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By: padhu

padhu — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:48:49 +0000

Oh, and i forgot. Never new surya could come up with such a performance in VA. Was it gautham producing the goods out of him or is he naturally a good actor…i dont know…have seen him only in kaaka and VA…but he was really good…the romance/drug scenes/the climax…btw, the makeup in VA sucked big time…cmon a cigarette smoking 60+ year old without a wrinkle…i dont know what gautham was thinking…

By: padhu

padhu — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:44:31 +0000

Lazy,

I loved VA. It was slow in the second-half. But it was really clean – there was no unnecessary stuff and it was pretty taut. Something like a shawshank redemption – not the same genre or class – but the same tempo. And I thought the romance/songs were pretty cool…maybe a little overdose of english dialogues but not something new for the city folks…we have a private chat among friends on who is/was the best director in tamil and gautham seems pretty high up in the list…his movies to me are the closest tamil movies got to realistic and entertaining ( beside the village man – bharathiraja – although i have never lived in a village – going by reviews )…mani’s dialogues are too crazy for ordinary people to be talking on a day-to-day basis…i will go nuts if everyone around me talks in single word sentences :))…kamal makes portions of his movies just to satisfy his ego…

By: Dil

Dil — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:28:16 +0000

read your archives? ive got better things to do, thank you :)

By: lazygeek

lazygeek — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:22:03 +0000

Dil, why dont you read the archives yourself when you find time – http://www.lazygeek.net/archive

By: Dil

Dil — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:43:28 +0000

And how could you guys even have the guts to say Mani Ratnam hasn’t produced any good movies recently? Have you watched any of his recent movies with interest? May be you guys don’t just have the brain to understand his way of story telling. Did anyone watch Guru? Perhaps not.

And talking about not producing the goods in recent years, A. R. Rahman has not produced anything special for Tamil movies – he certainly has for Bollywood (Jodha Akbaar etc.) He doesn’t seem to put a lot of effort into Tamil music, his tunes are so bland and typical.

Taare Zameen Par is a great movie. I’m sure it touched everyone’s heart! But people, do not ever forget Anjali.

Mr. Lazygeek – I’m really curious to know your favourite Tamil actor & Tamil director in recent years .

By: Dil

Dil — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:35:05 +0000

You guys are ridiculous. You sit down till your bum gets sore to watch a 58 year old so-called “Superstar” romancing with a 26 year old Shreya. I mean, don’t you find those films ridiculous? You guys should learn to appreciate good movie makers such as Gautham.

By: Sat

Sat — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:07:30 +0000

BTW, vaaranam ayiram sucked…what an overdose of ‘Daddy’

By: Sat

Sat — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:04:33 +0000

//Has any of Maniratnam recent films have unique charecterisation like Pithamagan Vikram or Ghajini Surya or Virumandi Kamal?//
wow….no unique protagonists…why, do you think all film makers oughtta make movies about creeps?
Mani is clearly one of our better film makers, perhaps one of our best.
The man knows how to handle a theme without ever going overboard.
And, whose ever idea is it that Kannathil Muthamittal is another terrorist film, may be it would have been had the child been kidnapped and we saw Madhavan go to Sri Lanka to bring her back, muscling every militant on his way. Yes, the war is there, but merely used as a backdrop. And if this movie did not address the adoption issue so well, I wonder why I saw shows on the tele debating whether or not one should let the child know of it’s adoption at a tender age…hmmm
Ayutha Ezhuthu was not groundbreaking…but it still was good….by leaps and bounds when compared to movies that talked about politics, not to mentioned the Inarritu inspired narrative that was quite neatly put together. Btw if you thought creeps made good protagonists, how about that bald, bad ass thug that Madhavan played?
Mani Ratnam’s Kannathil Muthamittal is a far better film than Taare anyday, of course they can’t be compared because they are completely different, except for the fact that they both focus on a child’s plight…
While in Taare Aamir tends to get on to your nerves while sympathizing for the little kid, showing the flip book to anyone who cared in the movie and being all teary eyed, it was overkill!
And never in Kannathil Muthamittal do you ever see such an over dose. The movie mostly unfolds from the 9 year old’s point of view, much like To kill a mocking bird did from Scout’s
And who are we kidding, Aamir did movies like Fanaa and Mangal Pandey…lol! Not that he’s always that bad, point is everyone has highs and lows and Mani Ratnam is yet to hit that low. period.
My only pain point, may be should stop casting a certain Ms. Aishwarya Rai Bachan and gave that role to more deserving actresses.

By: Gobind

Gobind — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:45:37 +0000

If Cheran got a OSCAR Ravichandran, Harris and Surya he would given a wounderful product… If u ve seen Thavamai Thavamirundu its the same story… Adding to this gautam missed to tell, What Surya’s Father is Doing other than Smoking, Making Romance with Simran and more…

Personally i am fan of Gautam Mennon, We dont need this kind of movie….

By: R A J A

R A J A — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:17:47 +0000

I liked the movie scene by scene from start to end. Awesome movie. Peoples feel it hard to digest a movie which slowly captures all stages of a man in a film because, we have seen in so many movies in which a 5 yr old boy will become a 25 yr guy in a song. In my perspective, it was a nice attempt made by Gautham.

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:10:45 +0000

LG…listen to the soundtrack of Slumdog Millionaire..ARR magic!

By: kir

kir — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:33:34 +0000

hmm..heard VA didnt really amuse much in India..however its a phenomenal hit here in my place Malaysia..I wonder why..But well I think Surya worked very hard for this film..so cheers to him =)

By: Vijai

Vijai — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:49:45 +0000

The movie was good till the interval. The second half was a torture.

An honest & Gautam’s best effort till date but he could have done away with some scenes in the second half.

By: Lazy Geek

Lazy Geek — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:53:30 +0000

//to lazy: there is a world beyond mani ratnam,sujatha. and that is much better.//

Karthik, There are other reviews in this site. Why dont you read them before saying that statement. You can start here – http://www.rediff.com/movies/2003/aug/11kaaka.htm