Raghuvaran...

Long time, say some 8-10 years back, Raghuvaran in a interview said "ethir kaalathil director aahum latchiyathudan uzhaikkum ella assistant directors um avenga kathai leh enakku nu oru character create panni vechirukkaanga" . That he counted as his achievement of his career. one of the few versatile actors , who can infuse life into a film even as dead wood as Sivappathikaaram . Off late we saw him much shriveled on screen and here today his life comes to an end. Never knew he was so old (60 years) .

Anjaathaey...

Easily one of the most self indulgent movies , where in the director takes his own liberties to unfold the story about two friends. There are moments of exhilaration. Director manages to pose erudite at points. But such moments are measly in proportion smothered in a lengthy drab narration. Not entirely drab though , as do many scenes carry some spirit, but yet could have been easily done away with. Well even i didn't have any qualms over sitting through those scenes unfolding at its own pace. And when all that detailed , though not snail spaced, scenes can only lead to a ridiculous climax is when you get exasperated. Looks like the director gave full freedom to the camera man to showcase all his abilities at the cost of time. And what about the casting?. Narain though sparks as such in moments , as a coherence fails to convince as to whether he is playing a frivolous guy or the traditional hero. As to other characters they just do what they ought to do . That makes a case as why exactly was the necessity to have a pandia rajan or prasanna don such roles, who do not bring any freshness in those roles. And ponvannan is easily the worst of the casting lot. A standard movie on the outset, just misses being super standard by some yards and finally may even manage to pose sub standard as because of the length and the unfolding of the climax. And why i hate the unfolding of climax is when all along the movie you accept to engage yourself with the director and all of a sudden he makes a mockery of your intelligence.

Sujatha.......

Ananda Vikatan introduced Sujatha to me and the Tamil film industry made me take a keen note on him. Though i never dug deep into his literary works , did at times read some of them. A book on easy ways to write a screen play is the only book of his that i read completely. Experiences of having failed big times by trying to lay my hands on his simplification of puranaanooru, made me understand my literary restrictions. When in morning i read that news in Hindu , my first reaction was -Oh! man finally your time too arrived. later going through my regular blogs i see every one almost expressing schock over the news. Totally uncalled for you see. Well if you had been regularly tracking this man, through him or any other source, it was only evident that he himself was the first person awaiting this news-as rightly put by kamal. Well all in all, quite a prolific character that he was, has gone for some eternal rest. He has done some real hard work to settle for such a rest.RIP.

Barbering Lessons.

It's a monthly routine to submit my head to my now so routine barber. Quite a chatterbox he is. But you get to know so much information as to which real estate deal get clicked in BTM, which went bust, how much the corporation got under the table, which hotel adds how much soda in their food, which new tree was cut all kinds. If only he could give me details as to who sleeps with whom in BTM he gets fully qualified to start a english news channel. On one such occasions couple of days ago, out of all his disconnected topics he suddenly uttered these words and i quote "Entha velaya iruntha enna sir seeyarathukku interest irukkanum. athukku thevayana moolai irukkanum. Naanellam saavura varaikkum barber thaan. atheh maatha mudiyathu". I rest the case.

sellaathu sellaathu......

The nonsensicality about being an aggressive fool is that you only stretch yourself to be puerile.

Interviews. demands, offers,career........

The act of acting pricey is a bit dicey. Acting pricey with people ,who are real pricey and yet decides to be modest is fun and danger entwined. Acting pricey to people who you actualy look down is delirious joy. So finding a mean of these two situations would enable find the line of best fit, careerpath. And when you actualy decide with no confidence on your decision making skills all that can come to your rescue is "Ellam Nanmaikae".

martyrish musings.....

I do not know if still the school in which i did almost my entire schooling holds on to this practice of assembling at 11 AM on this day (30 January) every year and observe a two minute silence for all the martyrs who redeemed our nation . I do not know if doordharshan still holds on to its anniversarily screening of the movie Gandhi. My hairs do raise everytime i see this. Also still remember how i felt the ending of the movie "The legend of Baghat Singh" as a tight slap on me. Patriotism, like any other feeling just creeps in at times and drains as against the daily stupidites that easily gain control of us.