Here are my top, top favorites - Thee, Netrikkan, Moondru Mugam, Nallavanukku Nallavan, Thalapathy, and Baasha.
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Here are my top, top favorites - Thee, Netrikkan, Moondru Mugam, Nallavanukku Nallavan, Thalapathy, and Baasha.
My all time favourite thillu mullu, netrikan,annamalai
Oh are we writing our top lists now? Mine are Mullum Malarum, Thappu Thalangal, Moondru Mudichu, Engeyo Ketta Kural.
Mine are
1. Aaril irundhu Arubadhu varai
2.Jhonny
3.Dharma yutham
4. Netrikann
5..Uzhaipaali
Oru kola kili - NIce song.....
Muthirai ipoadhu - lovely no.
From the past - About Sivaji when it was running at the BO in 2007 summer... 8-)
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The Hindu - Ramki
Friday, 10 September 2010 04:33
The Hindu - Rajni Ramki speaks about Sivaji 100 days celebration
21 Sep 2007
New Delhi, Sept 21 (PTI): Rajnikanth's latest blockbuster "Sivaji -- The Boss" is set to complete its 100th day tomorrow in 111 theatres in India and abroad and the Tamil superstar's fans are planning celebrations to mark the occasion.
The film was released in 235 theatres across Tamil Nadu and as many screens outside the state on June 15. "Around 102 theatres in Tamil Nadu will celebrate the 100th day of screening the movie on Saturday," AVM Productions CEO S C Babu said.
"The film is still running in almost 10 to 20 per cent of the theatres it which it was released outside Tamil Nadu, especially in Kerala and Karnataka," he said from Chennai.
One theatre in Mumbai is set to celebrate the 100th day tomorrow. Outside India, the film will complete 100 days in six theatres in Malaysia, two in Sri Lanka and one in Singapore.
The latest hit from Rajnikanth, who has a huge following in Tamil Nadu and abroad, broke records for collections by a Tamil film not only in India but also in countries like Malaysia, Singapore and Britain.
The film is still collecting 7,000 pounds a week in a theatre in Britain and there are a lot of inquiries for the rights to dub the film in Malay, Chinese and Japanese. "Sivaji" is also making huge collections in over 10 theatres in Chennai and its suburbs.
Munikanniah, vice-president of Sathyam Cinemas, a leading multiplex in Chennai, said: "The distributor's share for 'Sivaji -- The Boss' in a single theatre in Chennai was Rs 1.55 crore, which is an all-time record for the state."
"The film was released in two screens in Satyam Cinemas simultaneously with a seating capacity of 948 and 560 seats and it ran to packed houses for nearly six weeks," Munikanniah said.
"Even now, with the film nearing its 100th day, almost 60 per cent of the 948 seats get filled during weekdays and 100 per cent during weekends."
Though "Sivaji" is running strong even after three months, the film's producers have no plans for celebrating its completion of 100 days.
"The film is running very strong even now and we don't want to spoil it by celebrating the 100th day. We hope the film will continue to create more records," Babu said.
"We will have a bigger celebration later," he said.
But the star's fans are gearing up to celebrate the event at theatres. "We have planned to celebrate the occasion in a grand manner outside theatres in Bangalore and Malaysia," said J Ramki, co-founder of rajinifans.com, a website dedicated to Rajnikanth.
"This is the first time an Indian language movie will complete 100 days in Malaysia. Rajnifans.com will celebrate it in a big way in front of theatres."
Munikanniah said, "Many fan associations have sought our permission to celebrate the event outside theatres. They will distribute sweets and watch their 'thalaivar' (leader) on screen again."
Sundar, an ardent fan of the star, said, "We will distribute sweets and food packets to people who come to watch the movie on Saturday."
Referring to plans to release a Hindi version of the film, Babu said, "dubbing for the Hindi edition has already started and it is likely to be completed by the first week of October.
"Director Shankar is very anxious that Rajnikanth should dub his own voice for the Hindi version but it is for him to decide.
"As announced earlier, the Hindi version will have a post-Diwali release."
"Sivaji" is about a man's fight against black money in society, with Rajnikanth playing the protagonist in his own trademark style with a combination of punchy dialogue, comedy, romance, songs and colourful costumes.
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus...0709211021.htm
Finally, after years of waiting, someone has posted this masterpiece song on YouTube. God bless that person's heart... :clap:
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Raaja enbaar manthiri enbaar - Bhuvana Oru Kelvikuri (1977)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7j8sEinx-Y
The first movie where Thalaivar acted as the protagonist! 8-)
WOW. VizhiyilE malarnthathu is there for the past 5 years or so. This one is very new :clap:Quote:
Originally Posted by m_23_bayarea
Watched Mullum Malarum again yesterday after all this discussion.
What a movie. The scene after fighting with his sister, or confronting the engineer, shows the younger Rajini's acting capabilities well.
And a simple and effective climax. Classic.
prashanth, you beat me to it. Missed most of the movie - oru afternoon siestakappuram lazy-A channel surf paNNinA, Sarathbabu in that ketta paya saar scene. All organs(kaNnu kAdhu etc) immediately alert. Just managed to catch kALi saying ketta paya saar avan. What a performance!
A lot of Amit-ji fans set aside Rajni, the actor, almost as if "What's the big deal about Rajni, the 70's actor", while eulogising Amit-ji's 70's movies and post 90's avatar(am). This is not Amit-ji's fault but it tends to put me off.
For, while Rajini can(and did) replicate Amit-ji's masalas succesfully and overshadowed him with his presence in Geraftaar, as well as showed his chops in anything Amit-ji has done, Amit-ji's acclaimed 70's persona is so limited. We are talking, like, what? Anand, Abhimaan, Chupke Chupke. All that angst, comic presence recycled later in his masala movies. Nothing really that stands out different from his later masala avatar.
Watching MM, one realises why Amit-ji can never be Rajinikanth. I just cant imagine amit-ji saying the hindi equivalent of ketta paya saar avan. And the "pazhaya kALiyA irundhirundhA...". And so on. Amit-ji is stiff, scholarly and hams enormously when faced with emotional sequences. He can probably do sentiment, like maa sentiment in Deewar climax but emotion like in MM, I havent seen evidence.
Even the post-90's Blacks and stuff, one can see the "ham"mer in Amit-ji. Really, Rajini, the actor is in a different class to Amit-ji.
A *possibly contentious* thought - maybe, even Kamal of 70's wouldnt have shone as much as Rajini in muLlum malarum. "ketta paya saar avan" just doesnt sit well in my imagination of 70's Kamal saying it.
enna dhAn Surya of Dal-Pati might be appealingnAlum, I just cant fathom how kALi can be overlooked by *anyone* over *any other role* of Rajini!
Post his loss of arm, kALi is not exactly a changed man. He can still beat the crap out of azhagesan and retain the awe in which his chamchas hold him. However, you can sense a little vulnerability, helplessness now. Gone is the straight talking, wysiwyg kALi. Now, he has a measured cunning added - the way he plays the Engineeer from the time the latter asks for his sister's hand to the well-planned, paced delivery of the command to azhagesan to marry his sister. The Engineer knows he is a beaten man.
In a way, this kALi rolls back to Vijayan in Udhiri pUkkAL. Or, the other way around possibly. He has his preferences, and he will let his hate determine his choices and have his way. The village gathering against the tyrant's diktat seems to be the climax in both cases but fortunately for kALi, he has two women playing his conscience - while Rajni and Shoba walk away with the acting honours, Fatafat Jayalakshmi sparkles as Manga, and it is she who sets the events in motion and ensures that kALi doesnt meet the same fate as the correspondent in UP. She is fearless, stands up to him and mobilises the village against him, while not completely puncturing his aura. Eventually, the two women combined manage to stoke his ego, as well as get the "right thing" done.
Truly, this is a landmark movie for TFI. Fortunate to have viewed it at different stages of my life.
Plum, good points. Rajini can do what Amitabh the star can do in masala films. Amit-ji can never do what Rajini did back then purely as an actor in strongly scripted films. But now that Amit is doing so-called "classy" films, and if Rajini were to do the same, I am sure Rajini will eat AB for breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, supper and occasional trip to kitchen after bedtime.
But looking at his track record of late, can he (Rajini) pull it off? :think:
grouch, it is more a question of "does he want to pull it off".
Amit-ji, apart from artistic needs, had a dire financial need to accept all and sundry roles, including jatti viLambarams, in his post-90's avatar. 40 padathula varushathukku avar iruppAr. adhula 4 critically acclaimed role aayidum. ipdi thAn avarOda post 90's career Odichu. What I have always felt is that, all the 40 roles are similar in one way or the otehr - that is, to say, they are more or less Amitabh, the patriarch. A high-hamming, stiff, at times Antony Gonsalves comic persona. Very limited range.
Rajni doesnt really have anything other than artistic need. So, the question is does he want to do what Amit-ji did?
Besides, already Kamalukku script ezhudha AL illAma thiNdAdikittirukkOm. Rajinikku yaaru ezhudhuvA?
Re.kALi NT (at any age) ? Of course, Rajini :clap:
Ordinary script could be enhanced by good acting. Good script could turn shoddy when badly enacted (all Myshkin films) As much as I like Raj kiran, imagine Rajni in Thavamai Thavamirundhu?
While I rate Amitabh highly, I admit some currency could be found in some of these points. Another thing abt 70's Amitabh is better scriptwriting and direction of hindi masala cinema, as against the likes who remade them in Tamil? Although our 'new wave' with Mahendran, KB, Balu Mahendra, BR, etc and films like Pasi, Aval appadithaan, etc could/should be argued to be of richer quality than Bachchan's cinema of that time !
ada, idhellAm solli dhAn theriyaNumA? Ofcourse, NT is who Rajni channels here - infact, part of my appreciation loops back to that fact :-)Quote:
Re.kALi NT (at any age)
At any age, may be not. I'd have loved to see the 60's Sivaji do muLLum malarum.
I think Kamal is a more difficult case here. Avare ezhuthunathan undu. Expectation level is completely different here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
Rajini-kku, Thilak sonna mathiri, can be used to enhance ordinary script. Thavamay Thavamirunthu would be owesome. Really. Yes, Raj Kiran's roles are prime candidate, they need that extra caged up energy that Rajini has, alongside giving the roles the nobility. No fault of Raj Kiran, but I thought his roles like in Nandha need that extra oomph!
Ditto. And Rajkiran need not worry about his buvvA - he can do roles like the one he did with Lawrence(muni?)
Rajni as Ajith's father in Kireedom - uh, mouth watering. Yeah, enhancing ordinary scripts can be one use Rajini is put to.*
Nanda - yes, awesome think experiment grouch.
And I really think someone should do Nishabdh with him in tamil, irrespective of the movie's merits.
*- note thilakan did awesome in that role but obviously, the writing was diluted in tamil so...
Rajini in that Nanda role Awe-:shock:
If not mistaken Bala had NT in mind for that role, hence the thought connection :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Plum
Polimer ChannelQuote:
Originally Posted by Plum
naanum parthen :)
Thanks for this link. Bhuvana Oru Kelvikuri is one of my all time favorites of Rajini. Very good movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nerd
Incidentally I also saw parts of MM yesterday. Each and every scene is carefully crafted and it is refreshing to see such films today. Raja's BGM is excellent - idhellaam solli dhaan theriyanumnu illai. I remember posting about ellaam en kairaasi which has awful songs but a soul stirring recurrent violin theme. Only Raja fossible. Hope Rajini's hint about continuing acting is true and perhaps a film with Raja (impossible, I know but can't help thinking about it everytime I see a 70s/80s film of his)
As much as we want Rajini that way, it is impossible though. Only consolation we have to watch those again. Pudhukkavithai is also another classic of Rajini.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nerd
rajini with raaja is something that im really really looking forward to
Now that, as per reports, rajni has invited raja thorugh post and raja has not attended rajni daughters marriage, chumma yosichu pathukalamQuote:
Originally Posted by MADDY
i downloaded a nice dvd rip of mullum malarum...
watched it today and most of the scenes i watched the second time..
i really think that "vaasingada dei" scene, thalaivar would have acted after a good booze..
Baba rap is a very famous BGM bit but this one where rajini goes to temple is the most awesome BGM piece i have heard from AR to rajini:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGfIs...eature=related
konjam bad quality and repeats itself without warning but worth a try.........no prizes for guessing which song evolved out of this "unknown" gem - GVM was the benefitter :lol:
Omana penne? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by MADDY
intha bgm was in the movie? :oops:
yes, omana penne evolved out of it or atleast it sounds like......
this is the scene after nambiar's death where rajini in white dhoti goes to temple and koundamani too joins in :lol:
Yeah, very nice piece. I feel it connects emotionally more to the scene you described in Baba than in Omana peNNE.
yes, it was more apt here......for VTV, it was like a "mangala" isai for kissing scene :lol:
i inferred it as a mangala isai for the marriage of two souls.Quote:
Originally Posted by MADDY
eppdillaam yosikkiraanga paaruyya.Quote:
Originally Posted by SoftSword
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Originally Posted by MADDY
I am sure ARR would have visualized it that way when scoring it, if not he would have had something beyond this in mind while scoring that masterpiece.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaiganes
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Chitti feels the fresh air and enters into the new world :notworthy: and the BG score at that time :clap:
chitti puts down the TV and vasi's response.. "avan podunna pottuduvanma" :D
helping sana's exam and the dialogues...
when sana says sorry simply responding "manitha kulam than suyanalathukkaka poy sollumnu purijikitten" underlying he only leanrs from incodents and doesnt feel anything.. :clap: