Madrasapattinam

What had happened to me. Should remember 2009-2010 for the fact that it is during this time, i might have seen the maximum number of movies. Saw Madrasapattinam yesterday, a movie that i am seeing on the first day after a long time. Instigated by my friends at HP, decided to dump the CR that was creating a panic and reached the theatre 5 minutes before the movie at 6.10PM. For the third time in a row, watched the movie at Pushpanjali.

Owing to the fact that there was not much expectations for the movie, there was not much crowd in the theatre. Found the movie to be really good. Director Vijay has done a great job, supported by good acting by Arya. Highlight of the movie is the heroine, AmyJackson, who looked cute and adorable. No wonder she was awareded Miss Teen World beauty pageant. Her intro scene was applauded more than that of Arya's, surprisingly. Her screen presence was enough to mesmerize and crystal clear expressions did justice to the role. Lip synchronization was not all that great, but owing to the fact the even heroines born and brought up in TamilNadu do it worse, it can be neglected. Good selection of costume too for her.

Just to give a hint about the story without revealing much, the movie starts with Old English woman about to die, with the desire to visit India, in search of a guy whom she had met before 60 years in Madrasapattinam (Chennai). The story moves on interwined with her search at present and her memories explaining the reason behind the search.

Vijay should have worked hard, to bring Chennai as it was 60 years before in the screen. Though he might have tasted 100% success in this arduous task, it is a commendable effort. Arya as usual does his job easily. Climax is a bit sentimental and good. Overall a simple story well told.

Coming to -ves, GV Prakash as usual was a BIG disaapointment. BGM was good at few places, but it remebled a bit tweaked 7G's BGM and at few places it was irritating too. Few scenes resemble Titanic, which could have been avoided. First half was a lot interesting, second half fails to move at the same pace, but not a matter of concern actually. Scenes were a bit predictable. But all these can be ignored as the +ves overcome the -ves easily and at the it is a very good movie, worth watching.

After all this movie might break the myth that all the movies i see in the first day will become a flop :) :) Think it will do that with ease.

Techies in TV - Paadum Office

Wanted this to be a quick and small post for one simple reason, lack of time. Two days visit to home town during the weekend and wanted to blog about  few things that caught my attention. One thing was about Azhagiya Tamil Magan, looks like it is doing a very bad business at the box office  and in my city they have released vijay's film "Thirumalai", may be in an attempt satisfy Vijay fans. Ajith fans now would be hoping that "Billa" does not contain any foolish acts, since there is a high probability for it becoming a huge hit for Ajith if it is reasonably good.

Was so busy during the weekend, trying my hand at cooking and sucessfully managed to cook edible sambhar. After eating Sambhar in Bangalore, even my sambhar was delicious. For a change spent very little time in Television, but noticed two things to blog about.  One is that Vijay TV's Jodi No 1 ended this week. The most notable point as usual Simbu's dialogue. As usual he talked as though he is the only hero and best hero in TN. Looked like there is only one another guy who can talk like him. As you might have predicted it is none other than his father TR.

Yet another television program that attracted me a little is "Paadum Office" where techies are given opportunity to sing in groups. It was good and yet another innovative approach from Vijay TV. It would interesting to see whether SUN, Jaya and Kalaingar TV follow Vijay TV's path. Most of the teams sang well. Good to see, HP getting selected for the next round. Too many topics waiting for the right time to fill the space here.

My Tamil Blog

I started a new tamil blog a week back. No specific purpose behind starting that blog. Felt like starting a blog in tamil. Hence the result is http://ssenthilkumaran.wordpress.com. Using the TamilKey plugin for Firefox to write in Tamil. Heard about the tamilkey plugin from my friend subamani. Click here to see his tamil blog. What does it contain, as usual my rants about movies, life, songs and everything that manages to catch my attention. Other than all these, something that you can find in that blog is spelling mistakes. Never in the life i was able to get rid of the spelling mistakes in that blog. Hope to reduce and produce some good posts in tamil soon. Till then bear with me :)