Film / Documentary - Recently watched & worthy of some discussion

[HonestRaj]

velayudham too was a bit superheroish no?
ajay/vinodh maedaikku varavum...

last song threadla post pannanga.. idhai parthurukka mattangala

[app_engine]

bAwarchi (1972, Hrishikesh Mukherjee / Rajesh Khanna / Jaya B / AB as narrator)

-sweet movie, didn't FF even the really long song (the only "thoyvu" part in the movie)
-both RK & JB are adorable
-music is top class, immensely enjoyable (Madan Mohan)
-will watch again with family (possibly more than once)
-want to check out more movies of this Hrishikesh

[V_S]

Very good App. Madan Mohan always the best. I too am a big favorite of Hrishikesh Mukherjee movies right from his Asli-Naqli to Bawarchi, Anand, Abhimaan, Chupke Chupke to Golmaal. Same way another director whose movie I like is Basu Chatterjee (chitchor, chotti si baat, baton baton mein and many more). Very entertaining movies of 70s. Yes most of their films had excellent music.

[kameshratnam]

Mate, why this poison test? verum pillow banging thAnA, cheh!

It was a poison test. For that matter the following films should be avoided by one and all but they can be seen for whole hearted laughing purposes

Vetriku Oruvan - Sivaji a college boy - His actual age during that movie would have been 50 plus and major sundararajan would act as his father -

thirisoolam - SUMATHEEEEEEEEEEE ROFL MAX

Hilter Umanath

BEST OF ALL - EXAM Ku time aachu and it had a so called comedian Y G M ....

[Movie Cop]

Billa 2 on youteep!

Watched like ~ 65-70 min of the movie. So far not bad, the movie is OK. It is more like a history channel documentary of the rise of David Billa.

So far, movie operates at the fast forward mode and the narration style is focussed only on the bottom line of the events rather than focussing on the leadup/staging side of things (which is usually the fluff/meat that adds up in other movies however good or bad it is). Ajith's "I'm just going to maintain my poker face" makes him look more Jason Bourne-ish whose only goal is survival. That poker face also adds to the intensity of the stinging onliners that comes out (every now and then) out of Ajith's mouth.

60-70 nimutes of the movie remba quick-uhh thaan pochu... Will probably continee today or tomorrow to wrap up the remaining. The only (albeit major) complaint I've so far is that the movie is too simplistic (i.e. no big supsense or thrill or twists so far).

[kid-glove]

Mounaguru


- Plot-based thriller far far superiorly made with semblance of directorial voice, than an empty suspense film like Naan which introduces a whole lot of characters who have access to the truth (but in a compromised way), but could not put together.. Here, the truth is well known among the lot, but it's bleak enough to suspect this truth from being made in to a readily accessible entity, as if this is ever possible.. It treats it with nihilistic self-induced silence of the title and the character. A whole new vantage point that might be much closer to the 'real' truth
- This might be my favourite passive non-acting performance for a while now. Well cast for the role. That extra notch above Vijay Anthony, despite slight resemblance to Jithan Ramesh, he actually has that early Ajith look + soft pitch in the voice that works for roles like this..

[groucho070]

Penmani Aval Kanmani

Visu and Prathap = hilarious. Don't remember liking it back then, but now it works very well. They should have done sequel. Same Prathap appeared as Dhanush's father in Padikathavan.

[gaddeswarup]

1968 documentary on film and dance in Madras. Some of the commentary is politically incorrect but Malle seems eager to explore and record his initial reactions without fear. He seems to find people on the street better looking than some of the actors. Here is the first part, the next two are more about dance with some derogatory comments about foreigners learning bharatantayam.Worth a look I think

The next two are uploaded by the same person and easy to find clicking on the uploader's name.

[jaiganes]

Mounaguru


- Plot-based thriller far far superiorly made with semblance of directorial voice, than an empty suspense film like Naan which introduces a whole lot of characters who have access to the truth (but in a compromised way), but could not put together.. Here, the truth is well known among the lot, but it's bleak enough to suspect this truth from being made in to a readily accessible entity, as if this is ever possible.. It treats it with nihilistic self-induced silence of the title and the character. A whole new vantage point that might be much closer to the 'real' truth
- This might be my favourite passive non-acting performance for a while now. Well cast for the role. That extra notch above Vijay Anthony, despite slight resemblance to Jithan Ramesh, he actually has that early Ajith look + soft pitch in the voice that works for roles like this..

join me in the minority of 'udhayanidhi' likers in hub...
This movie has that 'Coen' brothers style of 'good plans gone awry' dark comedy executed with surprising panache for kozhikattai.

[ecureuhapis]

join me in the minority of 'udhayanidhi' likers in hub...
This movie has that 'Coen' brothers style of 'good plans gone awry' dark comedy executed with surprising panache for kozhikattai.

arulnithi.