Transformers : Dark of the Moon -- Wow…! For Special effects and Oops…! For very weak plot

Transformers : Dark of the Moon – Optimus Prime lives for Indian Movie Buffs this time…..

Wow…! For Special effects and Oops…! For very weak plot. The film has a very fragile knot that makes it just a Special effect Exhibition, The length of the film has disappointed the western audience and as for as the Indian audience it’s the VFX that makes them forget the length.

Micheal Bay has this time concentrated more on the visual aspects and has let loose the narrative structure of the movie. Eren Khruger the writer of this movie has been bound to compromise his plot to the VFX in the film. Some inner plots in the movie are very usual and does not create much difference.

Optimus Prime’s bold dialogues have been slashed as Indian theatres are yet to be equipped with 7.1 sound systems. Its only the BGM that audience could hear.

But no doubt that the Special effects and the character designs are marvelous, and the Indian audience are gonna love the film.

Avan – Ivan : A commercial entertainer in Bala style..

Avan – Ivan : A commercial entertainer in Bala style..

Avan – Ivan does not soar the expectations on Bala films. Though he has tried out and out commercial output, the realistic aesthetics in the film make it a critic lovable film. I will rather call this as a wholesome film that full fills every mindset.

The most important clutch in Bala’s films are the characters and their livelihood, which stays par excellence in every frame. Starting from “Chiyan” in Sethu to “Walter” Vanangamudi and “Kumbidren” Samy in Avan Ivan has its own unique potentiality and the characters form the USP of the films. At no extent the characters are thrown from the background the story revolves around.

Bala makes the script the first protagonist of his films, and the same happens in this too. Vishal as “Walter” Vanangamudi is at his best. This is the first time I belive that Vishal has become an actor. Director G.M. Kumar, “WoW” what an man, he lives as Zameendar (“Highness” that’s how people call him) as usual Arya has done his best, this time Vishal has carries a part heavier than Arya but both are at their best. As usual Bala surprises us with his unexpected castings like Ananth Vaithianadan (Voice expert in Airtel Super Singer) Ambika and RK (Hero of “Ellam Avan Seyal”) . Both the female leads have done what they were to do, but this time the female leads have lesser weights than the female leads of other Bala films.

The film makes us laugh throughout till the last 20 mins and then you dip into a mind blowing sorrow. In every film the problem or the root cause for the climax will be introduced in the first half but in here the plot is being reviled only in the second half which no audience will expect.

The comedy that grips along the script is natural and has no side track.

Yuvan has followed his Dad’s style in re recording.

This film is an example to all aspiring film makers to know how a commercial movie can be made with realistic aesthetics.

Though not a typical Bala film, this too is a new Genre of Bala’s dictionary.

And last but not least it’s a Vishal film directed by Bala.

Aaranya Kaandam : A raw Sur-Realistic gangster flick..

Aaranya Kaandam : A raw Sur-Realistic gangster flick..

Sabash…..! for Thyagarajan Kumararaja for bringing to screen such a wonderful cleanly weaved raw script. And double Sabash….! For S.P.Charan for producing this movie believing on only the script and the director.

It was like watching Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction or Inglorious Basterds. Really amazing film and happy to see such a flick in tamil. Aaranya Kaandam has already started collecting feathers and gems on its hat even before we got the chance to watch it. It already won the Grand Jury award at the south Asian film festival held at New York a year back.

The script is very raw though the climax is predictable each and every scene and happening is unpredictable and the script the screenplay makes the audience stick to their seats till the end. A very special applause must be given to the “Open” Dialogues in the film. If this was the concern for the censor board, I hit back at all those learned biggies “Please come watch what the real world is before rating a film”.

Characterization, the characters carry the film on their shoulders and they have safely landed the palanquin on a golden palate. Jackie Sheroof, Sampath, Somasundaram, Ravi Krishna avery one are very fresh. Especially Somasundaram as Zamindar has done a wonderful job.

I wish this film has no Interval. Yuvan Shankar Raja’s background score is class and reminds me Inglorious Basterds.

This is a Sur – Realistic film, these type of films are very rare in Indian cinema. This story happens in a day but the most beautiful thing is that no single Time insert shots like showing a clock, Time running has been used to show that it happens in a Day.

Thiagarajan Kumararaja must go places….

Please go watch the film…..

Engeyum Kadhal: Nothing Special, Nothing Unusual, Yet Cool……!

Engeyum Kadhal: Nothing Special, Nothing Unusual, Yet Cool……!

Engeyum Kadhal Prabu Deva’s Visual treat after a “Masala Milieu” Villu, shot in and around the exotic locals of Paris is a feel good and cool film which grabs a visit to theaters for everyone who watch the Cut to the Best trailers on Sun Network and mesmerizing melodies of Harris.

The most creditable substance in the film is the limitation of Casting, no large family, unwanted comedians, Friends nothing just five characters including the lead pair, and the script revolves around them and ends within them without surprise entries at the end.

Jayam Ravi and Hansika have done what the screen needs nothing more or less, A special applaud for Hansika for improving her Lip Sync, she was literally chewing Bubble Gum all around in Mappillai. The comedy that goes along with the story makes the audience go on track. Especially when Raju Sundaram drops the mobile inside the closet.

A special reference has to be made to the choreography for the Song “Engeyum Kadhal” and an excellent and enjoyable movements in “Nangai”. Prabu Deva has brought us the cool drink for this summer please have a sip of it, don’t go in with more expectations, but Go spend some time and feel relaxed.

As per the usual dragging first 2 Acts of the script, it has become a routine that people lag in placement of songs, that too placing four songs in first half which is already dragging pushes the audience to snack counters….!

Harris Jayaraj, Nirav Sha and Sun Pictures’s Trailer Dept. are the real leads of this film…..!

Ko: A Well read Political Drama…

Ko: A Well read Political Drama…

First of all a very big Salam to K.V.Anand & Subha for bringing back a Political flavored story with a needed slices of action and comedy which today’s audience need. After Mudhalvan becoming a Hit there were very less political dramas those did a show in the box office. Though Mani Rathnam’s “Ayutha Ezhuthu” had a very good star cast and youthful flavor it did not do well in the box office.

This film KO has many twists and turns all around the script which makes the audience keep guessing till the end. Jeeva has once again proved that he is a Director’s actor. (A Sure Miss for Simbu). Every single cast in the film has a role to play with the story that’s really a worthy and healthy thing for casting in tamil cinema.

Karthika the female lead in the film is really the Female Lead of the film. Piaa Bajpai who resembles the role of Laila in Mudhalvan has a lead to catch with the script. Prakash Raj and Kotta Srinivasa Rao have played a role which has the shades of the real life politician. Especially when Prakash Raj handles the press, wow what an acting.

And after everything there are no words to say about Ajmal brilliant work. He really has his innings in the tinsel world after this.

Now the real hero K.V.Anand brilliant, His work on character design excels as usual, I personally became fan of the villain role played by Prithviraj in “Kana Kandein” that surprise travels till Ko. Directing a Political drama touching many current issues like money for vote, etc,. Suba and K.V duo rocks again.

The only flaw that we could feel is a bit drag in the screenplay and the placement of two songs in the second half. The technical part of the film has no comments to be told.

And at last please do watch the film.

Ponner – Shankar: A Epic Spoiler….

A novel by a Veteran weaved to fit the screen was the expectation, but the whole thing has become a wrath spoiler.

The only soother is a return of epics to Tamil Cinema. Except for the Extavanza in sets nothing is special in the film. My opinion is only the supporting cast which includes Nazer, Nepoleon, Kushbu, Pon Vannan, Jayaram is good while all the lead roles played by Prasanth and the female leads are Yakkkkk….

The story which depicts the important events about “Lord Annanamar Swamy” who still is worshiped as God by the Kongu Vellalar community. Ponnar and Shankar, who became rulers of Ponni Valanadu in medieval Tamil Nadu, south India, were twin sons of a Gounder warrior caste couple, Nellian Kodan (or Kunru Udiyaan) and his wife Thamari. They are credited with saving their people from an invasion.

The original work by Dr. Karunanidhi has been spoiled by emphasizing unwanted heroism on prasanth. The costumes wore by the female leads in the film is no way related to Tamil culture. The costumes are just simply copied from “Jodha Akbar” and I don’t know why two ladies from alien land have been brought here to play very important roles that could have become an cultural idol. Those two don’t even shake their lips to suit Tamil words.

Many unwanted “Slow Motions” spread all over the film gives unwanted feeling and makes audience feel bored. Prasanth who has come back after a long gap must have chose someother film that would have suited him to show the Body he has built after many Gym work outs.

And finally for Thyagarajan, who is the director of this film, after Governments free Television scheme every household from Chennai to a small village are watching Star Movies, Movies Now, HBO and many other channels. So they know what Brave Heart is, what Apocalypto is, its better not to take a very good epic and spoil with a substance like this.

“நல்லதோர் வீணை செய்தே அதை நலம்கெட புழுதியில் எறிவதுண்டோ”

The Social Network : Superb narration..

The Social Network : Superb narration..

Review:

“The Social Network” is film based on the founding of “Facebook” and the aftermath events and problems faced by Mr. Mark Zuckerberg the founder of “Facebook”.

David Fincher has made a very tight and a clean narrative structure to a bio – pic every word uttered by the characters and every event is related to the story told.

The format of taking or telling the story from the legal arguments and letting the audience sit grip to their seats is the unique thing in the film.

Hope this film does well in the Academy awards this year….

Plot as on www.wikipedia.com

In 2003, Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg has the idea to create a website to rate the attractiveness of female Harvard undergraduates after his girlfriend Erica Albright breaks up with him. Mark hacks into the databases of various residence halls, downloads pictures and names of female students and, in a few hours, using an algorithm for ranking chess players supplied by his best friend Eduardo Saverin, he creates a website called "FaceMash", where male students can iteratively choose which of two girls presented at a time is more attractive.

Mark is punished with six months of academic probation after the traffic to the site brings down parts of Harvard's network, and becomes vilified among most of Harvard's female community. However, the popularity of "FaceMash" and the fact that he created it in one night, while drunk, brings him to the attention of Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, identical twins and members of Harvard's rowing team, and their business partner Divya Narendra. As a result, he gains a job working for the Winklevoss twins as the programmer of their website, Harvard Connection.

Soon afterwards, Mark approaches his friend Eduardo and tells him of his idea for what he calls "Thefacebook", an online social networking website exclusive to Harvard University students. He explains this would let people share personal and social information securely. Eduardo agrees to help Mark, providing a thousand dollars to help start the site. Once complete, they distribute the link to Eduardo's connections at the Phoenix S-K final club, and it quickly becomes popular throughout the student body. When they learn of Thefacebook, the Winklevoss twins and Narendra believe that Zuckerberg stole their idea while simultaneously stalling on their website. Cameron and Divya want to sue Mark for intellectual property theft, but Tyler convinces them they can settle the matter as "Harvard gentlemen" without resorting to the courts.

At a lecture by Bill Gates, fellow Harvard University student Christy Lee introduces herself and her friend Alice to Eduardo and Mark. She asks that the boys "Facebook us", which impresses both of them. Christy invites them to a bar, where she and Eduardo have sex in the restroom. Mark later runs into his ex-girlfriend, who is not aware of The Facebook's existence because she is not a Harvard University student. Stung by this, Mark decides to expand the site to more schools.

As The Facebook grows in popularity, they expand to other schools in the Northeastern United States, while the Winklevoss twins and Narendra become angrier at seeing "their idea" advance without them. Tyler refuses to sue them, instead accusing Mark of violating the Harvard student Code of Conduct. Through their father's connections they arrange a meeting with Harvard President Larry Summers, who is dismissive and sees no potential value in either a disciplinary action or in Thefacebook website itself.

Through Christy Lee, now Eduardo's girlfriend, Eduardo and Mark arrange a meeting with Napster co-founder Sean Parker. When they meet, Eduardo becomes skeptical of Parker, noting his problematic personal and professional history. Mark, however, is impressed with Parker, since he presented a vision for Facebook similar to his own. Although no deals are reached, Parker suggests that they drop "The" from Thefacebook, to make it simply "Facebook".

Mark moves the company's base of operation to Palo Alto, at Parker's suggestion, while Eduardo remains in New York seeking advertising support, When Eduardo visits from New York, he is angered to find that Parker is living at the house they have rented and is making business decisions for Facebook. After an argument with Mark, Eduardo freezes the company's bank account and returns to New York. Upon returning, Christy takes Eduardo to task about his Facebook profile, which still lists him as "single", and sets fire to a scarf he gave to her as a gift. While Eduardo extinguishes the fire, Mark reveals on the phone that they have secured money from an angel investor through Parker's contacts. As a result of Christy's jealousy, Eduardo ends his relationship with her.

Meanwhile in England, while competing in the Henley Royal Regatta for Harvard, the Winklevoss twins discover that Facebook has expanded to a number of universities there and decide to sue. Eduardo has also discovered that the deal he signed with Parker's investors allows them to dilute his share of the company from thirty-four percent to three hundredths of a percent, while maintaining the ownership percentage of all other parties. He confronts his erstwhile friend Mark and announces his intention to sue him. Later that night, Parker, along with a number of Facebook interns, are arrested for possession of cocaine during a party thrown on the occasion of Facebook's 1 millionth member.

The framing device throughout the film shows Mark testifying in depositions in two lawsuits: one filed by the Winklevoss twins, and the other filed by Eduardo. In the final scene, a junior lawyer for the defense informs Mark they will be settling with Eduardo, since the sordid details of Facebook's founding and Mark's personality will make a jury highly unsympathetic. The film ends with Mark sending a friend request to his former girlfriend Erica on Facebook, and refreshing the page every few seconds waiting for a response.