Re-Entry of Thala

Hi all,
There is plenty of cricket going around well only India this time, as it is the season of IPL. There is no cricket happening elsewhere in the globe.
As usual this year too, there is plenty of action and thinking happening on ads to be shown in the telecast, and pretty much they meet the standards they have set for themselves that most of them does not make sense at all !

Truly immortal

Hi all,
We all have been using now Watsapp heavily, and this post merely is a dedication to the messages which we receive on Watsapp.
I am not meaning the numerous 'Check if your watsapp has been hacked' or 'Send it to 10 other people to receive blessings immediately'.

Movies of 2017

Hi all,
As the year end is approaching, so is the chance for me to pen down something as usual related with tamil movies. Here I wish to articulate on the movies I liked this year , similar to the one which I wrote last year. Gosh ! Time Flies !

Madurai Karan for RK Nagar

Hi all,

Of late, continuing with the current scenario we hardly get a chance to stop laughing. Last time I remember we were all laughing our asses off was when Rahul Gandhi gave an interview to Arnab Goswami. After that , we have hardly got good (for a lack of a better word) comedians , be it in real life nor in movies. The leading comedians in all the major ‘woods’ of our state like Vivek, Vadivelu, Santhanam, Brahmanadam, Sunil , Abhishek Bachan, Kapil Sharma everybody went out of form. That was like a dull period in our history, where people did not have enough topics to laugh heartily at.

Economist in Tom Dick and Harry

Hi all,
Last week, we had the first year death anniversary for our beloved 500 and 1000₹ denomination currency notes. I was just wondering what impact it had on us.

Entertainment Tax for TamilNadu

Hi all,
For the past few months, things are not stable in our beloved state TamilNadu, and to add fuel to fire our Sarkar ji keeps introducing new bans and new things and of course gets a new immigration stamp in his passport. Our local politicians ensure that there is no need for Central Government news to come  inside our state, by making a flash news every 5 minutes through out the week.

Slicing Vikram Vedha

Hi all,
After quite some time I loved seeing a movie, and I was eager to catch up more on the layers of the movie and wanted to see it multiple times.
The movie which I mean here is Vikram Vedha. I am neither a critic nor a person who knows the intricacies of film making and the nuances of it, but with some interest and all the interviews I followed I have slowly understood and getting a bit of it.
This post is a bit of it, may be correct or may not be correct, for this is my understanding from the movie of what went into it.
SPOILERS AHEAD !

Nandri Hein !

Hi all,
India is a land of diversity. Diversity as the dictionary meaning says its a range of different things.
We have to believe in this, and if you do not believe in this, no matter what the reality is you will be called as Anti-national , and probably you will be asked to surrender your Aadhar card immediately.

Movies Part- 2 : 2016

Hi all,
Continuing from the previous one for the movies in 2016 which I liked, the below is the ones which I did not like.

Movies Part 1- 2016.

HI all,
As the curtain for 2016 is falling, with my free vacation time I thought I will watch all the movies which I missed during the year. And I realize that its been long time since I wrote anything about movies.
I saw quite a good number of Tamil Movies this year(as always) and liked some.
Here I revisit some of my favorite ones this year, in order of their release (courtesy Wikipedia).

Trump for Kaveri

Hi all,
I have believed in justice and the Constitution always. Of course I am not Ambedkar or the other lawyers out there capable of ripping through the pages and what we usually call as capable of doing an U-turn. The point is I know my essential basic rights and duties as a citizen of this country.

Kabali... retribution and remorse

Hi all,
After the previous post,this is one more regarding Kabali now.
There are 3 festivals in Tamilnadu
1. Pongal
2. Deepavali
3. Rajinikanth movie release.

The latest is what happened last Friday. Whenever a mass hero movie ( definition of mass hero can never be provided even by Google ) releases in Tamilnadu it will be the talk of the state for sure, for a state so closely following cinema. Getting the first day first show ticket for that movie is usually a tough task to ask for, as usually they release the movie on a holiday season making it a double bonanza. If thats the case for a regular mass hero imagine what would be the case for the superstar. Even an expert in booking tatkal ticket would struggle to get the first day first show ticket. When I mean first day first show it is not those were you will be able to get the tickets online, it is those where you have to reach out to n number of people to get your hands on the tickets to see the star back on the big screen. 

In spite of the fact that the whole movie leaked online before the first early morning show in there country , people came in masses to the theaters. Only Rajinikanth can manage to do this with ease. In a state where the movie ticket price has a maximum cap of 120 INR , even when the ticket prices crept upto thousands the crowd just kept coming.
Such is the capacity of the superstar.
I was fortunate enough that my friends managed to get tickets for me and i travelled overnight and reached on time for the early morning show.
Coming to this movie, I felt we could see the actor in rajinikanth and surely a proof that the actor in him is still very much alive and for sure he is so capable of doing roles like what one could see in Mullum malarum , Johnny , Thillu millu and not just the trademark fast walk and other style gimmicks.
There were some scenes which I liked very much and I would surely say that this is one of the best movies in his last ten movies where he has performed well as an actor , but ranjith missed out heavily on using the actor in him fully and the problem he had taken was not shown in detail and it is a huge let down from his side particularly in the second half. The idea in which rajinikanth would have chosen the movie is very clear that he does not want to do the stereotypical movies, a move to be welcomed.
After all the fuzz of getting the tickets and the Nerrupu da trailer a fan would have had high expectations and after  watching the flick would definitely feel disappointed. I am not an expert to say what failed in this movie in spite of a good  emotional content and portrayal of the same. It is unfortunately the problem of being rajinikanth, similar to Sachin that we expect only the extraordinary from them every single time.
When one looks back and sees the movie on a lazy day a couple of months later we would realize that this movie is actually okay, and we would realize that this is very much like the 30 odd runs what MSD makes in the fag end of the innings which we won't reckon much on that day.
Apart from the mistakes on the screen in terms of moving the story, there were mainly problems in two aspects. The first one too much of promotions , and the second one the biggest blunder the posters of the movie.
The whole movie revolves around a search and the answer to the search is very obvious in the posters of the movie, which completely spoils the twenty minutes when the search intensifies.

Any person who observed the posters a bit would realize soon where the search is leading to. If one has observed the official playlist in YouTube where there were some photos in the lyric video answer to the search again becomes too obvious.

This problem of promotion in YouTube with official lyric videos apart from the teaser gives too much out and leaves very less for guessing. This is a generic problem in all movies of recent time which I observed in movies like vellailla pattadhari, miruthan , 24 , thangamagan  , theri to name a few.
I did not hear any songs nor see the lyric videos of Kabali before seeing the movie , and now when I come and look back all the answers for the search is out so blatantly that if I had seen the lyric videos earlier I would have lost the interest completely when watching it.
What kabali tries to bring the emotional side of rajinikanth and has succeeded there , but the reason for the same and the other aspects around it is not done properly here. And since the expectations are always to the likes of Baasha, Padayappa one should realize that it requires a Mark Antony or Neelambari to bring out the best and not a stereotypical villain.
In my opinion the other aspects surrounding the movie done by themselves had done more damage than the movie itself.
May be Tamil cinema required a rajinikanth to learn this lesson, if that happens the movie had served is purpose.

Magizchi !

 


P.S: I found a brilliant write up on things which one could realize in the movie, it can be checked here.


Kudos to Ranjith for putting such a brave attempt in the script, unfortunately I think it did not translate much to screen.

Media Channels 101 with Kabali

Hi all,
I am a observer of things shown in the media which I can say actively in social media and less in electronic media and very less in print media. But if a media person has to give a introduction for me,
yours sincerely can be counted as a media analyst.
It is easy nowadays to become a political analyst particularly in Tamil Nadu, all one has to do is to start a Youtube channel and actively comment on whatever the Government or Opposition

Curious case of Vijay Mallya and Tamil Nadu

As we all know it is this time of the year where we have our appraisals. Employees have it in their office with their managers, Entrepreneurs will look at their progress for last year and chalk out the plan for future, and students have their grading examinations now.

All these happen yearly, one will definitely get used to it. But what comes after a well-defined interval is the elections, am not writing about the Cricket World Cup this time :).

In search for Life

Hi all,
It seems as though with hectic schedules, in our continuous search for something we miss on most of the things, at-least I feel so. It was all fine until I got up this morning and started wondering what is the entire fuzz about weekends. I just realized how things had changed dramatically from my childhood times to now.
Like myself, people who were born in the late 80s till early 90s called as Generation Y or Millenials would be able to related to that very much.

Social Network Post

Hi all,

On this auspicious day, let me thank first my parents, teachers and friends who have taught me a lot and helped me become the person who I am today.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge. -- Confucius

Like almost everything in the universe which is immortal, only if Knowledge is shared you become immortal.

'Ban'ana Politics

Hi all,
Of late in our state TamilNadu, there is a lot of banning happening. While Central Government banned Maggi and Porn, TamilNadu government now has moved from banning movies to banning the location for most of movies made in Tamil Film Industry.

Thala Thalapathy Pongal

Hi all,

First things first, wish you all a happy new year. This post is strictly for audience who love watching movies. Last week , there was a clash in the box office in TamilNadu when two big stars clashed after 7 years. Both stars have lot of fans and when the news was there that both movies were targeting pongal release, it was already a huge news , that the fans started revisiting the history for their earlier clashes, and counting box office collections to decide who leads among the two. This no spoiler to the movies, as both the movies had storyline mixed among various Rajinikanth’s movies, anybody who says this is a spoiler, has never seen a Rajinikanth movie , and such a species would have never existed / will not exist  in India.

Conformity

Hi all,
This is a recent trend , which I have observed from my friends and friends of friends. It is obviously from the social networking media that I have figured out this.

The trend is to go out of normal and do something else. Be it in job or passion.
My views on this are more than complicated in this.
This is probably one of those grey area topics, where nobody could take a solid decision on it.

The Legend retires and probably half a billion

Hi all,
Next week by this time, a great career will end , a giant innings which lasted for my whole lifetime so far will end.
He made his International Debut in November 1989, while I was still hearing lullabies from my mom.