Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Kreedom - Review

WARNING: DO NOT GET CONNED BY AJITH INTRODUCTORY SCENE - you may even end up walking out of the theatre by this first scene thinking that it will be yet another mindless flick like Anjaneya or Alwar. Patience most of the time would be rewarding. And Kreedom's first scene (Ajit's fight seq) is a classic example.

Kreedom also clearly indicates that Ajith does have the potential and charisma to make it big - the only thing is he needs to choose scripts like that of kreedom and not get into a self-indulgent mode like that of Alwar or Anjaneya.

Ajith ROCKS in kreedom and there a couple of noteworthy performance that will make you sit up and watch this man - just before interval scene and the climax where he cries out. All this man needs is to submit himself to a good director and not worry about punch dialogies (can also be read as Vijay bitching dialogues) - he can go places and can compete with the likes of Vikhram.

If Rajkiran was a reveletion in Thavamai Thavamirunthu - with kreedom he has joined the league of some of the greatest character artists in Tamil cinema - like Rangarao, Sivaji, Nagesh, Subbiah and so on. Rajkiran is the real hero of this movie and though I'm sure he would surely be a contender for a National award - I only wish that he gets it this time around. Ideally this man should have got the national award for Thavamai Thavamirunthu. What a performance!!!!

Though Trisha's role is insignificant - she is definitely watchable and she looks ravishing in Akkam Pakkam song. Watch out!

Looks like Saranya has become the ONE AND ONLY choice for doing the role of a mother. Her performance is as usual great.

Vivek's comedy is a big let down - though in my opinion in a movie like Kreedom he cannot do much. "Vairam Pancha Kattai" is a typical Vivet comedy and it was well echoed in the theatre as well. Santhaman and Sathyan are the other comedians in Kreedom - and well there is nothing much to say about their role - except that they come as tailor made Hero's friends.

I was told that the villain is a new comer - well all I can say is you can see him in similar roles in future. One more villain added to the already impressive list of Kollywood Villains. Director Vijay needs a special mention here for this character selection.

Music is by G.V Prakash. To sum it up - background music is awesome and songs could have been much better - though I liked the father-son son.

Vijay is the director and apparently Kreedom is the first movie. If my prediction goes right, he would soon become a more sought-after director in the coming days. Has a great potential - especially the way in which the Ajith introductory fight is picturised. At first it will look like there are lot of logic flaws in the introduction scene and you may also feel that you are watching a movie directed by an amateur director. But the scenes that gets unfolded after that is fantastic and more than anything else it is realistic. The only thing that Vijay should be wary of is NOT to fall in trap of star power and rely more on story and screenplay - just like what he did in Kreedom.

Over all Kreedom is a good movie - more realistic & mature - and if you have Ajith in this kind of a movie - what else do you need. I only wish that Ajith learns from this success and never ever attempt to do another crap like Alwar or Anjaneya or Jana. If that becomes true, I'm sure this Kreedom will NOT be his last crown and there will be more to follow in the future.

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

AAradhe NaaviNAAL Sutta Vadu

Not sure whether you folks read the "so-called" review of Sivaji - The BOSS by Ms. Anuradha Sengupta of CNN-IBN. In a nut-shell she declared Sivaji is the Boss of Crap (I could hear people shouting Ading.....). She also termed the record crowd that thronged the theatres all over the world as "pigs" - without even understanding the context in which THE BOSS uttered the punch line.

And now comes the amazing point and the real power of THE BOSS. Within a couple of hours, there were 965 comments logged in for this post. Anuradha Sengupta wouldn't have imagined this even in her wildest dream. Find below a couple of comments that I found as be-fitting response to the absurd review posted by Anuradha Sengupta.

This one is from Mr. Praveen.
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There is a very simple way to find out who can inlfuence whom. Though there have been a lot of people expressing angst at what has been written by Ms. Anuradha, I would put it down to sheer desperation for publicity that has prompted her to be extremely violent in her blog. The fact is that by doing such things, Ms. Anuradha will not even get that many hate mails as probably Rajini will get love mails for the movie. Also the other thing is that if Ms. Anuradha is indicating that millions of people are pigs, then it is in absolute bad taste to be telling that. Which therefore also gives us the right to call her by any animal's name we wish to and I would think that jackass would be the right terminology. Everything has a purpose and the purpose of particularly these kind of movies are just to entertain. Trying to make any intellectual sense of it is only a waste of energy. The other thing that also happens is that such blogs fan the geographical divide to greater heights with people on other side taking stances. So directly IBNlive is becoming responsible for creating these rifts. Please try and avoid such blogs which have no purpose, no meaning, are so self centered and try to prove that the author's are more human and intellectual than anyone else.
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This one is from Prashanth
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Absolutely disgusting review.How could u review a movie without understanding a word of it?Seems like a review from a deluded and deranged person.There are two ways to earn fame:By working hard or by defaming someone who is famous.Well done! U have earned it by latter means.Mind you,U cant just scribble something just for the heck of it.The 3 hrs I have spent on watching sivaji was far more enjoyable than the 10 minutes I took to read ur review and write this comment.What a waste of precious time reading your Blog!
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This one is from Vignesh - and it is really mind blowing...

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The two wheeler and four wheeler parking Collection for this crap moive has crossed the total Box office collection of Jhoom barabar Jhoom.

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This one is from Krish

You have taken Blog Writting to a different level, is this a shameful attempt to gain publicity by cursing the movie?Agreed, the movie wasn't the best we have ever seen, but still it deserves credit for the technical brilliance and hard work put in by the crew.You would do better to stay away from writing abt movies for some years..if u call this CRAP..i wud call ur blog the WORST EVER PUBLISHED ARTICLE on the internet.may be CNN-IBN deserves the credit for having u on board.
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And this is the BEST ONE

looks like you did'nt manage to get an interview from him... lol.

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PS: The comments are put in as it appears in the blog...