchu’- </i>trolling
the classic Jazz and Blues song genre, <i>‘Kasu Panam Thutu Money Money’ – </i>Kalaichifying
the 1950s tamil period films where the King/ Emperor enjoys seeing a serious dance form performance
in his castle, <i>‘Ellam kadandhu pogumada’</i> –Parodying MGRs Inspiration
songs like ‘<i>Nenjam undu nermai undu odu raja</i>’ etc..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Pizza eating politician MR Radha rather than
tamil politician’s stereotypical portrayal with alcohol and Chicken piece diet, Spoofing
Rajini’s ‘<i>Priya’</i> movie blind-folded scene by perfectly finding the route
in a funny note, trolling Hitchock’s cameo in his own film-instead of Nalan
Kumaraswamy- ‘<i>Pizza’</i> director Karthik Subbaraj appears driving a Jaguar
car, funny and sarcastic news headlines and news scrolls at the bottom while
newsreader announces some serious news, following 5 golden rules on ‘kEdnapping’, using a toy
helicopter for a heist, Arumai Prakasam trying to jump from a building like ‘<i>Mission
Impossible’</i> Tom crusie… There is Sarcasm, Satire, Spoof, Dark comedy, Observational
comedy, Surreal comedy, Parody, Dramedy and genuine humor that oozes out in gallons
in each and every frame of Soodhu Kavvum. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Tamil cinema's stereotypical Douser kayanduchu. Kayatiyavar Nalan Kumarasamy & VJ Sethupathi.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2941619738467485349.post-19311458290044112162013-04-07T12:03:00.001+05:302015-05-02T21:30:29.676+05:30 Let’s all stop our utter foolish Settai and grow up<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="text-align: justify;">So last week I took a new avatar as a twitter
troller and trolled Arindam Choudhuri (Name changed for stupid reasons) of </span><b style="text-align: justify;">UTV</b><span style="text-align: justify;"> (</span><b style="text-align: justify;">MOTION) Pictures </b><span style="text-align: justify;">about Settai, so-called remake of </span><i style="text-align: justify;">Delhi Belly</i><span style="text-align: justify;">, and it getting ‘U’
certificate with No smoking or No alcohol scenes. I was completely thrown back
after reading this. ‘U’ certificate for a remake version whose original/parent
version has a ‘A’ Certificate? HaHaHaHaHa and I thought my jokes were bad
(Insert TDK Joker laugh). Even a LKG kid will do this basic math right.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">I went to watch Settai with a close friend of
mine who enjoyed and laughed whole heartedly but in parts. I sat through the
whole time giving a dead-pan face and laughed a bit for few scenes. Already my
interest on watching Delhi Belly remake in Tamil has been completely ruined
right from the moment when I heard that it’s gonna be directed by the guy who
cannot adapt/ remake <i>Jab we Met</i> in Tamil. Seriously, Jab we met with that curd
rice company owner’s over acting daughter Tamannah Pattia as Gareena Gappor and
Seval, Muniyaandi Vilangiyal moodramaandu fame USA return YoYo Bharath Singh as
Shahid Kappor? Are you freaking kiddin me? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The problem with this guy is that he is very
good in handling and changing the dippi copy template from North to south but
content & writing is where he completely misses & plasticize it. The
Tamil dialogues in his films, from the original hindi one’s, would be like the subtitled
Tamil songs in English for original Ayngaran DVD. Example. ‘<i>Kadhal anukkal
udambil ethanai</i>’ would be subtitled as ‘Hello, How many love atoms you’ve
in your body?’, ‘<i>Pathu viralgal pothathu unnai konja</i>’ as ’10 fingers
won’t be enough to make excite you and happy’ WTF! something high class grammar
stuff like that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> I hope
everybody who read this post would’ve seen or at least read/ heard about <i>Delhi
Belly</i>. Produced by the perfectionist Aamir Khan who didn’t bother about the
ratings/ censor-board/ Pamily audience/ ‘U’ certificate and some other
bullshit, <i>Delhi Belly</i> is a raw, hilarious laugh riot, completely filled with
cuss words & adult content. Those were the core content, essential criteria
behind the film’s originality and success. Aamir & Abhinay was very sure in
converting the writing in paper to scene on screen. Aamir didn’t intruded and
deteriorated the auteur’s original script in the name of Pamily/ Wide audience,
cause if he had such plans, he wouldn’t have dared to produce/ make it. For its originality and rawness, It was screened
in Harvard Business school during Harvard India Conference 2012. Director
Abhinay Deo was invited as a special guest for it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If you are planning/ making a pure, plain,
censored, culture oriented, wannabe funny story about 3 friends who got caught
in chaos with a bad guy and finally escaping, go write short stories for 2<sup>nd</sup>
grade kids, no? If you want to poke laugh on us for scenes where characters
jokes about feces, fart, kick in balls or ass and passing sexist comments,
please let us walk home and watch Cartoons & Looney toons where Skunk &
Wimpy farts/stinks, Small pig makes funny face, Dexter or Load runner makes
feces jokes, girls kick Johnny Bravo’s balls and Bluto makes sexist jokes on
Popeye and Olive Oyl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Take an adult/ black comedy movie like <i>Withnail
& I</i>, for example. It’s one of the best British cult comedy about two
unemployed adults. It’s so mature and made mainly for adult audience. Recently I’v seen <i>This is 40</i>, sort of
sequel to <i>Knocked up, </i>about a couple who struggles with their marriage
life in their early 40s. It was so real, honest and a replica of day-to-day
life of a 40 year old couple, told in a clichéd Hollywood style. These Adam
Sandler type movies, Seth Rogen & JGLs 50-50, The Hangover, Superbad, Seven
Psychopaths etc.. (List is actually big, quoting whatever that I remember rite
away), I betcha it will definitely take at least a decade to make one like that
in Kollywood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If you say that you cannot make a complete sex
comedy like <i>American Pie series</i>, <i>No strings attached</i> or <i>Friends
with benefits</i> etc.. that’s fine it’s
understandable but not even Rom-coms or Adult-coms, Dei?. Say me when our
Kollywood produced a rom-com. As far as I remember late Jeeva did Unnale Unnale
and it’s almost gonna be a decade since its release. Prabhudeva tried Rom-com
‘<i>Engeyum Kadhal</i>’ with Hansika, Justin Bieber’s elder sister.? Aiyoo that’s
one helluva sad story. Don’t remind me of it. I almost went bankrupt taking my
whole batch-mates, who were pissed and didn’t return ticket money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If Delhi Belly can’t be remade in tamil with
this so-called culture centric Pamily audience in Tamil Nadu, then why the hell
attempt one in the first place?. Settai, Stripdown or diluted version of Delhi
Belly, My Balls. If you say Settai was like a Samsung S2 or HTC one, a so
called strip down/ enhanced version of iPhone, I would’ve convinced to some
extent but in reality it’s like a Micromax or Videocon announcing/making/
releasing an iPhone successor for Rs.2500/-. Rings a bell?. The makers think
that if they couldn’t serve Rum or Gin they could serve you a beer and make you
happy. Guys, please understand the fact that you’vent served us a Beer but Dog
feces or Holy Cow's Komiyam. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I don’t know hindi but I feel like yelling in
Delhi Belly style “<i>Chutiya saala, Remake tho meaning nahi malum hey na,
phhir kyun thum remake movie bana raha hey bhencho!</i>”,at the makers. Hindi
folks, hope you can understand. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The problem is we tamil folks haven’t explored
comedy genre as rom-com or black-com or sit-com or standup-com or dramedy
rather we have categorized as NSK/ MR Radha-com, Nagesh-com, Gounder & Senthil-com,
Vivek-com, Vadivelu-com and now this stupid Santhanam-com & Powerstar-com
(Pukes on the floor). On comedy, We’ve failed completely as a civilization.
Some kollywood folks try hard and hard and make mature comedy films to some
extent like <i>Goa, Saroja, Naduvla Konjam Paaktha Kannom, Aaranya Kaandam (black
comedy in parts)</i> etc.. but rest of the folks make shitty ones like <i>Boss
engira Baskaran, Oru Kal oru Kannadi, Kanna Ladu thinna aasaya</i>, <i>Kedi
Billa Killadi Ranga, Alex Panadian</i> and completely abduct and keep us still
in Psychiatry ward like Jack Nicholson from <i>One flew over cuckoo’s nest</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Our censor board’s acts are even funnier than <i>The
Dictator</i> General Aladden of Wadiyan Republic. <i>The Dirty Picture</i>
original and dubbed version is released with ‘A’ in Tamilnadu but not ‘A’
remake version of <i>Delhi belly</i>?. I see our censor board as a typical
Tam-Brahm ParthaSarathy uncle who would shout ‘Aiyoo Bhagavaaney abacharam
Abacharam’ for sex/nude/vulgar scenes or like the Church priest from <i>Nuovo
cinema paradise</i> who sees the movies first, bells and edits the nude/ kissing
scenes and screen the censored version to the whole folks of the town. Force
feeding some adults with movies like Settai, In the name family content or
kudumba padam, makes them feel like an insane, immature fellow, forced by their
dads to run, play and goof around in Disneyland as they aren’t allowed to hang
out at pubs, clubs and restaurants. Let’s keep counting our days where we folks
will still be forced to stay alone at Disney land and stand still like Jim
carrey from <i>The Truman Show</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Dreaming in Limbo state, I wish that our people
mindset changes and prepares up to adapt the relaity and everybody (Director,
Producer, Actors, Censorboard) must grow a pair or at least a single ball and
make/ release a movie with adult/ mature comedy, offensive language, vulgar and
violence content . We adult/ mature audience must support such efforts. </span> Dear censors, Give us a fucking ‘A’
or ‘AA’ or ‘AAA’ but release it Goddamit.</div>
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Let’s all stop our utter foolish Settai, raise our hands to
lord almighty and growup by growing a pair. Amen.</div>
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Robert Downey Jr. quotes about Hulk’s nature in The Avengers movie, I am prone
to anger management issues after watching a worst movie and in this case it is
Neethaane En Ponvasantham movie (I prefer the title <b>Neethaane En Piece of
shit</b>, it justifies my feelings towards 120 for ticket and 240 for popcorn bucket)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I'd a bad gut feeling about the movie after reading its caption 'This could be your love story'. The very moment I read this, I am sure that it will definitely be sucky and holy molly, I was damn right. Movie started with usual college song intro.
The plot kick started from cultural day scene where our hero Varun meets his
childhood pal Nithya after a longtime, post his Gonorrhea surgery. Right
from that point, the audience was force fed pesticides and rolled down into a bizarre
journey, a reminiscence of their check-in /check-out love story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As kids
they play in park & streets, as teens they goof around at school &
math tuitions, as adolescents they date and get laid in UG days, as young adult they
struggle, worry about their future by the end of their college days
and finally during their mid 25’s, they undergo quarter life crisis, entering professional work life and screwing their own personal life, future and the minds of audience. This is the plot of NEP movie. Talk to me, who
else hasn’t underwent these in your life?. GVM doesn’t have a story for this
one and he always does this very old 25paise ‘<i>Paambaati Paambu varuthu</i>’ puppet show
trick where he fools us by trying to replicate and portray our own lives and
moments </span>on screen under some breezy shades of blue in a
beautiful fragrance with tip of the tongue cheesy English dialogues, back patting dad, caring siblings, jovial
friends etc... But genetically modified hybrid reality doesn’t make an impact
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<span lang="EN-US">Rather than
titling as ‘The moments from Varun & Nithyas love story’ GVM could’ve quoted as
the ‘The menstrual period from Varun & Nithyas love story’ because both of
them act and behave weird, immature, senseless, tensed, tired and stressed out
throughout the movie in every phases of their so called love story. If someone
utters that it’s the way the script is I’ll punch on your face coz there wasn’t
such thing as scripted.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Santhanam,
who is being added as a crowd pleasing material in all the shitty movies post
2010s, tickles our laughter bones at times but in parts. </span>Jiiva’s originality in
acting can be seen in some shots even though he was totally controlled and played
by the hands of his puppet master but Samantha, my sweetie pie why you always
dance or jump around or walk back forth or overact or look out of focus or put some
maargazhi kolam in air with free hands and behave unstable in all shots chellam. I love you as the Jennifer Lawrence of
Kollywood but you disappointed this Justin Beaver boy. We will take up acting
classes together in future at Newyork, no? *Singing
baby baby baby oh oh oh !!*</div>
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musical note, Ilaiyaraja’s music was a big turn off. RR and BGM were pathetic.
It hurts and even pains for me to write this but truth mustve been told that amateur
music composers in short films and low budget feature were scoring really good than him. Ilaiyaraja music has really turned old school. ‘The Maestro’ can reserve
his voice for spectacular Thiruvasagam, rare overseas concerts and occasional Yuvan’s
singles.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">GVM could’ve
best kept his Ilaiyaraja fan-boy feelings and obsession just in the dialogue
mentions and credits as he did in Vaaranam Aayiram, where Surya always quotes
about Ilaiyaraja music when he gets turned on by Sameera Reddy, resulting in a
boner. So many old songs, frequently heard tunes have been mercilessly
attempted and the classics have been completely raped. I couldn’t remember it right now but in theatre I felt it so many times. To quote some..‘Thendral vandhu
theendum podhu’ from Avatharam, ‘Adi yaathi indha vayasula from Paruthiveeran, ‘Ada
da vaa asathalam’ from sarvam has been used as a template for 3 tracks. The BGM and music
in the second part was completely horrendous. At places I felt myself as a tragic volunteer
for some Sci-fi experiment titled <i>‘High distortion acoustics in unparalleled
audiograms at brain damaging decibels’ </i>(Definitely does sound way better
than my engineering project title so patenting it). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dialogues were completely plastic, clichéd, and emotionless. English dialogues
were forcefully stuffed, to try and sound like so called high society peter
families does, which were evident in all GVM movies. There isn’t a one good
line or dialogue to remember or feel about. The wannabe highly emotional scenes
have been shot totally in wide frames and top angle. No close up for actors, meaningless wide angle
shots. Edhukku Sir. I wonder that GVM took all those wide angle shots to match
up and add comfortable dialogues later during recording.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> <b> ****A Letter to GVM*****</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As '<i>Vaaranam Aayiram'</i> Daddy advised to keep writing letter as it will make you feel good to read, use it when you ran out of tissue papers and cherish it in future, I am writting one for Gautham Menon along with few queries.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Dear GVM sir, </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">You already have a descent fan-following for your films, without knowledge. </span>I wish to mention a quote from 'The Dark Knight', my favorite Joker's line <i>'You see, madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push'. </i>Hope that makes sense.<i> </i>Please
don’t try to be the next big thing in film industry. Why you attempt a wannabe Maniratnam from Mounaragam and Alaipaayuthey days or trying to create a new Alaigal
Ooivadhillai of 2010s i.e. Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya. Etc….Edhukku sir idhellam
?? Venam. Vitrunga. Vaarnam Aayiram paarthom. Edho rasithom. Porum. Mudiyala.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If you wish
to boo your old puppy love and get her back, trying to sound like a relationship guru, playboy
guitarist or a blue checked shirt specialist please try some other sources/medium/platform
but not in the name of Cinema. Don’t sell this shit to audience in the form
of movie. That’s bullshit. Cut this crap and go back to Minnale and Vettaiyadu
Vilayaadhu days bro. Even those have been so cheesy but not like the recent
ones for god sake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">P.S. I feel the urge and need to revamp myself in a GVM way. Do send me the details and specifics like name and address for
the following<b>. ‘Oppan GauthaMenon style’</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Apparel outlet store where I can get
white Khadi shirt, plain blue shirt, Denim jeans, Slim-fit Khakis, checked
shirt.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">2.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Spa and salon for getting a sharp haircut,
clean-shave, facial and whole body waxing for MALE.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">3.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Spoken English class for enrolling
myself, my mom, dad, brother, sister, close friend, GF, servant maid, homeless street
kids etc.. Suggest one that gives a good deal as a package.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">4.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">From the crowd or a gang of girls, How
to sort out and hit on arrogant chicks, self-proclaiming angel looking bitches,
immature emo girls etc... Do I need to watch Twilight, Sex and the city or some
Chick flicks ? DVD reccos plz.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">5.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Moor market store name and titles of
English novels that I should buy and stuff at my living room for the purpose of
showoff in front of girls and guests at home.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">6.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Music class address and Song tutor for
all the on spot singing performances at school annual days & college culturals.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">7.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Voice trainer to talk in fake accent
for hiding my real personality. Damn! Not for the reasons Brue Wayne sounds in
Batman suit but for the purpose of sounding artificially, aesthetically, abnormally, manly infront of chicks. Is Vijay
TV Super singer fame Anant sir training your heroes for voice ?</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">8.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Personality development class
conducted by bob cut Anglo Indian half sleeve Aayas and sexually starving trouser
uncles. Gym instructor (the guy who trained surya 6 packs in 10 days) cell no. for fitness.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">9.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Guitar vidhvaan or thambura master
cell number for learning Classical Guitar from 2<sup>nd </sup>standard, to cuddle around guitar
whenever I feel sissy.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">10.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Dance school name and dance master address
for performing ‘Group la Dupe’ dance in a single intro song. Note: Currently
undertaking classes from Kala master.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">11.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Map route for Engineering college
admission office, Mechanical dept. HOD phone no., College hostel rent etc...</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">12.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Apartment broker website URL for
booking flats and homes near ECR, Anna Nagar, Fisherman’s cove or Foreshore
estate for personal reasons. *Winks*</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">13.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Laptop bag or Backpack brand name and
rate quote.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">14.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Torrent link for downloading Ilaiyaraja
songs in MP3, MP4, WAV formats along with BGM, OST, RR, Single, Karaoke, Cappella
versions etc..</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">15.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Woodland shoes model number and
size.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">16.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;"> Place to shop or online purchase a Harry Potter Wand or a
<i>Neuralyzer</i> from Men In Black to erase the memory of watching this movie.</span><br />
<br />
Delay in response is ok. I can understand your busy at the success party of NEP movie. But do reply for all my queries and help a poor soul to shape up, be fit, talk english, dress blue and score completely infront of chicks.<br />
<br />
Thanks & Regards,<br />
Surya s/o Krishnan,<br />
ECR Road Apartments,<br />
Newyork, Central park, Times square, Wall street, Berkley, California, Chennai, Banglore.<br />
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*******End******<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Planning to
host an alternate title contest for the title ‘Nethaane En Ponvasantham’.
Please fill your entries. Winners will be awarded Uncut, Unshot, Unedited, Unwritten,
Undeveloped Bluray version of GVM’s yesteryear cult classic <b>Nadunisi Naaigal.
</b>Bwaaaahhhh…. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My entries
goes like..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Nethaane En
Pencil Dabba, Nethaane En Pantry cup, Nethaane En Piece of shit, Nethaane En Puberty,
etc.. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Come on.
Post your entries …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u>Disclaimer:</u></b> This post contains plot spoilers. Do not read this if you haven' t watched or read <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Atlas_(film)" target="_blank">Cloud Atlas</a>.</div>
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If you completely liked, loved Cloud Atlas, read the protagonist version and shed out happy tears. </div>
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If you totally disliked, hated, couldn't understand it, do read the Antagonist/ parody version. Sit back and have a fun read.</div>
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P.S. For a musical reading experience,<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a88v7x72bfw" target="_blank"> play this cloud atlas</a> sextet and read it. </div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><u>Cloud Atlas –
Everything is connected. A Protagonist Version.</u></b><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><b><u><br /></u></b></span>
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Cloud Atlas is
a stunning hexaptych, a clandestine composite film. By hexaptych, I try to brand
that cloud atlas is a classic renaissance painting filled with six panels or sections
painted in a beautiful canvas (a silver-screen here), depicting an anthology of six different stories- that
are interconnected and entwined in multiple themes and highly sedative theories
of life, love, birth, death, existentialism, spirituality, reincarnation, modernism,
past life etc….</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If the thematic
essence of cloud atlas must be realized, understood and dwelled upon, one must
be familiar having watched lots of films that deal with multi-layered
screenplay, hyperlink cinema. If you are a voracious reader, and came across
nested stories and interwoven narratives - thereby intriguing lot of fantasy
elements in it, that definitely helps in understanding cloud atlas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Hyperlink Cinema, which is multi-linear in a more metaphorical sense, is one among the
best, revolutionary things that happened in the film genre. It started way long
before the advent of color films, but its tremendous rise and popularity can be
well noticed in the past two decades.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My personal
favorites under Hyperlink cinema includes like Amores Perros, The Edge of
Heaven, 21 Grams, Mulholland Dr., City of Gods, Memento, Pulp fiction, Babel,
Sin city, Crash etc..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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For understanding
Cloud Atlas in high level, I would recommend you to watch ‘The Fountain’ by
Darren Aronofsky, ‘Café De flore’ by Jean-Marc Vallée, ‘Hereafter’ by Clint
Eastwood. These are the films that came
as Déjà vu and flashed in my visual cortex while watching Cloud Atlas. Moreover
these were close enough to explain cloud atlas to some extent.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘The Fountain’
is a simple love story, triple layered screenplay, with a single quest-
spanning across the past, present and future. ‘Café De flore’ is a musical film
with two layered plot- dealing with love and reincarnation. ‘Hereafter’ is a
supernatural fantasy drama based on the lives of a psychic, a tsunami survivor
and 2005 London tunnel bombing survivor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> If you’ve seen these flicks, you can get to know that the plot is dealt and revolved around with characters and stories that grow up on a sequential, contiguous timeline- often moved through a single quest/ motto/ search. Cloud Atlas here breaks another record by taking a further leap by narrating six different stories in a complete disoriented timeline that spans over centuries and moved in multilevel patterns.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><u>Plot: </u></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The plot
goes on in a circular loop with an idiomatic context, not like ‘What goes around
comes around’ but ‘What starts here ends here’. An old Zachry sitting in a
sandy beach narrates the story of a voyager, whose incomplete journal lands up
in the hands of a struggling sextet composer, who shares his music and love in
the form of letters with his gay partner, who turns out to be a whistle-blower against a nuclear research. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Ok I’ll pause here. </span>*Takes deep
breath and continues*.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Meanwhile an
old publisher tries to escape from filthy money lenders, unwillingly ends up in
an old-age home and plans for an escape. This story is seen in a cinematic
format by a genetically-engineered fabricant (clone) in a dystopian future
society, where she starts to rebels against the exploitation of her race. *Gulps
Soda*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">On a distant
post-apocalyptic earth, Meronym, a member of futuristic civilization paves a
visit to a tribal clan. The fabricant from the dystopian society is idolized
and worshipped by this clan. Young Zachry helps Meronym to find cloud atlas that
would send a signal to the people who live in the outskirts of earth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Finally it
ends, where it starts. We could see old Zachry finishing his story telling session
in the beach and returns back home with old Meronym. Behind them, we can see a
pale blue dot that represents the Earth. Pheww.. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Tom Hanks,
Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess makes their appearance in all these six
stories with interesting roles. A character that plays a protagonist version in
one film plays an antagonist in another. Circle of life. Period. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A single
character in all the stories carries a birth mark which gives us a hint to observe
the theme of transmigrating souls. Irrespective of the criticisms, Tom Tykwer and
the Wachowskis has made the fellow critics and cinephiles awestruck by adapting
the unadoptable novel. They have also left us open lots of loop holes, loose ends,
knots and puzzle that can be observed, discussed and ranted by the fans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Cloud Atlas
will be hailed and studied in future. Seen it
twice already and will see it n number of times, hoping that each and every
viewing will add up and stir a better shake, compared to the previous viewing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Just like
Memento DVD that has a special cut which runs in a Chronological sequence, I
hope that Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis release a Chronological cut of Cloud
Atlas. That cut should run these six stories in parts as 6 different short
films, each spanning over 27 mins. Similar to the documentary ‘Room 237’ that
explains the hidden concepts, theories and philosophies of Stanley Kubrick’s
masterpiece ‘The Shining’, a documentary follow up must be made for Cloud atlas
that explains the movie from lots of perspectives. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">No wonder that
this film received 10 mins of standing ovation in Toronto International Film
festival. Watch Cloud atlas right away before some worst, cash grab,
reboot/sequel movie steals the silver screen. Do watch this massive film in a
big screen and get your minds blown in nanos. P.S. Don’t walk out near the end
credits. Wait for it to roll out exposing the interesting character
lineups. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Cloud Atlas - 6/6</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><u>Cloud Atlas:
An antagonist version.</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>How to Prepare
cloud atlas ? </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Take 6
individual stories from top 6 genres of all time. Interconnect them. Integrate
these six stories with x pieces, differentiate them into y pieces with each
chunk running a minute. Yes, it’s the goddamn calculus. Jumble the chunks in a
non-linear sequence. Add more of philosophic ingredients. Screw the audience
mind like the way editor got his head jagged in the edit table. Mix it and mash
up like how masala poori is mixed with khatta, mheeta, jeera and dhahi. Serve it
plateful. Yeppie. Cloud Atlas is ready to eat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Let’s see
about these six stories in detail. I couldn’t recollect these six titles
easily. So I renamed it for my comfort and understanding. Here it goes…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><u>The Slave
and the Sea:</u></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Just like
OC/BC/MBC/SC/ST quota in engineering colleges, there will be separate quota in Academy
Awards every year under all categories of nominations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">White helps
black, superior helps inferior, dick helps douche- such types. You can find
this in films like The Help, Hotel Rwanda, Blood Diamond, Schindler’s list etc…
This is one such story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">On a Gold
rush, a white guy finds a slave in his deck and helps him, fights for his
right. Boo. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><u>Musical
letters of a bi-sex(ual)tet composer:</u><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In every film
festivals you can find this type of film, which explains and explores the world
of homosexual people, Incest- their life, love, pain and struggle. This is one
such story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">An amanuensis for
a musical composer struggles to compose a cloud atlas sextet. He shares his experiences
and thoughts with this gay partner through letters. Finally kills himself with pain and regret. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><u>The Diving
bell and the Journalist:</u><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Erin
Brockovich, The Insider, Whistle blower, Witness Protection Program, State of
Play. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Journo facing
and escaping all barricades to safeguard the truth..Meh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Not a
superhero script, but this is another single hero/ heroine where the lead will
decode the entire conspiracy, the hidden mystery, the mythical mattresses, the
lost sauce packet, the unfried finger chips etc… This may not be a serious
script, but definitely wins box-office, Home DVD sales and big roles for the
lead actors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><u>Oldies day
out:</u><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Movies like
Prison Escape, A man escaped, Shawsank Redemption - dealing with a single guy
or a group escaping a lockup, can be juxtaposed with movie scripts in which people
are trying to get out of a mental asylum. Eg. One flew over cuckoo’s nest, K-Pax,
Shock corridor etc.. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A bunch of
old, unfunny douchebags figures to escape an old-age home and executes it. On
the verge of getting caught, they finally escapes. *Yawns* *Skips to next plot*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Do watch ‘It’s
a kinda funny story’. It’s the young version of it and its really funny.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><u>The White
knight rises:</u><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Minority
Report, Terminator, Artificial Intelligence, Avatar, Bicentennial Man, Fabricants,
Cyborg, The Island, Surrogates, Daydreamers, Transformers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Our greedy
human race has become even filthier in a so-called dystopian future society.
Just like exploiting nature, feminism, freedom and democracy, human race has ended
up exploiting fragments (clones) too in such futuristic society. Under the
leadership of a clone named Sonmi 451, they rebel against the human race condemning
the totalitarian state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So basically,
we mess with these clones, fabricants, machines, cyborgs etc.. and they fight
us back. *Bitch Please*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><u>Apocalypto
& Co. meets the Star wars:</u><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Cow Boy meets
aliens, Harry Potter meets twilight, Spiderman meets Joker.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Makes sense ?
Well that’s the whole point of this story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This chapter is
an epic facepalm. It simply reminded me of Wall-E movie where the fatso captain
sits in-front of a big computer googles about earth and family. Eva coming down
to earth in search of a plant, meets Wall-E, befriends and use him. Imagine the
apocalyptic Tom hanks as Wall-E and White dressed Halle Berry as Eva. Wall-E
helps Eva and he worries about the abandoned earth, while fighting with its own
inner ego and demon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Did you guys
get the logic? Its fucking same. Goddamn !!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Too many CG, racist/worst
makeups, multiple roles, lots of theories, 6 different stories with a mediocre
hope that at least one story will satisfy audience in an individual manner. So
there is nothing great about cloud atlas. It just like Andhra Meals or masala movies
which has all spices, sweets, starters, main course, salads, desserts, Intro
songs, fight, love, romance, family sentiments etc.. Even though it will make
us feel full, it often gives us big headache, stomach pain, nausea and diarrhea. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">One can even consider watching Cloud Atlas as a 'Navarathri' screening, in which 6 films were
played in a row the whole night to stay awake. Go for cloud atlas by telling
yourself that you are gonna watch 6 films for the price of one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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someone advise me to read the book, Ill punch and gift you 'Twilight' and '50
shades of grey' anthology. That’s what I call it as an epic. Damn you all cloud
atlas likers !!</span><br />
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<i style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1669648/" target="_blank">Kshay </a></i><span style="text-align: justify;">(Corrode) – directed by Karan Gour</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Obsession – When you don’t know why you like
it and want it, but still you madly need it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>Kshay </i>is the typical portrayal of middle class
people in our modern society. By looking at the high class people's lifestyle, the way the middle
class people dreams about the money, wealth and fame is far beyond comparison.
What Karan Gour has done with Kshay is classy, bold and brilliant. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">If ‘<i>Avatar’</i> plot can be compared or
related to the fight of nations for natural resources, concepts of Hinduisms,
<i>Neyitri's </i>character as mother nature etc., <i>Kshay’s</i> plot can be compared with the struggling Indian
middle class, their obsession towards wealth in their day-to-day lives. Arvind,
a hard working family guy, struggles for the completion of an unfinished
construction. He fights with his contractor who loots a portion of his monthly
wage consistently. Chhaya, a typical middle class house wife gets obsessed with Hindu Goddess Laxmi's statue, which is far beyond her need and scope of owing it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Hit by a stone on her cheek, Chhaya walks with
a scar the whole movie, which she ironically carries as the bandwagon status that the society imprints on the face of middle class. When goddess Laxmi’s
statue flashes in front of her face, she gets the glimpse of wealth, a hope and
a leap of faith. With lot of factors drawing and captivating her to own the Laxmi
statue, she attempts desperately to buy the statue at any cost- yes, AT ANY COST. What will be the heights of extremity that she will reach
to get it, lies the plot which is so obsessive in depicting the levels of craziness
and insanity.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In <i>Kshay</i>, black and white texture has been well
chosen and used at its best, along with the natural lighting. To picturize obsession,
not necessarily one needs glorious colors to portray it. Colors are not needed
in detail for a subject, to get obsessed with. Entire film lies in Chhaya's obsession in acquiring the Laxmi statue. The texture of black and white
draws us well to feel her obsessiveness. The haunting background score blends
well with traumatizing cuts, composed and edited by Karan Gour himself.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It’s unfair to compare our very own Indie filmmakers with others. But, If Q, the director of the Indie movie
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1841611/" target="_blank"><i>Gandu</i> </a>(2010 SAIFF winner) was termed as the ‘<i>Gaspar Noé of India’</i>,
then Karan Gour has every right to be called as the ‘<i>Lars von Trier of India’</i>.
What Darren Aronofsky and Danny Boyle did with addiction in <i>‘Requiem for a
Dream’</i> and <i>‘Trainspotting’</i>, Karan Gour does the same with obsession
in <i>Kshay</i>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I felt some sorts of Lars von trier’s
‘<i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870984/" target="_blank">Antichrist</a></i>’ moments while watching Kshay. The scene where Chhaya worries to
Arvind about her miscarriage (the stunning, slow, steady, b&w prologue
scene from Antichrist where the baby falls and the couple worries later), the
tree art in the boy’s T-shirt at the statue shop (the same tree under which
Antichrist duo make love, with satanic images around them in delusive sots),
the way Chhaya hears and feels certain strangeness in and around her home (when
Antichrist heroine hearing voices and whispers around the woods). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Kudos to Karan Gour & team for making Kshay
possible amongst all odds. Kshay is a pure work of passion and a genuine piece
of art. Art, at its highest level of obsessiveness swinging to-and-fro the eyes
of the ultimate observer. The best psychological thriller I have seen in this
year so far.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Go and grab a copy of Kshay DVD right away to
immerse in the world of obsession. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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You can watch the full movie online from youtube, Officially. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79ejbr56LOk" target="_blank">Click Here</a></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If you love to watch black and white films drooling all the way, check
out my list of ‘Top 20 favorite B&W films’ so far. Few films in the below list has its plot dealing with certain type of psychological
condition,</span> not Intentional though. To my surprise I found this only after making this list.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span lang="EN-US">Breathless</span></i><span lang="EN-US">
by Jean-Luc-Godard, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span lang="EN-US">The General </span></i><span lang="EN-US">by<i> </i>Buster Keaton,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span lang="EN-US">High noon </span></i><span lang="EN-US">by
Fred Zinnemann,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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by Joseph L. Mankiewicz,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span lang="EN-US">Apu Trilogy </span></i><span lang="EN-US">by<i>
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Angry Men by Sidney Lumet,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span lang="EN-US">Following </span></i><span lang="EN-US">by
Christopher Nolan,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span lang="EN-US">Polytechnique </span></i><span lang="EN-US">by
Denis Villeneuve,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Encounter</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> by David Lean<i>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Right from the beginning, everything seemed odd rather
offbeat. Mysskin boasting about the fights and techniques used in the film, the
possible ways that he was going to make a lineup of sequels, 12kg super-hero
suit, actors learning martial arts and stuff. Like most of you, I thought this is
either going to suck money in the blatant name of martial arts (like Surya's 7aam
Arivu) or its going be a desperate attempt to make a super-hero movie from a Hollywood
flick. Great snakes, to my surprise it was a compost of both and the viewers were royally screwed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am a big fan of Mysskin right from his debut movie Chitiram Pesudhadi. I
still remember the excitement and slowly building seriousness and tension while
watching Anjaathey. I pretty much liked the desi-Kikujiro (Nandhalaala) and Yuddham
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Curtains rose at the multiplex screen, along with my
expectations. Once the villain was shown and the first shot faded to, sort-of a
comic, Marvel or DC Comic book pages flipping from top to bottom, I felt a
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hero is so passionate about Kung-fu (they call it so). Feels
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aimlessly and falls for a bieberlicious chick. Couldn’t tolerate the crimes happening in the society,
hero turns himself to a masked vigilante. An invincible gang performs series of
robberies around the city and a cop is so desperate to catch them. Finally how
Mr.Mugamoodi caught the gang, lies the ultimate suspense and surprise in the
story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Reality: </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A street kung-fu guy who calls himself Bruce wayne.. sorry
Bruce Lee, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gets a boner seeing a
gigantic brunette whose IQ level will definitely be topped by a kid at play
school. To control his boner and to see her at night, he prepares a rexine suit
with the help of a grandpa- wannabe Lucius Fox. On the parallel world, at chennai's Arkham asylum, a guy with
serious psychological condition robs the city at night, after watching Heath
Ledger’s inevitable performance in ‘The Dark Knight’ from HBO continuously for
a month. Along with it, I assume he might have watched ‘The Town’ (masks) and ‘Kung
fu Hustle’ (The Axe gang), that makes him pathetically attempt and try uttering
dialogues for which even 7-year olds will give a face palm. Meanwhile Commissioner
Gordon, yes you are right, Naaser tries to catch this robber. How Mr. Mugamoodi
goofs up, spoofs up himself and kills the villain hilariously lies the ultimate
idiocracy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>How Mugamoodi could’ve happened:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After watching hell lot of Akira Kurosawa and Takeshi Kitano
movies for ‘n’ number of times, Mysskin was desperate to kick some real a$$ in
Kollywood. Combining his love and interest for martial arts, voracious reading,
comics, super-hero stories, Mysskin in one night stand with a Jack Daniel's whiskey, successfully
turned as Ram Gopal Varma of Kollywood (hope you movie buffs can understand
what I am trying to say). A script was finally written on a puked tissue stolen
from a local bar (which was show in the first song). Names it as a different, off-beat daring attempt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't want to write more about this. Furnishing possible,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Trivia, FAQ’s, assumptions, theories and conclusion from
Mugamoodi:</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">· No its not a rip off of MGR’s
‘Engal veetu Pillai’. Booo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">· This film is a dedication to Bruce
Lee. No, not to his mysterious death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">· Nolan’s ‘Batman’ Trilogy DVD can be
purchased for the ticket price at Moore Market.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">· If you want to read about tamil super
hero stories, go and buy the classic tamil comics ‘Irumbukka Maayavi’ from
Rani comics, 3<sup>rd</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>lane,
Bunder street, T-Nagar, Chennai.<span style="text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">(Click
</span><i style="text-indent: -18pt;"><u>here</u></i><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"> to trace in Google maps). Hoooo.</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">· Naaser is the Morgan Freeman of south
Indian films. But in this flick he fits in the role of Commissioner<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Gordon, than Lucius Fox.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">· Heroine is the runner up in Miss
Universe. Her acting is perfect that she can be casted in Desi/Tamil version of
<i>Jersey Shore</i> series yet to be aired in Star Vijay TV.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">· Narain has some serious condition and
deep pain in acting after knowing the fact that ‘Heath Ledger’ was dead, post
his 'Joker' performance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">· No, Anguswamy’s character (Narain) was
not offered to Actor Santhanam initially.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">· Mysskin fantasized Dark knight climax
mating with Spiderman-3 climax for Mugamoodi’s climax.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">· Climax, shot in harbor, 30 kids in a
school bus, tied and hanged from a crane, with heroine tied to a rope, villain
willingly loses his hand and falling down from the..... WTF !!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">· You may get the Dejavu of Bruce Lee’s
Bigboss, Fist of fury etc.. in some shots when one kung-fu guy goes and hits
the other guys from his opponent school for insulting his master.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">· Reason for Grandpa Character wearing
the Sherlock Holmes suit with funny hat and a pipe in climax, only god knows.
(Don’t tell me that he was with the guy from costume department)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">· You will love to watch dubbed super
hero movies in theatres after watching Mugamoodi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">· I ain’t going to a Mysskin movie again
unless if its shot in yellow-bulb, dim light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">· This is what happens when an
unstoppable force (experiment subject, dumbness) meets<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> an immovable object (mass, high
budget, crowd pleasing).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">· Oh yes, this guy K makes some good
BGM, Seriously.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Further contributions, comments, views, trolls are welcomed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For all you people who were fed up watching ‘Mugamoodi’, I
suggest you to watch ‘<i>Supermen of Malegaon</i>’. Please do watch it. I assure that
your laughing bone and brains will definitely be tingled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">P.S. If someone is offended directly or indirectly in the above post, am.... Dude just STFU, go and watch this movie for 3 hours. You'll understand my pain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It all
started with elegant posters designed in the style of art-house novel covers, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBJ_UpyQw_s" target="_blank">Villupaatu genre </a><span id="goog_1010942227"></span>trailer <span id="goog_1010942228"></span>of a film
winning accolades all over the world. Before starting my review, I want to congratulate
and thank the director Thiagarajan Kumararaja for bagging a national award for best debut director with great confidence thus by making a daring attempt.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">The name Aaranya
Kaandam, English Title: Jungle Chapter, originally denotes a chapter in Ramayanam.
That particular chapter tells us about the Raavan’s plot on captivating Sita. Just
like Vali’s epic, Ramayana carrying lots of details and references in a
historic epic, Thiagarajan Kumararaja has written Aaranya Kaandam well with perfect
sense, making one to sit and get locked up tight to the characters and the
plot. Thiagarajan has almost made a research for it, I guess. Starting from
Jackie shroff, Sampath, Kodukapli, Somasundaram (<a href="http://www.koothu-p-pattarai.org/koothupattarai/index.html" target="_blank">Chennai Koothupaatarai fame</a>),
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">Plot of AK is
crisp and clear.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;"> Perfect cut I’d say. </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was </span>lovable<span style="font-family: inherit;"> and easily
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Plot: </b>An old Lion
(Singamperumal) and giant elephant (Gajapathi Brothers) ruled the jungle. The
cow (Pasupathi) helped the lion by finding its prey thereby gaining its
survival. One day in a Jungle the cow suggested lion about consuming a prey
(cocaine) that belonged to Elephant. In this situation, Lion disagrees; cow
decides to take advantage of the situation, control and position of the old Lion. Lion gets
pissed off because of that and decides to kill cow. Becoming aware about this, Cow
escapes and accidentally bull (kaalai) and puppy dog (kodukaapuli)
gets caught amidst all these chaos. Cow draws a strategy to get back the prey.
Executes its successfully by defeating and killing the predators. While all
this happening, a beautiful cunning fox (subbu) escapes this wild hunt by placing
a pity crow (sappa) as a decoy. Well that’s Aaranya Kaandam is all about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">The racy
narration keeps the plot alive and healthy. Even the simple scenes were narrated
and acted very naturally. The soul of Aaranya Kaandam lies in the shoulders of
characters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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conversation amongst the gangsta members on ‘How to get a desperate lady?’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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call sequences between Gajapathi brothers, Singamperumal, Pasupathi, Kaalai
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directed by Gayathri Pushkar, friends of Thiagarajan Kumarajan, crossing up sappa
and subbu accidentally. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sappa & Subbu’s situation in the Mario game scene sequence was really
loveable. Matching the game’s ending, in the climax subbu walks away with an attitude that
shows ‘Middle finger salute’ to the male chauvinistic/dominating society with
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many reviews where people condemning the director as a copy of Guy Ritchie, his
narration and screenplay as Tarantinoish one. Seriously, stop it guys!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ritchie and Tarantino are not true and original either. Even they have been
inspired by lot of good old folks like Sergio Leone, Stanley Kubrick, Spielberg
and so many Spaghetti western films, cult films and grindhouse movies. It’s
just another dimension of narration and variation in storytelling. They didn’t
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">Quoting all
their films like Pulp Fiction, Reservoir dogs, Snatch, Rock’n’Rolla, Revolver,
Lock stock and two smoking barrels… and other famous Gangster films like The
Godfather, Good fellas, The Usual suspects, Scarface, Donnie Brasco, City of
gods etc… everything deals with using profanity, portraying outraged
characters, Illegal drugs smuggling, trafficking, killing, chasing and a bloody
massacre at the end. Each and every goddamn gangsta movie has it. You cannot
call it a copy when a plot is made with such specifications because that’s what
they do in their real life and that’s why they are gangsters. Remember Aaranya
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generation kids were done watching all the boring melo-drams and family movies all
their way up till now. All we need right now in Tamil cinema is (A) movie with true, raw,
rusty character portrayal in addition to Bloody action sequences. Seriously,
how long u guys want us to get jealous of the foreign films in the name of
culture, heritage and tradition. ? Not all loves to see the reality and hear profanity,
I agree. But truth should’ve been told and portrayed atleast in some films. Keeping your kid safe
from hearing profanity and violence on screen doesn’t make them neither sinners nor saints. Media alone isn't responsible for one’s rude, violent behavior. Well that’s
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about Profanity, AK will be a trend setting movie in tamil cinema for this
aspect too. I love the way profanity usage is handled in AK. It was not used on
purpose or for the sake of usage but the characters utters it because emotional,
angst soul. Always envied its usage in Hollywood and foreign films. Even the Hindi <i>'Delhi Belly'</i> made me to worry and wonder when such movies will come to tamil. Inspite
of those 52 cuts, NOC certificates, (A) certificate from the censor board,
Thiagarajan Kumararajan and producer SPB Charan almost made it possible and won battling the censors. SPB Charan truly deserves the credits and success </span>for trusting the script and a new director, backing up such a great project. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the whole, Aaranya Kaandam introduced the neo-noir genre in tamil cinema. It will be praised, hailed and referred a decade later just like Anbe sivam, Kattradhu Thamizh and Pudhupettai. Well done Thiagarajan & team. Can't wait for your next movie. Please make it soon.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It’s one
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generation in film making. The Inception for this project happened by Kevin
MacDonald’s idea, supported by YouTube community and produced by Ridley Scott. “Life
in a Day” is a crowd-sourced documentary film that was shot on a single day
(July 24<sup>th</sup> 2010, Saturday). It was filtered and edited over 80,000
videos that were submitted from the contributors around 192 countries with a
runtime of 4,500 hours. The movie debuted in Sundance Film festival and its streamed live online officially.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I specifically
watch some movies for their catchy titles. If such titles carry the word “Life”
in it, I will definitely fall for it. Apart from “Life in a Day”, Some of the best
titles that I’d watched mainly for the keyword ‘life’ is Tree of Life, Life is
beautiful, Lives of others, Life of David Gale, Waking Life, The Double life of
Veronique and the classic, It’s a wonderful Life. This big list includes </span>Godfrey
Reggio’s <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1902161837">Q</a><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatsi_trilogy" target="_blank">atsi trilogy</a>
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<span lang="EN-US">The soul of
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blending and traveling along with the characters. It should sound as a theme
that represents the state of the character’s mind and beats of the heart. </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Gregson-Williams" title="Harry Gregson-Williams">Harry Gregson-Williams</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Herbert" title="Matthew Herbert">Matthew
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The movie explores the unidentified loop amongst various phases
of life, with its spectacular comparison of a day’s dawn to dusk with the life’s
birth to death. Just like myths, dreams, reality, relationships, love, pain and
ailment, a day has its own unique ups and down. The film opens with early day
footage of a lady feeding a baby, an old woman explaining about her myth, drunken
person blabbering in a hangover. It then gives a quick glimpse at the
characters and their lives we are going to view about in a major portion, followed
by the wake-up scenes across various geographies in different styles. The
regular early morning sessions of a day like freshening up, breakfast and
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The narration then jumps to portray the essence and
importance about the birth of a creature. Amongst all the lovely tracks I loved
the track <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZhIMLT1DBA" target="_blank">“A day In a Time”</a>. It still plays like a sweet lullaby in my ears. It
stands as a theme for the ever-good rich parts i.e. for the HD shots
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Following by the scenes of people telling about what they do
carry regularly, the musical track then slides down to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU_gZNVfuf0" target="_blank">country folk song</a>, sung
by three Angola women while grinding the crops. The perspective of love, how it
means to people of various ages are questioned in the middle portion of the
film. The way people consider about relationships, happenings of marriage in
various cultures are showcased. After all these family, trust, hope, love, relationship,
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There were lots of monologue shots. The two best monologues
that I liked and felt like giving a salute and standing ovation were by the
African guy in a boat (Near the opening scene ) and the girl inside the car (In
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ceremony and flew those in the night’s sky, lighting a positive
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I couldn’t be specific about my favourite character. Right
from the lady overcoming cancer, bicyclist for peace <a href="http://www.okhwan.com/" target="_blank">Okhwan yoon</a>, a boy who
shines the shoes, a little girl reaching the heights of her aspiration, a man
working overseas just for the sake of his family, a women waiting for her
husband’s return, a guy trying to propose his girl friend and another guy
trying to express his grandma about his love on his boyfriend, budding parkour
friends, One can easily relate to any of these characters and wind up speechless
with at least a drop of tear and a little smile, mutually. The movie explored
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In the end credits there was a shot in which a snail sliming in a
round surface, surrealistically turns out to be the surface of earth.
I feel like it’s a sarcastic portrayal of a human soul sliming in the surface
of earth exploring the quest and mystery of life. The shot later turns out to be the inside-of a camera lens (as if the
camera is buried on ground) where a cow tries to lick it and eat it up and walks
past as if it leaves the space for an open sky. Millions of thoughts and hopes pondered up
after the screen went down. And I started to write <span style="font-family: Wingdings;">:)</span></div>
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To start of with, I am a big fan of Bala sir. Laughed, Enjoyed, cried, adored and even inspired from many of his films. Loved his view and approach to the new dimension, out of the box thinking and directional style. It’s simply awesome and outstanding. He deserves a big salute and standing applause for his typical casting of characters and paving a gateway for many such debut artistes. </div>
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Starting from Nandha, Pithamagan, Naan Kadavul his characters utters subtle dialogues, but carries the plot making it lively by conveying more with expressions and mannerisms. He deserves best, the national award for Best Director for his Naan Kadavul. His exploration on Agori and sinned creatures are fantabulous. Arya, Pooja the always amazing lovey couple portrayed an untouchable genre in Naan Kadavul. Such genres and typical plots can never be made, and one dares to make a feature film with that script. </div>
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Most of the People feel Bala Sir’s films as stereotypic ones about the abandoned people from society. And even considered as raw, brutal and gore types like Shino Sono or Lars Von Tier films. Yes, it is. I consoled & confronted myself to this decision after watching his Avan Ivan and left disappointed totally.</div>
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Both Vishal and Arya has done a good job and justified their roles. But they could’ve been characterized and written well. Vishal with his feminine acts, looks, dance and sprouted eyes like a icing on the cake for his character is brilliant. It fails to impress audience at times when he utters some unworthy, predictable, irritating, stupid dialogues on screen. Intro dance bit of Vishal in Jameendhar’s bday celebration, Arya’s funny mannerisms pulling legs of Vishal and his mom now and then are commendable. </div>
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Why all Bala films end in grave with a fuming corpse in flame?</div>
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Avan Ivan is best for those who consider a lighter, rated, extended, stupid, strip down cut of Bala’s previous films.</div>
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All those light hearted people out there, who don’t know Bala sir and prefers to watch the ultra light shitty version of Pithamagan and Naan Kadavul, for you guys Avan Ivan is must watch. For the ardent Bala Sir fans, Passionate movie lovers it’s a strict, worth avoiding flick.</div>
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