Vishwaroopam

Kamal Hassan is a creative and intelligent artist with a large ego. I am a fan of his more humble counterpart and his friend, Rajinikanth. But Kamal Hassan is supposed to be this way. He is one of the very few artists that India has produced who has been keeping up with the recent trends in technologies and happenings around the world to make his movie appealing and of fine quality. He is one of those film makers who can test the limits of audience acceptance right from the science fiction spy action thriller Vikram, which was released at the wrong time to a bewildered audience  till Viswaroopam which merely portrays the story with a bit of recent history in the background.

After a completely dissatisfying experience from a 10 times egoistic Dasavatharam, I expected the least from Viswaroopam. The trailers showed a glimpse of what may be and the protests and ban fueled my curiosity to watch the movie. I would have watched it anyway but the drama that unfolded in the news over the movie’s concerns from a political group only increased my curiosity to watch.

Viswaroopam was unlike any of Kamal’s earlier movies but you can definitely see how Kamal blends the scenes as he has done before, with the right amount of thrill, story flow, dialogues, humor and continuity of the movie. The drama and intensity of the story is kept intact as you would follow the movie closely with every scene, trying to connect, a characteristic of any Hollywood action thriller. Thank god there are no dampening songs which may be why he chose Shankar Ehsaan Loy to just score the background soundtrack focussing only on the close knit screen play.

It is of no doubt that he has chosen the highest quality technicals in visuals and sound, which makes it a must to watch on big screen. It would be useless to watch it from a pirated copy or even DTH and cannot be enjoyed fully. If Kamal is any wise of a businessman which he has proved time and again, I would see him release the blu ray copy (perhaps the uncut version) right around the corner when he plans his Part 2 release. May be he can go further by releasing a HD digital copy of the movie in iTunes. But honestly I don’t know what this movie will keep after 7 cuts and a few mutes for the folks in Tamil nadu. It may also be a warning sign for other states folks to watch it before they may make these cuts spread to the other states as well.

As with all Kamal movies, in the objective of glorifying the character that Kamal plays the other characters become perceived a bit shallow, except the villain of course. I was left to feel in the end that this movie may not need a second part and may have been finished utilizing the space of certain draggy second half scenes. It could have helped the pace of the screenplay as well. But nevertheless I am now curious to see part 2 and hope he releases it within a couple of months.

Viswaroopam. Thrills.

Kadal

The story of Good conquering evil is perhaps the easiest and most traditional of the stories to tell. But portraying the depth and intensity of the Devil that arises out of deprivation and desperation is not something that is usually told. In fact the good is glorified only in the hands of a strong evil. It is probably the drama of realization of the good that the good subconsciously unveils the evil and lets it take over, while it fights its way back, but not by killing. Because it is supposed to be the way of the good that it is more forgiving than killing, that even the purest of the evil cannot fight the tiniest ray of light and that the evil begins to vanish and transform by trying to fight the tiny ray of light.

Kadal is a story of a wild swing into the deepest level of the devil and a transformation into good by a simple and significant ray of forgiving light.

The strength of the movie lies in cast and portrayal of the main protagonists. It gets more exciting to watch Arjun play the devil than it is to watch Arvindswamy play the divine. Kadal is the Manirathnam movie in which the characters are in their own strength and at no point it becomes aligned to being the movie of a particular star. This makes Kadal not only top class but keeps your focus on the simple yet dramatically portrayed storyline.

Kadal is a technical treat to the senses with beautifully composed scenes from Rajiv Menon and a sound recording that is absolutely class one. The visuals and the movement of the story board especially the climax, simply shows Manirathnam’s elegance and his thirst to differ from himself from his previous movies. The dialogues give a hint of the possible locality in Tamil Nadu but one keeps wondering how the art was set and where would this location be. It gives a hint that it could be artificially set for the movie and yet it looks normal and natural. Songs fall in place appropriately to remind us that it is a regional tamil movie but when it is AR Rahman, Rajiv Menon and Manirathnam, you enjoy it is a wholesome package.

Kadal. Depth.

 

Oh Veera!

Dan dan dan dan dan danakka!

There are five dan’s in Raavanan’s dandanakka chanting. Raavanan is a roller coaster ride of emotions, of the audience who are feverishly trying to find out who is the real Raavanan. Mani is a beautiful essayer of People’s emotions. When it comes to putting it together visually through the actors, the light, set and the music, he is a master. Raavanan is exactly that and much more and some less.

MUCH MORE:

It is a story revolving around 3 powerful characters. Dev the cop, who doesn’t give up and who wants to “encounter” everything related to Veera. Veera, the tribal leader who has 10 screaming heads in him, that of good and bad (and also one head chanting dandanakka). Ragini the ‘classy’cal dancer who becomes the target of Veera and who begins to see the two men from different perspectives.

It moves from what we would normally perceive as a fight between good and evil and associate them to people. Dev being good and Veera being bad. But very soon as the story unfolds in the background of beautiful forest landscape, the perspective of the story gets tilted in favor of Veera. Veera’s life, his people, his family, their sufferings and the justice that he seeks for them against oppression. As the story moves towards the end, the line blurs and you won’t know what is good and what is bad and who is good and who is bad. Everything merges and what you see is just events happening like a chain reaction.

The visuals and art work are stunning. Perhaps Mani’s best picturisation till date. Vikram rocks as Veera. It stopped me from even considering to watch the Hindi version, as I really doubted whether Abi could match his performance. (It seems to be so, as I am seeing bad reviews of the Hindi Raavan) Prithviraj’s Dev was quite a surprise. His portrayal of a cold blooded cop reaches its heights when he smiles as he shoots Veera and his brother. Aish was beautiful as a daring woman with growing softness for Veera and reaches her peak when she fights Veera in a slow background of “Kattusirukki”.

SOME LESS:

Beyond these three characters, Karthik as Hanuman and Prabhu as Kumbakarna seem to have been wasted a little bit, although they did their part well. In my opinion I feel Karthik needed a much more screen time to assert the role of Hanuman. There were some loose ends and abrupt moments in the screenplay when Karthik appears as a surprise where Aish is being Hidden by Veera and when Aish just stops the train and walks out in search of Veera, easily giving away the prize money to Dev. It was difficult to digest them in an otherwise tightly written script.

Raavanan is a treat to Mani’s fans. But I really wished Mani could have made just Raavanan and focused on it alone. We are missing “the Mani” ever since he started putting one foot in Bolly and one foot in Kolly. Perhaps this is the reason for the few minor discrepancies that I had described. I am not an expert to say this though.

Also, for god sakes, please begin putting OST like Hollywood. The background score is just awesome, too bad I can’t have them in my iPod. Is someone listening to this? Do you feel they should do this?

Alright that’s it, let me stop my buk buk buk buk buk!

Why this Woman?

Of all the woman, why did I fall in love with you?

says Karthik. I bet, a lot of those who are in love with a complicated woman will say just this. The entire movie “Vinnaithandi Varuvaya” rides on this expression and the drama resulting from this. The expression should not be mistaken for the boy’s frustration. It is an expression of pain resulting from unbounded love for the woman. Certainly, the expression itself is unbounded and is probably the only way to convey this unexplainable feeling. This is why, every important character in the movie, repeats this dialogue at key frames in the movie.

The Director was excellent in creating situations that would cause this pain, be it Jessie’s father or her brother or herself or even himself. Every scene inadvertently makes us feel “Of all the woman, why did Karthik fall in love with Jessie?”

A Simple Love story. People like simple stories with just a few complicated characters and in this one, it is just one complicated girl Jessie, the woman who pulls Karthik at first sight. Gautham Menon picks a simple story but excels in the way it is being told. Karthik and Jessie are intensely portrayed making the audience feel exactly what they feel, with the right expression, right words, right locations, right light and the right background score. No patched up scenes at all. Everything was fluent with the screen play and fit in very nicely. Excellent editing.

Simbu and Trisha have lived the story. They did not just act. Kudos to Gautham again for that, especially for bringing such a stuff out of Simbu. Even the one single fight scene was very captivating. No Simbuism, but just some realistic Boxing. After a long time I am really enjoying a fight sequence, as it didn’t have any stupid rope tricks.

The only other character that probably plays a major part was Ganesh as Ganesh the Cinematographer (from Kaaka Kaaka) himself. He lighted the moments with good humor and was a nice catalyst to the story’s pace. It was a really good idea to keep this character this way.

AR Rahman’s music goes beyond the skies. The audio when I first listened to, felt like just another ARR album. But when you watch the movie in a theatre with the flow of the story, the characters and the scene, ARR’s music becomes mind-blowing. Half of the scene’s intensity is conveyed in it. It pulls you halfway in the feeling and the rest of the elements soak you in completely. My favourite song is Aaromale and the background score based on that song.

This movie cannot be reviewed quantitatively. It cannot be given any percentage of marks or stars. You just have to go, watch and feel what the characters feel. Halfway through the movie, I told my wife, I want to fall in love with her all over again. That is review enough for an unbounded feel of love, that can cross the skies. The last time it caused a similar feeling would be for Alaipayuthey from almost a decade back.

Watch it once, watch it again and again and then buy the DVD and put it in your collection.

I did not know when I would come back again to blogging. Well, here I am. I guess this movie made me cross the cyber skies!

Edit: I guess there are 2 endings being shown for this movie. I watched at Innovative Multiplex in Bangalore and my friend had watched at the Forum Value mall, and we both saw different endings.

Ghajini Review

- Ghajini is probably the most difficult movie review I have ever done (out of the 13.5 movie reviews that I have done.) I will tell the reason in the end.

- I saw Memento a few years back. The best part of that movie was it’s unique screenplay. It starts from the end and slowly unfolds backwards. After that I watched the Tamil movie Ghajini and found that there was no reason to like that version except for Surya’s acting.

- Aamir khan is a dedicated actor. He can easily forget that he is a normal human being when going to the extremes for the sake of the character of the movie. I mean normally everyone works for 6 pack abs, but Aamir forgot when to stop exercising and he ended up with a 8 pack abs.

- Polaroid instant cameras have been out of production for a couple of years now (almost). So the camera was probably bought a few years back in anticipation of the upcoming 15 minute short term memory loss. I am still wondering how he didn’t forget to buy the refill sheets for the camera.

- Flashbacks are pun in a movie where the central character cannot remember for more than 15 minutes. I mean the only flashback that Ghajini could remember is the flash from the last picture session with his camera, provided the session happened in the last 15 minute interval.

- Speaking of interval, by the time you are into the theatre hall to watch the second half after the interval, you might tend to forget the first half. Be sure to carry a polaroid camera to take picture of important scenes and write them down or just Tatoo it on your arms and legs.

- It is believed that, to keep the character real Aamir photographed himself with a polaroid camera by standing in front of the mirror so that he doesn’t forget to carry it wherever he goes.

- The idea is also found to be stolen by some of the local tea shop owners to capture instant pictures of college students who keep accounts in their shop and never pay back. You know, just to show a proof.

- College girls and boys have so many boy friends and girl friends these days that in order to keep track of who they go out with on which day, they carry a polaroid camera wherever they go. Cellphones are now out of fashion.

- Husbands are idiots. It is a self realisation from a long time. We don’t remember what we ate for lunch by dinner time. So in order to prevent left over fraud (Husbands being served left over food from lunch, during dinner) husbands now carry polaroid camera to take pictures of what they ate for lunch.

- You won’t believe the next thing. All of a sudden Polaroid has started producing the camera again, due to this social demand. I am not sure if they know, but it is very likely that the consumers will forget about the camera,as soon as the movie runs off from the theatre.

- If the movie becomes a flop, the only reason will be that people forgot to watch the movie.

- You know what, I almost forgot I had to write a review of this movie, but instead got sidetracked into writing some random “Forgettable” stuff.

- The previous point is probably ok in comparison to the fact that I forgot to watch the movie before I reviewed, which is why it was very difficult to review.

- Oh well, I forgot that I had to delete this post from the draft and instead ended up posting it.

- I also forgot I am not supposed to do a blog post until next year. Wait, what is this. I see a photograph of fireworks and something written on the bottom (Photograph’s bottom, not mine) – “Blog readers, Happy New Year, wish”. Ah! I have to wish you all a very Happy New Year, Let me tell that before I forget.

Wish you all a very Happy New Year.

I only hope that you don’t forget to comment on this post.

Fictional than strange

I cannot imagine more than 3 dimensions, but scientists say there are 10. What could be occupying the dimension 10, I thought. A group of Supreme beings or perhaps one single humongous unisex creature? A creature that sits all day and does nothing but write a book or perhaps a bunch of them writing different chapters of the same book, The book of our Universe, a full abridged monstrous Epic about the life of a tiny segment of life form called human beings?

It is said that while great writers know how to take their story along, they believe in letting their Character lead their plot rather than themselves. So do these Creatures know the plot but want us to lead the plot? Does life as it exists happen as the way they write it? Is everything around us simply an imagination penned by these creatures? And since we exist in this imagination does everything look normal to us and we take it for granted?

A hard solid brown coloured tubular body with irregularities and draping of green coloured filmy shapes upon them and we just assume this piece of imagination as a Tree? A vast area of bouncy liquid and we call it the Sea? An Infinite area of blue shade and we call it the Sky? We have got so used to the things around, don’t we call all these strangely shaped props as our normal environment, while this strange work of imagination is nothing but fictional to the highly advanced creature in the Tenth Dimension?

Are we all just Fictional than Strange?

Picture from IGN Movies.

This was the thought that ran into my head when I finally got a chance and settled down to watch a brilliant movie Stranger than Fiction. A novel writer Karen Eiffel, who writes only tragedies writes about an IRS Tax man in her new book and strangely enough whatever she writes happens to this real life person Harold Crick. Harold leads the plot for the author and she pens her way into what happens next to him. Drama it is and one of the best I have seen. This is a must watch movie for all those who love fiction, imagination and Simple Drama as a result of that. I am sure you will enjoy it.

PS: This movie taught me about the phrase “Little did he know”, a third person reference of someone else when the third person knows what happens to the person than the person himself/herself.

The Rise of Slackers

Michael Moore has released his latest documentary “Slackers Uprising” at the right time with US Elections just a few weeks away. You can download the movie legally for free, just follow the link provided by Patrix.

The term Slackers in this movie refers to College Students (So not people like me), who would prefer to be Lazy and Party around (Sounds like me) instead of registering and voting in Elections (Shit! Sounds exactly like me!). I have many reasons myself for not voting in India:

- I wan’t in a single place long enough to catch an election.

- I did have a chance once, I went to the election booth with my Voter’s id only to find that they didn’t have my name listed in the Roll. That was it, I traveled away again and I don’t know when I will be able to vote again in Elections.

Ever since I saw Fahrenheit 9/11, I had become a big fan of his work. His documentaries are all about bringing forward truth with facts. When you watch his documentary you can’t help but notice Truth staring at your face. Slackers Uprising is one such effort by Michael Moore.

Picture: http://www.slackeruprising.com

The movie is about his struggle that he went through in the Fall of 2004 before the US Presidential election, to tour colleges in US and make the students to register and vote. With just 5 weeks left to election in 2004, He toured colleges in 60 cities in that short frame of time. It was amazing to see what one man was capable of doing. At some point I felt Moore must be Gandhi of the West. Sure, he isn’t exactly what Gandhi was, but his belief in fighting the Bush Administration with Truth was remarkably similar to what Gandhi did against the British. Throughout the movie, Moore doesn’t dislike the citizens who are Republicans. In fact he goes to the length of welcoming the folks who disrupt his speech and tells them that if Democrats come to power, whatever beneficial things that are going to happen will happen for them too. This is another place where I saw Gandhi in him.

Winston Churchill did say that if Gandhi fought him with Guns and Canons, He would have crushed him with his weapons. But Gandhi fought him with Truth and Churchill said that there is no weapon to kill Truth. Moore’s agenda was simple and clear throughout the movie:

1. To bring out the Truth in front of the people.

2. To show them their responsibility and what it means for the Young to go out and Vote.

To me Michael Moore is a Modern Gandhi and I wish we had more or atleast one in every country.

There are various issues that one has to consider for this election – Economy, Jobs, Healthcare, Illegal Immigrants, Environment, Rising prices of Energy, Foreign policy. These issues will have to be fought and solved even after the elections. But to put the first step in the right direction for all these issues to be solved, it is very important for every American Citizen to go out and vote. This is exactly what the movie portrays.

The movie begins with showing how John Kerry, who was leading in opinion polls, all of a sudden was steered away due to the Republican Campaign. By the time Kerry and Democrats responded much damage had been done. Moore comes to the rescue, by talking to the young voters who haven’t registered to vote and urges them to Vote. The movie is all about that Journey, the difficulties, the opposition from Republicans preventing him to speak and much more. In the end, Kerry doesn’t win. He loses only by a small margin and if Moore hadn’t done what he did, Kerry would have lost with a wider margin

That is the essence of the movie, To show what difference it will make if each and every eligible citizen in a Democracy (not just USA) goes out to Vote for whom he/she believes in. The key word is Democracy and hence this movie can not only be applied to the US Context but also to all the countries which exercise Democracy. This is exactly why I care about the movie even though I am not a US Citizen.

Why should the rest of world care if Slackers in US Vote or not?

1. US is the No. 1 Economy. If something happens to this big economy the ripples are felt through the entire world. There is no doubt about that.

2. As a leader US has the power to set an example either good or bad, because they are looked upon by the world as the leader. The attitude in most cases is “It worked in US, so we do it” or “It failed in US, so let’s not repeat that” with some exceptions.

3. The Govt. that comes to power in US has the say in Foreign policies and that means a lot to other countries that have ties.

I am not a politically savy person and these are just some reasons I can think of as to why People of the world will care about the US Elections. There could also be other reasons like Technology, Education, Science, Medicine, Business etc. If you know of anymore reasons please feel free to share it with me.

Here is a non-U.S Citizen sincerely hoping that good things will happen in this election and People will cast their vote for carefully thought out reasons and not for reasons that sound like “Sarah Palin is Cute”, “Sarah Palin is Hot”, “Dude, did you see her in Bikini?”, “Palin’s glasses are awesome, it’s a rage”, “Palin’s Daughter is way Cuter than Hillary’s”!

Imaginary Climax of Robo (Endhiran)

Prologue:

Continued from the original story post of the movie. If you would like to just read the summary of the climax you are more than welcome to skip the following narration and scroll down to it.

Narration:

WARNING: The following section contains narration of Graphical Violence, some content may not be suitable for people under 14 years. Readers discretion advised.

Aru: I am not letting you do this. Murdering people is not the solution. We have to let the law handle these people. I will not let you kill anymore people.

Robo: Sorry, if you don’t join me, I will have to take you with me.

Robo shoots a tranquillizer shot at Aru’s thighs. Aru holds his thigh and struggles to maintain his consciousness but the image around him starts to dim. Aru sees a blurred image of Robo approaching him and suddenly his vision moves from looking straight to looking at the ground as Robo carries Aru. Aru is unable to hold his consciousness now and barely sees a Maruti 800 parked on the terrace. Robo activates a button in its chest and the Maruti 800 quickly converts into a carbon black sonic pod. Aru registers it in his mind but now he is completely knocked out. Aru is put in the back seat of the pod and Robo ventures into his next murder.

…

Kayal begins her night shift at her University Laboratory, where Arivu is a Guest professor. Arivu leaves the lab as Kayal enters it. She chances upon a schematic on a big sheet of paper at Arivu’s desk. She sees a lot of scribbling around the schematic and notes one thing in particular. A hand with the laser gun. Kayal finds out who is murdering with the laser weapon.

…

Palani meanwhile makes a big lead into his case. He tracks down and finds that the people who were killed in the serial killing were Real estate businessmen. According to his observation, they were all partners in the business and finds out that there are 3 more left in it. They are also the ones suspected with fraud and high level real estate corruption from Aru’s case. The victims are known, he calls up the commissioner and requests for police force. He has to do 2 ironical things now – Protect the victims and then get Aru to arrest them in his case.

Palani’s Cellphone rings …

“Hello! Kayal?”

“Yes Palani sir, I found a very important clue!”

“Me too, but yours first!”

“The killer is Robo!”

“Robo?”

“Scientist Arivu has been working on it. He has called it R.O.B.O – Research Oriented Bionic Organism. The schematic shows the right hand with a laser gun!”

“Oh my god, Arivu has unleashed a deadly Robot. I have found the victims, they are real estate business partners. I am heading to Thangaraj’s, one of the victims. I have to tell Aru this message.”

“You go ahead, I can call him up!”

Palani rushes to Thangaraj to protect him, while Kayal calls Aru.

…

Palani gets there late. Thangaraj is already on the floor with burnt chest and stomach. Thangaraj seems to have struggled a bit as he sees some broken glasses on the floor. But Palani wasn’t too late either as he hears footsteps leading to the terrace. Palani runs towards the sound.

Kayal calls Aru and Aru wakes up from the vibration of his cellphone. He gets out of the M800 sonic pod in a slightly crouched position as he is unable to hold himself straight, finds himself on a terrace. Robo approaches the M800 as it turns into the sonic pod and gets in quickly. Aru grabs hold of the pod but is unable to hold on to it. Aru’s grip wasn’t steady and firm since the tranquillizer hadn’t fully worn out. Palani reaches the terrace and sees Robo fly away in the pod.

Palani: “Robo!”

Aru gets up uncomfortably with an aching body: “Yes, I know! I couldn’t stop him, he is too powerful”

Palani: “He has already killed Thangaraj. We have 2 more left – Nataraj and Swaminathan. I will go to Nataraj’s place and you go to Swaminathan’s. We have to capture Robo, No matter what”

…

Palani reaches Nataraj right just as Robo reaches there. Palani rushes to the terrace to stop Robo.

Robo: “I don’t want to fight you!”

Palani: “You leave me no choice!” as Palani punches Robo’s steel abs. Robo is pushed back, but quickly regains his stance. He gets back at Palani and showers a few punches. Palani defends a few punch from Robo but in a few seconds Robo gets the punch at him. A high impact steel punch at Palani knocks him out.

Nataraj runs away in his car. Robo chases him and blows the entire car away with a high intensity laser beam from his pod. Robo flies his pod through the flaming car and out of it. Only one more left.

…

Aru reaches Swaminathans’s and warns him about Robo. Aru gets the police force and puts them around Swami’s house. He couldn’t let Swami go away as Robo would chase him and it will be difficult to catch Robo. So Swami was kept in his own home with protection from full police force. Aru waits in the terrace with a dozen S.W.A.T styled Police force personnels. Robo flies down in his pod on the terrace and sees Aru waiting for him.

Aru thinks of this as the battle of his Good and his own Evil. But Robo sees this as a mere event in the big picture of eradicating the corrupt real estate individuals.

Aru: “There is no escape now Robo. You are surrounded by a huge police force. You cannot reach Swami!”

Robo: “I don’t have to.”

Aru (Shouts): “Fire …!”

The Police force starts firing at Robo. Robo steps down and quickly activates its shield. A sphere of electromagnetic protective shield forms around him and deflects away all the bullets fired at him. Aru realises this being a futile attempt, orders them to stop firing. Aru asks the force to grab Robo and arrest him. The Police force jump on Robo to grab him but Robo punches them away as each of them fall into corners.

Robo jumps on Aru and grabs him. Aru is perplexed and tries to untangle himself from Robo’s grips. Robo activates its x-ray vision and spots where Swami is sitting. Aru now grabs hold of Robo’s laser gun hand. Robo’s laser gun misfires into a tree and burns it down. The struggle continues as Aru and Robo fall on the floor. Robo fires another shot and it blows the water tank at the terrace.

Aru now tries to find a switch that might deactivate Robo. Aru presses a button that converts the pod into M800 and back into the pod as they both roll on the floor. Robo misfires another shot that breaks the terrace’s Parapet wall and blows it away leaving a huge hole.

Robo finally conquers over Aru and uses its x-ray vision and takes a moment to position the gun and fires an intense laser beam. The beam burns through the terrace floor goes through the building and hits Swami on the top of his head.

Four cops in the room look bewildered as they see dead and burnt swami with a huge hole on the ceiling leading through which they see Robo from the dim street light. It was the deadliest thing they have ever seen in their life.

Robo now lets Aru go. Aru falls aside catching his breath heavily.

Robo: “My Mission is complete. The bad has been destroyed and you have been saved from your death. I will no longer exist, as I am born out of your death. I will now vanish from existence in a few seconds”

Aru: “You are under arrest Robo! What do you mean you will vanish?”

Robo: “10 … 9 … 8 …”

Aru stands up as he hears the countdown from Robo’s body.

Robo: “3 … 2 … 1″

Robo disappears into a blue beam of light and the Pod implodes into a read ball of light. Nothing is left, only empty space. Robo is gone and Aru is left behind.

Few days later, Aru is called by the police commissioner at his office.

Commissioner: “Aru, I have another big case for you. We have a huge level corruption in the Governement defense department. We are relying on your expertise. Scientist Arivu has smuggled his Time Machine away as he didn’t want it to fall into wrong hands. ACP Palani will be dealing that case. I want you to work with Palani again in this case.”

Palani, who was sitting by the side, nods slightly in approval. Aru is ready for his next case.

…

House of an employee(Raju) in Govt. Defense Dept.

6AM is usually when Raju wakes up to go to work. Raju enters his bathroom and breaks the tranquility with a loud spit in the wash basin. He walks to the commode. There is absolute silence and the only noise was the sound of water drops from the pipe. In a few seconds, the bathroom wall blasts and rips open. Raju is frightened by that and opens his eyes wide. A double shot of laser is fired straight into the head of Raju, which blasts into million pieces.

No one else is there to see this. If there was someone to see this sight, they would see a Carbon steel bodied bionic organism floating in mid air powered by an ionic engine backpack, with both the hands holding out in the form of a gun. The entire body made of the same material as a Samurai’s Sword, seems to be slightly shining on the right side from the dim dawn light.

R.O.B.O II arrives.

THE END.

Summary of Climax:

R.O.B.O is Research Oriented Bionic Organism, is a prototype Bionic being designed and constructed by Scientist Arivalagan. Robo is built with a steel frame with a lot of advanced technologies that it is too powerful to be battled out. There is no stopping of Robo even as Palani and Aru try their best at it. Robo is able to conquer and complete his mission and kills the remaining 3 corrupt individuals. But since all of these corrupt people are killed, Aru will no longer be murdered in the future and hence there will be no Robo built out of Aru’s dead body. Hence, Robo disappears right after he finishes his mission.

Robo’s existence is nullified. But, Aru is a cop who will get himself into a lot more cases in future. He gets his another high profile case which might lead him into trouble in future. Hence, the moment he takes his next case, R.O.B.O II comes back from future on a mission to kill the corrupt. As long as Aru keeps taking these cases and involves himself this way, he is always at risk and R.O.B.O will keep appearing. Robo immortalizes Aru and the only way to keep Robo from coming back is peace. When there are no people who are corrupt, where Aru no longer has to work in high profile cases trying to catch the corrupt, peace will prevail, Aru will not die the gory death in future and R.O.B.O will no longer be needed.

Until then, Robo will appear in every corrupt individuals backyard. So, Beware of Robo!

Conclusion:

I had to end this script unconventionally because I started off unconventionally. However, looking at the first poster of the movie Endhiran, I doubt if the movie will be anything like what I have described. We will have to wait and see what the movie has to offer, after all it is Shankar’s dream project.

An Imaginary Story of Robo (Endhiran) – The Movie

We all know how much we are looking forward to Director Shankar‘s next Rajinikanth Magnum Opus movie – Robo. The story of the movie was supposed to be written by the legendary Sujatha, but he is with us no more. May his soul Rest in Peace. What would be the story like? Given that it is a Shankar movie and Sujatha was lending his hand with the pen, I would like to make a humble imagination of the story of the movie – Robo.

Warning: This story is not in any way related to what may be Shankar’s actual script. Any similarities are purely coincidental and I have nothing to do with it.

(Picture: From the movie Sivaji at Behindwoods)

It is current day in the city of Chennai. Real estate prices in Chennai are going over the roof. People attribute it to inflation and world level price rises, demand from IT companies and Corporations. But who is left behind, the common man. Comman Man has to go far away to the outskirts of Chennai to buy their dream houses. Comman Man gets cheated by Real estate Gundas. Agricultural lands are getting bullied into being converted into Residential sites. A lot of black money gets exchanged to avoid the Govt. Tax. A real estate revolution is happening albeit in a very wrong way. Who would have to solve this and put an end to this? The case is handed over to the local Assistannt Commissioner of Police Mr. Arumugam Periyasamy. The character of Arumugam is played by Rajinikanth. Yes, Rajinikanth will be playing a cop after a long time.

Arumugam’s job is to weed out the corrupt Real estate Brokers in the city who cheat Common People by selling them Fake land. Quite a small and simple case when compared to other big ones you can get. But Arumugam’s sincerity and dedication to job is boundless. Kayalvizhi, is a local College lecturer, played by Nayanthara, who also works as a Police informer. Arumugam (Aru) gets Kayalvizhi’s (Kayal) contact through another Police friend, ACP Palanivel Rajan(Palani) played by Prabhu. With the help of Kayal, Aru begins to collect evidences against the Goonda Brokers.

When the story builds up to this, a big real estate tycoon in the city gets murdered in his bungalow. It is one of a unique kind of murder, that no one has ever seen. The victim is burnt through with a 1 rupee coin sized hole in his chest. You can literally see what’s behind through that hole and the boundary of the hole is completely charred. ACP Palani gets to handle this case and begins his investigation at the bungalow. The Forensic department shows the result that the Victim is killed using a Thick, sharp Laser beam, which is very rarely available, probably in high profile physics research institutes and is not of a portable size. Palani is bewildered. Why would anyone kill with such a rare equipment? and How is it possible to do it?

Few days later, Another victim of the same kind falls in another place killed in the same way. Palani understands that it is mostly a scientist who is on this serial killing spree. He starts collecting information on Research institutes with Laser Laboratories. But none of it gives him any clue. He has no finger prints, no traces of the Murderer, no information at all.

Meanwhile, Aru’s case moves forward and he narrows down to one big broker in the city. He gets the arrest warrant from the City Commissioner and rushes to his bungalow to arrest him. Alas, This big broker is already murdered before Aru reaches his home. Aru runs outside the bungalow to see if there was anyone out there. He quickly sees a person jumping the compound wall but he is unable to see clearly due to the dusk light. Aru chases this mystery person. The person keeps running and suddenly makes a huge jump from the ground to the 2nd story of a tall building and starts climbing up very fast. In the speed the person’s trousers gets mangled with a beam in the building and it tears apart. Aru witnesses something very strange, It was a bionic leg. Aru quickly gets hold of the pipe on the building and climbs fast holding other supports from the building.

The mystery person gets his leg stuck in one of the floors and he is now struggling to get his bionic leg off, while Aru steadfastly climbs up and closes in on the person. The mystery person frees himself up, but it is too late because Aru catches his legs just as they reach the terrace. A struggle occurs. Aru fights the mystery man but whenever Aru punched the man his knuckles ache. It was like he was punching a steel bag. The mystery man who is still shown from the behind hardly budges from Aru’s punch. Very strangely, he doesn’t hit Aru back but only tries to get away from him. The mystery man’s face is slightly visible from the hood he is wearing and Aru tries to get it off. After a few seconds of struggle, Aru places his right hand on his face and uses the left hand to pull out the hood.

It wasn’t a man. It was a Robo. Steel faced, expressionless but with hair. The camera rolls around Robo. Robo was none other than a look alike of Aru (Rajinikanth). Aru stands back. It was like looking into the mirror with a coating of stainless steel on his face. This is the century’s best stand off between the Antagonist and the Protagonist. The conversation between Robo and Aru happens:

Robo: Hi Aru, How are you?

Aru: Who are you? How do you know my name?

Robo: (laughs) It is interesting to see that you are asking yourself who you are?

(Aru shows a confused face.)

Robo: I will explain. 10 years from now, The people you arrest in your real estate case come out of the prison. They have enough money and contacts that they evade a few years of imprisonment.

Aru: I haven’t caught anyone yet.

Robo: You see that’s a paradox. (The following is shown as Flash Forward in the movie) These real estate gundas will kill you as soon as they are out and your body is sliced up and thrown into the gutter. Your face is the only recognizable part in the body. Scientist Arivalagan (Played by Nasser), your college friend smuggles your body from the mortuary and turns you into a bionic steel bodied Robo. That’s me.

(Robo tears open this hooded jumpsuit and reveals a thin steel framed Robo body with just the face alone intact with the hair looking exactly like Aru. His bionic right hand’s index finger is longer than the other fingers and looks like a laser gun that can be triggered by the button over that finger using a thumb. This was probably what he was using to kill the people.).

Aru: What do you mean? How did you get here?

Robo: If I kill the ones you have to arrest, you will have no one to arrest and no one needs to kill you with a Vengence. This is the paradox.

Aru doesn’t believe it.

Aru: Again, If you are built 10 years from now, how did you get here?

Robo: Arivu’s Time machine that he had built last year from today. It is kept as a military secret for everyone’s safety, but there are too many things at stake so Arivu himself gave it to me to go back in time and kill them.

Aru: It is not lawful. You cannot just go on a killing spree. If you are planning to save my life by killing them, don’t bother. I am not someone who is afraid of death.

Robo: I know you are not afraid of death because I am not afraid of death either. Heck, I came back as me from the dead you. Death for you and me is just a temporary state. My main reason for being here is not just to save your life. The future of this city and the common people depends on this murder. If i don’t kill them now, they will grow more powerful 10 years from now and the city will be entirely under their control. You don’t know how bad that will be, because I know, Arivu knows. You will have to let me go and finish my job. Now I have 3 more people to murder before we solve this.

Aru: I am not letting you do this. Murdering people is not the solution. We have to let the law handle these people. I will not let you kill anymore people.

What will happen next?

Will Robo be able to convince Aru about what needs to be done with a Bhagvad Gita styled advice and both Robo and Aru be able to kill the last 3 bad guys? or Will Aru not believe in Robo and fight against Robo and prevent him from killing the other 3?

Whichever way the story moves into, I am sure it will be pretty darn interesting. But I am not going to finish this story either way and I am going to leave it open.

Perhaps, you can pick this up as a Blog tag and write your own ending in your blog. You can link back to this post and write your own last few scenes and the Climax of the movie Robo. I will be glad to read your perspective and if I like your ending I will be updating this post with a link back to your climax post.

(Edit: I have my own climax thought out but will not be posting that now.)

PS: A script of a movie is usually very detailed, but since this is just a summary story in a blog I had to limit myself to the main content of the story. There will be lot of questions in the readers mind and I am assuming that you will be able to answer those yourself sensibly and just infer the main story alone. If you would like to point out loop holes and unanswered inferences in the story please leave them in the comments, I can try to answer those or perhaps fix the loop holes by correcting the story as I can. I appreciate you reading this, Thank you for your time.

PPS: It seems the Title of the Robo movie will be either Yantram or Iyandiram (or Iyanthira?) as Praveen says in his comment.

Update: You can read my version of the climax here.

Suing Hari Puttar

Hari is a common name in India and so is Harry, a common name in the west. Puttar means Son in Hindi and every Punjabi Parent in the history of Punjabi dhaba and Bhangra call their son as Puttar. So I don’t know what base does Warner have for suing the new Bollywood movie Hari Puttar. Sure, Bollywood has had its part with plagiarism, but suing over a name that “sounds like” is immature. I think we have to make them watch the bollywood movies that have actual plagiarised stories and scenes.

(Picture: http://www.rediff.com)

Incidentally, the upcoming Harry Potter movie – Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is postponed to Summer of next year – July 2009.

I am Putting together all this matter into a single atom sized Haiku and here it goes:

Potter moves,

Hari Puttar makes news,

Warner sues!

There, that’s it. There is nothing else left to be known.

By the way IMDB has a release date of September 12, 2008 for Hari Puttar, a comedy of Terrors. Let’s see if they can make that date in one piece and the same name.

A World of Jokers

I finally saw the Dark Knight. I am watching an English movie in Theatre after a long time, 2.5 years or so perhaps. The last movie I saw in theatre was Ice Age 2 Meltdown. I had been living on DVDs ever since. Dark Knight was a powerful and fully entertaining experience. Christopher Nolan made us think and not just enjoy some Batman movie action. In fact the action was not just mindless violence but were beautifully weaved into the screenplay. Nolan’s story has shown 3 different kind of characters that exist in this world. It could have been just another Batman movie with Batman fighting the evil, but Nolan went a step ahead and wanted to show us through this movie that real life is not any different.

(Warning: May contain Spoilers ahead)

(Picture Courtesy: http://thedarkknight.warnerbros.com/)

The character of Joker is personification of Evil. Pure Evil needs no motive. Evil exists in every one of us along side our good. Characters like Jokers exist in real life, they simply want to watch the city burn. The World is full of Jokers. They can pick normal people and use a simple motive and give them a little push. Like Gravity, everything else just spirals down and happens the way it should. A normal person gets turned to his evil side. This is a character of a Victim and victims are all over the world. Terrorists network are examples of this. Batman is merely a protector in this equation. He protects the innocent from the evil, but that’s where his job ends. Can he really take over the Joker? Can a protector protect the people by eradicating the evil side? Does that mean he has to kill everyone, who is evil or who is vulenrable to evil? Nolan has beautifully answered that in this movie. He simply says Good and Evil co exists and it is the order of the life.

There is no question that the Story and Screenplay were fantastic and Heath Ledger’s portrayal of the Joker was Top Notch. An Oscar may be waiting for Heath Ledger and Christopher Nolan. Lot of people have pondered and reviewed the movie already and hence I am not going to do the same.

I can draw parallels of this movie with another Tamil/Hindi movie – Kuruthi Punal/Droh Kaal. This movie’s story was made by one of the great film makers – Govind Nihalani. Govind showed something similar to what Nolan showed in Batman. The role of Nasser/Aashish Vidhyarthi can be compared to that of Joker, with just one difference Nasser/Aashish have some ideologies as motives and user Fear to turn Vulnerable Good Cops into working for their side. Even though Nasser/Aashish stay in jail they have enough people on his side who can help turn good cops into bad cops. Kamal/Om Puri is the protagonist and is portrayed as the Honest and Best Interrogating Specialist in the Anti Terrorists Squad. But irony has it that Nasser/Aashish use their men to push Kamal/Om Puri around and work for him. The best man in the good side has fallen and is now into the evil side. Of course, when Kamal/Om Puri come back to their good side and try to kill all the evil terrorists, he reaches the final point and realizes that he cannot kill everyone and hence leaves the infilitrating cop with the job of Infiltrating more and do the clean up with more generations of Good Cops.

Govind ends the movie in a similar way that Nolan did. Good and Evil co exists and they fight each other.

If there is any movie that I want to be remade in Tamil/Hindi with the same story and characters, it is the Dark Knight. This is my casting wish for the Tamil/Hindi Batman Movie:

Tamil:

Batman – Vikram, Nikhil (Nikhil wants to ride batmobile)

Joker – Prakash Raj, Daniel Balaji from Polladhavan/Kaaka kaaka (Abhishek), Me (if Nikhil plays Batman).

Harvey Dent – Surya

Hindi:

Batman – Abhishek Bachan/Hrithik Roshan, Nikhil

Joker – Shahrukh Khan/Aamir Khan, Ranvir Shorey (Abhishek), Me (If Nikhil plays Batman).

Harvey Dent – Akshay Khanna/Saif Ali Khan, Rajeev Khandelwal (Abhiskek)

If you have your own Casting choice for remake in your language, Please feel free to leave them in the comments. I will compile them and update it in this post.

Preview: Star Wars – The Clone Wars

The new star wars movie, Star Wars: The Clone Wars is slated for release next week, on the 14th of August. I am not a crazy star wars fan but I love the movie and I can say that the movie is a great Science Fiction Epic. I hadn’t watched Star Wars until 2 years back, when one of my colleagues suggested that I should watch the series in order to fulfill my purpose of existence and prove my affinity towards Science and Technology. I watched all of the installments of Star War movies (6 of them) in a few days, with DVDs from the local library and Netflix. A great Epic the movie is, but I am uninspired to watch an animated version of the movie – The Clone Wars. Perhaps I should watch the TV series Clone wars to really justify my statement.

(Picture courtesy: http://www.starwars.com)

The plot of the movie seems to be between Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. There are probably a lot of reasons to like Star wars, but to me there are 3 most important things out of that list that will make me question the effect of an animated version.

Characters: The most important aspect of this epic was the characters. There was enough footage, action and dialogues devoted towards building a character. After watching all the 6 of Star Wars movies continuously, you can see how well each of the characters have been etched. I was able to realize how much of hard work George Lucas had put into developing each of the character. Obi wan Kenobe, Luke Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker (Who becomes Darth Vader), Count Dooku, Yoda are just to name a few of the various important characters. I have associated each of these characters to the actor person playing it and in case of Yoda to Yoda himself (and perhaps Yoda might be the one who changes the least in the animated version). It will be really hard for me to picturize Anakin and Obi-Wan in Animated characters. The power of the characters might not be realised to the full in an Animated version. Did you like Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker or some Animated young boy as Peter Parker? The same answer applies here too.

Special Effects: When you have real people playing in the movie, it will be awesome to watch a special effect where the person jumps from one flying ship to another, even though it might be rope assisted. The light saber fights, Space ships, Various planets, Binary stars all of these look awesome in a real movie because there is so much work done in the Special effects department to make it look as real as possible. The Animated movie itself is not realistic and that means the special effects will just blend in with the Animation and may even be lost. It is not fun to watch Animated Anakin fighting with his light saber, because you know consciously that an Animated character has several degrees of freedom with its movement. Special effects was so important in all the Star Wars movies, animating it might lose the charm. (Info: George Lucas has a special effects company called Industrial Light and Magic, Whose computer graphics department was later sold to Steve Jobs and became Pixar)

(Picture Courtesy: http://www.starwars.com)

Drama: Star wars has an equal essence of Drama, as much as it has the Science fiction action story in it. The relationship between the characters – Friendship, brotherhood, Teacher -Student is portrayed in a fantastic way and weaved with beautifully penned characters. Drama happened in the movie as the characters were portrayed. With good animation, it will be very much possible to create the Drama like how Pixar does with it’s animated characters. But with 6 installments of Star Wars already shown us some very interesting drama involving real actors, I have doubt if the animated one will be able to live up to it sans real actors.

I had a brief chat with my American Colleague, who is a hard core Star Wars Fan. I had one question for him: “Will the Animated Star wars live up to its previous installments?”. He answered the question as follows:

1. The new movie may not live up to the first 3 installments, because to him Star Wars had the highest impact from the first movie Episode IV – A New hope. He thinks the three parts that came later Episode I, II and III themselves weren’t as much interesting as IV, V, VI.

2. The new movie may live up to the Second 3 installments – Episode I, II and III because the story of the new movie happens between Episode II and III.

3. All said, a Star Wars fan himself, who has also watched the Cartoon Network’s Clone Wars does not seem to be as excited as he would be if it was an Unanimated Version. He may wait for reviews or simply watch it on the DVD was his answer.

Hence, I will be waiting for a review of this movie before I watch it. It is going to be interesting to see how Star Wars: The Clone Wars turns out. I hope it is good and hope it wins in the box office. Good luck and best wishes to the movie from a Science Fiction Fan.

If you would like to express your own opinion on the new Star Wars movie, Please feel free to leave it in the comments.

Movie Review: Kuselan

Kuselan is a very ordinary movie with a simple story. The Story as most people already know is loosely based on the story of Friendship between Sudama and Krishna in Mahabharatha. A poor Barber played by Pasupathi is the friend of the Superstar Rajinikanth during the young days and how they meet later in life is the essence of the story. There are no surprises in the movie. The film is an enjoyable family entertainer filled with comedy and emotions, other than that it is hard to categorize it as a Rajinikanth film.

Rajinikanth plays the role of a humble superstar and brings out the actor in himself very well. P.Vasu mixes boiled rice with Sambar, Rasam, Curd, Poriyal, Aviyal, Appalam and Ghee and serves it in a golden platter. The Golden Platter being none other than the Superstar himself.

Pros:

1. A Simple story. Because people need not come to the theatre wondering what the story is like, search for hidden meanings or anything of that sort. Sometimes keeping the story very simple helps a lot to enjoy the other aspects of the movie rather than trying hard to understand the movie itself.

2. Comedy. With a team of actors like Vadivelu (who spearheads the comedy track), Santhanam, Livingstone, Santhana barathy the movie is actually filled with comedy for the most part. Vadivelu is enjoyable as Pasupathi’s competing hair-dresser. His attempts to meet the superstar is the highlight of the comedy track and he has performed well. Watch out for Santhana Barathy in his adiyal get up, he was very comical.

3. Nayanthara, though she was not needed at all in the movie, seems to have satisfied her fans very well. Nayanthara plays Nayanthara in a very glamorous way, perhaps the most done by her ever. May be the new movie Sathyam will beat her show in Kuselan.

4. G.V.Prakash shines in the Background score department. The part where Pasupathi yearns to meet the superstar but unable to do so was neatly portrayed with the background score and the climax scene when they both actually meet is the highlight of G.V.P’s performance. Songs were all good on screen but there were some shortcomings and they could have been picturized better in a somewhat better situation. For example, Charal song appeared out of nowhere and Om zaara re needed some better choreography.

5. Rajinikanth’s performance was undoubtedly awesome. He easily juggles between a stylish superstar, a humble person behind the star and a good friend. Rajinikanth’s acting in the last 30 minutes was applaudable, he was simply superb. In fact, the movie has attained the stature because of Rajinikanth, had there not been him, this movie would have been just another average Kollywood movie.

6. Meena plays the role of Pasupathi’s Wife very cutely and reminds us of her formula of success during the days when she played the female lead role. This could be a successful comeback for her.

7. Pasupathi needs a special mention. He had done wonderful acting in movies like Virumandi and Veyil. His performance in Kuselan was simply top notch. Portraying the character of a principled, hard working hair dresser  is one thing, Pasupathi also brings out a Father, husband and friend in him in a great way. He also involves himself in the comedy riot and proves he can be funny too. Pasupathi scores full marks for his performance.

Cons:

There are lots of minor cons in the movie due to the limited brain size and capacity of the director P.Vasu. If only he had replaced his hat and augmented it with some grey cells, the movie could have been made much better. Because, at the end of the movie I was left to feel that there were some places which could have been touched upon in a much better way.

1. Pasupathi is the main character in the movie, but it would seem in some places that he is lost in the gang of comedy riots. He deserved more footage and perhaps more part in the screen play.

2. P. Vasu can turn a happy song like “Perinba” into a pukable item number and can make dolphins (who have escaped from Hitchhiker’s guide to galaxy) jump in a shallow country side river.

3. The story builds up very well in the first half and leaves as very interested to look forward to the second half. Unfortunately the second half seemed like going round and round in a carousel and then getting out to move on to the climax of the movie. P.Vasu seemed like he had lost some direction in the second half.

4. The shooting spot. It must not have been a difficult task to pen some mini script/screen play for the shooting scenes. Instead, P.Vasu goes for cheesy 5 minuters like Annamalai Part 2, Chandramukhi part 2 and serves to be of no use in the screen play other than just fillers and entertainment for fans.

5. There were some moments when you would feel like comedy was becoming an overdose. I hated those and I just had to let it go to enjoy the rest of the movie.

6. Pasupathi’s attempt to meet the star could have been better. In fact, Vadivelu’s attempts were much more interesting and funny.

All said, the movie overall is quite enjoyable with the family for its Comedy, a simple story and a good climax. Kuselan wins in a simple way.

Mini Review: Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na

Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na means “Whether You know it or not”. The movie is probably watched by a lot already and reviewed a lot and hence I am not going to repeat the same thing. I will just summarize a few things in the name of the review, I am not a professional reviewer anyway:

1. It is a “Comedy Romance Comedy” genre movie and you will know why when you watch the movie, A love story of the following kind:

The Figure is not to scale.

“What’s this” you ask? It is a table spoon full of sugar with christmas ornaments on it and an army of ants being attracted to the sweetness and transporting it to their food reserve. Still don’t know “What’s this”, then you gotta watch the movie.

2. I had mentioned a while back how Genelia can spring into acting in an annoying way, but she wasn’t as annoying in this movie. I guess the director had the say in it.

3. Imran Khan is to Aamir Khan as how Colin Hanks is to Tom Hanks. Even though Imran exhibits a lot of his uncle’s characteristics, mannerism and style in his acting he will do great if he chooses his movies well. He has got a good future in the Movies. It is hard to shed the family background, but Imran doesn’t need to as he seems to have potential.

4. AR Rahman rocks. I guess my Psychosongasticism will transfer from Om Zaara Re to Pappu cant dance:

Daughter puts her pretend phone on my ears and I say “Hello… What? Pappu cant dance?”.

Daughter brings her puppy doll to me to play with and I sing “Puppy cant dance …dance ..dance…!”

You get the idea.

Finally there is an equivalent to “Saroja Samaan Nikalo” in Hindi.

5. The best scene of the movie is when Naseeruddin Shah Laughs and Dances. This was very funny. Paresh Rawal had a meaty part and was funny as usual.

6. The funniest scene in the movie was the Climax. I have not seen anything like this before (wait, am I lying as in a Liar and another Liar ?) in a Romantic Comedy. It was fitting and orchestrated very well. All credit goes to the director for this.

7. The movie is of the calibre of “Dil Chahta Hai” not just because of a similar Screenplay, not just because of a similar story of relationships, not just because there is a character of an amazing painter, but because of all these reasons and how well the screenplay is handled. There was little bit of a drag in the second half but the movie quickly recovered and went full pace later.

Verdict: Winner. You gotta watch this movie.

Ten for Kamal and Twenty for Rajini (Kuselan)

It was only a countable number of days back that Kamal’s 10 Get up Mega extravaganza was released. Now we hear, as per this particular post that Rajini will be coming in 20 different Get ups for a song in the new movie Kuselan. (Note this is just a song, so it might probably be a gag/parody like “Style” song from Sivaji, which is completely harmless and extremely entertaining, atleast for us Rajini Lovers)

What’s next? Does this mean Kamal would do 30 get ups in his next movie? or will it be 40 get ups, if you assume the number progression for get ups is doubling? Whatever it may be, as long as it entertains the concerned people (Read: Audience), it is always welcome. As spectators we would like to get more bang for the buck spent, so more/better the merrier. 

By the way, Kuselan audio is getting released July 1st and the music is done by G.V. Prakash. He seems to be very good and I have a lengthy playlist of his collection from Veyil, Kireedom, Vellithirai, Polladhavan, Oram Po, makes me wonder why Kamal didn’t prefer him over Himesh Reshammiya for Dasavatharam.