Film / Documentary - Recently watched & worthy of some discussion

[P_R]

Varavu Nalla Uravu just started on Vannathirai channel - Epic, epic! Full-a paakka mudiyuma therila

These Visu temblade titles are

இந்த அவினாசி ஒரு விசுவாசி

[joe]

Maayandi Kudumpathar - Except last 20 mins , movie is good barring few over sentiments scenes .. Tharun Gopi is not bad ..Many other small characters ..wow ..exceptional performances in few scenes .. This guy Ilavarasu (not only in this movie) is one hell of an actor ..so natural . Overall movie is better than what i expected .

[P_R]

This guy Ilavarasu (not only in this movie) is one hell of an actor ..so natural .

Very good actor.
Apparently he was a cinematographer. You can spot him doing a small role in Vedham Pudhidhu.
He was there at Mohanraman's lecture about Sivaji last weekend.

[HonestRaj]

saw madhupanakadai on youtube

padam super duper ille - adhe neram waste um ille
movie has no message or twist turns etc - especailly it doesn't have nenjai nakkara scenes that you might expect from similar movies
it just shows the various characters who visit the bar over two days. interesting.
oru sirukadhai padicha madiri irundudu - the movie was based on naanjil nadan's story

worth watching once.

word by word

[HonestRaj]

amaithippadai (Manivannan / Sathyaraj)

I don't know why & how I finished this in one sitting (must be the -OH effect otherwise it has to be watched in installments only. 2 hours 40 minutes long)

It could have easily been split into two masAlA movies

Though the movie cannot be termed good (too many masAlA moments that are yawn worthy), there are some terrific scenes with the politician Sathyaraj & some interesting dialogs that kept it going

BGM good as usual. Songs FF-ed (so-so numbers).

vanmayana kandanam...
film is still not outdated.. anytime we can expect the news of its remake.. thought Karthi would be a good choice before Saguni.. now rejetted all.. no present day director can redo it..
it was not a well planned film.. story - scenes & dialogues were developed while shoot is going on [I remember seeman (asst. dir to Manivannan) saying about this]

App, amaithi padai ellam classic cult status. HR did a short series of dialogues in our now-neglected SR thread. A revisitable movie anytime.

& personally I like films directed by Manivannan, atleast till Pudhumanidhan... he had his own style in screenplay.. & even today i don't feel it is outdated.. his packaging style is much better for 80's standards... & no match for the remake trend at present..
MV films list panna niraiya nalla padangal varum..

Jallikattu
100th day
vidinja kalyanam
vazhkkai chakkaran
Chinna thambi periyathambi

& a very good actor too

[selvakumar]

Varavu Nalla Uravu just started on Vannathirai channel - Epic, epic! Full-a paakka mudiyuma therila

Vishu movies bore adikkama pogum. But I don't like the VNU Matha padam kooda OK. But ithu overah sentiment athuvum forced ah irukkum. My favorite vishu film will be always the one he acted with Pratab. Sema jollya irukkum Also, In all his movies he balances everything. Oru bad MIL, oru bad DIL.. appadiyae maintain pannuvaaru

[joe]

Visu padathula enakku romba pidichathu MaNal kayiRu

[HonestRaj]

Maaveeran (Magadheera) in sun tv.. going on..
- padam evvalavu murai parthalum bore adikkiradhillai.. for Rajamouli's screenplay
- initial few scenes, Kajal'i rombha cute'ah kanbichurukkanga..

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another telugu dub i liked is "Arundhathee"
kalaignar tv telecasts later in the evening

- Anuskha will look majestic as a queen.. when i saw this film earlier i'm very much impressed by Anuskha's acting... i liked her in DheivathirumagaL too.. nadigaigaL kavarchiya varuvadhai vida kanniyamaga varumpodhum cute'ah varumpodhuthan adhigam pidikkudhu

[ajaybaskar]

Anushka is one of those rare actresses who can look good both in glamour roles and performance oriented ones.

[joe]

Billa 2

Not at all bad , Thanks to low expectation .
Ajith - Dashing and Stylish .Lots of improvement in some aspects he was weak .Hats off!
Chakri - Movie visuals show that you learned professionally .Technically good ,but you have a long way to go as a script writer and readmore on what you deal with .


First 15 mins , I thought "Nalla thaane irukku" ..then slowly lost its tempo .They shown as if Billa and family is from Srilanka (though nothing mentioned directly)and few scenes from that camp .people from the camp , Billa , his sister , sisters daughter ..none resembles srilankan tamil in their accent(even occasionally) or any other way.


I am not keen listener of BGM just to make a view on that ,But I felt same sound keep coming over and over . Heroines -kku enna oru 2 naal callsheet irunthirukkuma ?


I am impressed with only 'AJITH'