Short Film released atlasttttttttttttttttttttt

http://reel-dreams.blogspot.com/2009/01/cause-and-effect.html

chk out the link for the short film i mentioned several months back.....

ada cha, it came 20 days late and missed oscar nomination for best supporting actor for me !!!!!

Kunguma Poovum Konjum Puravum....simply superb

Kunguma Poovum Konjum Puravum, the title is taken from old chandrababu's song. When they announced this i was not surprised that Yuvan was roped in for this project as he's a versatile musician and he has proved that beyond any doubts in this rocking album.

5 songs with one repeat and all 5 are excellent in their own ways...he served a full meals with supreme taste. Like some unique movies which raises the movie watching experience to next level, this album definitely takes tamil audience indulged in tamilized-english songs will take them one level up.One more creative album from Music Prince.

Chinnan sirusu: A melody from Prince and the starting beats sets u into the mood. Javed Ali of "Jash-e-bahara" fame and Bela Shinde of "in lamhon ki" fame (both from Jodha Akbar) rendered voice for this song. Wow, the instruments and sounds will give us a vivid visualisation of a place surrounded by trees and only the lovers in the frame.In whole, will linger in ur years for long time.....sweet song

Kadaloram: Again a melody with prince himself giving voice.(there's a separate SPB saran version also). This again tells the pain of love and clearly stands unique in the lot.The beats are simple so that we can really feel the lyrics .In this song, only the tune is innovating and gives a good feel, rest he follows the same steps of any conventional song.

Muttathu pakathula: Remix version of "Nandavanathil oru rajakumari" from "Karakaatakaaran". I love the original version which comes for less than 30 sec in the movie. Somewhat i forgot this song and after some 10 yrs, i heard it now and wow.......what a song !!! Voice by Venkat Prabhu, as playfull as gangai amaran, this is a typical kuthu song with excellent music. I was really amazed with the small metallic guitar piercing in the second half of the song. This song is definitely gonna be a chart buster. It takes front benchers to dance and back benchers to tap their foot in the theatre !!!!!!!

Na Dharmenda: SPB, back with a song like "singari sarakku namma sarakku". Such a gifted voice he got, its still fresh n new and only he can add pep to any song with little gestures in voice. simply speaking, hear it for SPB once. Then, the rock music in the middle...can someone imagine a rock guitar piece in btw these type of songs...sheer imagination...excellent application. one more fast paced song which keeps u live till end.

Oru nimisham: Innovation...creativity at its best...thats all i can say abt this song. It's an oppari style song(sung during deaths) with the original voice of Velmurugan with excellent thappu music at the background. The music raises and lowers and without ur knowledge u'll be dancing for this song. The pain in the song is penned beautifully and u'll get a mixed emotion of dancing with lingering thoughts of lost love. Once again an excellent creative work from Yuvan.

Overall, i rate this album above all the recent releases in Tamil. After hearing the songs, i felt like hugging Yuvan and giving some pat !!!! Thanks Yuvan for this absolutely mind blowing album...I will definitely watch this movie once for the songs. All the best to the team.

HE, SHE, SHE's Friends and Slumdog Millionaire

HE is not so charming guy, but everybody calls him a good guy. HE is extremely shy with girls and slowly trying to get over it. So HE finally decided to take out a SHE to a movie. HE asked SHE at the time of GHAJINI release. SHE denied....Then one day HE was talking about Slumdog Millionaire and SHE was excited to see the movie. SHE asked him whether HE can book tickets for her and roomie...HE said yes.

It took SHE 2 days to finalize showtime and date. So finally friday, SHE asked HE to book 3 tickets. So HE went on booking and asked SHE's credit card number. SHE dont have one...now HE has to use his card to book ticket as well as collect ticket. So HE proposed that plan to SHE, that HE will book 4 tickets, 3 in a row and 1 seperate. SHE thought for a min and said, book 4 continuous. HE delighted:)

Then HE opened the site and started booking and then........GOSH....issue with the system and credit card booking not accepted. HE was bewildered, then HE asked his friend and roomies card, but to add more pain it also failed. Desperately HE called Credit card company and got to know that he can do online transaction only after couple of hours !!!!!

So HE decided to goto theatre directly and book it. So HE and HE's friend(who's newly married and going to his house) accompanied him for a while in this eternal travel. HE then rushed to counter and found that HE's 3rd or 4th guy to book the ticket.wow...HE got it. HE spent 2 days on his speech and to show off his technical\analysis\logical skills while watching the movie. HE prepared so hard that even Obama should take tips from him!!!!

On the D Day he got up early, brushed twice, bathed twice, perfumed twice and in a friends bike he reached theatre even before the operator came. Forgot to say, HE took 30 mins to dress-up only to look like a security guard :( !!!!Then he waited...waited....and waited....clocks ticking in 1/12th per second !!!!finally he received a call from SHE: "Hey, will be there in 15 mins..." So HE started waiting again. After 15 mins SHE called again to say "Hey, it will take another 15 mins, so can you wait or else u can leave the ticket at the counter and we will collect it"...HE said "thats ok , i'll wait"

Now, HE is a sort of movie freak who loves to watch the movie from newsreel, if not HE will fight with his friends for coming late. This is how HE is, for the past 18 years of movie watching!!!!!! So HE broke that vow today....Had it been other day, HE would have ignored his friends and got into the theatre, but today, he decided to wait....finally SHE came with her friends.

A very formal "Hi", thats it. HE already decided not to talk to SHE's friends and will give full attention only to SHE. well, HE was nearly 15 mins late for the movie and HE took the seat. For his great shock...They sat like this. SHE's friend, SHE, SHE's friend and HE !!!!!! so the whole purpose was out of question and all his expert opinions speech was went in air !!!! The movie started and there was one gross scene...SHE's friend was so scared...hmmmm...had it been SHE, HE would have reacted but then it was just SHE's friend and HE wanted to maintain his cool image....so HE sat like dumb throughout the first half.

Interval, one more chance. HE was enquiring about the movie to SHE, HE was trying to show off his observing ability and asked SHE "i m still wondering how come that blind guy able to identify Benjamin Franklin"...SHE said "who cares, u cant see that much logic in a movie"...clearly stumped...to make-up HE blabbered "you are right, but then as its nominated for Oscars, these small things they have to take care...." SHE gave a dry smile...meaning SHUT UP.

HE bought pepsi for which SHE wanted to pay but HE managed to push the bill. HE expected to sit next to SHE atleast this time as her friends were not around.HE cleverly took two straws so that he can offer one to SHE...but as luck goes well for HE, HE end up sitting in the same position. Second half went in the same fashion and HE almost ended up like watching the movie alone...After the movie HE offered her lift till MG road which was rudely denied by SHE. well, HE was fed-up and called his friend "Machaanz, nothing went well"...HE's friend "did u asked for lunch.." HE:"that was a cool idea, will call now "...the call was never picked. HE kicked, his bike and came home and SHE went...who cares...let SHE go anywhere SHE wants to........HE came home and desperately writing this blog.................

No TV !!!!!!!

I was talking to deeja other day. The topic went from project to public life to various topics and finally i told her about the delhi-6 songs. To my amazement, she said, she dint knew about it. I told her to watch TV coz every now n then they're screening the trailer. She gave me an ultimate reply:

" No TV in our House."

I was shocked for sometime and cant digest that news. She's married and got a kid but still she don't have TV in her house.I yelled "Thats a sin". I stressed her again and confirmed the news. She was very subtle and little surprised with my shocking expressions. I asked her why and she said:

"We decided to spend some good time with each other, so we prefer talking to each other everyday rather than watching TV..."

All this time they spent on talking and understanding each other. It was an eye-opener for me. TV was very much an integral part of me. i really cant imagine a life without TV. Even though crap programme is on, i used to watch\surf channels. After she said that , i realized how much time i spent on TV rather than with people. In home, i always watch TV, i don't spend much time with my parents\sister or even friends. i do spend a lot of time in front of TV and lots of time i ignored peoples for the sake of cricket match\movie\song....I felt guilt that day !!!!!!

Thanks Deeja for this enlightenment and happy birthday to you !!!!

Sakkarai Pongal !!!!!

Oh god....i was completely out for one whole week, but how came i forgot the splendid sakkarai pongal we prepared and distributed to all !!!!!!!!!

well, all said that "it was awesome !!!!!!!!!!"

i was really happy for sometime on that day !!!!!!!!

Padikathavan: Review

After Villu fiasco, i went for this movie yesterday. Again the expectations are as less as possible.It turned out to be a good entertainer till first half and second half was gross.
Dhanush did a good job and his comedy sense is really good and expression are too good. In Tamil,among heroes, i like prabhudeva when it comes to comedy and after that its dhanush who can really make us laugh with his gestures and expressions.

There's nothing big in the movie to discuss apart from few twists which are not that much twisted. The comedy stands out in this movie and it's done really well by dhanush and Vivek. Except, they should have edited\shredded the vivek-bathing-in-heroine-costume comedy..it's awful and irritating.

Overall, a decent masala movie with all its elements. Looks like dhanush identified his plus and minus and giving a sheer entertainer. It's all the way Dhanush who's carrying the movie in his shoulders and he does it well !!!!

Weekend sin - Villu

Well, it all started with my roomie Shanm who pushed me to watch VILLU. I always have some preset mind when watching this type of movie and thats leave-your-brain-at-home, but still watching this movie gave me real heart-attack and other illness including vomit with the obscenity and dysentery with the action scenes.

There's nothing much-to-tell about the story, as it revolves around the one-man-who-can-save-everyone. Normally This spoilt brat uses superstar name in every movie and he tries to establish as next super star...but in this movie he took the path of MGR..believe me, MGR would have committed suicide if he was alive...same holds good for bharathiyar also.

The intro scene was one hell shot seen in the recent times...I think the whole team is not out of KURUVI impact...and he continues the legacy in this movie also yes he fly across a street to save an "attu" figuru !!!! and then as usual an intro song. Then he travels to village meets nayan n vadivelu and some shitty\crappy comedies...except for "rendu mulam idly". Nayan's as usual role with less-dress was as usual awkward. heard that she's the highest paid actress and to retain that she's reducing the dress as much as possible and sometimes its so scary....

Nayan, pls get little less salary n use little more clothes. If she's wearing such bizarre costume for songs, fine, we can forgive....but showing everything in all the scenes is little too much. even the front benchers used to get fed-up with this skin show....

Now back to story as second half travels to Munich with hell lots of goons showing some godfather stuffs !!!! then vijay meets them and some absolutely non-sense fight sequence and songs and what not !!!!! they used one famous dialogue from"good bad ugly" and insulted that dialogue to the core by vijay delivering that with a constipated look and throat cancer voice...then as usual there'll be bombs which-wont-hurt-hero, air fight, water fight and everything..in sum-up ,again an useless movie from him.

Vijay looks like an AIDS patient in this movie. We all know that he can dance gracefully, fight elegantly but he failed once again to choose a little convincing script. all this larger than life wont fit even our Superstar...so vijay better come down to earth or soon you'll join the league of Vijaykanth or JK Ritheesh !!!!!

well is there anything good to talk abt the movie..why not, in the interval they showed SARVAM trailer, looks promising(atleast the trailer)...when i came out of theatre , villu's intro song was lingering in my mind "raama kitta villa kettan, bheema kitta kathaiya ketten"....in frustration i told..."dei, unkitta naanga romba naala oru nalla padam kekkuromda !!!!"

Emosanal Attyachaar !!!!

I heard this song couple of times for less than 20-30 seconds during trailer...it's a hinglish song from hindi movie. Details:

Movie: Dev.D

Casting: Abhey Deol..donno others

Director: Anurag Kashyap("Black Friday", "No smoking" fame...)

Music: Amit Trivedi

Singer: Bony Chakraborty

Lyrics: Amitabh Bhatacharya

well, today i got a chance to listen to the whole song. It starts with brass band beats...like the band played during marriages...red costume and big instruments !!!! The song lyrics is absolutely deep rooted and hilarious....the voice sync with the song and music just blends...everything makes this song the best of the lot in recent hindi songs !!!! a very different approach to a song....

My fav line:

Tauba tera jalwa..tauba tera pyaar..

Tera Emosanal Attyachaar..

translated as:

hell ur charisma...hell ur love....

(and) ur emotional atrocity !!!!

I'm Lovin it...great song to hear and feel ;)

The full Lyrics:

eh dil pighla ke saaz bana loon,
dhadkan ko awaz bana loon,
smoking smoking nikle re dhooan.

Seene mein jalti hai armanon ki arthi,
Arrey what to tell you darling kya hua.
Arrey sapne dekhe jannat ke,
par mitti mein mil jaen,
phooken re ghar baar ki duniya..
ko bole good bye..
Chad jae haye Allah,
jisko bhi yeh bukhaar,

Tauba Tera Jalwa, Tauba tera pyar,
Tera Emosanal Attyachaar!
Tauba Tera Jalwa, Tauba tera pyar,
Tera Emosanal Attyachaar!

Jao Jao oh dilbar,
oh dilbar ohh!!
Tauba Tera Jalwa, Tauba tera pyar,
Tera Emosanal Attyachaar!

Ho gai dil ke paar tragedy…tragedy,
lut gai re bahaar, gul sukh sukh murjhae,
Ho gai dil ke paar tragedy…tragedy,
lut gai re bahaar, gul sukh sukh murjhae,

Bol Bol why did you ditch me,
Zindagi bhi lele yaar kill me,
Bol Bol why did you ditch me whore.
Bol Bol why did you ditch me,
Zindagi bhi lele yaar kill me,
Jao pia jao pia jao pia….

Tauba Tera Jalwa, Tauba tera pyar,
Tera Emosanal Attyachaar!
Tauba Tera Jalwa, Tauba tera pyar,
Tera Emosanal Attyachaar!

Jao Jao oh dilbar,
oh dilbar ohh!!
Tauba Tera Jalwa, Tauba tera pyar,
Tera Emosanal Attyachaar!

Skool\College Komedies - Part 5: Dappan n Suppan

Again, the same Dappan @ Don. He became so famous such that, whenever someone calls others as DON, it was considered as serious offence. I knew once a guy hit other guy badly because he addressed him as DON. So, DON was considered the worst bad word in the history of our college.

One day, Dappan's father came to college. Dappan used to say that his grandfather is 12 foot tall. When his father came, someone asked the same to him.

Friend: uncle, is your father 12 foot high ?
Dappan's Father: no no. he's only 11 foot tall.

The guy who asked was in trauma for two days. So friends started calling his dad as Suppan. After couple of months, dappans gradma passed away. This Particular friend of Dappan went there and he commented like this:

Friend: Suppan a pethathukke avanga aatha sethu poirukanum, suppan vera dappan na pethuttan, ithukapuramum intha kilavi saagalaina ulagam thaangathuda !!!!!

(Translation: that old lady should have died for giving birth to suppan, now suppan brought dappan to this world, still then if this old lady lives, no one can save this world !!!!)

Skool\College Komedies - Part 4: Dappan @ Don

In every college, there will be one character who speaks only lies. These guys will speak these lies with so serious expressions. The best thing to do with those guys is that, listen to them carefully when they are speaking and if possible provoke them a bit....after that fun un-limited !!!!

There was one such character in my college, believe me i forgot his real name. Everybody used to call him DON or DAPPAN. So this guy hailed from Chennai and he's very fond of telling lies and keeps his face so serious. so a real maakan will definitely believe whatever he says.

From day 1, he used to tell everyone that he's kick-boxer. Along with that he tells a story also, once upon a time, when he was in school, he went for a kick-boxing competition. The opponent was so strong and well built, well this guy is also well built, i mean he looks like a big pig. The fight started and opponent hit him bad for first three rounds...Blood bleeding(believe me he tells all this with subtle expression ) and he finally fell down.

Everybody thought that DON lost, but then, like in cinema, his master ran towards him and started shouting "Come on, you can do ittttttttttttt !!!!" well, this words echoed in his ear and next moment he got up in slow motion and gave a reverse kick on that guys face...then what, that guy was knocked out and DON won !!!!!

He told this story several times and one fine day, he was in his hostel room and one of his friend asked him the same story. Once the narration got over, he asked DON to give a demo. DON got up, moved the bed, table and chairs aside, then he froze suddenly looking at the ceiling.....then he said

DON: Maapla, inga venamda, Ceiling la bulb irukku, naan paatuku atha adichu udaichutena ?????

(Translation: not here, what if i hit the bulb hanging from the ceiling????)

Well, the ceiling was nearly 15 foot high and the guy who asked fainted there. After that we stopped asking him to show any demo, who knows, if we take him to open air, he may say, "Maapla, what if i hit the sun\moon ????"

Three Trailers

I saw Three trailers last week, Naan Kadavul, Padikaathavan and Villu.

1) Naan Kadavul: 

A really scary trailer and a very promising one for something new. From trailer we can adjudge that, Arya is a saint alias hit man. He destroys and then the chief priest announce him as god. A damn good team in place, bala with Ilaiyaraja and vaali. The songs are soulful. Lets wait n watch the movie...

2) Padikathavan:

Cant expect anything else from this masala team...the trailer is OK type. Tamanna was hot and i believe she'll fulfill what she's paid for. (somewhat got bored with nayan's physique and i dont think so that anything is left in her to show). Dhanush as usual, looks like someone in the line of "Thiruvilayaadal aarambam"...hope its not Rambam !!!!

3) Villu:

ahem, lets talk something else....

Lets wait n see the tamil audience reaction, coz the success of the movies may not be in the same sequence i mentioned above............

Skool\College Komedies - Part 3 : Tamil Teacher !!!!

I joined TVS Lakshmi Madurai in my 9th Std. That was one place where only brainy peoples will stay and the culture is totally different. somewhat i cleared the entrance and also as they were expanding the school i got a seat there.

At early stage, it was very tough for me to make friends. Before joining the school, i was introduced to Suresh by Shafi, after i joined school, he become my friend and soon turned out to be my best friend.  Suresh took Tamil as second language and i took French as second language.

One day, Suresh was in ground along with prasanna. It was their volley ball practice session. One guy approached both and started talking.

Guy1: juniors eh ??? Second language ?

Suresh: Tamil

Guy 1: who's teaching tamil for you ?

Suresh: some old lady...

Prasanna: !@#!#@!!@#%%%***!@#$!#!@ (he used all possible abusive words against that mam)

Guy 1: (he was dead silent and finally) hmmmm, she's my mom !!!!

The next moment both suresh and prasanna escaped that place in stop-block pace. Well, the story has not end yet......

Next day, during Tamil class, both were literally shivering. That mam entered...she came straight to these guys.

Mam: who's Suresh in this ?

Suresh: it's me miss.

Mam: hmmmm, so u r the one who called me old lady ??????

Suresh:(completely collapsed) yes mam...sorry mam....(he was also bit happy coz, he just called her old lady but prasanna was the one who abused her a lot...so suresh was expecting something big for him)

Mam: hmmm, lets see how u pass Tamil exam this year...

And she left. Suresh was in shock and Prasanna was happy. Well, Suresh never cleared Tamil exam after that and prasanna never faced any issue in Tamil !!!!!

Till date, Suresh dont comment a girl based on her age !!!!!

Ashwath marriage @ Mangalore

So one of my close friend in office got married this week(29th-dec-2008). It's a love marriage and this guy is such a nice person. Any technical issues he'll go way beyond his time and extend help. If at all i face him in the competition of promotion and stuffs , i'll just give my place for him...not only for his brilliance but also for his good nature !!!!!

I met his fiancee in a party. Though i donno anything about her , they appeared made for each other. Their love story started in college, he proposed she disposed(as usual)  then again after some time, she understood him and finally family came to know and they said..."son, good choice, go ahead !!!!!". In that way, they got engaged last year, and married on 29th Dec 2008.

It was an awesome marriage, i should say it was so cute to look at this pair. They are just perfect pair. during the whole marriage ceremony, whatever the priest says these guys followed with uncontrollable laugh in their face...believe me, it was such a beautiful ceremony. Anyone who see the marriage will be happy and relive the best moments of their life. The above photo is just a sample one.

All the best to Ashwath n Shilpa. May you guys keep on smiling in your life !!!! 

you guys rocked and inspired many to think about marriage ;)

Rava Kesari !!!!

Happy new year to all....

We prepared Rava Kesari today and it came out so well. Nagu tasted first and said that its good, had he said the other way he knew what will happen to him. Then i brought it to office and started searching peoples to taste the product. Deeja, soundarya,sweda and manasa voluntereed for tasting the product. They said its too good. Now got full confidence and in one swing i started distributing to whomever comes that way....atleast 25 peoples...sunil,Kochu, sanyam, paaru, nisha...etc. Everybody were delighted with the sweet and were giving good comments.

Finally, i called Payal. I gave it to her and as epitome she said "superb, better than my mom's kesari" ........wow !!!! Thats something good i heard at the start of this year !!!!!!!!