Kalakalappu @ Masala Cafe - MyView

Sundar C's 25th movie. He took extreme care in maintaining the tempo and the core of the movie. None other than comedy. It has resulted so hilarious, houseful and laughter theaters where ever the movie was released.

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Now Tamil movie industry is moving from gangster genre of movies to comedy movies. Where every body right from the movie crew, distributors and audience are happy. This was proven by the latest products and their success. And this is another comedy movie. But this time from an expert in his own style.

Usually Sundar C movies will have mainstream story with comic eclair style screenplay. Except this movie, where there is nothing to do much with the story, since it is an inspiration from German movie soul kitchen.
He has done few customization in the screen play to suit Tamil audience. And the result is success.

For first few minutes the movie was still at the start line, with no major impact on audience. Slowly the story starts its pace and when Siva enters we could feel the 'gear shift'. There starts the laughter. I should say this was just 10% of the movie experience till interval.

The second half, Santhanam enters and theater explodes in laughing. I literally laughed louder after very very long time. When you come out of cinema hall, you will have greater feeling of relief. (Later you have to resume to your own sucking life :p)

The movie goes like a comedy drama, story revolving around the 'Masala Cafe', a family run generations old hotel. Interactions between characters provide scope for comedy and the director has used it to the maximum.

Music by Vijay Ebinezar. I should say, on the whole it was very average. And for sure worst ever album in Sudar C's movie portfolio. May be has decided that not to concentrate on music this time. Background score sounds were ridiculous some times, like I was watching Tom & Jerry show. That could be little more mature. Songs didn't even enter my ears. Only wrong technician chosen for this movie was the Music director.

Sundar C is well know to experiment glamor with homely heroins. In the past few like Meena was over exposed. This time two Anjali and Oviya are the victims. Glamor more than required for their roles. He may justify with his so called commercial cinema recipe.

I am not sure, if I watch it again it gives me same laughter, even then it is a good movie to watch with your family. Even in climax there is fight and no blood. I really appreciate that.

Kalakalappu, siripu matthapu..

A Night at Nagarhole National Park

Another trip towards nature!!

This time we choose to go into Nagarhole national park situated at the banks of Kabini river 80kms(app) away from Mysore. We were just 3 this time, because others had other commitments.(Bcoz I don't have one ;))

Last Friday morning, It was good drive and we didn't struggle much to find out way to the jungle (Jungle Lodges). Road closer to the resort was unforgettable. Because it took 1 hour to cross that 13Kms (Very nasty road, I mean there was very less road in the lump and humps). 

Though we missed welcome drink in the resort, there was a delicious meal waiting for us. Once after finishing we all boarded into the safari vehicles.With all excitements we entered into jungle. After an hour no signs of any animal, we saw a herd of elephants on the other side of the river bank.

Tried approaching that group, on the way we saw a mother elephant with her calf. She was teaching the calf to clean the grass before plucking to eat. Feast for cameras too. Then we moved on, where we saw stripe necked mongoose and giant Malabar squirrel. Then all we saw was the common sightings like spotter dear, samba deer, langur, boar etc

Two naturalists who came with us guiding were following warning calls by barking deer and langur I felt asleep(past two days didnt had enough sleep, so cant control my eyes).  All of a sudden the jeep stopped, I opened my eyes. Another vehicle in front of us and people in there was looking at something at the left side. We all we delighted. It was Leopard. After hunting something, stomach full, relaxing. But this was not for a long time. The driver in the vehicle before started the engine, not liking that slowly it stood up and walking into the bush. We were happy that we saw a big cat. Returned back to our tents.

But to our disappointments, while we discussed with other groups they saw both tiger and leopard. It was like discussing an question paper, after answering a question wrong.

Morning, we again went in, peacock and jungle fowls were all the way wishing the morning. Later flocks of  spotted dear joined the welcome ceremony inside jungle.After this we had nothing see.... roaming total jungle nothing spotted.

Agrrr.... To add fuel to the fame, the gang of boys who shared our vehicle were doing all nuisance. Which irritated the naturalists and us too.(usually while in to jungle we are not suppose to do few things. Out of which the first don't is "Speak") The silence inside the jungle will be like honey. Everybody should taste it.

With all these disappointments, our naturalist guides got info from another vehicle crossing and took us to a place.  A group of elephant with a tusker[male elephant]. It was so close, not more than 20feet. Looking at our entry, the tusker did 'mock charge'. [search the keyword, you will know what it is. All you would hear would be trumpets :)] With out disturbing much we left the place. Something was better than nothing... we turned to our tents.

We we really got annoyed that every other group went in saw wild dogs, tiger. That too, a group kept watching tiger for 20 mins. I should say  not a very lucky trip for us.... But still we took back good memories with us.....

May be I would try my luck again :)