Karnan[ReRelease] - MyView

Despite seeing the movie more than a hundred time, I had the same excitement of new movie when entered the theater.

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Since this was a mammoth successful creation few decades ago, I am not going to cover the story and other aspects like my usual reviews. The classic movie with the acting giant Sivaji Ganesan's performance is mind blowing even now. No one can ever equal him in expressions and dialogue delivery. Few of the other actors performance look crazy/funny. Especially the regular eight side dancers who appear whenever there is a song. :)

We all know that the movie was squeezed well to accommodate the part of the epic with out missing the essence of the original flow.

The re-release was a good and productive effort to record it digitally.

For the first few minutes. it was very normal with very poor audio quality, because the re-released production company has said media that two to three reels of  movie film was damaged and what we see are the recovered part. Later closer toward the climax the image corrections are visible and good too.

Audio mixing was OK for a while, It was impressive when the war starts. I didin't know the name of composer who has overlapped the new instruments. In few areas it is below the mark. All songs were digitally re mastered which is really good to hear.

All together, Seeing the movie on big screen with digital audio is not a bad experience.

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Kadhalil Sothapuvathu Yepadi - MyView

A dramatic love story. I went in theater with little expectation because like few of us, I have seen the "Short film"(which is the main course of this film too) a year back directed by Balaji Mohan.

Movie was like a sweet candy wrapped in colorful foil. Love was every where(only on the screen). Sidharth hero and producer of this film is a college student. I like the college very much. Because student there do everything except studying.

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Charming Sidharth and Cute Amala make good pair and did justice to their roles.

Actual story and few scene of the movie is the same as we saw in the short film. Interest character who acted in that short film has done a very fantastic role. He takes responsibility of tickling our ribs.

Sidharth narrates, quotes, advices often looking the camera. It was ok when the movie started, but started feeling like watching a documentary when it continues. The story as said earlier is the same as the short film with added few extra characters and few extra love, director managed to expand it to 2 hrs.


The movie has everything to entertain teenagers and college goers.

Songs (S.Thaman) are average, good to hear(but doesn't stay in our mind) and intentionally inserted. But I like the lead and transformation of first two songs from dialogue. The movie was shot for Telugu audience too, so in few frames we can see few unfamiliar objects in Tamilnadu on screen(Reason: max shooting were done at Hyderabad).

Suresh who plays a family man(also part of the matured love story), comes in 3 days trimmed beard(even in different scenes) till he is in grief. And when bliss re-enters his life, he appears clean shaved. Not to look at logic since it is out of syllabus :). Nothing much to explain more...

If you really don't know how to spare time or your old friend(actually an elder one for me) tortures to go this movie, you need not bother about this movie :).

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Women - A powerful word.

There will be at least one women you could think of in any perspective in your life. Mother, Sister, friend, colleague, lady of interest, crush, opponent and so on.... That was for men. But not to stop there, women play significant role with in women community too.

They are the only reason of the residue culture we have in our country. A women takes care of grooming another women in her environment with her idea.Whatever financial background she comes from, she has strong understanding and takes firm decision.

A female known for love, trust, affection, care and not miss the important feature STRENGTH. Naturally they posses a strong mind and ready to bold decisions.Power of Nature, and creation is there in every women.

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Celebrating the power and delicacy of women as women's day, initially started at late 19th century. Actually  it was working women's day (they say it had political interest in western countries Read more here). Later after few year at Copenhagen they declared the day as International Women's Day.

We learn a lot of the women's near by us. And this is the day to take a moment and share the thankfulness and respect to all the women we know.

Happy Women's Day to all respectable women.

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Aravaan - MyView

Last Saturday, Had a chance to see another decent movie. Aravaan.
Actually I noted this movie in my wishlist, but didn't thought would watch it so early.

Its a period movie, which is very much evident in the movie trailer and posters.
A historical fiction, inspired and improvised from Su. Venkatesan's novel Kaaval Kottam.
With little curiosity I entered the theater.

Since being a period film, art and music are major components. Vijay Murugan has arranged the sets for the movie which is very much appreciable and consistent. Art work has complemented the movie to great extent. Music composed by Karthik; Beginning of the movie, background music was simply mega drums rolls(during the theft scene), which continued to the first song also. I had little thoughts, whether this style would be for the entire movie. Later to fail my guessing there wes very good BGM accompany the happenings on screen. Songs are very average, except "Nilla nilla" which stays in mind and make you mummer for a while.

Cinematography(I should say photography) is the very first thing impacted me. Excellent shots, super camera angles, beautiful backdrops, brilliant frame composition, bright and colorful processing. Few credit goes to Siddharth, who handled this part. Majority is result of digital camera technology. Siddharth's camera lenses has captured the dry landscape beautifully. I was not following the story for the while, getting lost in the artistic touch on screen frame by frame. Later, screenplay took over :). To enjoy this you must watch this movie in theater. Or else you miss a maximum pie.

The movie has powerful screenplay, which keeps the audience engaged till climax. There are suspense, search and thrill weaved properly to give proper flavor of entertainment. Though story was borrowed from the novel, Vasanta balan has excelled in the area of screen play and direction. No one could think of his previous products (Veyil, Angadi theru etc) while watching.. But not to our surprise we see characters from his previous movies. Especially Bharat and Anjali on cameo roles.

In acting everybody were up to the mark. Initially it was a feeling like, there were lot of characters, later when story moves only with few key characters occupy the screen. And there is a reason for that too. Stunts were too real.

Pasupathi as usual he has done is part well.(Sometime he crosses the limit i.e. overacting ;)) Adhi with his well build body and eight packed abs should be the right choice for the character. His voice sometimes ditches him but still he is good. Dhanshika hardly has dialogues but comes in few reels. Noticeable opposite character is done by Karikalan... Many should have forgot him. He has starred one movie in tamil late 90's. He was well build at that time, but now very stout.

Kabir bedi as palayam king is a right choice too. Singam puli tries to tickle our ribs but with less laughter :(

The movie is good but not flawless. Firstly the time period is not too specific. The characterization and costumes contradict many times. Everybody has uncut long hair. But villain has got short, army hair cut and mustache shaved. Weapons they use resemble 6th or 7th century but they show palayam rule (which came in late 16th or 17th century). Secondly, as usual heroines are fairer(actually fairest) in their group. This would happen only in our movies. Dialogues rendered were unclear sometimes and few more minor...

There were influence of Hollywood too. I could notice only three, may be you can add if you find more. The camera attached to pasupathy's body when he runs, is direct usage from apocalypto. Bharat's outfit is more or less equivalent to a character in apocalypto. Bharat seducing queen with perfume is more or less similar to the movie Perfume.

Film ends with an unexpected message too.

On the whole, Aravaan which is a different effort and a fiction with suspense and thrill, can be watched once.