A BIG RELIEF

Yet another mani ratnam movie !!!!

But this time , he has carved an epic. No other director can create a character like Veera. It is the most versatile character to have been created in the tamil cinema so far. Veera's "bak bak bak bak" will be admired by everyone. Vikram scores when he admires his photo in prithviraj's tent. His longing for aishwarya rai, and his acting makes it his best movie after "pithamagan".

The way vikram comes to kno abt his sister's death, the climax fight, aishwarya rai wearing a hawai slipper, the surprise song at the climax(it is not in album), vaiyapuri as transgender, train scene.... There are mani touches throughout the movie.
 
Ravanan is the most beautifully picturised movie of this decade. "Usure pogudhe" captures our attention. It was an excellent attempt and a very innovative one.Santhosh Shivan should get atleast a national award.

"Poramaya iruku saami.. Adi vayirellam eriyudhu", veera says to Raghini standing infront of a mammoth vishnu statue.All guys will feel this much jealousy of abishek bachchan wen they see the movie. Aishwarya rai bachchan was so so beautiful. Her eyes express fear and love so effortlessly. Aishwarya has lived as Raghini.

A.R.Rahman has provided a treat to our ears. The 'kaatu siruki' at the background at the time when veera tries to hug raghini is the pick of the movie. Music is such an integral part of the movie. The BGM is awesome,fabulous,terrific,mind blowing,excellent,stunning, and simply Rahmanic.

The three and a half long wait came to an end at last. This is a big relief to tamil cinema plagued by obscene duets and non-sense punch dialogues.And Mani sir has not disappointed his fans..

ROARING

5 songs + 5 fights + 5 comedy scenes + tympanum-tearing punch dialogues = Singam. Despite pathetic Anoushka(hope i spelled right!), irritating "third-rate" comedy from "janangalin kalaignan, Padma shri" vivek, "ongi adicha onra ton weight da" punches, absolutely irritating DSP bgm,what makes singam interesting and watchable is SURYA. He carries the entire film in his shoulders with amazing ease. In no way singam resembles Kaaka Kaaka. It resembles none of his early 24 movies. He has really done some homework for the movie. He speaks the thoothukudi slang flawlessly, and roars throughout the movie like a lion. His dance has improved tremendously. You cannot compare "Aval varuvala" and "kadhal vandhale".Surya has unleashed the entertainer within him.

Singam - Surya's quest to increase his fan base..

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It was sheer disappointmemt when the news of the cancellation of signals assess came. I have planned to pack up for home soon after the exam was over, now i have to wait till monday. Fed up with friday when we wrote tests for pds , electical machines lab and circuits lab back to back, the thought of getting free once and for all by saturday morning,was shattered. In sheer frustration i thought of watching movies, and spend my time lavishly. “National treasure” which i saw in the morning was an awesome movie with a nice plot and a good screenplay . Then in the afternoon I saw “Rang de basanti”, which is probably the only movie which made me think a lot. On seeing the climax of the movie i was so happy and satisfied. The success of the movie is that a person with a very very little hindi knowledge like me,could understand what the director came to say. Still, i am thinking of the dialogue which comes twice in the film. At first ,siddharth says , “ this country has no future”. Maddy will shoot back at him saying “ join politics , military , become ias”.. In the climax, siddharth repeats maddy's dialogue, and says he killed his very own father who was also corrupt. The soul of the film is rahman's music.. till now i am wondering about the bgm score, which is far far better than slumdog. If at all we want to portay India to the world,it should be in the “rang de” way and not in the “slumdog” way.

SUNSET OR SUNRISE?

Now its surya's time.. As soon as "Aadhavan" released, messages ridiculing surya flooded my inbox... Ultimates and ilaya (how long!) thalapathies are not so sensational in the last week... But , this flop has infact popularised surya greatly... It has united the vijay and ajith fans against him, and has created something called " die hard surya fans" which itself is a good sign for the emerging king of kollywood... The biggest cause of concern is that surya is not assured of a box office hit with his next venture also.. Hari has given more number of flops than hits... Well, these are testing times for the only young tamil hero who has the potential to give good films consistently and continuously... Lets see how he passes it..

THORANAI

Watch out ananda vikatan for the best review of the movie ......
But I feel puratchithalapathi is trying to imitate ilayathalapathi as everyone would have felt.... But ultimately he fails....
Though santhanam - mayilsami combo make us to laugh at sometimes ,mostly it turns out to be an overdose....... with santhanam employing "double meaning" words as usual....... vishal needs to do something atleast in the next film to satisfy his fans......

The promising young hero with a possibly huge latent talent must be careful in choosing the stories for next time atleast.....
MORALS OF THORANAI:-
1. shriya as heroine.. storyline will surely not be different , to say the least( hopin tat kandasamy would be an exception) .....
2.never go to a commercial tamil film until u r bored to death....
3.if at all u go,take ur mobile phones to theatre.....they may help u with games and messages