Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Madrasapattinam - Review
Madrasapattinam – Watch it twice for Amy
What a movie sir ji ! Undoubtedly one of the best movies I have seen in the recent past. I can call it as Titanic of Tamil – equal to Titanic in both making and feel. It also had few touches from titanic in screenplay department.
Main Reason why I love this film is Amy Jackson. What a ravishing beauty! She looked like a princess straight out of a fairy tale. She redefined my notion that only South Indian girls are beautiful. When she says ‘maranthuttiya’ to Arya and when the bgm starts, I felt like someone has proposed to me-such is the impact of that scene. Amy’s Tamil is interesting.
Storyline: An old granny comes to
Initial scenes of the film resembled like a British film with lot of British people and foreign locales. Soon the movie shifts from
Dialogues like “We are beating them after 200 years” bring the writer to lime light. Dialogues about Netaji and Kamarajar add credibility to the movie.
Arya is rocking these days. All of his recent films like Naan kadavul, Sarvam, Madrasapattinam are watch worthy. An Engineering student after finishing his graduation entered modeling and then cinema and now he is one of the leading stars in tamil film industry. This film has lot of dialogues in English and half of the film runs in subtitles.
I feel many heroes will fear to accept a role like parithi because they doubt the box office success of the movie especially in C centers. But after seeing the film, most of the heroes will yearn for roles like parithi. Special appreciation to Arya for the guts to take up the role. One more film which had lot of dialogues in other language is ‘Hey Ram’ which was not received well by the audience. The viewers found it difficult to comprehend the movie. This is not the case with madrasapattinam, even if they cannot understand the language; they can definitely understand the undercurrent feeling.
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Music by G.V is fantastic. I was a fan of ‘Vamma duraiamma’ Song even before going to the movie. Witty lines by Late Haneefa in between the song make it more impressive. One song I loved while watching the film is ‘pookal pookum’ especially the starting music. Now it is the ring tone and dialer tone of many. Bgm is nice and if he continues producing good songs like this, he can definitely top the composers table currently held by Yuvan and Harris.
Special applause to art director and costume designer. When it is difficult to set the back drop of movie 20 years ago, shooting a period film set up in 1940’s is definitely a huge challenging task. With 80% of the film set up in 1940’s, Art director should have really burnt his midnight oil for the film and has come out in flying colors. Bridges, River, Church, Railway station, Amy’s house and lot more are wonderfully created.
Director should have really thought a lot to write a screenplay for love between two person who cannot understand each other’s language. But this idea had made the film intriguing and audience come to see how the director has done this. Communication through clothes and how it was misused later are well written scenes. The scenes where Arya and his friends go to thank Amy tickle your funny bone.
Thanks to director Vijay for giving us such a beautiful film. Narrating a love story is easy but making it appealing to the audience requires screen magic. That magic was wonderfully created by this madrasapattinam crew – Director Vijay, Arya, Amy, G.V.Prakash, Neerav shah along with art director and costume designer.
Love is a great feeling – it makes people go mad about it and make them do anything for it. If you had already experienced one such feel, watch this movie to understand the greatness of that feeling. If you had not yet experienced such feeling, then watch this movie to know how much you have missed in your life so far. A cute princess is waiting to mesmerize you all and make you glued to her through out the movie. After the movie, everyone may yearn for such love or such lover. The crew of the film has tried to show a pure love on screen and guys don’t miss this Tamil Titanic.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Dance_After_Three_Years
Finally After 3 years I had a chance to dance again. It was during my third year in college that I danced before. I was wondering if I would ever dance in my life again. Thanks to Bala(Centre guy in the photo) for making that happen. I can dance but choreography is a complete skill in which I am still an amateur. I need some one to tell me the dance steps, After that may be I can remember them and dance to my best. For my college performances there were great choreographers like manivannan, N.Karthikeyan's friend in Thirumangalam and few more. It is because of them that I got chance to dance in college and now it is because of Bala that I have got this opportunity to dance in office.
Only dance I did without choreographer was for our acumen third year group dance. Myself, Vijay, Rajagopal and Suganth danced . We looked at the video song and copied the dance steps for vallavan song. We also danced for a MJ song and we cant copy the dance step for that, as we were no where near to MJ. So I choreographed that song. That is the first time i tried my hands at choreography. It was full of very simple steps and it will look some what like exercise, if you want to call it technically - break movements, robotic movements. Though they were simple steps and as there were not much competition from other teams our dance group won the first prize. One of the other major contributing factor for it is the scintillating performance by sugu and karthee. Any how my first choreography had fetched me first prize directly or indirectly. You would have thought for getting a prize inside college and within the department , I am creating more scene , it is not like that, I value that prize more considering the fact that is just my third performance on stage. By now I have close to seven on stage performance to my kitty.
The performance which I value most is Third year inter department dance competition wherein we won the third prize. Even now if someone comes to my house, first thing I would ask them if they want to see some dance and show them that close to ten minute dance performance performed by nine of us.
And now, This performance in my office have also become close to my heart. First , it raised the eyebrows of few and others were shocked , no no surprised to see me dancing. However I got a lot of good response from my colleagues and I am happy about that. Myself, Bala and shiju danced for this 7 min fusion of five songs. Bala choreographed for four songs and I choreographed one. Yeah, I tried my hands in choreography for the second time in my life. During our rehearsal, One of my colleague informed me that enthiran songs are released and one song chutti chutti Robo (Robo da) song is very fast and super. I heard the song and tried few steps like Robot. Bala said they are good and asked me to compose for some 1.5 min. That's how I had a chance to choreograph again.
If you can notice one resemblance between both the songs I choreographed(MJ song and Enthiran), I would have used only robotic movements. It needs little flexibility, they look like kinder garden exercises and any person can do it easily. As I myself am not a flexibile dancer, I can only choreograph this way. After the dance, there was showering accolades for Bala . I cannot forget to mention here that he is an amazing dancer far better than me. In the rain of praises to Bala, I also got wet in Bits and Pieces.
Oh, what a bragging post. I just started reminiscing all my dance experiences and I hope i had not blown my trumpet so much...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Fuzball_Captain
Few years ago, when I was in college, it rained heavily on a day. I was returning from my college to hostel. I was stuck in the rain. I had no other option than to get a shade under a tree in the ground. That is the only incident when I have entered the ground. After that I have mostly refrained from entering the ground for any purpose.
Now I am back, this time, as a captain of a prestigious team. Background of the event goes like this. A football tournament is planned in our department. Six groups to participate in the tournament with two team each from a group. In our group, there are only few players who can play the game well. Others are just novices. In a motive to make one team from our group stronger, they put all the stronger players in one team and other amateurs in the other. Obviously I am the captain of the latter.
“What is our team strategy?” asked one of the eager guys from my team. I asked “can we play with 6 goalies?” He said no. Then the only way is to play with one goalie and five defenses. “What about forward?” he asked again. I know that ball will never go to the other half of the ground, so I don’t want my resources to get wasted by standing and bantering with the opponent goalie.
When our team was formed, they rattled off the name of the players. One of our colleagues asked me “not knowing football the only criterion for entering into your team?” I was not surprised by his question, because what his statement was vindicated when one of my team mates asked “should we hit the ball only with leg or can we also use head?”. I thought I was the worst.
Fortunately the other two team captains in my pool are my friends. So I am planning to clinch a deal with both of them, not to put more than 9 goals. Is 9 a magical number? No, I don’t want my team to get trounced by the opponents by putting a two digit number of goals. Hope the deal works. Any how two teams from a pool will move to the next stage and one team has to bid good bye. That one team in my pool is already decided. If there are close matches, all the three teams win one match each, and then the number of goals will come into picture for selecting the top two teams. I don’t want the tournament organizers to involve in so much complex calculations for selecting the top two in my pool. I want to make their job easy.
Now coming to the way I was selected as the captain. Only problem with my team is all the eight members are fighting for a place in substitutes where only two are allowed. Now did you get the reason why I accepted the role of captain? I will select the team and I will definitely reserve a place for me as substitute. If anyone asks why I am not playing, I can reply to them saying I want to give chances to young blood and test my bench strength, so that I can play my best team in the finals. If they know about my team in prior, sure to expect a haughty laugh from them, but I don’t mind.
Do you know what my team’s name is? It is “Football for Fun - FFF”. Yes for others fun and to be made fun of. Don’t misunderstand FFF for something else.
Sports is not my cup of tea, let alone football. It is not the cup of tea for my team mates either. We just want to participate and have some fun. We would be happy at least the other team from our group plays some good game; at least there is some use for our sacrifices. Do you want to know the sacrifices? Even if you don’t I will let you know. Initially two teams were formed with equal number of good players. Eventually to make one strong team, we exchanged our good players with their novices. I have no qualms about all these.
Looking ahead for the match to bring my leadership skills to the fore!
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Singam (Movie Review)
Story line of singam, nothing special, is about a police inspector’s confrontation with a goon. But screenplay doesn’t allow you to think about the hoary storyline. While watching the film, you never feel bored, you never look at your watch and that is the success of Hari.
Hari’s most of the films are based on similar storylines. But still he makes it watch worthy. He has proved that he is a master in his art, art of making commercial films. Of course, it is difficult to rate Singam more or equal in status to suriya’s previous cop film, Kakha Kakha, but it is just a tad behind it. Kakha kakha has attained a cult status for cop movies and it is difficult to overcome it.Comparing it to Hari’s previous cop film, Saamy, it is more or less equal or in few scenes even better.
Anushka, the lead lady, has really done what was expected out of her. Singam is not a women centred story, at the same time it has not used the heroine was songs alone. She even has a scene to redeem the confidence of hero who is about to chicken out due to villain’s overture. She looks really good, though taller than suriya in few scenes. This film will strengthen her fan base in tamil nadu and one of her good films in tamil after ‘Arundhati’. The big star cast of the movie includes vijayakumar, radharavi, Nasser, nilalgal ravi, achi manorama. Singam has not provided them roles to showcase their talents, but their presence adds up to pluses of the movie.
I am really sorry for Prakash Raj. National award winning actor was just aloud to shout and scream. I personally feel Prakash Raj should not accept such insipid roles in future. That role of a villain doesn’t require so much talent, any one could do that role. It’s time our tamil film finds some other villain and leaves this talented actor to concentrate on good films.
Most interesting scenes in the movie are the one where Suriya confronts with Assistant commissioner with the dialogues, ‘This is the one and only station under my control’, and the scene with Prakash Raj where he utters ‘Onki adicha onra ton weight da’. Suriya has exuded lot of confidence as Duraisingam and he has really reveled in that role.
Vivek has done a okay job handling the comedy part. It’s high time he realize the irritation caused by his double entendres. I really wonder why does he goes on with lot of double meaning dialogues throughout the movie. At least Suriya should ensure that such trifle dialogues don’t creep into his films, as he is becoming a more family hero, entertainer for all kind of people. Children fan base had started moving to suriya from vijay.
Songs are good. DSP stamp is in all songs, Full of energy. Kadhal vandhale, you stole my heart are foot tapping numbers. Even other songs are hearable.
The film has few things on the flip side. When the villain shoots the heroine, we definitely know she will get cured soon, as it will always be a happy ending in commercial films. I still wonder how heroes and heroines get healed after bullet piercing the chest and villain dies immediately if the same happen to him. Double meaning dialogues of vivek really debase the movie. Villain attacking the relationships of hero is oft seen from films of yore. Here Inspector Ravi( bose venkat), able aide of durai Singam dies. Few sentimental lines during the fast paced opening song, this kind of formulaic elements, could be removed.
Despite few points on the flip side, film is watch worthy. Suriya and hari had joined hands for the third time to provide viewers a complete entertainer and had succeeded in their objective. Hope it is a hat trick for them. Singam is a definite watch for suriya fans and for others, just go and watch it, the film is quite engrossing.
Tagline : Watch it for suriya
VV Rating – 2.5 /5
Sorry da, I should not have done that
It all started just like that. I was in my friend’s home on a week end. One of my best and brilliant friends came to me and said he likes a girl. Since I don’t have much experience in this topic, I should have skipped it. I foolishly gave him confidence to propose her. I quoted lot of live examples. He became confident and when I left his home, he said he will propose the next day. One thing I know from his side, his parents are ready to accept it. But to be frank, I thought the girl will definitely turn down his proposal.
He did what he said. He proposed to that girl the next day. Definitely I should appreciate his courage here. If I had been in his position, even after 100 people said, I would not have got the courage to propose. As I though the girl replied in the negative. I was really happy. B’coz things are going in the way which I thought and my friend is not in much trouble. Definitely in few days, my friend would also forget her. Why I say this because, they have not talked much. He had seen her, he liked her character, he proposed her. He also said if someone doesn’t like him, he will move away from them.
I thought story has ended. But I was wrong, the story had just started. After one weak, I got the biggest shock. The girl had accepted his proposal. It had taken one weak for her to decide on it. Though she accepted, she said we will still be friends as her parents won’t agree. How can two people be friends after they know both of them like each other. Love started blossoming strongly between both.
By know could you know a parallel between this story and a super hit tamil film which got released recently. Yes, you are right. It’s ‘vinnai thandi varuvaya’ . He always says it’s my story. Even it seems he had used the same words to her ‘There are many girls in this world. Why should I like you?’
From my friend’s words, I understood she is really good. She is torn between love and parents. She told her parents. They rebuffed the proposal. They asked her to forget him. Immediately bridegroom search started and things started going awry.
It has been six months now. Lots of cries, lots of sms, long hours of talking and my friend was really suffering. He did all he could do for her. He talked to her brother. He talked to her parents. They didn’t even hear what he said, let alone talking to him. He did fasting. Nothing worked. Six months of pain…
Now what happened, that’s your question, right? Tomorrow that girl gets engaged. After usual blackmail from parents of death, she accepted it. I thought the story has ended at least now. But I don’t know it may continue, because I have thought the same n number of times. Whenever my friend calls and tells the status, I think it has come to an end. But something more will happen. Lovers go on trying till the end. ‘Never say die’ attitude perfectly fits them.
When I heard she is getting engaged, I thought it’s over. But my friend as a final attempt had talked to the bridegroom. Even the girl had told about her love to the bridegroom and in the end she had told that she will try to change herself otherwise her parents would die. So, the bridegroom had finally accepted it. This is what had happened till now. My friend may scold me for missing out many; I couldn’t remember all he said.
Today he cried to me in phone. First time I hear him crying. Usually they cry between themselves and he informs about that. But he cried to me only today. As I thought, vinnai thandi varuvaya climax is nearing. He is completely stressed. In fact, the blog ‘Why is this happening to me alone’ was written thinking about him. But these articles are not enough to console him. Frequent dialogues which we hear in films ‘I see her in everything’, ‘I don’t know how I am going to live without her’, and ‘Will she be happy? How is she going to change herself ’and so on………..
Sorry da, I should not have done that. I should not have persuaded you to propose. I never thought this will go so long and trouble you. But my friend, time is the best healer. Whatever happens, life has to move on….
Advices for my friends, who are in love/planning to love, if you think your family will not accept your love don’t propose or accept offers. All lovers are very optimistic while loving. They think they can somehow convince their parents, but how? Of all of them only very few percent people succeed in getting married. This is the case for this girl too. She knew her parents won’t agree, but she thought she could convince them. Now she couldn’t.
So guys, if your parents are not willing to accept love marriage, please don’t propose or accept proposals. If you are bold enough to say, ‘amma, I love a girl, shall I propose to her today’, then go on… else please stop it. Don’t trouble yourself and trouble others also. If I had known this before, I would not have asked my friend to propose. At least I won’t do that in future to any.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Bye with Tears
I donno when I cried before. But I think I will remember today for many reasons. After a long gap, I cried today. My father used to say, boys should not cry. But I couldn’t control today. He has gone. Vasanth has left. He has left to
I know him as a classmate, nothing more in college. When we got the offer Bosch together, I know for sure, he is a harmless person and will be a perfect roommate. He happened to be the same. I always have one dissatisfaction for him as a room mate, He never keeps the room neat. Even I too, But he is worser than me. One comparison between us is both of us are lazy. We usually woke up at 8 o clock and swipe only at 10 o clock.
Two years back, two guys came to
I was also with him during one of his toughest times. It was last year.. I didn’t realize how it would have pained then… I can now realize a little of that pain.. If I had given him some useful guidance, things would have changed. But I was only a silent spectator then. Anyhow, I don’t want to think about the closed chapter.
He was a very hard worker. He had spent lots of day and night in office to meet tight deadline. Lots of days, he had burned his midnight oil. In the end, he couldn’t even get a relieving letter. Atleast he got his experience certificate, that is better.
I never thought I will feel this much. In the morning when he said through phone, that he is leaving, I just wished him. I didn’t have much feeling then. Due to various reasons, he didn’t go in the morning and he had just left right now. All of our feelings gushed out in the restaurant. We were not able to speak. We were even not able to look at each other. Both of us tried to control our tears but in vain. Last advices transferred.
I am trying to avoid his thoughts. It’s difficult as I stay in the same house. Hopefully I will be able to avoid old memories. Staying alone is not a problem. I had stayed for lot of time. In fact in these two years, close to ten months, he was in
If I go on, I can write a lot, even a short book. There are two years of events to jot. Films which we saw together like kuselan, saroja, katradhu kalavu,… and I can write a lot. But ok. Let me stop here. Whateber happen, Life has to move on…
At this time, I also think of my parents. I donno why. If I can’t forget a relationship of two years, then how important are my parents. I just thought of telling, I love you dad and mom. I always want to be with you. But college, work, all these stuff are separating us. Still there was never a day when I had gone to sleep without thinking you.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Why is this happening to me alone?
Are you in a very happy mood? Have you achieved something great today? Are you extremely jubilant and excited for whatever reason? Have your girl friend accepted your proposal recently? Are you a highly optimistic person? If your answer for any of the above is yes, then bye friend, read the rest of this article on some other day.
Are you really pissed off? Is your project manager screwing you? Is your girl friend annoying you? Have you faced some failure in the recent past? Are you a frustrated job seeker? Are you a pessimist? Do you consider you as a loser? If yes, then come on friends, this article is for you. Continue
In recent days, I am hearing few statements more frequently from many of my friends. They are, ‘Why is this happening to me alone?’ ‘What wrong have I done to suffer like this?’. I empathize for those who say these statements. Ironically, I too had said it few times. But if analyzed deeper, we can understand the reality of life.
What problems do we face more frequently? Topping the list is love failure, followed by job dissatisfaction and lot more follows. Immediately we come to the conclusion that we are the most unlucky person in the world; we are destined to undergo maximum hardships, we blame the god, and sometimes question the existence of god and so on.
It is true that we are unlucky sometimes. Things don’t go in the way we thought. Even putting lot of effort doesn’t bring success. We don’t get what we yearn for. But is that the end of the road? Immediately, should we come to conclusion about being unlucky? I think no.
Have you undergone all the miseries underwent by all the human beings in this world? Without that how can you say you suffer most? There are definitely people in worse situations.
Have you ever felt, how it will be to lose your eye sight? You will never be able to watch your favorite film, sports, TV soaps, etc. You don’t know how a color is, how a shape looks like…You cannot do anything alone. For everything, you need a support. Have we suffered more than these blind people?
Have you ever felt, how it will be to lose your hearing power? There will not be any favorite albums to hear. You will never be able to hear anything, let alone your favorite music. Empty play list in media player or even uninstall that software. It might not be useful anymore. Have we suffered more than those deaf people?
Tougher and worse scenarios are still there. Have you ever imagine how you will behave when you come to know, you are going to die. What will you do, when your closest kin is counting his/her last days? What will you do when police is searching you for some mistakes which you didn’t do? What will you do, when you are deprived of even your basic necessities like home, shelter like Tamils in
I have jotted down few worst situations a person can face. Do I sound pessimistic? No; Not at all – Standing in sun will help you to understand the pleasure of standing in shade. My objective is also similar. I just want to stress the point saying there are people who suffer more than us. So, what to do next? As there are more sufferings, let us get adjust to our current small difficulties and experience them all. Again, a big NO is my answer.
Work on to solve your problems. My point is that, do not just ponder about your problems. It will no way help to solve or reduce your difficulties. Live the life to the fullest. If you are an agnostic or atheist, skip the next sentence. Every day is a gift from god. Enjoy each and every moment of your life to the maximum. Always think about the positives that had happened to you. Be more optimistic. May be a better one is waiting for you in the future.
Another major problem which we face today is comparison syndrome. Comparing with someone and envy it. My friend has a better salary, he has a bigger house, he has a beautiful girl friend, and he gets more than what he deserves. All of these are the common reasons for being jealous – If you are not like the one I have mentioned in the previous line, bear with me for few more lines. May be your lucky friend is the son of god or whatsoever. What will you get by just fuming over it? Nothing, isn’t it? Then why do you spend time in something which is worthless for you?
Let us take an example. You are waiting for a local bus. Suddenly, it starts raining cats and dogs. No shelter there. Standing under a tree, you get completely wet. All the buses are full of people. No space to even squeeze in. After close to 15 min, an AC bus comes. Thankfully, because of its high ticket price, only few people were there. You enter into it.
Now, what will you say about the above situation. Is there anything positive about this incident? Nothing, isn’t it? You had woken up seeing a wrong face or might be you have seen the mirror. The rain could have started after you have reached home. Now you have suffered. This is one way of looking at it.
Is there another way to look at it? What would have happened if that AC bus had not come? You could have stood there for hours, completely drowned in rain. Next day, you could have caught cold which slowly becomes fever and so on. So guys, there is a positive side in everything, except if some of your dear ones had kicked the bucket. Some highly stoic, optimistic person can even find something positive in it. May be I couldn’t.
All the above ideas are said in a short and crisp jargon “All is well” or rather “Aaaal is welllll” after ‘3 Idiots’. Seriously it is a great jargon. Just write it in big bold letters, paste it in your rooms and things may change for the better. If you want to have a longer version, take this. “What had happened is for good, what is happening is also for good and what is about to happen will also be good”, small translation from baghvat geeta.
I have written about the comparison syndrome. Comparison can also be useful. Compare yourself with differently able, unfortunate children of god – again atheist/agnostic people forgive me. You will realize how lucky are you to have all the parts of your body working fine, to have a very caring family and so on. Don’t just stop with comparison. Try to help these unfortunate children. Atleast spend ten percent of your income towards charity. There are large number of service organizations, find the genuine one and support them. If you are so much interested, start your own.
Finally, an article should have a conclusion, isn’t it? So, here is the conclusion. If there are some chances to overcome your problem, do with full heart. This may not be possible in all cases. In case your Girl Friend had left you and married someone, you cannot do anything more in this chapter. Close the old chapter and try to start a new one. Rather you had flunked your exams, you had goofed up in some dance competition, you were thrown out of the job; there is always a chance to get back what you lost. Strive hard, just focus on what you want. Write your desire in some sheet and paste it where you can see often. Nothing is impossible in this world. Don’t waste your time in worrying. Sadness and gladness succeed each other. Come on guys, buckle your shoes down, success is waiting in the corridor for you and remember for optimistic, hard working people, success knocks the door more than once.
Are you still a pessimist? Then just mail me to tcevadivel@yahoo.co.in; May be I should improve my writing skills. Have a nice day or rather have a nice future.