TIME FLIES BY

End of another uneventful week. Not uneventful exactly, because i've quit smoking. So for my well wishers out there, some news to rejoice. Believe me it was quite easy this time around. I've tried quitting earlier but have not been really succesful,, but this time something tells me i am gonna pull it off easily. so wait for the anniversary.
I am planning to do some review sorta writing for old movies as well. My focus by the way will be on Tamil movies. You can find a English movie critique anywhere, but i want this blog to be visited atleast for my takes on Tamil movies. And since it is going to be about movies most of you have seen i would be suggesting only good movies that i've seen, liked and appreciated. If i reward ppl for guessing the movies on my list Raja will take the title hands down. The first movie will be " en uyir thozhan"- A film by Bharathiraja (in his trademark tone). So regular visitors please wait for the post on the movie.
GRE preparation is on a all time low. Weekend was not fruitful for the MS plans. anyway i plan to do some catching up.
ok, i hereby promise to make my blogs a lot more interesting to read and comment on.

life is really funny

my life is very comically taking twists and turns that i never would have imagined i would have to face. sample this- i've been longing to work in ISRO ever since i applied for it and now that i work here it doesn't interest me anymore. the person who is most annoyed with my behavior is my dad. he says " krishna you have a wavering mind" with his trademark baritone. what he realised earlier" the fact that i would not fit in this establishment" , i realise now and it is too late to make amends. i am advised by everyone to stay cool and gain experience. but i cannot tell them that i am well experienced in sitting idle, doing nothing like i am presently.

if this is not enough my love life which never really took off seems to have crashed totally. i fall head over heels over a girl and she sez am not interested( refer to my earlier blogs), but another girl who is quite young to be my sister sez she is interested in me. Ah! wat an irony? and this time the advice i get is " நீ நேசிப்பவர்களை விட உன்னை நேசப்பவர்களை நீ ஏற்று கொண்டால் உன் வாழ்கை சந்தோஷ்மாக இருக்கும்". but unfortunately am not interested. poor girl! she would be going through the pangs of rejection just like i am. i can sympathise for her. but to aquiesce her is far from possible.

ok i know this is another unnecessary post. anyway just trying to keep blogging, so that i don't lose touch.

Yaaradi nee mohini- a review

Ever since I’ve started reviewing movies, my mind has turned highly critical of films that lack any kind of logic or substance, so please pardon any outbursts at bad cinema.
I prefer to always list out the let downs of the film for the benefit of prospective audience. And if at all the reader is not daunted by these factors, or it is to his/her liking please go on and read the positive aspects and enjoy the film.
Reasons why I did not like the movie (and why you may/may not like it too)-
· The theatre playing the movie had a really great ambience with people having cigarettes and liquor bottles in their hands, with only the faces of artistes visible above the heads of the ever shouting crowd.
· The theatre also featured DTS ( disgusting terrible stink or sound)
· It is high time Dhanush stops playing the wayward youth out of jobs and at loggerheads with his folks. It is getting stale, though the handling of the father son relationship is a little better.
· The movie in general is too lengthy. In the sense that it packs a lot of things into it. The first half especially. It gives you the feeling of having seen a series of movies.
· The music is not for the ears of connoisseurs. It has a pair of songs like oh baby and engeyo partha nyabagam that will be chartbusters with the latter reminding you of the enthan uyir thozhi song from the comic scraper Winner. The remix of the yesteryear hit song palakkattu machanukku from Vietnam veedu is hard on the ears. More so is the burlesque imitation of Shivaji Ganesan by none other than our Dhanush. Shivaji put to shame.
· Karthik Kumar as the friend of Dhanush is like always, the friend who abnegates his love for his pal. But in this case in a slightly different way. And for god’s sake who asked him to dance. He has to either stop dancing or go to dancing classes. More so are his facial expressions, which are out of place many a times.
· The editing by Kola Bhaskar is fine. If the final product after cuts is this, then I could imagine the whole film.
· Dhanush should change his diction. It is getting repetitive. Especially his diatribe at Nayanthara.
· The representation of the Brahmin household is disgusting. There are places when you feel uneasy at the childish representation.
· Nayanthara is ok as the software professional but as the Brahmin girl she is far from ideal.
Now for all those readers who have come so far here comes the better part
· The casting coup is choice of Raghuvaran, Nayantara’s sister( a nice choice- she provides most of the comic moments in the second half).
· The second half of the movie is funny, with lot of light moments.
· The film ends in the ‘and they lived happily ever after’ style- this is for the ppl who favor sweet endings.
The film as a whole is watchable if you want a selvararaghavan story packaged in candy floss style. Just a simple warning, do not indulge too much into the film and please don’t go to the movie with high expectations form Nayantara ( I think you know what I mean).