Film / Documentary - Recently watched & worthy of some discussion

[Nerd]

SRI RAMA RAJJIYAM

- good, can be watched once, lengthy - 2 hrs 40 mins
- started well.. but lot of 2 min songs after certain point.. i was bored at that
- one thing to say.. Chinmayi's voice for nayanthara stands out... her voice is not sync's well with good looking heroines.. whenever i hear it.. chinmayi's face comes to my mind.. similar to the dubbing of Deepa Venkat...
- otherwise, a good film & you will know the story of Ramar-Seethai...

D/L panni oru maasam aachchu. Chinmayi is the single reason which has been putting me off. As for the songs go, I like a few songs from the original Telugu version (SPB/ShreyaG). Anyway eppadiyaavadhu muyaRchi senju paaththuranum.

[Murali Srinivas]

Nerd,

Have they released Karnan in your place? Any plans to watch?

For that matter, app_e do you have a chance?

Bala?

Regards

[Plum]

Aanestu - nice to know youngsters could connect to a movie made by a 80 year old man

Nerd - neRaiya handicap kodukkaNum. 80 vayasu director. Some poor performances(esp by the children playing key characters), Ramayan 80's style graphics...irundhAlum idhaiyelLAm patch paNNi pOda IR iruppadhAl, IR fans like you will not be disappointed.

[Nerd]

Murali sir, unfortunately no. I live in Kentucky and we don't have so many Tamils living here. Even when it comes to new films, only very few release. Most films release in Indianapolis (2.5 hrs drive) or Cincinnati (1.5 hrs drive) but Karnan has not been released at both the places.

Plum - I still haven't read your posts about the film. But they have been bookmarked. Will read them after I watch the film.

[Bala (Karthik)]

Murali Sir
Was supposed to join Joe today but couldn't make it, unfortunately.

Joe
I expected this 100% - the fact that only expats came to see the movie. Why is this surprising?
Well, Saguni 4 show oditrukku

[interz]

Manam kothi paravai - watchable once.

I had doubts whether I could overcome watching Sivakarthikeyan as male lead. But its good to see he is in the field where he can be compared to the stars he makes fun of. I think this role was tailor made for Vimal. Director Ezhil took a big chance using a TV comedian as a male lead in movie but it paid off. Sivakarthikeyan fits as the useless son who gives dad more grey hairs on the head.

Heroine is very stereotype, she reminds a lot of the female lead in Milaga (which no one else watched). As usual playing hard to get despite the love she has for the male lead.

Biggest plusses are comedy and songs. Singamuthu and the bearded guy I saw in Velayutham, Sreenath, Chams and villain brother makes it enjoyable when the movie is getting a tad boring.
D Imaan is very good at moment, all songs are suits the mood of the movie.

Kudos to Ezhil to make a simple and neat village based movie.

[app_engine]

Murali sir,
I haven't seen any KarNan ad in miindia.com (or in Indian stores)...probably not in Detroit area

[jaiganes]

Aanestu - nice to know youngsters could connect to a movie made by a 80 year old man

Nerd - neRaiya handicap kodukkaNum. 80 vayasu director. Some poor performances(esp by the children playing key characters), Ramayan 80's style graphics...irundhAlum idhaiyelLAm patch paNNi pOda IR iruppadhAl, IR fans like you will not be disappointed.

i saw it finally. surprisingly the biggest takeaway from the movie
is balakrishna's performance, despite all the blue makeup. The movie
could well have been stripped of all songs and mythological backdrop
and released in the 80s. However releasing in this day and age,
it gives a pleasant memory of touching family dramas of the 70s
and scores because of the mythology. Emotionally couldnt stop
shedding a drop of tear or two when sita returns to bhoo devi
and rama calling out desperately. while ramayana is an epic,
uttara ramayana makes it a human epic. kudos to everyone
who were in this movie and specially to bapu to have such a
clarity of vision.

[Plum]

Jai - bapu himself has made uttara ramayana twice before I believe. Not to mention several social movies wherein he made references from this story. I will take the point on NBK - he did surprise, but not so much considering his genes and that he has previous in mythologicals. He made his debut in one(as Abhimanyu I think). But he still mangled up his dialogue delivery which was too hurried(typical of him). I'll also confess tears at the last event - I guess that is where the IR effect comes in. I am fairly sure I wouldn't have been as moved without the BGM. :facepalm: at git clove and F_R for their advocacy of less importance to BGM. Music illaina padam edukkaRadhaiyE nippAttungadA! (I might change my mind if more movies like aadukalam happen - appealing despite the music)

[P_R]

JI'll also confess tears at the last event

adada...kallukkuL eeram.

:facepalm: at git clove and F_R for their advocacy of less importance to BGM.

yOv, ennamO meesicE irukkappadaadhunnu solRa maadhiri. nalla padaththula enhance paNNumnum solliyAchchu.
dabbA padaththai ellAm BGM-E thookki niRuththumnu ellAm solRadhukku mattum dhaan

I might change my mind if more movies like aadukalam happen - appealing despite the music

aduththu, idhai paththi 2022-la pEsuvOm.