ARR Vs YSR Vs HJ

I completely agree with u vijayr :notworthy: . exactly my same point of view (but somewat polished i guess :D) .

As u said, these films are just inspirations, like a spark. the director and story teller's calibre shows off in the way he builds the character and story around this slight spark. in that way, kamal's films are at times better than MRs. If guna was stupendous, heyram was out of this world. i dunno if these films were inspired.

njv sir, u said that u dont like MRs films after nayagan and dhalapathi. but aren these two supposed to be his most heavily inspired film?

rite.......Mani is such a director who takes a spark out of a movie/real incident and then pens a different story around it.....he doesent copy.....he just takes a thread and sews a cloth....the cloth will be so gud that u will forget the thread that he took......many ppl. mite think roja is not inspired but it was...it was inspired from real story of Indian Oil officer Doraisamy who escaped from kashmir militants but ppl. could not even recognise that.....that's MR...

"Asked to comment on the Tiruvachagam controversy, he vehemently claimed that it was simply ridiculous to blame Raja. He had heard the symphony and it bore the stamp of Raja’s genius.

That’s Rahman for you. Humble and respectful of seniors."

http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-mov...ar-rahman.html

Quick note: I did not like the songs in Ghajini yes one or two had made me listen another time, but the Background score was good. HJ did a pretty good job.

I just wanted to add "COPY" is different from "INSPIRATION", "COMMERCIALIZATION FOR THE LOCAL"

If you see Memento, and Ghajini, i think the director did an awesome job of having 2 heroines, keeping the pace in an awesome manner and wonderfully crafted the screenplay, HJ did play a good part of providing a decent BG score. It is how you adapt a story for the local masses and still make it different, may be at-times send a message should be commendable.

IMHO, I thot gajini's screenplay was outright stupid. it was ok in the first half atleast where u get to see a typical tamil film's light-hearted moments. but it fails bigtime in logic, execution and screenplay. there were so many idiotic moments in the film that i lost my count halfway through :lol:

Like, whenever nayantara does some research and finds something related to surya, there are always a couple of stupid girls, willing to peer into a file and shake their heads like dumb***, nodding to wateva she says. I mean, a good director wud have atleast given some degree of individuality or characterisation to these girls so that they dont look like extras.

In another instance, these girls ask for additional info abt gajini from their lecturer, he digs a CD out of "old" records and puts it into a computer. we would normally expect a complete indepth case profile to be present. but instead, wat he shows? a revolving manda vodu and tells us that this is gajini :rotfl: . only in ARMs films can such dumb ppl instruct in a medical college :( .

This isnt first time for ARM, in Ramana, we see vijaykant typing seriously into his comp, while ppl are getting kidnapped all over TN. then after sometime we get to have a look at his monitor. BLOODY HELL! HE IS TYPING INTO WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER!!! :rotfl: :rotfl: the player is playing a movie file, which shows the pic of the victim and displays his name and info as if it is being typed out. But he doesn even bother to put them in Fullscreen mode.

There are several other funny instances in this film like, the policeman telling us that this page of diary is dec 31st and the diary doesnt have any more pags after this. Great kandupidippu. and in another scene commissioner sees a number on surya's body and and announces his discovery "all ten digit numbers, must be cellphone number".

If i ever get to make a spoof on gajini, it wud be a stuff worth 5 scary movies :lol: but i dont understand why this movie is getting appreciated even a little bit :roll:

:shock: analysing the movie...

am I in the wrong thread :?

sorry i did the wrong job :oops:

Itsmuls!
Good job of posting the right news in the thread.
I have always been maintaining that ARR and IR share a good rapport. It is just the fans who go bonkers at each other. Infact in IR's one man show, he made fun of YSR more than anyone else. The slant at how YSR would have tuned "Maanguyile" was classic.

I am surprised how Mani's criticism has carried over into another thread!! I do accept vijayr's take on AE. I do not accuse him of plagiarism the way other MR detractors do. My point (which I have explained in detail in the Guru thread) is that Mani has lost the fiz he initially had!. That is possibly due to the fact that most of his inspirations are available in your nearest DVD store. probbly thats why Selvaraghavan had to go for a German movie inspiration!!. Mani's movies are getting predictable and boring. Kannathil Muthamittal was one of the most boring movies I have watched in the recent times. It is probly good. However certain Mani cliches die seldom hard!! A 9 year old kid talking and behaving like 90 year old is too much. probly might have suited American milieu, not local at all. The height of idiocy in the script is the travel to war torn Lanka and that too into severely affected areas with tank fire and arial bombardment!! And the last scene was a complete hash!! I agree that ARR's movie was superb and tremendous, but it was the only saving grace in addition to Ravi K Chandran's cinematography. All actors were wooden, unduly subdued and monotonous(WTH was MAdhavan doing in that freakin movie??) with the exception of Prakash raj, who provided some freedom from the encircling dulldom that the whole movie was.

why are we discussing movies here?
Anyway to add my share of comments, I think MR films has become utter boring.
His KM was one of his most boring films ever despite the his production cost. I think he fails to see the 'entertainment ' value in films the way the current breed of young directors see.
Ghajini on the other hand was an entertainment racy flick despite some stupid scenes ( that someone mentioned)

Ghajini imho was a stupid movie interspersed with some lovely things (Surya's acting and commitment, Asin-Surya love story, Suttum vizhi sudare and oru maalai song, cracking bgm at places, and some flashes of directional brilliance), imho the film was a total letdown from ARM (a screenplay that threw logic to wind) considering the fact his previous movie was a superb one in all aspects (barring of course the windows media player ;) )