Film / Documentary - Recently watched & worthy of some discussion

[SoftSword]

pr dhanae ticket edutthaar??

[ajaybaskar]

Nerd,

The movie is very ordinary. No story as such. There were few dialogues which evoked laughter. Thassal. Crowd response was very poor too.

[HonestRaj]

Anyone watched madhupaanakkadai? HonestRAj and others from Kovai, am surprised no one of you write on how this film is. Hearing positive reviews from everyone of my cbe friends. AV gave 45 marks. Great! Congrats to director and team members.

Honest, your long review is due on this film.

"madhupaanakkadai" - online print edhuvum vandha nitchayam parthuttu solrenga..
maththapadi avlo onnum perusa odina madhiri theriyalaye

[HonestRaj]

vijay antony "Naan" padam yarum partheengala?

[HonestRaj]

Mayanginen Thayanginen

Starring: Nitin Sathya, Disha Pandey

- mokkai padam
- waste of time

[selvakumar]

100% Love Telugu - Good one If you can bear the artificial scenes that are always present in telugu cinema, this one is a good film. Tamanna looked great and acted well. She is giving preference to telugu movies and is evident from her *performance*. NagaC was OK. Nowhere near his father but acted well in the climax.


@Mahen - Did you see this film?

[groucho070]

Ghandi (Richard Attenborough)

Dubbed in Tamil. Terrible voice acting. Ithula English subtitle-vera, which was equally bad. The fellers saying, "mannar" and the subtitle says, "her majesty"

But a word on cinematography, I too have been esctatic about cinematography that involves lots of movement. But some shots in this film stunned me, brilliant. To me now, a good cinematography = any single frame that can be pulled out and still looks like awesome photograph. I forgot that its all about framing...damn me for praising cinematography in Ravanan, I take that back.

One good thing about dubbing this kinda films, it introduces Tamil audience to some greats, like John Gielgud here. The man who tutored frickin' Brando with the latter's dialogues in Julius Caesar (1953).

[kid-glove]

My favourite part of Gandhi is when Daniel day Lewis' Racist brings out 'divine violence' of Kingsley's Gandhi ('negation' of revolt that Zizek deconstructs well). And unlike simpleton reading of fostering 'respect' in the enemy, it actually hits panic buttons, inviting violence. However, Attenborough's coda has the white lady prevent this. That's the entire film in one scene.

[groucho070]

yAro oru punniyavAn upload pannirukirar...

[kid-glove]

Sir Ben 'stages' Gandhi (where the holistic preferences lies is well documented), DDL 'assumes' the unknown. DDL has a belonging to this medium. To Kingsley, everything is an act, but for DDL, the transformation and coordinates mean more than the 'act', his 'being' subsumes a lot to the discerning viewer, irrational, cold, displeased, machismo, etc.. All while not letting the gaze lose interest in him..