Slices of south - South of Nowhere

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

June R - Lilting melodies - Short Audio Review..


June R starring Jyothika, Saritha, Biju Menon and others. Directed by first-timer, Revathi verma. Music by Sharath, first-timer again, disciple of BalaMurali Krishna..

1st song - Anbe anbe.. good lyrics, soothing music, one of the better heard melodies in recent times, sung well by Gayathri verma.. 8.5/10

2nd song - Eano eano. Sung well by new voice, Shaneeth.. Starts off differently, tries to mix different styles of music, hep but toned down orchestration, lyrics not very clear but seems to be ok. Somewhere, something is wrong.. 7/10

3rd song - Puthu puthu.. Sung by Usha uthup and Chitra.. decently racy song, fine lyrics, just the right music, some nice Harris Jayaraj types' abracadabra inbetween.. 8/10

4th song - Rim jim. Hariharan belts out a nice melody. Again a soothing one, with some nice interludes, good lyrics, feel good.. 8.5/10

5th song - Rim jim. Again.. By Sujatha this time. She is no lesser than Hariharan if not better in pronounciation of certain words.. 8.5/10

Overall , a very nice melody based album, worth a buy. Sharath, welcome to tamil cinema.. Hope albums like these are accomodated along with the traditional (?) dappanguthus in Tamil cinema.. On the whole, 8.5/10 for freshness, nice lyrics and soothing feel good factor prevailing overall.. Having said that, a couple of more songs wudn't have harmed the album.

Monday, November 28, 2005

Matter of significant importance - Romba mukkiyam ??!!...

I got this following informative piece through e-mail which I thought should be shared with the e-community for better awareness and IQ!

This information about the birth years of various actresses / actors have supposedly been ‘suttu’fied (confiscated, rather simply - obtained) from various passport offices…

Hope this is useful in identifying your akkas, annas, mamas, mamis, thaathas and paatis
Vuttutangayya, vuttutangayya… Vadivelu thaathava vuttutangayya…

Name

YOB

Mailer’s Comments

Kareena kapoor

1980

Aishwarya rai

1973

Rekha

1954

Hemamalini

1948

Eshadeol

1981

Rani Mukherjee

1978

Sridevi

1958

Tabu

1974

Sushmitha Sen

1975

Laila

1979

B.A

Meena

1974

M.A. distance education

Roja

1974

Rambha

1976

her real name is vijayalakshmi

Sneha

1981

junior college

Trisha

1982

Sonia agarwal

1982

Simran

1976

B.com ,her real name is rishibala

Jothika

1979

B.Com ,her real name is libra

Vijay

1974

real name joseph B.Sc incomplete

Surya

1974

real name saravanan B.Com

Ajith

1971

junior college

Madhavan

1971

B.E. electronics ,wife name saritha

Kamalhassan

1954

Simbhu

1983

junior college

Dhanush

1982

junior college

Srikanth

1979

B.Sc

Vivek

1961

M.Com,B.G.L

SJ.Surya

1970

Realname justine

Bharath

1983

B.Com incomplete caught by examiner while copying hence incomplete

Sunday, November 27, 2005

Newsmuse - In the name of an excuse...

This is one of the most hilarious stuffs that I came across in the recent past. We know of the many fake reasons that we’ve invented / come across in school days for leave / mischievious act etc. But see if any of them can beat this..

 

Yesterday, when confronted by the media in Kolkata, M Baladitya, the media manager, put a different spin on the whole issue. "I have spoken to Chappell. He told me that while giving fielding practice to the players, he injured a finger. He was only attending to the finger in the team bus," Baladitya told the media.”

Source: Cricinfo

 

This reply was on being asked if Chappell displayed his anger by showing middle-finger to the crowd in Calcutta

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

My dear friend, Manju...

என் இனிய நண்பா மஞ்ஜு நாதா...

உன்,

வெள்ளை சிரிப்பும், பிள்ளை பேச்சும்,
வெங்கல குரலும், தங்க குணமும்,
தோல்வி கண்டும் துவளா உள்ளமும்,
தோரணமாய் தொங்கும் நினைவுகள் என்றும்...
என்,
கண்கள் பனிக்கும், நெஞ்சம் நனையும்,
எப்பொழுது உன்னை நினைத்தாலும்...

காசு மட்டும் கிடைத்தால் போதாது,
மாசு, செய்யும் வேலையில் இருக்க கூடாது என நினைத்தாய்...
அய்யோ, இது பூலோகத்திற்கு ஒவ்வா செயலென
புது மேலோகதிற்கு அழைத்து கொண்டாள் படைத்த தெய்வத் தாய்!

என்ன பிதற்றி என்ன பயன்?!...
உன் உதட்டு சிரிப்பும், அதில் தொங்கும் உற்சாகமும்,
வருடும் குரலும்... படரும்
இன்னும்... இன்னும்...

இது மழைக்காலம். இல்லை, நீதியின் அழுகை!
கலப்படம், பெட்ரோலில் முடியும்..
எங்கள் கண்ணீர் துளிகளில் முடியாது.
இனி, நம்முள் கண்ணீர் தொடர்பு தொடரும்...

என்றும்... என்றென்றும்...

Sunday, November 06, 2005

Majaa - yaarukku? - Movie review


This is a short review! Thatz what the movie deserves..
- First half entertains, second half fizzes out..
- Pasupathi and Vadivelu shine better than Vikram throughout.
- Asin and the villain - Ayyo paavam..
- Screenplay wasn't worked on enough to fill 2.5 hrs. Would've made a good 1.5 hr movie.
- Music and Cinematography - Good.

No sequence strikes a 'masala' chord or pumps up your 'masala' adrenaline... Atbest, worth a TV / DVD / VCD watch. A request to mallu directors - please stick to serious movies. Masala movies are not your cuppa T... Hmm.. if the same story had been given to Crazy Mohan or even a Sakthi Chidambaram..

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Sivakasi - Mappum mandharamai - a free fall but not fully flat - Movie review...


Ennappan thirupparankundram muruganin arulalal, watched “Sivakasi” first day, first show in Madurai J. Didn’t get a chance to read balaji’s dissection report then. But do not regret that much.. For those who do not want to read the full review, herez the short review: First half – bittu, second half – jettu.. Mothathula, thalavidhi, padam hittu!

The director seemed to have a semblance of story which would occupy screen for half an hour. So, he has knit a full remaining two and a half hours watching old rajini movies and recent masala movies including the Namitha special - Aei, Dhool, Vijay’s own Thirumalai et al. He has also managed to pull out a tacky intro scene for himself! A request - Dr. Anbumani, please ban directors acting or even showing their faces in Tamil Films like you tried doing for cigarettes… [Quote: Cigaratte smoking and director's acting are injurious to health.]

The base knot dates back to puratchi thalaivar’s Neerum Neruppum with slight adjustments. Good parents having one good son and one bad son with a “Perarasu” special supplement, one good daughter. The good son branded bad thanks to bad son, sent out of town, bad son acting good for-a-while, later ill-treats the left-over good ones and finally the original good son coming back to save his good ones from the bad one and finally all good ones win and the bad one turns good with audience feeling goody goody walking out of the theatre… Don’t we know all this? So wats good abt the movie?

First, the goods:

- The second half. It’s a clever masala mix with thaipaasam, thangachi paasam and director’s strong paasam on “dhool”. The dhool resemblence is as strong as the size of “Sornakka” who shouts and stamps hard in the same way as “Mooli mangamma” (or some crappy name like that!) this time.

- The side-team comprising Baskar managing to bring out a few chuckles. Kanja Karuppu does his bit as a side-kick of Prakashraj.

- Vijay’s masala performance (rehashed histrionics from all his old movies) carrying the movie afloat. The much thought (?!) intro scene has the die-hard fans going all out with their vocal chords.

The bads:

- Asin’s double role pretention throughout first-half is straight from “fresh-in-memory” Namitha’s Aei.

- Director’s intro scene!!!

- The hero character, sidekicks, the backdrop, challenging heroine (and her poorly etched father) etc strongly resembling “thirumalai”

- The dumbo characters like “Pallakku paandi”, which the director probably couldn’t add in his earlier thirupachi featuring sooper titles like sagadai saniyan etc.

- The heroine’s father and brothers. Haven’t seen many dumb characters than these. These characters also go for a long pop-corn in the interval and get stuck in the loo. Flushed out of the movie after that!

- Second half dhoolisms

- Prakash Raj, never striking as a villain – more of a comedian.

- The “letter” factor being overused in the second half. Perarasu, lack of ideas, eh? You should’ve watched some more old masala movies! Take more time next time.

The so-sos:

The entire movie. The movie’s first-half has so many gaping loop holes like “moons in craters” rather than “craters in moon”! At the end of first-half, my next seat vijay fan commented “Kathiya pottutangappa!” (Translates to something like ‘A nice tirupaachi knife being shoved in!’). Srikanth Deva makes us feel strongly that his father was umpteen times better. A few dappanguthu tunes and an old IR sad song tune make for songs. The back-ground music has strong “Rajinism” in it (like baasha background, they have one “siva siva sivakasi” here). However, it passes off with the quality of movie. How long can we see hero giving some “Pombalainna.. ” kind of dialogues and a rich heroine falling for the filthy hero due to that? Perarasus and your breed, give us a break! Logic is at an alarmingly tragic level in tamil movies’ so-called “mass entertainers”. This movie has touched some new depths (heights are not in pits, right?), thanks to Perarasu's imaginative, creative, innovative collage skills! Technically, no major flaws with all the use of recent buzz words: graphic jing-bang around the hero in fight-scenes and song sequences, jerky camera for action, time-slice take-nique, flash and cuts etc etc.

However, since the second half moves on in fourth gear, the flaws are conveniently swept under the … Finally, the movie gives a “feel” of pretentious paisa vasool due to that! Perarasu, please take some long leave before offering us another “Vandhavasi”…

First half, engayo pichukichu.. Second half, steadya pathikichu… Mothathula, ‘Sivakasi’ kodi nattukichu!