Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Kandasamy - Purely an Entertainer ( If you dont expect anything else)

Ahem...

On Sunday morning, I started getting SMSs saying Kandasamy is not up to the mark or a total waste of time. Then I thought I should watch it on the same day, cos people start saying a lot about the movie and things that they did not like. That makes me to learn more about the story. I did not want that to happen. Luckily I did get tickets to watch that movie.

You all know what? It is not an easy task to write about a movie for which a lot of people have already criticized against it. Probably I may not even know whether I liked this movie. There are many reasons that I liked this movie:

1. A lot of bad comments about the movie. This made me to watch the movie with the least expectations.

2. I like all kinds of movies. I mean all genres. Let it be drama, comedy, horror, action, entertainer (we can call it pure masala). etc etc.

3. Concept of the story was really good.

4. I always have this faith in few good directors. Susi Ganesan is one of them.

5. There were not lengthy lectures (particularly in the climax) by the lead role justifying all his mistakes since the story began.

6. Justification of flying stunts.

The last 2 reasons would be accepted only if you guys watch the movie.
I am not marketing, This movie can definitely be watched once.

I would definitely not say this movie is a must watch or flawless or has best screen play.

Following could be the flaws from the movie:

1. Unwanted Vadivelu scenes.

2. If vadivelu's were not good, Charlie's was even worse.

3. Few erotic scenes of Vikram and Shreya.

4. Extra songs like Meow Meow, that pizza selling song ( These extra songs makes us to feel that the current directors are still coward or they still think that the present audience likes those masala stuffs. This goes for having an idea of including Vadivelu scenes)

5. Screen play could have been little better than this. I wont say it is totally bad.

These mistakes are quite common in this Genre of movies. Yeah, When it is said entertainer, there are possibilities of having such negative points.

The director reveals a lot of secrets at the first half of the movie itself. This shows his confidence in carrying the screen play forward. However, I was disappointed with his confidence level by having few extra songs and including a separate comedy track. Extra songs are somewhat understandable. Yeah, these songs are included for business purpose. The music album should be equally profitable. But having a comedy track that do not gel with the movie is totally weird. After all, I did not expect from the standards of Susi Ganesan.

My final one line comment would be, If Anniyan was too good, Kandasamy deserves at least a GOOD.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

BREAK TIME COMMERCIALS.

I have been reading few blogs in the past two weeks. I do read random blogs just to get inspired. Yeah inspirations to write :). I read few blogs for which I had to reply immediately. For few of them I did not. I kept those points in my mind and thought I would write a blog in my own space. Yeah, one such thing is about Commercials.


All of us feel bored whenever we get that break thing during our favourite shows, movies etc. Thanks to many creative minds who keep entertaining during breaks as well. I read many blogs where the bloggers have always complained about commercials. Commenting on the content. Of course, few commercials are too sick and makes me to scream. I dont know what my wife would think whenever I crib about such sick commercials. Probably she might think what I would have done if had given a chance to create one. Yes, if she had thought like that, it is a wise thought.

There are many good ones which simply takes us away from our fav show or a cricket match. I would love to list the recent commercials that made me to say WOW.

All Airtel Ads
All Vodafone Ads

I guess Airtel started following Vodafone style recently, where the small gal makes a paper boat and it starts raining and her friends helps the boat from drowning.

Forget if they are following their competitor's style or not. The videos are good.

Amaze health drink powder has impressed me in a different way. The mother asks her son about INTERNET. The kid starts explaining her and not even more than a line has come out from him, the mother starts worrying about the stress of the son's brain. She thinks that the technology world needs better and active brain. She stops listening to her son and starts thinking about the health drink which might help his son to be active and smart.

I like this ad very much. I thought what a typical mother. Isnt it true?

Ads are really a good break nowadays. Few years back, may be a decade back they were truly a nuisance. Though the number of commercials are more, they are made interesting and a lot of hidden talents are brought out to public eyes.
Models, Photography, choreography, Musicians and a lot of behind the camera talents are made visible.

I may not have made a point out of this blog. However, I thought I shared whatever I have had in my mind.

Yes I did it.

I know I have not been writing here for long long time. But now, I DID IT.

I have been making and breaking many promises particularly to scribble something here in my space. Yeah I have been promising myself a lot of times.

The most convincing of the promises is "Once I move upstairs in my new room, once the construction is done"

The reason for this promise is that I was thinking I did not have privacy to write my own thoughts.

I did not keep up my own words. I am writing this almost after 3 or 4 months since I started living in this new room. I had promised to write on many things. Now everything looks too old to write. One such example is IPL. Know what? It was during the first season I decided to write about the IPL. I feel very guilty whenever I realise that IPL season 2 is over as well.

There are very few people who had been following my blogs. And those few people keep asking me about it now and then... I cant say now and then. Now and then when we meet. Probably I can blame on this. Yeah, probably if I had met those few people quite often and had they asked about it every time we meet, I could have given a better attendance than this. Alright, now that I have started, I would keep writing. I hope I don't break this promise too. Thanks to all those FEW FOLLOWERS, I don't even know if I can announce everyone of you that I have updated my blog. I really don't know how many of those few followers would accept this as a blog.

I simply cant believe that even my marital status changed twice since I wrote my last blog. Yeah, I got committed and got married as well. Yeah, happily married for more than a month and still going... :)