I wish I could
Dear Readers, I had a very interesting experience today. This evening I went to this movie theatre called Brindha in Perambur. They were screening something and called it a movie.
It has an actor who looked undeniably awesome in that mottai getup near the end and in a sequence near a tea shop near the income tax office, it has a music director who had given his heart and soul for this work, an art director who had erected huge sets that look as grand as it could be, it has scores of special effects crew who knew what they were doing, and a cameraman who was brilliant.
However, the producer, who had shelled out a small matter of 60 crores and who expects to make a lot more, had decided not to employ a director and story writer of substance for this project due to some reason, maybe budgetary constraints.:)
So, the cameraman had shot whatever he felt would look good and had dumped the footage to the editor, who incidentally is one of the best in the business. The poor editor has tried to make a movie out of those footages and it shows.
Forget real life logic, there is not even cinematic logic in this collection of footages. Even if I were a fan of this star, I would rather stick a poster of his in my room and watch him all day long without any cost and agony.
I wish,
I could catch hold of the producer and dump him in Bay of Bengal for spending recklessly while not going for a good director and a good storywriter.
I could shut the dialogue writer’s mouth so that he does not give his familiar gyaan on the quality of Tamil Cinema or about how some directors had spoilt his yester year scripts. He could not have written for anything more exotically, splendidly, fantastically ridiculous than this.
Go to the star and say, ’I know you can act. So why don’t you start acting in roles which has some substance?’ But he wouldn’t listen. There are far too many things at stake.
Anyways so long as there are maniacs who only care about seeing him on screen, why would he bother?.
Most of all, I wish I could shut the mouths of those who scream, ’Hey its just Entertainment!’. Oh really?, so you think movies like Chennai 600028 are all art movies?
Moral of the story, if we do not respect our time, money and intelligence, nobody else will.
June 17th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Idhaye dhaan naanum sonnen. Comments section vandhu paarunga :)) Be ready to face the wrath of people. All the best
June 17th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
I saw a similar movie today evening. The show timing on the ticket said 7:15. The show started at 8:00. That’s fine if the wait was worth it. Well, even though I didn’t feel anything extraordinary, I had the feeling that this would be just another typical masala movie.. as you said it is just entertainment like Chennai 28.
Less expectation, less worries..
June 17th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
I am glad I didn’t waste money !
June 17th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
ferari,
ahaa ipdi meratareengale
gopinath,
chennai 28 evlovo parava illai, IMHO
narayanan,
20$ micham. the highlights are ‘oru koodai sunlight’ song, ‘athiradee’ song, and the mottai getup in the end. ellam koodiya seekiram TV la varum.. ensoi maadi..
On the negatives, idhile first half la comedy nu onnu varum paarunga,
adhaan periya kodumai
June 18th, 2007 at 2:53 am
DVD eduthuttu vandhu pudikalaina niruthittu pongappa :))
June 19th, 2007 at 1:40 am
Gr8 post! Exactly my thoughts!
Its sacrilege is you call it “cinema”!
June 19th, 2007 at 1:54 am
u cudnt have said it better dude.succinct review
June 19th, 2007 at 2:05 am
*if
June 19th, 2007 at 7:01 am
Enna Kodumai Idhu Saravana
I have written my thoughts on this.
Post mortem in this case is a waste…
June 19th, 2007 at 7:27 am
Forget logic and realism, would you still call this as ‘entertainment’? haha. Well said. Actually Brangan has tried to give an objective take, but you went a little step ahead by questioning the star, “’I know you can act. So why don’t you start acting in roles which has some substance?’ - Answer would be - ‘I forgot to act. This has been going on for ‘years’, chinna pulla thanama kelvi kekka koodadhu
Mass da kanna’! ROTFL
June 19th, 2007 at 7:38 am
hello… venaam.. indha madhiri ellam review ezhudhaadhe… thirumba solren… venaam… aludhuruven… sollitten.. aaama.
June 19th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Anything wrong with the earlier comment? Anyways, It’s your blog and you have the right to approve them.
June 19th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
dei olunga moodikittu po. ivaru periya critic review yelutha vanthuttan. padam parhtama pothikkitu ponamannu irukonum purinjitha dubukku
June 19th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Courageous review. I haven’t watched the movie. But the description fits some of his previous movies, so I am not surprised it fits this one too.
Initial responses said this was a good movie and all ? ellam poyya ?
June 20th, 2007 at 2:25 am
Hi Prabhu!
You live in Perambur?
I used to live in Periyar Nagar.
BTW, since when did Rajini movies started getting watched for “Story” and screenplay? So if you went looking for one , I must say that fault lies with you. In fact as to the question of entertainment, Rajini movies defy every rule for entertainment. The whole circus is an excuse to see Rajini doing various antics. If fans liked it, they cannot be blamed. It is the fault of neutral film lovers who joined this mania to hype this movie to what it is not. In fact Rajini himself was shocked to see the hype that was generated by the media and mentioned this in the interview to Times now. AVM played the masterstroke with distribution and marketing by corporatizing the whole process, due to which Sivaji Cluster bombs were carpeted all over the world to a “Happy Harvest”. Notions and views of film critics was replaced by “reactions” and “experiences” of fans, confessed and otherwise. Thus critiques on the movie never got the bandwidth or attention. Any efforts to constructively deconstruct the movie and review it would be only perceived as a sadistic move by a “head weight” film critic. In fact Chandramukhi and Baba were reviewed first, but over here the movie was proclaimed a hit by the media and then showed to the public. The combination of hype and craze generated was enough to make it the biggest hit. Now it is too late for critics to make any dent in the popular image of the movie. Any which ways it is a lost cause for average film watcher as he now simply joins the flow and gets “aiykiyam” in the Sivaji Jothee . thee thee Jaga jothee jothee jothee!!
Regards,
Jaiganesh
June 20th, 2007 at 8:07 am
sree,
as a shankar rasigar mandram thalaivi, i can understand your feelings
pradeep,
thanks man
ganesh,
padichen padichen, don’t tell me i didn’t warn ya!
June 20th, 2007 at 8:10 am
thilak,
sadly thats true!
chakra,
neenga aludhaalum parava illa, if sivaji makes the promised 90 crores, that would embolden the likes of shankar to make crappier movies…
dinesh,
ellam hype ba! if u want to watch a fun rajini movie, my suggestion will be guru sishyan..old but gold in terms of rajini entertainment.
if u want to watch a latest time pass movie, try chennai-28
June 20th, 2007 at 8:14 am
jaiganesh,
i used to live in MPM street :). i went to this movie bcos my manager was gung ho abt this movie and even took the trouble of buying tickets for all of us in that theatre…
I am not sure if its a lost cause yet, no matter what you hype about, at the end of the day the movie watcher has to watch the film and coffers should fill!
June 20th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Prabhu!!
Enne umadhu managerin team building skill?
Pullarikkudhu ba!
June 23rd, 2007 at 9:16 am
Logic Magic.
Vikatan Vimarisana Kuzhu (41/100)
July 5th, 2007 at 3:26 am
plz to read this if you have some time …
http://sudhishkamath.blogspot.com/
You may get a certain amount of insights about this rajini mania created by the maniacs(your words) … what could be the reason behind this? culture, context, socio-political implications, fantasy … blah blah … wht the hell? why should we analyze all these things prabhu .. these ppl r just plain maniacs, arent they?
We are self-assumed intellectuals and this is how we write blogs … according to us, everybody should hv the same preferences and inclinations towards things …
Anyway this is your personal opinion .. freedom of expression(there is no proper defn for this term .. so we can use it wherever we want) …
July 5th, 2007 at 4:21 am
Shiva,
I had already read that and dont want to comment on that.
What you call as insight may or may not be so insightful for me. That does not prevent you from calling it as having some insights….thats your opinion. I do have the same rights and privileges.
I am not asusming anything here and I write what I feel is appropriate.
I express the same way you readers express your opinions in the comments section and i do not see anything wrong there.
Maybe there should be a legislation so that nobody has the right to criticize a start or mega star or a mega director….. defamation (you can use that whenever you want too).