Tamil Movie Review : Irumbhu Kuthirai

With an excellent actor like Atharvaa Murali and two gorgeous girls and a fierce villain with a big budget and a strong brilliant technical team, Mr. Yuvaraj Bose came up with this disaster called Irumbhu Kuthirai. It's one of those films where everything going on right track until the director planned to screw it all up. The story moves in all predictably, except for the last 20 minutes, which is a like you winning a consolation prize after squirming for an hour and half in your seats.

Having a cute Priya, hot Lakshmi Rai, funny Jeganji, and emotional Devadarshini, one can easily realize the height of the film could have gone to. But this is a BIG CRY! And the music of this film on visual, non is wachable. Anything else that have worked well in this Iron Horse? Yes. The awesome technical team. A big thanks to them. Cinematography by RB Gurudhev is stunning with the hollywoodish color and bright visuals. Gopi Amarnath was roped in for the action sequences, and he too has done a complete justice.

Credits to the editor for trimming down the film to a crispy 2 hours. Film like this totally disappoints a filmi lover like many of us. People comes to the theatre just not to see the 6 pack abs, colorful song and some wrooming bike scenes. They go into the dark room to forget the outside world for a few hours and get ENTERTAINED! But Irumbhu Kuthurai no where near to that.

Tamil Movie Review : Velai Illa Pattadhari

Velai Illa Pattadhari the 25th film for Dhanush and it comes from his own production house Wunderbar Films, had a huge expectations from the audience as in these recent years he didn't give much hit like before. This flick is directed by Velraj and it has both Anirudh Ravichander and MV Rajesh Kumar's music. The trailer and the audio have successfully generated positives vibes around VIP and it's clearly evident with the movie getting wonderful response from it's advance bookings.

The film is reportedly "A message to youths with some comedy on rising unemployed and the growing frustration for job with love". Dhanush as Raghuvaran plays the central character, as a civil engineer graduate who is still looking out for a job, while his younger brother who is in IT field already working and earning well. This rises a comparison issue at his home where Samuthrakani keeps insulting Dhanush for being unemployed. Dhanush is a type of person who wants a job in the same field as he studied for. Saranya played a role as his mother, who console him and try to boost his confidence.  And there comes the introduction of the lead lady Amala Paul as his childhood best friend, who is in love with him. This will be the first release for Amala Paul after her post-marriage with Vijay.

In a bid to make it a successful commercial film, the team has taken too much of liberties. In the process, the story becomes predictive  in the second half.

Overall it has a fantastic performance by Dhanush, Indeed it is a tailor-made role for him. Amala Pauls fits well as Shalini. Samuthrakani, Saranya, Vivek and the cute Hrishikesh have done a complete justice to their roles. And Anirudh shines again with his background scores.

There was not much scope for cinematography and editing done by Rajesh was okay.

Mini Review : Yennamo Yedho

Gautham in Yennamo Yedho

Directed by a debutant director Ravi Thyagarajan was the most successful Telugu Film Ala Modalaindi. When a widely successful film is remade in other language it's really hard to refrain the comparison assignment. Let's don't talk about the story. We will go for the cast performance.

When we compared Nithya and Rakul Preet to the character, none can forget Nithya. She's still so fresh even now you watched the original. But Rakul's actions and the chemistry workout between she and Gautham was so unnatural. And they are absolutely not the pair who creates magic like Nani and Nithya did in Ala Modalaindi. They could have choosen a better heroine for this character. While Gautham had done his full justice on the second half. Yes man!!! He improved and he really improved. Gautham has done the role as himself. He didn't try to imitate Nani in any scene for my view. Even once he had said "I did that character as myself GAUTHAM. That's how Gautham will react if he was in that situation." And Anupama Kumar done the mother role for Gautham which was originally done by Rohini. And she did so brilliantly and that was an endearing performance. And coming to Prabhu sir's character, well he is a versatile actor . He can carry out any character very brilliantly. And he was amazing!

Is anyone

excited as me now?? well coming back to this fan girl thing, I myself don't know that I would have jump to him from being another hero's fan girl. Aaah.. Some magic must have changed me. lol. Well in another 48 hours Yennamo Yedho gonna release with another 3 movies.. And all I want now is, we Gautham fans seriously wants this movie to do well in boxoffice. Okay the reasons I want it to be a HIT is , first of all Gautham in it. And secondly it's an hit telugu movie Ala Modalaindi's remake. This story actually have a big history behind the makings of Ala Modalindi.. Well will bring some to old live now. And before that. Now this movie is on progress in remaking it in Kannada too.. So just imagine it.. Okay coming to the OLD Live now, which were personally said by the awesome director Nandini Reddy, a few years back.. 

The Development Process

• It started with the idea of two people (belonging to opposite sex) meeting in a crisis situation. It will be more interesting than a boy meeting a girl in a regular way. I was in Chennai at that time and discussing with Anjana Ali Khan (director of Tamil film Veppam). The basic seed of the story came out of that conversation. I gave a 10-minute narration to Nani and he said that its awesome. We wanted to title the movie as 'Prema Thokka Tholu'. I am basically a lazy writer. Hence, Anjana threatened me by putting a deadline of 10 days to complete the script. I wanted the scenes, characters and characterisations come out of the experiences from my life and the from the people I have observed. To stay in that zone/space, I repeatedly watched Friends, When Harry Met Sally and A Lot Like Love during that period. I wrote a 60-scenes order on a pair of yellow papers. I write very little on paper for a scene (a couple of lines for a scene as most of the content is there in my head). I don’t want to slow down my mind while writing as our mind works faster than our hand

Choosing The Cast

*as told by the Original Director Nandini Reddy*

• John Abraham – Asish Vidyardhi I wanted to take the film to next level and I felt that I needed one more layer. I watched a film titled 'In July' in my initial days. In that film a guy is carrying a dead body to cross the border. Another guy takes a lift, but notices the dead body. The entire film is about misrepresentation. I took that movie as reference and created a character called 'John Abraham' who is a professional kidnapper. I wanted to derive humor by showing the human angle in him. I have also used John Abraham character to ask the questions to Nani on the behalf of audiences
• I liked the layer of Johan Abraham character, but the entire team is not convinced about it. That idea was put in cold-storage. After the 3rd schedule of the film, a friend and a co-director Srinivas came to the sets. I narrated him the John Abraham thread. Srinivas loved it and convinced the producer by talking to him. Since it involves casting a notable actor, it is a big decision to the producer. Asish Vidyardhi was my original preference. But tried Prakash Raj as I personally know him. Prakash Raj loved the character but said that he is playing a similar character in Orange movie. Then I spoke to Asish Vidyardhi and narrated the script. He loved it and quoted his price. It was unaffordable to the producer. After a few days, Asish Vidyardhi called us again and lowered him remuneration.
• Scrat – Ramesh I used to love the scrat character in Ice Age movie. Scrat character has nothing to do with the story of Ice Age, but creates chaos. I wanted to create such a character for my movie. Producer Damu suggested that we should have a guy hit with recession. Writer Bhupal said that we should have a drunken character. It was Bhupal who suggested Ramesh for that character. Ramesh worked for Mahatma and Bheemili in the past, but didn’t get any recognition. He is a simple and hardworking boy. His work in Ala Modalaindi is being appreciated well.
• Shooting of the climax was very difficult as we have many character, links and threads. Writer Anil Ravipudi provided great help in climax. Introduction of Sneha Ullal’s character Anjana pointed out that Nani’s character is always rejected by all the girls. He should reject a girl by choice (not by destiny). That’s how we created the character of Sneha Ullal.

And for me this was the only movie that gained 4.5 star reviews with over night. 

Now from Ala Modalaindi coming back to Yennamo Yedho, we will have Gautham Karthik in lead role as Gautham while Rakul Preet as the heroine playing the role done by Nithya Menen. And this will be her debut movie in Tamil.. While Nikesha Patel's character I'm not so sure of it whether she's doing the characters done by Sneha Ullal or Kriti Kharbanda. And more over we wll be having Prabu sir in a major role which was originally done by Ashish Vidhyarthi sir in telugu. This character is one of the most favouritest one for me. In this movie you can expect for sentiments, love, family bonding, mother-son love, humours and comedy as well.

So amigos get your tickets for yennamo Yedho which is all set to release this friday 25th April. Thank u :)

Mini Review : Nimirnthu Nil

To digest truth it's really something really hard. The whole storyline and details stays in this fact. Nimirnthu Nil is the apt title that tells the actual fact and culture of working of the the government employees in the country. The first half is very very racy plot that even not let the audience to blink their eyes for even a second. Good touch in the performance. Where else the second half was quite draggy with some unnecessary actions and songs which they could have possibly censor to make it look more good. And it was actually missing the good rapport from the first half.

Overall Nimirnthu Nil comes strong in message to the society with it's dynamic dialogues. And coming to the finish line it will engaged you for a worth watch.

Mariyaan

Usually you can't judge a film by it's leading actor but in Dhanush case you can easily say, WOW! After giving a smashing hit in B-Town with Raanjhana, finally we manage to watch him back in our own southie film after more than a year. Dhanush is actually a versatile actor who suits for all kind of character, You can see him as a school boy, then a college boy, lately a good parents boy, lover boy, a sentimental villager, and another character is just like what he did in Aadukalam which earns him too many awards including National award too. And after all a psycho who can kill himself. He always live as the character. And as for Dhanush's Mariyaan is no different. He lives and breathe as the character of an immortal fisherman.

Mariyaan deals with the story of construction fisherman who have a close bond towards the sea, as it is the place where he earns his livelihoods. He calls himself as "Kadal Rasa" which means the "Prince of Ocean". Circumstances surrounding his lady love Parvathy Menon (Panimalar) played a role of a model wife who forces him to go to Sudan.  Her performance makes you stunned. Usually Dhanush movies all known as a One man SHOW. But in Mariyaan, it's different. Parvathy's character turns out to be the strongest one in the end. For the suffering scenes for Dhanush, it's not a new one for him. As he has done many as this before.

Mariyaan means immortal and Director Bharath has shown two immortal things in this movie. One is Mariyaan and another is his love. Marc Koninckx's visuals are poetic and out of this world as he has fully exploited the wide visual canvas that Bharath Bala has offered him.

AR.Rahman has used the tunes of magical in Yenge Pona Raasa and Kadal Raasa Naan, prominently as part of the movie's background score and this will resonate in your heart. His songs for the movie need no further mention but their visual treatments is mostly similar due to the repetitive situations and its surrounding.

Finally Bahrath Bala's Mariyaan is a flaw free but the technical work and performance makes it shine more than we exprected it for. Maybe it's not everyone's cup of tea, but all for sure will love it. Mariyaan is definitely a must watch movie

Maalai Pon Maalai

Oh my god.. this song just making me to go gaga.. Sucha lovely rhythm by GV.Prakash Kumar. And the lyrics are just too sweet.. Sid and Ashrita on screen unimaginable. :)) Loving!! ♥♥♥♥

click on the pic to watch the video song Maalai Pon Maalai.. I'm so sure you will love it just or more like me.

150 Words Review : Udhayam NH4

Udhayam NH4 (Tamil) & NH4 Bangalore-Chennai (Telugu)

Finally the movie that I have waited for such a long time is released a week ago. And this is the kind of story that I always wants Siddharth to do or dream. Finally somehow he grabbed it already. Action-Thriller-Love..

Udhayam NH4 set largely at Bangalore. The first half moves within a very beautiful flash back and the present. Here the hero Prabhu who comes from a middle class family from Tamil Nadu, who came to Bangalore to pursue his engineering. And a Bangalore based girl Ritika ( Ashrita Shetty ) . She's the daughter of Karnataka chief minister and gets kidnapped by Prabhu and his friends.

The rest of the story watch it in Big Screen.

Review :

There is a humour in the film. The thrilling car race sequence and stunt scenes. Siddharth and Kay Kay Menon have come out with flying colors. *the thing I expected for,, yayyiiee* The action sequence truly need to be praised. Ashrita Shetty is good and appears to be a promising actress. There are few minor errors which can be ignored but poor dubbing work especially for Siddharth lip synchronization. Velraj's cinematography is excellent. GVP's music and background scores are awesome and lovely. And Kishore's editing is good. UDHAYAM NH4 is totally worth to watch.