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My cousin an ardent kamal fan, who is usually spot-on on his remarks, did not like ME. He said it was a waste of time. I have not seen the movie yet, but after seeing all kind of extreme mixed reviews, it looks like, my expecation has done down a lot. It is fair to say, recent Kamal comedy movies were a big let down. I think Thenali probably is the last decent comedy movie from him.
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Hari
ask him to see again. he will undestand it better. it took twice viewing for me to appreciate the movie. Its different. if you expect double meaning comedy or explicit comedy dialogues you will be disappointed. Like kamal mentioned, the story involves around serious people, what happens around them make you laugh!
thenAli was not a great `comedy' either, most were `forced' situations which were dry, no spontaneous laughter...that being said, I should acknowledge it was a very good film and I liked it so much mainly for the beautiful ilankai thamizh and a couple of `narration' scenes where Kamal excelled...Moving personally as I had spent a few weeks with a Srilankan refugee family...
Kbee,
He did infact see it two times. In Madras, We normally see any kamal movie atleast three times ( even his bad movies). Anything more than three times, normally means it was a good movie. Last time, When I was in Madras, Hey Ram got released. We saw it three times in a week. It was a classic movie.
app_engine,
I said, Thenali is only a decent movie, not great. It had its moments. It was more funnier than its original What about Bob, IMO. Srilankan Tamil really helped there. It was dragging at parts, unnecessary sidetrack like Jayaram character suspecting his wife Devayanai with Kamal did not help and a below average music from Rahman. Overall the first half was very funny and Kamal really got to the skin of the character.
His later movies like PanchaTandiram, and Pammal K Sambandam were just OK to miserable. His last comedy classic was avvai Shanmugai.
I saw sadhi leelavathi in the Sun TV last week. It was a well executed movie. For a change, the movie started very slow, and picked up the pace later.
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Hari
I know people are going to jump up and down over this. I saw SL too last week in SunTV. Like you said the movie started very slowly until Kamal enter into the picture, but then it was dragging a bit in between. It became a classic movie because at that time it was one of the best comedy ever released. Now comparing that to MX, MX started very well and slowed down as soon as manisha comes to picture and starts again. the problems with MX areQuote:
Originally Posted by e_hari
1. title song cut
2. manisha-kamal scenes too dragging (you feel like its half hout, but only 10 minutes + 3 min song)
3. no "proper" closure to the movie
If kamal corrected atleast the last 2, the movie would have been one of hte best from kamal.
Regarding other movies... thenali is a crap, but lot of ppl buy the DVD so, PKS is in between not good not bad, and PT is decent - specially "Vai Raaja Vai" song. I cant believe Deva did such a good work for KH!
The Ramya Krishnan-Simran competition song was decent too.
I watched the movie yesterday....
and Honestly I must say that the movie is aboutt bad - average!!!
I didnt expext this from Kamal.
The video images are horrible.
IR's contribution is totally wasted.
One of the worst comedy movie from Kamal
Chelian, thanks for the contribution. really appreciated
Since a discussion on Kamal's comedy movies are going on, here's my 2 cents:Avvai was his last classic comedy.Kadhala...&Thenali were unimpressive in the theatres but made for great viewing on TV.I think that's the reason kbee sells so many DVD's :D .PKS&PT were avg mainly becos they dragged at times&created an impatience in the minds of the audience.VR MBBS was an avg remake&in MX Kamal lost a golden oppurtunity to create another classic.What a build up till the interval only to lose it in the second half.So, it's been 9 years since his last great comedy,I hope the next time around he think's 100 times b4 saying yes to a script.
My two cents - after Avvai, all of Kamal's comedies have been rushjobs - especially, after Kamal had spent a lot of money and time on HEY RAM, he probably didn't want to waste much time in preparing for a movie - hence the feeling that they were not good - but PKS and PT were IMO good, thanks mainly to Crazy Mohan
but my gut feeling is that VV will be good, since much of Kamal's burden in scripting the story has been taken over by Gautam Menon, who himself is by now well on the road to becoming an accomplished film-maker - I think in terms of commercial returns, VV will do what Shankar's "Indian" did -
but as compared to 'Indian', whose production values and overall feel gave one the feeling of a desi-Jerry Bruckheimer flick (JB is Hollywood's Subhash Ghai and Shankar rolled into one), VV will be much more refined and classy in treatment and also accessible to the commoner