Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Kazhugu... a suicide movie
If you think you are going to watch '6 pound' (Will Smith's movie ) or a 'cliffhanger' kind of movie , you better sit back and read this first. Don't waste your money going to cinema. I watched it in Astro (cable TV) since i got nothing to do and the monthly bill was already paid. That is the only reason i watched it. This movie tried their best to replicate Myna or one of those rural based story and they failed miserably.
Many directors think that making a good movie is like making "Rassam" (Indian soup). It is not about bringing together a hero, an actress, 1-2 villains, a few comedians, a bunch of thugs look alike men and put them in a village with church & nuns. Add some drinking and getting drunk scenes, marriage, funeral, cottages and dirty outfits. After that ask a story writer, now, "can you write a story with all these in it".
You won't get a movie, bro; you will get beating. And you get empty theatre. If only the movie making was that easy than Oscar ceremony will be abolished. Ok, let's get back to this movie, Kazhugu.
The only thing i liked about this movie was the job description of the hero and his friends - a corpse collectors. They search and bring the bodies of people who committed suicide on the cliff at their village. What a superb portfolio. These bunch of guys only do this job and refuses any other decent job. How is the start? They get drunk and steal all the jewellery from the death body and sell it. One fine day, a girl fell in love with these guy. And the story ends. After time point, i got dizzy and nearly committed suicide myself.
If anyone needs a psychiatric check, must the heroine in this movie; who lost her sister whom committed suicide at that cliff and fell in love with the guy who brought her body up and stole her sister's ring. Then she felt pity he is getting drunk to his brain and sleeping by the muddy roadside. So decided to pull him to the side of the road. Are they thinking the Tamil girls are all stupid to their bones. In this movie, it is true, she gave him more money just outside the church and ask him to drink more so that he will get pancreatitis and die, i suppose. Who knows? Can you get a better girlfriend than her? That is why more Indian guys still drinking.
The producer should have not hired so many villains, if you going to use them only for 10mins. Building a character in a movie is not easy, and i am no expert . Surely, for this movie, the screenplay was written by a non expert too. Good character development needs a good screenplay writer who is creative and knows how to make a character believable . In this movie, after 30mins, everything moving different direction with different pace. You get villains talking for less than a min than some scenes were may be made like pulp fiction movies. From a drunk state, the hero get sober, he goes to the girl's house and give his future father in law more booze, and ask the girl to lie down on his thigh. Then he disappears, and get drunk again. I felt like biting my pillow and jump down the cliff myself. Thank god it is over. The screenplay writer; please Google character development for movie, you might learn more. Don't cheat your audiences.
Ok, folks; that is my review on Kazhugu. Many might just see this movie after my review just to confirm it. Please do, but don't come back tell me that i didn't warn you earlier. I told you so...
Have fun. No stars for this movie just get drunk before you watch it.
If you think you are going to watch '6 pound' (Will Smith's movie ) or a 'cliffhanger' kind of movie , you better sit back and read this first. Don't waste your money going to cinema. I watched it in Astro (cable TV) since i got nothing to do and the monthly bill was already paid. That is the only reason i watched it. This movie tried their best to replicate Myna or one of those rural based story and they failed miserably.
Many directors think that making a good movie is like making "Rassam" (Indian soup). It is not about bringing together a hero, an actress, 1-2 villains, a few comedians, a bunch of thugs look alike men and put them in a village with church & nuns. Add some drinking and getting drunk scenes, marriage, funeral, cottages and dirty outfits. After that ask a story writer, now, "can you write a story with all these in it".
You won't get a movie, bro; you will get beating. And you get empty theatre. If only the movie making was that easy than Oscar ceremony will be abolished. Ok, let's get back to this movie, Kazhugu.
The only thing i liked about this movie was the job description of the hero and his friends - a corpse collectors. They search and bring the bodies of people who committed suicide on the cliff at their village. What a superb portfolio. These bunch of guys only do this job and refuses any other decent job. How is the start? They get drunk and steal all the jewellery from the death body and sell it. One fine day, a girl fell in love with these guy. And the story ends. After time point, i got dizzy and nearly committed suicide myself.
If anyone needs a psychiatric check, must the heroine in this movie; who lost her sister whom committed suicide at that cliff and fell in love with the guy who brought her body up and stole her sister's ring. Then she felt pity he is getting drunk to his brain and sleeping by the muddy roadside. So decided to pull him to the side of the road. Are they thinking the Tamil girls are all stupid to their bones. In this movie, it is true, she gave him more money just outside the church and ask him to drink more so that he will get pancreatitis and die, i suppose. Who knows? Can you get a better girlfriend than her? That is why more Indian guys still drinking.
The producer should have not hired so many villains, if you going to use them only for 10mins. Building a character in a movie is not easy, and i am no expert . Surely, for this movie, the screenplay was written by a non expert too. Good character development needs a good screenplay writer who is creative and knows how to make a character believable . In this movie, after 30mins, everything moving different direction with different pace. You get villains talking for less than a min than some scenes were may be made like pulp fiction movies. From a drunk state, the hero get sober, he goes to the girl's house and give his future father in law more booze, and ask the girl to lie down on his thigh. Then he disappears, and get drunk again. I felt like biting my pillow and jump down the cliff myself. Thank god it is over. The screenplay writer; please Google character development for movie, you might learn more. Don't cheat your audiences.
Ok, folks; that is my review on Kazhugu. Many might just see this movie after my review just to confirm it. Please do, but don't come back tell me that i didn't warn you earlier. I told you so...
Have fun. No stars for this movie just get drunk before you watch it.
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Tamil movie lover: Leelai
Tamil movie lover: Leelai: Leelai - a must watch love story If you are one of those who have given up on good Tamil love story. Please, please go and se...
Leelai
Leelai - a must watch love story
If you are one of those who have given up on good Tamil love story.
Please, please go and see this one. A must watch movie. Superb story, well acted and well directed. A movie that will make you happy.
A good movie to bring your girlfriend and have a romantic night out. Trust me , you might get lucky too. If you are married then take your wife/husband, it will rekindle your love lives too.
I haven't heard of any of the actors except for Santhanam. Shiv Pandit (in certain angle - Shah Rukh Khan, look alike) Even though, he is an Hindi actor, he did a good job in Tamil movie. Hope we will see more of him in Tamil movies. Manasi Parekh another new comer did her role pretty well too.
For your information, this movie do not have those long fighting scenes, irritating crying scenes, parents issues , no gangster brothers or uncles, unnecessary dragging death scenes or even a villain.
I liked this movie because it is a very straight forward storyline and an enjoyable one too. May even make you smile in a few scenes.
You might not even take notice of the lack of scenic view such as multiple rows of sarees, flower garden scenes and running around the tree scenes. Nothing much to desired about the editing and cinematography skills. Of course the software company (HCL) got its publicity.
I think the storyline alone carried the movie to its success. A job well done to the director - Andrew Louis. My rating is 4/5.
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