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Thursday, February 18, 2010

"Logorama" : Oscar Nominated Short Film (Animated)



"Logorama", an Oscar nominated animation short film is about the World of Brands that we are living in.The movie displays how the world is completely flooded with Logos of the brands and how our everyday life is hijacked by them that we cant escape their fury.


After watching the movie we get to understand that, right from the time we get up to the time we go to sleep we are surrounded by brands and logos.Every thing we do in our daily life from eating breakfast to lunch and dinner,from working in a company to taking a vacation, shopping to entertainment is associated with a brand and a logo. Every decision we take is based on them.They govern our life, making us choose them instead of we choosing them. They are a way of life.

"who says that we are in control"??....we are what the brands make us do!

Monday, January 14, 2008

No country for old men(Probable oscar nominee)

No country for old men is a novel by Cormac McCarthy and really starts well with the voice of Tommy Lee Jones which builds up quite nicely for the rest of the movie.

Movie is nicely made with a very simple story. Story line grips us but completely makes us wander at the end. The movie ends abruptly and the last twenty minutes has nothing to offer.

Few of the scenes are really interesting and make us sit on the edge of the seat but offers a unique kind of comedy at times.

P.S - There is no background music but it does wonders and some how it intensifies few of the scenes brilliantly.

Friday, January 04, 2008

Atonement movie review (Probable Oscar Nominee )

Atonement is based on a british novel and is one of the contenders for best picture academy award.

The movie starts well with interestingly film-making and stupendous background score. The story grips you for a half an hour with subjects like love,cheating, crime and misunderstanding. Slowly the story is dragged to last ten minutes of some relief atlast.

Though the movie fails to make an impact, the performances of the actors is above par.

Atonement is only watchable once and I do not see a chance of it wining the academy award for best picture this year.

Trailer:





Thursday, January 03, 2008

Hollywood movies to watch out for in 2008!

Incredible hulk
Rambo
Indiana jones 4
The dark knight
Cloverfield
10,000 B.C
One missed call
Scary movie 5
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Thursday, December 13, 2007

Dus kahaniyan


Experimental and something new in the Indian cinema. Ten stories in one movie. Each story lasts for about ten minutes. The movie boasts of six directors,ten stories and one cineamtic journey.

Sounds exciting but the movie fails to impress on the whole. The best among the lot comes at the last. The last 3 stories stand out and makes us appreciate few things, the 3 stories include - (Shabana Azmi and Naseerudin Shah's - Rice plate,Nana patekar's - Gubbare,Sanjay dutt and Sunil Shetty's - Rise and fall).

Dus kahaniyan is worth a watch for these three stories.

Rating: 3/10

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Sunday inspired from telugu film

Rohit shetty, the director of the susprise hit 'GOLMAAL' is back with his new movie "SUNDAY".

Golmaal was a inspired from of a telugu movie "Appu chesi pappu kudu" and now Sunday seems to be inspired from another telugu movie "Anukokunda oka roju".

Rohit sheety definitely has one eye on Tollywood.

Friday, December 07, 2007

Beowulf 3D takes you to new high


If you are in Hyderabad consider yourself lucky to experience the magic of Beowulf 3D on the big screen, If you not then make an attempt to come by coz you are missing something. In a line Beowulf 3D takes you to a new high.

Its a 2 hours breathe taking joy ride with completely amazing life like animation and And..... 2 hours 3D MOVIE.

Beowulf boasts of some big names like Ray Winstone recently seen in Departed,Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie but it is as normal as any other movie with a descent story line if seen on PC or TV. So take a step forward and make an attempt to watch the aura of Beowulf 3d in the theatres to get the dose of the thrilling and more over exciting movie experience.

P.S Beowulf 3D must watch for all the movie lovers.





Tuesday, December 04, 2007

New trailers

I Am Legend - Trailer



JUNO - Trailer



P.S I love you - Trailer



Hitman - Trailer

Monday, November 19, 2007

Saawariya – A Fairy Tale !

Don’t give a damn about critics..? then, go and watch
Saawariya.

Saawariya, the movie in collaboration with Columbia pictures was the most awaited and highly talked
about film until its release and now its no more in the limelight thanks to the bad critic reviews .

Its a pity,as this film deserves more. Before beginning to write this review, I was reading through some of the critic’s opinions and was surprised to see lot of negative remarks about the movie. I agree that I’m not well qualified to write
anything about their opinions, but this movie certainly deserves a lot more than what it has got.

Here is what I sincerely feel about the movie…Saawariya is an Indian classic.Period.A fairy tale about love, happiness, failure and life. The
Indian splendor and beauty reflects through every single frame, dialogue, set and through each character. although this movie is inspired from the short story “white nights”,but Sanjay Leela Bansali has made sure that it perfectly fits into Indian cinema. One of the major plus points is the narration. Probably we haven’t come across anything like this involving lots of creativity and aesthetic side. Think of how many times you have heard a prostitute unfolding a love story? That is what makes the narration even more beautiful taking the most aesthetic part into the consideration.

The movie is pretty straight forward and well directed. I agree that saawariya is bit poetic in the beginning but as the movie starts to flow, as a viewer I simply overlooked it and started enjoying it. All the characters were perfectly cast and one
of the best characters that audience can look up for is Ranbir’s character.

Another aspect of the movie that needs significant importance is the background score. I was awestruckby it when I watched the movie. Background score was deep and intense, making the whole mood of the movie flow with some magic. Next comes the art
direction. A visual treat to the viewer with many bright colours that are pretty much Indian in nature, which is what I really liked the most.

I would suggest the readers that even if you have read a bad review somewhere, I recommend you to go and check out this movie. And I suggest you not to keep any expectations before entering the theater.

As I said this is a classic, treat this as what I told and I’m sure you will appreciate the effort of Sanjay Leela Bansali. He raised the bar of Indian cinema to a new level making it look like an international film with a conventional Indian drama having an unconventional ending.

I suppose all the speculation on the movie is about the ending, we Indians are used to seeing happy endings.This might be one of the reasons why people are not willing to watch this movie. According to me this movie deserves a place next to
international classics. If you are a fanatic of classics, you certainly want this movie to be in your movie library.

RATING: 3.5/5
written by: Manohar Vanamadi

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Aamir Khan Directs "Taare Zameen Par"


Aamir Khan makes his directorial debut with "Taare Zameen Par".

The film moves around a dyslexic child with a
specific learning disability. Dyslexia is an
inherited condition that makes it extremely
difficult to read, write despite having average
intelligence.


Aamir Khan plays the role of a teacher to this
dyslexic child, the subject is chosen with
compassion as such senstive issue needs utmost
care.


Aamir, who has also produced this film has
dedicated this film to all the children, the film
with its main protagonist a child, will be able to
evoke the issue related to child through this
insightful movie, where seldom any movie is made to
address such real life concerns.


The film is written by Amol Gupte and the music is
given by Shanker,Ehsaan and Loy.The cast includes
child actor Tanmay, actress
Tisca Chopra apart from Aamir.


Given the creditionals of the actor and his
meticulous way of looking at things,"Taare Zammen
Par" will be one of the most awaited films by his
fans and critics alike.

Watch the Promo:

Friday, October 19, 2007

Happy days (Movie review)

If you ask any one who has completed his/her college, What are you best and most happiest days in your life? then the answer would definitely be - College days. This is the theme of the movie and the title is apt and sounds brilliant. Shekhar kammula always deals with the simple things yet which make their impression on life.

Casting :
Casting is good and fair. The charactes fitted into the groove nicely.

Story:
Sweet and simple. Life(Few of the chapters) in engineering college.
The first half deals with making new friends , seniors, ragging and freshers party which goes on in the first year of engineering.
The second half deals with love, jealously, envy, not to forget farewell party and ofcourse campus placements too.

Performances :
Though everyone looked naive in their appearances and their acting skills they fitted the bill nicely and did a decent job. They have become instant stars and their pics are famously dispayed in orkut nowadays. Everyone wants to be a chandu or tyson or rajesh or madhu or shravz or appu. My friend murali says he's Rajesh.hehehehe

Music :
Music director Mickey J Meyer has done a decent job. Even though few of the songs remind you of some other old songs, they are hippy, hummable and good.
The background music is netter comparatively to the music in the songs.

Screenplay, Dialogues:
Screenplay is just like a river. It flows smoothly throughtout the three hours.
Dialogues are in colloquical form and few of them really stand out.Good job done by Shekar Kammula again. Especially Tyson dialogues at times are touching.

Direction:
He who uses his actors skillfully is a good director and Shekhar kammula is the best example. Without him the movie would not have been same. He worked with many new comers in this movie but pulled off something out of nothing from them. He has done has great job.Hatts off!

Best thing:
Dint show any negatives and influences the audience in a right note for example no bunks and everybody studys well.

Climax:
Happy days has a happy ending.

Rating 4/5

pics: sulekha.com

Thursday, September 06, 2007

RVG KI AAG BURNT

(movie review)

"It may sound like a cliche but it's a fact. RGV KI AAG is the worst movie I have ever seen," a viewer said to Nex-us.

The story is similar to "Sholay" except a small change. In RGV ki AAg, Amitabh has a brother who will be killed and for this reason he annihilates Mohan lal's family.

Why the movie did not stand up to it's expectations?

Casting :
The film flopped right here. No one really suited the original and legendary characters of Sholay. Casting was really bad.

Performances :
When the casting is bad, we can not expect more and it showed on the screen. Even though the movie had some great names Amitabh shined. He was awesone as the bad guy and played the role wonderfully. I would say he is a magician.

Music :
Apart from Mehbooba song none of the songs really clicked. Background score was very good at times.

Screenplay, Camera, Action, Dialogues, Cinematography :
Screenplay was not upto the mark. Got bored many times while watching and few of the scenes were direct copy from other movies.

Camera angles and Cinematography was good, especially in the scene where Amitabh cuts mohan lal's fingers.

Dialogues were very poor. This aspect was a big diasapointment in the movie.Moreover Action sequences were also poorly choreographed.

Climax :
Climax is the biggest let down in the movie.

Ramu himself admitted that he was nuts attempting to make sholay again. NO WONDER!

Rating: 1/5

Information given by: Balu
Pictures: santabanta

Friday, August 24, 2007

YAMA DONGA : The Trio Strikes Back!

(Movie review)

After a series of flops and average rated movies, Junior NTR would have been waiting for a movie that would set him on the hit-streak. RAJAMOULI, the director, who gave Jr. NTR his career defining hits would obviously be the ideal choice for him to get a fresh start to his retarded career.

After two block busters “Student no.1” and “Simhadri”, the awesome - NTR, Rajamouli and Keeravani ‘trio’ is back!
Firstly, this is not a typical Rajamouli movie. He navigated through a new territory from his regular revenge, drama and action films. This time he chose a socio-fantasy subject.
Story:
Raja (NTR) is a petty thief. He sets out to steal a gown on the insistence of a businessman (M S Narayana). He meets Mahi (Priyamani) who runs away from her house due to the harassment shown by her family members towards her. Raja brings that gown. When he is about to get paid, the businessman dies of a heart attack. So Raja abuses Lord Yama in frustration. Yama (MohanBabu), who boasts that the people on earth are afraid of him because of his unbiased judgments, listens this and gets angry. He asks Chitragupta to bring Raja to Yamalokam though he has many years to live. Raja comes to know that Mahi is a very rich girl and plans to get a ransom from her relatives for her release. In the process Raja is killed by goons and is taken to Yamalokam. How Raja makes Yama's life miserable in the Yamalokam and comes to Earth again forms the rest of the story. There is a love angle to this between Raja and Mahi.

Positive aspects:
The first half is very interesting and especially the pre-interval sequences are amazing. As Lord Yama in a brief role, NTR’s acting and dialogue delivery is excellent. Indeed, he surpassed Mohan babu in those scenes. The major attraction in the movie is the graphical work of Late NTR’s scene with his grandson NTR and the Yamalokam.

WHO SAYS TOLLYWOOD IS NOT CATCHING UP WITH INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS IN THE GRAPHICS DEPARTMENT??

The EFX has done a splendid job and hope they win an award for their work. As usually the comedy king Brahmanandam and Ali were good. The character of Yama was very active and Mohan babu has added a flavor to it with his style of dialogue delivery. Keeravani’s music is very good especially for the songs ‘Noonugu meesalodu’, ‘Nagamalli’ and ‘Nachore’.

Minus points:
The post interval proceedings lack fizz and the climax is predictable. The film runs over 3 hours and definitely needs trimming in the second half.

Performances:
NTR was excellent. His new physique will attract many people to this movie and his hairstyle was stylish. His body language, dialogue delivery in the mythological role and his verbal exchanges with Mohan babu definitely need applause. His dance performance in the songs ‘Nachore’ and ‘Nagamalli’ is a real feast to his fans. Mohan babu is best suited for the role of Yama and has carried it off very well. Khusboo plays the role of Yama’s wife.
After NTR and Mohan babu it’s Mamatha Mohandas who steals the show in the second half. Priyamani plays a rather subdued role.

Cast:
NTR, Mohan babu, Priyamani, Mamatha Mohandas, Khusboo, Brahmanandam, Ali, M.S.Narayana and others. Rambha, Navneet Kaur, Preethi Jhingania and Archana make a special appearance.

Rating: 3.5/5

I am not a die-hard NTR fan but, after this movie I salute to his acting and determination to come back strong!

written by: Vinaykanth N.
nvinaykanth@yahoo.com

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Transformers rocks!

(movie review)- watch the trailer before reading the review.



Making a movie out of a super successful comic series is challenging and intriguing. Fortunately the director-Michael bay was better off this time. His last movie was “The Island”, which was total bakwaas.

“Transformers” has nothing to talk about except the Robots. The story is nothing special or new, it's a war between good vs evil. Transformers somewhat reminds you of Terminator. The best part of the movie comes at the last displaying spectacular visuals.

The performances of the actors were decent. Screen play is fair and free flowing. Editing is a bit tacky here and there.

If “Transformers ” can be summarized into good, bad and ugly then:

Good : Breathtaking special effects – Transformers truly stands for its name. The transformation from cars to robots is simply awesome and there are many jaw dropping special affects and action sequences. The new Linkin park's single-"what i've done" is played at times and it fixed perfectly to the movie.

Bad : Few of the action sequences are too fast. It’s hard to know what is happening on the screen at times. In addition, there is too much talking (dialogues) when we want to see robots in action.

Ugly : Stupid comedy showing some racism and America’s domination.

On the whole Transformers is exhilarating and great to watch. It’s a must watch for all the movie goers only for its special effects and don’t forget to watch it only on the big screen.

Rating 3.5/5

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Yamadonga (only for fans)

(movie review)
Yamadonga! When heard seems to be a reminiscent of Yamagola. Yes of course, a part of Yamagola’s storyline is included along with other movies like Yamudiki Mogudu and Maya Bazaar. Director, Raja mouli took a major risk to combine all these movies into one and his work was also very ordinary. The movie Yamadonga has got some routine scenes which we have seen during NTR times, making the movie normal again. I believe majority of the audiences won’t connect with the movie because few of the lines in telugu are hard to comprehend and most of us would struggle. On the other hand, this movie is a big feast for Jr. NTR fans. They can expect everything they ever thought of, right from his very complicated dance moves to his dialogue delivery, his slim body and to his change in hairstyle. There was great applause in the theatres for his quick dialogues in old telugu ( grandhikam) on the opening day.

Brief Story:
A normal guy (raju) does small thefts to get his life going and happens to swear yamadharma-raju once when he is in bad mood. Having heard this from Suvarlokha, Yama is ridiculed in front of his Sabah and wants to take revenge on this Raju, who has full 100 years life expectancy. Yama asks chitragupta to some-how manipulate Raju’s fate and kill. Raju learns that he has been brought there even though he had a longer life. From there on Raju troubles yama in suvarlokha and finally returns to his normal life. The rest of the story is all about how Raju escapes from Yama.

Performances:
Jr. NTR as a brat did a good job. He almost looked like his grand father when he was like young yama. His dance moves are outstanding. Audience can see a new NTR in this movie.
Mohan Babu as Yama is also good. Nothing has stopped him from using his signature dialogues even as yama.
Priyamani is just normal. Her role is a bit deglamorised. There is nothing special about her role. Audiences get a feeling of watching a character they have been seeing for years in telugu cinema.
Mamtha Mohan Das is Ok. Her role involves both good and dark shades. She is more suited for her dark side. She is supposed to have a Nellore dialect but audience don’t get a feeling of that.
Rambha, Veda, Navneeth Kaur and Preeti Jangiani are good as glam dolls.
Ali’s comedy is excellent in the first half. Brahmanandam is adequate to his role.
Audience can no where believe that this movie was directed by Raja mouli. His direction is pretty ordinary. He just sumed up few old telugu movies to make this movie out.
The best part of the movie is the art direction. He did an exceptional job. The sets are very lavish and I think art director has a passion towards detail. The Yamalokha set is a gigantic one and is a bit new compared to the old ones.
Graphics are very good compared to what we have seen in other telugu movies till date. Music by M.M.Keeravani is good. Background music is also decent.

Analysis:
This is a movie for Jr. NTR fans for sure. They thoroughly enjoy watching this. The good parts involve Jr.NTR’s acting, his dance moves, a song showing Jr. NTR with his grand father - NTR, Ali’s comedy in the first half, and art direction. The bad parts involve the story itself. It is nothing new to telugu audience. Direction is also a major drawback. I seriously felt this movie could have been directed by any potential direction in the telugu industry. There isn’t much hard work involved in the direction.

As a final word, Yamadonga is strongly recommended to all the die hard fans of Jr.NTR.
Rating: 2.5/5


Manohar Vanamadi
(v_manu1@yahoo.com)

pics: andhracafe.com, teluguone.com

Monday, August 13, 2007

CHAKDE! INDIA

(movie review 2)

Ever Imagined Yash raj movies without the mutiple star cast, conventional Indian drama with songs in expensive foreign locations and big sets? Heroines with the chiffon sarees on, running in slow motion when it suddenly rains, hero hold their hands to kiss intimately? Well, wondering why I said all that? Because, yash raj films is back again with their new venture – Chak de India, that has proven a movie can do well even without all these elements.

Yash Raj Films proved that they can get out of the conventional way of making a movie in India. This time they are up with a movie on sports. Yes, as we all know by now, Chak de India is about hockey. The game which was invented by us INDIANS and yet there is no support and encouragement that it deserves for a national game. Yash raj films dared to do a movie on this subject and that too have chosen the toughest part of it, women’s Hockey. But guess what? They made it so beautiful and interesting that we shouldn’t be surprised if we see a lot of people playing Hockey in our neighborhood after watching this movie.

Brief story:
The movie - Chak de India, revolves around a coach and his women’s hockey team. He tries to show the world what people can achieve as a team with a little bit of effort, no matter where they come from the country. Coach motivates and inspires the team to play as a whole for the nation but not for an individual’s welfare. The captain has a downfall in his career for which he was dropped out of men’s hockey team at his time. His immense love towards the game pushes him to take up the job to coach women’s national hockey team. The rest of the movie is all about how the team excels and makes their mark with the help of the coach.

Performance:
Shahruk khan was exceptional as a coach. His dialogue delivery and body language suited flawlessly for his role. He did complete justice to his character.
All the 16 girls performed well as needed for their roles. Although, some of them even did act so good that it’s hard to say they are new comers.

The music and background score by saleem- suilaman adds to the whole mood of the movie. Audience can expect adrenaline rushes quite a sometimes.
Cinematography was good. The depth of the clarity in the film is way too good. And the camera work is also impressive.
Screenplay by Jaideep Sahani was exceptional. It is well-matched to the audience who can’t sit in the theaters for as long as 3hrs. It was fast and keeps audience stick to their seats.
Direction by Amin is good. He was smart to make this movie short without dragging any further. He did handle the scenes involving the hockey matches well, capturing player’s emotions perfectly. He would have gotten what he expected from his crew. After having directed a movie like “Ab tak Chappan”, he was dexterous in not only changing his genre to sports but also executing the movie to its best.

Analysis:
The movie, on a whole is well balanced with all the good and bad parts. The good parts include comedy, lots of emotions, adrenaline rushes and few good lines from the actors. Though the movie is about hockey, auidence do get a chance to see glamor through some of the girls. The story was told in a pretty straight forward manner, which makes it worth watching for. Coming to bad parts,there were not much of the teams tactics shown . Most of the time, the movie focuses on the training rather than team tactics.Towards the end, the director failed to put things intact, one can guess what is going to happen even before the scene.

As a viewer I thoroughly enjoyed watching this movie. It is short and it is about hockey! I recommend not to miss this movie as it is one of the finest sports movies ever made and seen on the Indian celluloid. Infact one can consider watching it more than once.
Rating: 4.5/5

(Manohar Vanamadi)
v_manu1@yahoo.com

Saturday, August 11, 2007

CHAK DE INDIA!

(movie review)


CHAK DE INDIA.....! The title itselfs sounds so good, especially the India part in it and the triclolour it bears. My love for India is increasing daily and it definitely pulled me to the theatres.

Chak de India is the second sports film this year coming from Yash Raj banner . With Yash Raj’s Tararumpum bombing at the box-office, Chak de India broke that jinx and fortunately Tararumpum can never be compared to it.

Movie begins with a hockey world cup final match between India and Pakistan. kabir khan(Sharukh) gets chance to make a penalty goal which he misses out and India losses the cup. As it’s seen always, each and every hockey fan and authority members critize him and dig out a false prediction of having friends and connections with the opponents. This leads to self exile of Kabir Khan.
After few years ,India’s national hockey selection committee meet to select a coach for womens team for the world cup. For this job kabir khan appoints himself, as no-one takes it.

The story is about how kabir khan trains his 16 players and their journey till world cup final.

First half deals with the introduction of each player of the team and the second half deals with the matches that they paly against different opposition in their tour.

Coming to performances, Sharukh khan stands out as a coach and delivered a great performance (no one suits this role except sharukh himself). He was exceptional in emotional scenes and was good in the rest of the movie. All the girls were good, without them chak de India wouldn’t be possible. They fitted the groove perfectly and did well even though they were new-comers. Comedy track between few girls did really work out well.

Credit goes to the director - Shimit Amin and Screen writer -Jaideep Sahani who were great at their jobs. Screen play is fast paced, you won’t even bother to know anything but the movie,it’s that gripping. The dialogues are colloquial and inspiring at parts - the best of them comes from SRK and he says - “Maine pehli baar ek gor’e ko janda lagate huve dekha”. Salim Sulaiman scores and scores well with music and background score, the music whenever a match starts is just rocking. The title song is apt and great, it became so famous that the star cricket channel started using it. Inaddition to all these the production values are retained even though it’s a low budget movie.

BOTTOM LINE IS CHAKEDE INDIA WILL SURELY CHAK DE EVERY INDIAN…………….
RATING 4.25/5

(Ranganath Pacha)

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Harry’s spell: not good enough this time!

(Harry potter: The order of the phoenix movie review)

The boy wizard - Harry Potter is back with his friends and magic spells on July 13,2007 in India but only with a promo this time. It is better said in this way: Harry potter -The order of the phoenix is a big build up for something better to come in the next episode. Sadly, there is not much fun in this movie apart from the last twenty minutes.

The main story revolves around the Harry and Dumbledore and the paranoia that surrounds them by the return of Voldemort. As an adolescent, Harry tries to cope up with his tantrums, loneliness,friendship,love and affection which depict the basic plot.

Daniel Radcliffe (Harry), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) and Emma Watson (Hermione) have done their job excellently and carry their grace effectively. Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge ( the new dark arts teacher in Hogwarts) did a brilliant work that you start to hate her just like the students in Hogwarts do.

If you know “Marla, the singer” in the movie “Fight club” then she does not require an introduction, I’m talking about Helena Bonham. She did a small villainous character of Bellatrix Lestrange, hope we see more of her in the next chapter.

The much hyped kiss in Harry potter’s new movie was a disspointment just like the movie itself.

The highlights of the the movie are definitely the last twenty minutes and a scene where the twins have fun with the fireworks in the examination hall. On the whole, movie is definitely disapointing and it seems like there is lot more to watch out for in the next episodes of Harry Potter.So watch it to understand the next chapters!

Is it worth watching in Prasadz Imax, Hyderabad?

Yes, it is surely worth watching in Imax. The 3D version gives a scintillating experience and leaves you spell bound in the twenty minutes action at the end.

Rating is 2.5/5

Sunday, July 01, 2007

SIVAJI: The BOSS(Review 2)

India’s much awaited and most expensive movie “Sivaji” hit the screens on June 15th.
It’s a typical Shanker brand movie which talks mostly about corruption.
This time he chose ‘black money’ as his plot.
The movie is quite boring in the first half and second half was fine. The director replaced the signature cigar style of Rajni with chewing gum and tossing a rupee coin!

The story is about a NRI, “Sivaji” who returns to India after earning Rs.200 crores.
He reveals his vision of constructing educational institutions for the benefit of the poor students. When he approaches the officials for clearance certificates for his constructions he faces the corrupted Indian administrators. He passes through all these difficulties by bribing all the officials, but finds an obstacle in the form of Suman, (who plays a negative role) who is a highly influential person, forces the government to stop Sivaji’s work.
The plot unfolds in the second half but the basic theme of the movie got diluted. The ‘office’ treatment in the movie was good.
How does Rajni take revenge on the people who have unaccounted money? Will he succeed in his mission? Watch the movie to find out the answers to these questions!!

Rajni was superb. Shreya has done her part really well.
Suman has got the look of a villain but fails to deliver the fundamental characteristics of a villain. The combination of the Super star and Vivek in the comedy scenes did work well!
The music and background score of Rahman stands out! The photography is good. Credit goes to the make-up artists who made Rajni to look so young in the film. He has got 15 different hairstyles in the movie!! Costumes of the heroine were awesome!

If you were to take my suggestion, watch the movie without any huge expectations, else,
You would be highly disappointed!!

Rating : 2.5/5

written by: Vinaykanth N
(nvinaykanth@yahoo.com)

Saturday, June 23, 2007

SULTAN- THE WARRIOR(TRAILER)

Ablabs presents in association with Ocher studios, Rajinikanth in and as "SULTAN". The movie is directed by none other than his daughter Soundarya Rajnikanth and music by AR Rahman. Rajnikanth adds another feather to his hat with this movie, as he becomes the first real star to be shown in an animation movie in India.

The movie leaves the reminiscence of Prince of persia and looks good to see. All the Rajnikanth fans will be eager to watch this movie too.