Mind - Boggling , Mind Blowing were the first two words that came to my mind when the end credits of the movie started rolling.
Yeah Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt have done a commendable job. But its just one name that stands out - Christopher Nolan.
Script and the story is the sole hero of this movie. James cameron created just one world in Avatar, but Nolan created four different worlds in Inception. It makes me wonder where he gets these ideas from[ Though this movie is loosely based upon paprika an japanes animation film] ].
The spectacular gravity defying[Not like our Captain Vijaykanth] fight sequences is worth mentioning here ,but it goes to Joseph Gordon-Levitt and not di caprio.
One thing that came across my mind when writing this blog is that “who am I to review this film”.
A film can be compared if and only if it has other films in its league. It cannot be reviewed if it is a one of a kind movie and this is one.
The only negative points I can think of this movie are
- To enter one’s dream they use an equipment with a RED button which seems very normal.
- In the climax they donot show how de caprio escapes each level to come to reality. More over the climax was a little too soft, but the end twist was real good.
- Bgm failed to impress me , Not even in one scene was it noticable.
- The converstion between caprio and his wife in the climax was way too looooong .
Otherwise this is one hell of a movie, a must watch for movie lovers. The script reflects the heavy research done with the human mind. For one instance the “kick” they use to come back to reality is so damn real , Mostly i wake up from a dream with that sense only[the sense of falling from a huge building or something] and I think most of us do feel the same.
Every scene in this movie worth a mention and I dont want to spoil those people who dint see the movie yet. Its a must watch movie and I give a big thumbs up to Inception and Christopher Nolan.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Raavan_Raavanan
The most awaited film of the year,From India’s finest directors,huge star cast,AR Rahman.. but still Raavanan was disssssapointing.
Just as Thalapathy the Rajini starrer, was a takeoff on Karna’s story set in modern times, Raavanan/Raavan is.
There are two things that standout in the film.One is vikram’s acting and the other is Santhosh Sivan’s camera.
Though Vikram’s character seems to be inspired from the ‘Joker’ played by Heath ledger in The Dark Night, it is impressive ,a lot better than AB.
Santhosh Sivan’s camera is outstanding in capturing the exotic locales .The angles , lighting and the scene where ‘dev’ burns the faces in the newspaper cut-out,does worth a mention.
Other than these there are no other stuff worth mentioning about.Karthik /Ravi kishen have been wasted.Prabhu/Govinda have done their job.
Prithiv Raj is commendable.Priyamani,though comes only for 10 min ,is impressive and plays surpanakai’s character.
Aish does look gorgeous but the close up shots makes her age get noticed.!
[Tamil Version].The only time i heard whistles(thanks to chennai crowd) was when our infamous Ranjitha appears on screen.I seriously dont know what she was doin in the film.Comes only for 3 shots Max.
Ar Rahman failed to impress. One bgm sounds good.The song Usure Poguthey aka behene de has been wasted and comes in the most unimportant time of all.
Mani’s screenplay is gud as usual, but fails to bring out the multi layer’d relationships, which he normally does with ease. The climax is good but expected.
Peter hein’s stunts are goood. The climax fight in the bridge worth mentioning.
There’s just one difference between Raavan and Raavanan, but that’s a major one and that is Vikram.AB fails to impress and so the whole movie is boring.
So the bottom line is Raavan_Raavanan_Mani_Aish_Ab_Vikram_prthivi_priyamani_karthik_Kishen_prabhu_govinda_
_SanthoshSivan_Arr_ORDINARY.
vikram and santhoshSivan= Extraordinary… everything else just ordinary and Nothing new… Raavanan..!
Raavan - 1.5/5
Raavanan - 2.5/5
Ps: I’m a Manirathinam fan.
Just as Thalapathy the Rajini starrer, was a takeoff on Karna’s story set in modern times, Raavanan/Raavan is.
There are two things that standout in the film.One is vikram’s acting and the other is Santhosh Sivan’s camera.
Though Vikram’s character seems to be inspired from the ‘Joker’ played by Heath ledger in The Dark Night, it is impressive ,a lot better than AB.
Santhosh Sivan’s camera is outstanding in capturing the exotic locales .The angles , lighting and the scene where ‘dev’ burns the faces in the newspaper cut-out,does worth a mention.
Other than these there are no other stuff worth mentioning about.Karthik /Ravi kishen have been wasted.Prabhu/Govinda have done their job.
Prithiv Raj is commendable.Priyamani,though comes only for 10 min ,is impressive and plays surpanakai’s character.
Aish does look gorgeous but the close up shots makes her age get noticed.!
[Tamil Version].The only time i heard whistles(thanks to chennai crowd) was when our infamous Ranjitha appears on screen.I seriously dont know what she was doin in the film.Comes only for 3 shots Max.
Ar Rahman failed to impress. One bgm sounds good.The song Usure Poguthey aka behene de has been wasted and comes in the most unimportant time of all.
Mani’s screenplay is gud as usual, but fails to bring out the multi layer’d relationships, which he normally does with ease. The climax is good but expected.
Peter hein’s stunts are goood. The climax fight in the bridge worth mentioning.
There’s just one difference between Raavan and Raavanan, but that’s a major one and that is Vikram.AB fails to impress and so the whole movie is boring.
So the bottom line is Raavan_Raavanan_Mani_Aish_Ab_Vikram_prthivi_priyamani_karthik_Kishen_prabhu_govinda_
_SanthoshSivan_Arr_ORDINARY.
vikram and santhoshSivan= Extraordinary… everything else just ordinary and Nothing new… Raavanan..!
Raavan - 1.5/5
Raavanan - 2.5/5
Ps: I’m a Manirathinam fan.
Sura.! .. Nothin more to say.. it initself has become a bad word nowadays..
Sura —– Review from one of my friends!
I decided to watch this movie since it was his 50th movie expecting some good stuff in it.
Scene1: Opening was up to the hype, purely for Vijay worshipers. Our hero emerges from a tornado saving bunch of people @ sea.
Then there goes the opening song. Everything were fine till this part of the movie.
Vijay Fans: Full throttled whistle.
Normal Audience: Bit happy since the song and dance were good.
Scene2: Then comes the heroine introductionJ. One of the worst intro in a tamil movie. Heroine attempts suicide after putting all her makeup’s which she carry along with her.(Reason: Lost Dog). Our heroin falls in love after seeing hero buying pen from blind people and by helping them in crossing the road (a very childish story line. unable to tolerate these kind of stuffs).
VF: Light murmuring and smile
N.Aud : Irritation started
Scene3: Hero goes to meet a local pawn broker to raise voice on local issue. Build up starts. A guy shouts “Sooravali varudhu… no no… Psunami varudhu… No No No… Rendum serndhu varudhu…” (Eng Ver : “A Tornado is coming… no no no… Psunami is coming… no no no… both comes together”). Our hero walks in slow motion with the graphic of psunami and tornado at the background. LLL
VF : Very few whistled. Rest moaned (a hauling sound).
N.Aud : Irritated to the core. Four people left the theater speaking to themselves “Why u guys booked tickets for such a movie?”
Scene4: A very normal well know Villan intro scene. Villan speaks dialogue in telugu and it was dubbed in tamil, with 0% dialogue and lip sync. Then comes the so called core of the story. Villan(minister) tries to occupy the slum land where our hero resides. Our hero is the Godfather to all in the slum (donno why… no reason for that to justify). Then a duet song and a fight where hero never fight standing on land(flying from building to building … he used air as the travel medium J.. Spiderman without web)hero’s mother will be attacked but 0% sentimental acting from our hero. No emotional dialogue or anger shown. Just a formality check of mom “Mom how r u?”. (Expected few sentiments over here J)
VF: Very few were shouting and “thalaiva” sound here and there. Total decibel level down. Theater is damn silent.
N.Aud: Few went out of the show and few went to out to smoke. And we all turned towards the person who booked the ticket for us and gave a grudging look at him. He was totally lost. He straight said “Macha.. extremely sorry da.. L” (FYI: He is a diehard Vijay fan. Then we heard a loud snoring sound not in movie, one of my friend was in deep sleep J. We decided not to disturb him J, atlest let he be happy)
Scene5: Villan meets hero after burning hero’s slum. There comes the punch and pinch dialogues. Then the dialogue of hero saying that “he will build 1400 houses for his people. (FYI: he is a normal fisherman)”
VF: Irritated. Since very bad screenplay and storyline and very bad dialogue frame.
N. Aud: Few were uttering counter dialoguges with u-parliamentary words. All were silent waiting and awaiting interval.
Scene6: (Considerable amount of people left the show.. lucky ones) hero decides to steal the smuggled goods from villan. Here come a intelligent tactics, a pakka director touch. Our hero comes as custom officer(Sardharji). And they use diwali rockets to attack the villan boat. And hero uses a iron rod to place the rocket(normal diwali rocket with match box to fire) and fire it. One amoung the villans shouts “Custom officers are using rocket launchers to attack us so escapeeeeeeeeee…. LL”. (few audience escaped at this scene). Then hero takes the smuggled goods and flee to Mumbai and sells it and becomes a billionaire(100 crores exactly). (FYI: smuggles goods are 2 to 3 boxes of laptops L). All these selling happens In just 20sec of movie and hero returns to slum in an Audi suv.
VF: All were frustrated to the core and were talking among themselves of their hero’s poor show.
N.Aud: Few more left the show, few were sleeping(by the way my friend was awake J. Better he could had slept), few **** words around audience, and few were shouting to screen the climax fight (remember its only 15min post interval).
Scene7: Few songs, fights and comedy in a sequence and heroin Tamana appears in and out of film for few seconds(used only for songs). And I can term this as the worst comedy of Vadivelu in his film history. No one smiled in theater for his comedy. Few in theaters including myself and one of my friend were irritated with a dance step, where our hero does something with THAMANA’s pant. (And they claim it as a dance step.. mindless people)
V.F: No sound from them, totally lost. Had blank faces and reddish eyes J
N. Aud: Were with a frustrated and irritated face. In the verge of bursting in anger. Could here moaning and murmuring sounds among themselfs
Scene8: Climax – Villan places a bomb @ newly constructed slum and controls it from a boat. Our hero jumps from one boat to another(reminding kuruvi) and tries to diffuse the bomb. Main thing here to be noted is “how will he diffuse it?”. For the first time in tamil cinema history hero breaks the computer keyboard and pulls the bunch of control wire’s in a single stretch and the bomb gets diffused (‘HurtLocker’ should give back its Oscars). And then fight, hero kills villan (and also poor fans and udiance). THE END.
V.F: Few used un-parlimentary words criticizing their hero and Rajkumar. No one had a smiling face. And few declared that they are no more Vijay fans.
N. Audience: All said in one word “Macha never ever book tickets for his next movies”….. “Macha Vijay fans paavam da (pitty on Vijay fans)”…. “And again lots of unparlimentary words were fired on hero, director and the person who booked ticket for them”.
I decided to watch this movie since it was his 50th movie expecting some good stuff in it.
Scene1: Opening was up to the hype, purely for Vijay worshipers. Our hero emerges from a tornado saving bunch of people @ sea.
Then there goes the opening song. Everything were fine till this part of the movie.
Vijay Fans: Full throttled whistle.
Normal Audience: Bit happy since the song and dance were good.
Scene2: Then comes the heroine introductionJ. One of the worst intro in a tamil movie. Heroine attempts suicide after putting all her makeup’s which she carry along with her.(Reason: Lost Dog). Our heroin falls in love after seeing hero buying pen from blind people and by helping them in crossing the road (a very childish story line. unable to tolerate these kind of stuffs).
VF: Light murmuring and smile
N.Aud : Irritation started
Scene3: Hero goes to meet a local pawn broker to raise voice on local issue. Build up starts. A guy shouts “Sooravali varudhu… no no… Psunami varudhu… No No No… Rendum serndhu varudhu…” (Eng Ver : “A Tornado is coming… no no no… Psunami is coming… no no no… both comes together”). Our hero walks in slow motion with the graphic of psunami and tornado at the background. LLL
VF : Very few whistled. Rest moaned (a hauling sound).
N.Aud : Irritated to the core. Four people left the theater speaking to themselves “Why u guys booked tickets for such a movie?”
Scene4: A very normal well know Villan intro scene. Villan speaks dialogue in telugu and it was dubbed in tamil, with 0% dialogue and lip sync. Then comes the so called core of the story. Villan(minister) tries to occupy the slum land where our hero resides. Our hero is the Godfather to all in the slum (donno why… no reason for that to justify). Then a duet song and a fight where hero never fight standing on land(flying from building to building … he used air as the travel medium J.. Spiderman without web)hero’s mother will be attacked but 0% sentimental acting from our hero. No emotional dialogue or anger shown. Just a formality check of mom “Mom how r u?”. (Expected few sentiments over here J)
VF: Very few were shouting and “thalaiva” sound here and there. Total decibel level down. Theater is damn silent.
N.Aud: Few went out of the show and few went to out to smoke. And we all turned towards the person who booked the ticket for us and gave a grudging look at him. He was totally lost. He straight said “Macha.. extremely sorry da.. L” (FYI: He is a diehard Vijay fan. Then we heard a loud snoring sound not in movie, one of my friend was in deep sleep J. We decided not to disturb him J, atlest let he be happy)
Scene5: Villan meets hero after burning hero’s slum. There comes the punch and pinch dialogues. Then the dialogue of hero saying that “he will build 1400 houses for his people. (FYI: he is a normal fisherman)”
VF: Irritated. Since very bad screenplay and storyline and very bad dialogue frame.
N. Aud: Few were uttering counter dialoguges with u-parliamentary words. All were silent waiting and awaiting interval.
Scene6: (Considerable amount of people left the show.. lucky ones) hero decides to steal the smuggled goods from villan. Here come a intelligent tactics, a pakka director touch. Our hero comes as custom officer(Sardharji). And they use diwali rockets to attack the villan boat. And hero uses a iron rod to place the rocket(normal diwali rocket with match box to fire) and fire it. One amoung the villans shouts “Custom officers are using rocket launchers to attack us so escapeeeeeeeeee…. LL”. (few audience escaped at this scene). Then hero takes the smuggled goods and flee to Mumbai and sells it and becomes a billionaire(100 crores exactly). (FYI: smuggles goods are 2 to 3 boxes of laptops L). All these selling happens In just 20sec of movie and hero returns to slum in an Audi suv.
VF: All were frustrated to the core and were talking among themselves of their hero’s poor show.
N.Aud: Few more left the show, few were sleeping(by the way my friend was awake J. Better he could had slept), few **** words around audience, and few were shouting to screen the climax fight (remember its only 15min post interval).
Scene7: Few songs, fights and comedy in a sequence and heroin Tamana appears in and out of film for few seconds(used only for songs). And I can term this as the worst comedy of Vadivelu in his film history. No one smiled in theater for his comedy. Few in theaters including myself and one of my friend were irritated with a dance step, where our hero does something with THAMANA’s pant. (And they claim it as a dance step.. mindless people)
V.F: No sound from them, totally lost. Had blank faces and reddish eyes J
N. Aud: Were with a frustrated and irritated face. In the verge of bursting in anger. Could here moaning and murmuring sounds among themselfs
Scene8: Climax – Villan places a bomb @ newly constructed slum and controls it from a boat. Our hero jumps from one boat to another(reminding kuruvi) and tries to diffuse the bomb. Main thing here to be noted is “how will he diffuse it?”. For the first time in tamil cinema history hero breaks the computer keyboard and pulls the bunch of control wire’s in a single stretch and the bomb gets diffused (‘HurtLocker’ should give back its Oscars). And then fight, hero kills villan (and also poor fans and udiance). THE END.
V.F: Few used un-parlimentary words criticizing their hero and Rajkumar. No one had a smiling face. And few declared that they are no more Vijay fans.
N. Audience: All said in one word “Macha never ever book tickets for his next movies”….. “Macha Vijay fans paavam da (pitty on Vijay fans)”…. “And again lots of unparlimentary words were fired on hero, director and the person who booked ticket for them”.
கவுன்டமனி அன்னெ..A Tribute to My Favourite Actor.!
நான் ரசித்ததில் சில…………………..
உலகம் உருண்டைன்னு அமெரிக்கக்காரன் கண்டுபுடிக்கல. ஐயம் தான் கண்டுபுடிச்சது…
ஐயையோ!! மாலக்கன் நோய் வந்துடுச்செ.~ எத்தன நாளைக்குத்தான் நான் ஊர சமாளிப்பேன்!?.அப்பா…… அப்பா….. அப்பா டேய்.., ராத்திரில நீ என்னென அக்கிரமம் பண்ணியோ!? இப்போ எனக்கு பார்வ தேறியாம போச்சே. (”எங்கயோ கொளுத்து வேல சென்சிக்கிட்டிருந்த கம்முனாட்டி பயன் நீ, உண்ண போய் பிரிட்டிஷ் சமாயல்காரன்னு சொல்ல வச்சிட்டிஏ டா”)…
டேய் ! அவன் பாடினத கேட்ட இல்ல… பாலிருக்கீன்… பழமிருக்கீன்….இப்ப என் கைல கல் இருக்கீன்…
மாமி உங்க பெயர் என்ன… அலமு .. கொலம்பு நு வச்சி இருக்கலாம் .. பெசஞ் சாப்பிடுருப்பென்…..
“ராமையா ஒஸ்தாவய்யா !!!! ராமையா ஒஸ்தாவய்யா!! பொண்டாட்டி தேடுதய்யா!!
பொண்டாட்டி தேடுதய்யா!! (மெதுவாக ) மேனே தேரே குஜுகுதையா…!! (சத்தமாக ) மேனே தேரே குஜுகுதையா!!! ”
என்ன ண்ணே இது ? இது ஹிந்தி டா …
மனோரமா: எது இவன் மானஸ்தனா…? மூஞ்சிய பாத்தா அப்படி தெரியலையேடா…
கௌண்டர்: அது பேர் வெக்கும் போது குப்புற படுத்திருந்தாரு, பேர் வெச்சதும் தான் மூஞ்சிய பாத்தாங்க
இவருதான் என் friend … கே. சேதுராமன்… நாங்கெல்லாம் செல்லமா கே.சேது ன்னு கூப்பிடுவோம்
கே.சேதுவா இனிமே கே.காதுன்னு கூப்பிடுங்க…
அந்த
அம்மா ஏன் திட்றாங்க..? அது வில்லன பாத்து திட்டுது.. இதுக்குதான் அப்பவே பகல்
ஆட்டத்துக்கு போகலாம்னு சொன்னேன்.
பகல் ஆட்டதுல
…மட்டும் திட்டமாட்டாங்களா?. அப்ப சைடு வில்லன தான் திட்டுவாங்க..
சோத்து கை பக்கம் திரும்புங்க.. ஏன் கொழம்பு கை பக்கம் திரும்பக்கூடாதா..?
ஐயோ பாத்துங்க… ஏய் நான் தான் பாக்க மாட்டேன் சொன்னேன் இல்ல..
ஏண்டா ரெண்டு ரூவாக்கு அவுச்ச கல்லைய வாங்கி குடுத்துட்டு கோஷ்ட்டி சேக்கறையா, படுவா கடிச்சு புடுவேன் கடிச்சு….
அய்யயயையோ…! யம யம யம்மா,,,! அய்யய்யய்யோ… கபாலி மூஞ்சிய பாருங்க…
மிருதங்க ஞானம் வந்துருச்சு….பேன் பாத்துக்கறது தாளத்தோட தந்தையார், பேன நோண்டி நோண்டி எடுக்கறது தாளத்தோட தாயார்……இதுதான் தாளத்தோட பீத்த பொண்ணு..,,து மூத்த பொண்ணு ………..
கவுன்டமனி அன்னெ நெனைக்கும் பொது பொச்ட் ரொம்ப பெருசா பொகுது .. அதனாலெ இதொட ஐயம் ஷ்டாப்பிங்,.சொரி புடிச்ச மொன்னா நாயி தெரு ஒரமா பொயி பிச்ச எடுக்க் பொகுது..அதுக்கு லவுலட்ட பாரு..!
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