Anbe Sivam...

There has always been some movies, which stay close to your heart always! And Im really proud Tamil cinema has the class to have a movie which can be one such. I`m talking about Anbe Sivam. I watched the movie for the n`th time today. Call me sensitive, but, everytime, I do find tears! Its about how affection(anbu) matters in everyone of our lives. Its a Kamal Hasan movie. Directed my Sundar.C and the story was by the genius Kamal himself. This movie wasnt a box office hit, but one movie which I always look up to. Just a recomendation for all the people who arent familiar with Tamil movies. Just watch it and if you dont understand, watch it with subtitles.

The Real Boss!!

Saw Sivaji today. And loved it. No one can really beat the real boss. He`s damn smart in the movie, with the youthfulness bubbling in him. Back in 1995, Rajni movies were only for Rajini fans. Only the crazy Rajini fans used to watch it. Actually it was virtually impossible to get tickets in those days and I was in 5th std! But today, the movie is screened in all the 6 theatres of Satyam cinemas. There are only 5 or 6 theatres which are not running Sivaji.

It was a typical Rajini movie. It is said, "life is easier to live by when you lower your expectations to such a low level that they are already met". So, thats the way it is. But, if this same movie was taken with Vijay as the hero, I would`ve noticed people spitting on the clean Satyam theatre walls. But it was Rajini who made the film watchable and infact lovable. Awesome styles. The way he says "Cool!". And, yeah! Prabhudeva`s choreography for the Athiradee song is damn damn good. I`d say, its Rajini who made this movie, one of the best of his movies!

Thala... You are the best!!

100 not out!

This is the 100th post! Yippee! I dont believe I`ve written a 100 times to post in this blog. Started 8 months ago, this blog was all about me. Ramprasad Arunachalam, potentially fit for nothing. And, now, I`ve written 100 posts. Wow! OK! Nothing special about it though! And, yeah, I`ll still be continuing.

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Me, and the guys had gone to pondy, auroville, yesterday, in search of enlightment. Naah! We, just visited the ashram! It was fun! Was like going for a long long drive, on a hot hot day. The plan was to stay for a coupla days. But, weather and the quality of the rooms, made us to come back the same day. It was damn tiring at the end of the day!
But, we had fun - Bottomline!

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Sometimes, old movies are beautiful! I loved the Rear Window, 12 angry men and Its a wonderful life. But, today, I saw a Tamil movie called "Punnagai"- meaning a smile. It was so so so damn beautiful! Its about 4 friends from college, taking up different routes in life. Sometimes, it astonishes me, of how well the directors of those days have thought. Its been a long time since I enjoyed an old Tamil movie. It was fun watching the movie.

Cinderella Man

A good cinema, should make you feel "wow, man, that was good" a the end of it. Cinderella Man is that kind of a movie. Russel Crowe, does an excellent job as always. We`ve seen that in gladiator and A beautiful mind. And the Director, Ron Howard gets you right into the story. The movie is about a boxing legend, James.J Braddock, who won over the animal, Max Baer. The biggest strenght of the movie is, the director shows and makes the audience feel the agony of james` wife, played by Renée Zellweger. I saw this movie on TV late at night, and woke up the next morning, with the movie, 1st thing in my mind. Ron Howard, seems to have problems with writing his own scripts. But, he does a great job on adapted stories. He deserves the oscar. Just, grab the dvd of this movie and watch. Its worth it.

Spiderman III

I go outta the house to escape the never ending TV serials to the cinemas to see Spiderman III, and there I again see a 3 hour TV serial. The movie was crap. There are totally 4 or maybe 3 action scenes in the movie. They keep repeating the same scenes on tv. You go there with an expectation and you end up seeing a "The young and Restless" look alike. Good god! It was too boring. The characters at some point of time have to move on from the romance and get over the stupic break up! That never happens in the movie. The ending is typical tamil movie. In this case I have to be proud that an english movie has reached tamil standards. But, the point is; "A friend run into the path of a knife and get himself killed to save his friend`s life" is a concept which hasnt been in use even in tamil cinemas since 1995! Outsated is an understatement.

Its got all the hype and toby macguire. But it, on first place shouldnt have been made to a movie. And, someone told me that Kirsten Dunst is nowhere near the beauty of the red haired girl in the comic book! I should admit, i really loved her as a little girl in small soldiers, but she looked real bad in this movie. Im not a lover of super hero movies normally. But, I believe a super hero movie should be as good as batman begins. Thats one movie which I really really loved watching.

Bottom line : Spiderman III is a pile of very old dry tamil cow dung! Please dont degrade yourself by rating it good!

Garden State...

I saw this movie in star movies late last night. I loved it. As I saw it, I thought I must be the only one to like it. I`ve never heard of the movie before I saw it. I knew Zach Braf from scrubs. And to my surprise, he has written and directed the film. For a small time, TV series star, he has dona a brilliant job. And yeah Natalie Portman. Gorgeous as usual. She gives you the feeling that you know her for years, in the movie. Very cute. I simply loved the movie. It deals with the confused mind of a low life guy who ran away from home to LA, and then he comes back for his mother`s funeral. Zach has played the role beautifully. I at times felt me in the role. The confused young man finds a way to stay happy in the end.

I have to say, I loved Zach in scrubs. The comedy sitcom without the back laughs. Its nice. And I already love Natalie Portman from V for Vendatta. She is very very cute in the movie. You just instantly fall in love with her. I found a guy quote in his review for this movie that.. "For our grandfathers it was "its a wonderful life", for our parents it was "the graduate" , for our big brothers it was "Fight club" and for us, its "Garden State". It aint much of Ita a wonderful life, but its a beautiful movie. I liked it mostly because, I saw myself on screen.

It indeed is a Wonderful Life!

Ive always went back in time and imagined myself as a kid crying my heart out for something. And believe it or not, i was literally weeping today after watching a movie called its a wonderful life. Its an old 1946 flick which came into my scanner pretty late. Easily became the best movie all times! It jus tells you that your life is worth living. There might have been a lot things which you may have done with or without your knowledge, which may have a made a difference in other people`s lives. And that difference might just have been their lives.

Its good to watch these kind of movies. They just turn out to be an eye opner sometimes. Just when you are cribbing and whining about your life being totally worthless and you are just making people worser than they are, the movie tells you how important you are and what kind of purpose you have achieved in your lifetime. Its an old saying, every person in the world have a purpose. With or without their knowledge they just live fulfilling their assigned purpose. And, I still cant believe i weeped like a child after watching this movie. I told about the film to suresh( who asked me to watch it) and we both started crying. Its funny sometimes.

Magnolia

I`ll tell you what!! Doing nothing is a lot of fun. Thats what i`ve been doing for the past 3 days. Went to Pachaikili Muthucharam on friday, hoping it would be good. Well, it was derailed taken in an extremely bad way! And moreover, I dont like these guys-cheating-on-their-wives movies. I`d rather not think nor talk about the movie.
I saw coupla more movies which are worth talking about. One is magnolia. This is a multistarrer, with most of the stars infamous. The only famous ones are Tom Cruise and Julliane Moore. It was good movie. Taken beautifully. I jus saw the movie, empty headed, and i wasnt able to understand many parts of the movie. Like, the scene where it starts raining frogs! Then i had to look up for details. That sums up how jobless I am! I found this info about the mythology of exodus 8:2. It was interesting and the thing that fascinates me is that, the director has taken the movie corresponding to the myth and hes done it in a modern way. Its a damn good movie and worth a watch.

The next movie is "The Inside Man". Well, it is a hollywood movie and it starts with our very own, Chaiyya Chaiyya song by God(Rahman). One of the most stylish movie Ive seen after V for Vendatta. Yeah here again, the dialogues matters. Clive Owen is too good and makes me jealous most of the times and my man, Denzel Washington also does a pretty good job. But for me the highlight is the song. Its a damn good mix and it merges superbly with the movie.I saw it till the end of credits jus because of the song. see? nowadays, ive got absolutely nothing to post about.

The Pursuit Of Happyness!

This was a beautiful movie! It is about a guy called Chris Gardner, who later became a big time stock broker. Now, this movie`s got Will Smith. I`ve been a big fan of his, especially after watching Fresh Prince of Belair. The guy was hilarious in that show, and he does a contrasting role in this movie. He has played the role beautifully. The movie was beautifully taken and Will Smith`s narration was tremendous. Especially when he says, "This is the part of my life, I call happiness", a tear literally runs through your cheeks. My kind of movie, and has all the ingredients for the oscars.

The other movie which i saw was, The Departed. The movie was good, Awesome show by Jack Nicholson, Leonardo Di Caprio and Matt Damon. Nicely taken, Good screenplay! But it reminded me of the tamil movie Kuruthipunal! It must be ecstatic of me to compare a tamil movie with an oscar nominated movie. The 2 movies have nothing much in common. But, the story is somewhat similar. The police puts a rat in the bad guy`s empire and the bad guys a rat in the police empire. Thats what both the movie has. But, what happens in the 2 movies is totally a different story! They have nothing in common. Nice watchable movie, departed, stylish, but lacks a little bit of oscar substance.

15 Park Avenue

Well, One good thing that sony pix, the one movie channel that comes for free, does is, put good indian made english films. They premiered this 15 park avenue movie tonight and it was good. When it got released in chennai at the sathyam cinemas, some people told me it wasnt good. People said they regreted to have paid for this particular movie.But I say its a good movie and worth a watch. Im someone who is used to watch slow movies and this one is quite slow.

The story is about, a schizophrenic girl, who lives in her dillusions and has undergone terrible experiences in her life. Its about her short-lived love life, and how it makes such an impact on her life ever after. The film was well taken and Rahul Bose does an excellent job. I have seen this Aparna sen`s film called Mr & Mrs Iyer long back and it was one of the films i loved watching as an amatuer movie watcher(if i can call myself a movie watcher now!!).It had the same pair, konkana sen and rahul bose and evidently rahul bose is one man im extremely jealous of. He is a director, an actor who acts off-beat films, he`s a business man, he is a rugby player, he is a diplomat and what not!

We have this super cool party tomorrow at Zubair`s(a good friend of mine) farm house. Its gonna be fun! 20 of our class guys are comin and theres a swimming pool thats waiting to get dirty!! Its gonna be hilarious. Will post as soon as im back day after tomoro morning.Till then, party on!!

Antwone Fisher

That is the name of the movie, and the reason for which im writing this post. A friend of mine gave me this dvd which had 5 denzel washington movies. Ive just seen 3 of them, the manchurian candidate, the training day and this Antwone fisher. Its based on Antwone Fisher, a young navy man, is forced to see a psychiatrist after a violent outburst against a fellow crewman. During the course of treatment a painful past is revealed and a new hope begins. Thats the plot outline. I just found out, it was directed by denzel washington. Beautiful movie and well made too.

Bloody Sunday!!

Yeah right!! I did download a movie called bloody sunday, but thats not wat im gonna talk abt! Its today, such a bad day! The most unexpected things happen on sundays. People who never bothers to talk to me, talks; Things i never expected to happen happens. Just another, bloody pathetic day. There are somethings which you dont want to happen and deep within you wud want it to happen. It would just be great, if those things are just permanent.

Guru - Good Work!!

Guru audio released yesterday, and ive done nothing but listening to it all day(and night).Its great.And me being a very very big fan of Rahman, its a great feeling to listen to his new creations.Its simply awesome.listing the songs and their review.

barso re - sung by shreya ghoshal.reminds me of konjum mainakale from kandukondein... beautiful song!
tere bina - excellent, and god himself has sung it.I loved it the 1st time i listened to it.
Ek Lo Ek Muft - Different to the core.and its awesome.
Mayya - It gets better everytime you listen to it.
Ay Hairathe - Hariharan used perfectly.Beautiful.
Baaze laga - Udit narayan, his magical voice and yeah beautiful ofcourse.
Jaage Hain - This is the song on which i lost my consciousness and got mesmerised listening to it.Just awesome!!

The Pink Panther

A very very hilarious movie.This I happened to watch only now, which is a bit late. But steve martin at his best!One of the best comedies. He has this french accent, which in itself is hilarious. He tries learning american accent english, thats the best part.
I simply enjoyed the movie.Smiling all the way!!

Vengance

Remember Remember
5th of november
Gunpowder treason and plot
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!!

These are the 1st few words said by Natalie portman in the movie V for Vendatta!!
Easily gets a spot in my top 5 movies. Though it was taken from a comic, it was superbly taken and was stylish to the core. The makers of the matrix(Wachovski Brothers) have made their best effort in this one! Not to mention Natalie Portman, she has given one helluva performance. Im not properly eligible to give reviews, but this is wat i feel!!