NANBAN:
The most awaited tamil movie for this Pongal, which is a remake of the blockbuster movie “3 Idiots”, is Nanban. Starring Vijay as Panchavan Parivendan later known to be Kosakhi Pasapugazh, Jiiva as Sevalkodi Senthil, Srikanth as Venkatramakrishnan, Ileana as Ria Santhanam, Satyaraj as Virumandi Santhanam (Virus), Satyan as Srivatsan (Silencer), the movie was directed by Sankar.
Story line:
The storyline is pretty simple. Vijay, Jiiva and Srikanth join “Ideal Engineering College”. Vijay doing the lead role has a completely different opinion on the current education system and changes the opinion that Jiiva, Srikanth and Satyaraj had about the education system and make them pursue what their heart desires. Also Vijay changes the fortunes of Jiiva, Srikanth, Ileana and the principal of Ideal college, Satyaraj and he makes sure his friends Jiiva and Srikanth get job when they are about to complete their degrees. And finally, Satyaraj is forced to understand his mistake which he did based on his principle of Boy should become an engineer and female child should become a doctor, when his own daughter Ileana explains the reason for his brothers suicide. The complete story is the impact that Vijay had amongst his friends Jiiva and Srikanth. But one would have to accept that the impact that Vijay had on the audience was much more when compared to the impact that he had on his friends in the movie.
Screenplay:
Though the entire movie was a copied content, Sankar made sure there was no scene where tamil audience would feel something was missing from the original content. The picturisation and the way the story was narrated added some flavors to the original recipe.
Music:
After the success of Anniyan, the combination of Harris Jeyaraj and Sankar has come together in this project. And this is the first Vijay movie for which Harris has done the music composure. The background score was a typical Harris touch. “En friend aa pola yaaru machan” song was nice to hear. The rest of the songs were neither too good nor too bad. Overall, the musical score has been above average.
Positives:
- The background score of Harris was a pleasant to watch
- The screenplay and the locations were pleasant and colorful
- The extra humors added were so good and everyone broke into laughter
- It’s really nice to see Vijay without punch dialogues and fights
- The performance of Satyan was a great plus point for this movie. His slang and his modulations were simply superb.
Negatives:
- For those who had already seen the Hindi version of this movie, Vijay would be a disappointment as we tend to compare his performance with that of Amir Khan
- The performance of Ileana has been a great let down. In the entire movie, neither her acting nor her voice was charming.
- The song at the second half of the movie was not too good and I felt that the song could have been avoided.
Though we had mentioned several negatives, the impact that positives had was much more influential than the negatives in the movie. For those who had seen the Hindi version, they might feel the first half a bit dragging. And for those who hasn’t seen the Hindi version will see a complete different Vijay. Overall, this is a complete family entertainer and a must watch movie and a feast for the tamil audience and especially for Vijay fans.
The Karate Kid The karate kid is American movie of martial arts whose director is Harald Zwart, by Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, the film stars Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan. The movie starts from 12-years old kid Dre Parker who comes to Beijing with his mom after her job transfer from West Detroit to Beijing.Here he meets with Mr. Han who is plumber and the expert of martial arts. Dre starts loving to a girl who is violin player Mei Ying but Cheng one of her family friend tries to separate them as he likes her.
He sometimes use to arouses parker for fight and once he beats him and Parker's eye swell down . Parker tries to hide it from her mom by wearing a cap and applies a cream near his eyes.But she get it and shouts on him and he makes her understand that its nothing, he hit down by a poll. After that in the new school parker goes on tour along Mei and Cheng also.Dre finds that Cheng lives near his colony and one day he moves by without noticing him. When he finds an oil bucket he bespatter it on Cheng and his friends. All of Cheng friends catches him and beat him . Mr Han bandages parker and he comes to know that he is experience in martial arts and he asks Han to teaches him Kung fu. Mr. Han promises parker that he will teaches him Kung fu.Han learns dre how kung fu is related to general life of human .
Here Drey finds a woman who imitates the snake but soon Han clears him that Not the women but the snake is imitating the woman .Drey practice for kung fu daily through his jacket and rods. In this mean time Han tells Drey about his past that how he lost his wife and his son who was of the same age like Drey. After the hard practice on the day of tournament Drey and Cheng defeats all other contestants and stands against each other but in semi final round player from the Cheng team breaks Drey leg and he falls down . Mr. Han gives him an ice treatment and makes him able to stand for sometime .
In the final round again Cheng hits on the same leg of Drey due to which Drey gets big pain but he stands up and imitates as like woman who imitates snake and now Cheng imitates Drey and he kicks on Cheng's face and he fells down .Drey becomes the winner.
Twilight Saga - New Moon
New Moon is a romantic vampire themed story.Main characters of the movie are Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, and Jacob Black which are played by Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner respectively.It is the second part of twilight series.
The movie starts from a dream in which Bella experiences herself as an old woman while Edward is young because vampires do not grow up after an age of 17.It is her 18th birthday .But due to hazard from Edward's family he breaks his relationship with her.
Edward leaves bella alone in washington gloomily .She passes few months depressed .After it her father asks her to move to the town of her mother where she meet with her old friends after being lonely for a long time.Here she meets with her old friend Jacob who becomes her close friend now.But after sometime he stays away from bella .When bella tries to find the reason for staying away she finds him turning werewolf who are old enemies of vampires and they want to kill bella because one of their relative was killed by Edward but Jacob saves her from such wolves .Also when bella is crowded by few men on bikes she feels image of Edward as the last time he saves her from thrust.Bella comes to know about the image of Edward at every time when something gonna happens wrong .Image of Edward tries to stop Bella from doing such acts which are dangerous for her.
Edwards thinks that bella is killed imaginary after jumping from reef into ocean and he goes to Italy to meet Volturi a vampire who can kill him but bella reaches there with his sister to protect him . Then Volturi asks to kill bella as she knows about the existence of vampires . The condition is that either the human might be killed or he or she turns to vampires if they know about the vampires. In the last Edward promises to Volturi to turns Bella into vampire and saves her.
The Marathi film industry is nowadays going through a good phase of entertainment. The films made in recent years are of strong story base and good cast and crew. The films are successful attracting the viewers to the cinema hall in large numbers. One of the recent movies released last week is “Deool”. The film did a huge business from day one. The theme of the movie is about the game of politics played today in the name of God. This situation is same throughout the country. So after watching the movie, it feels like the movie should not be confined to the maharashtrian audience but should reach to the audience of the whole country.
Deoul, produced by Abhijeet Gholap and directed by Umesh Kulkarni, is a beautiful presentation of the confusion prevailing nowadays between religion and false beliefs. Today, facilities of schools, hospitals, colleges, roads, drinking water and sanitation are absent in most areas of the country. Most importantly, the residents of the so-called modern societies of Mumbai like Arey Colony, Sanjay Gandhi National Park are also devoid of such facilities. The electricity in many film studios of Arey colony is used without any reason for the whole night while the poor people are living in darkness.
Although the country is trying to prove that there is a shortage or rather mismanagement of all these facilities but the number of temples are increasing in multiple times. If we take a walk on the roads of any city of the country, we will find scores of variety of temples. Religion does not form the base of building a temple but the only reason is to fill one’s own pocket. Every temple has on an average, daily collection of 500 – 1000 rupees. Today many villages are crowded with temples but there is absence of quality hospitals.
The rural areas of India are changing enormously and rapidly. The cities are trying to enter in the villages while the villages are rushing towards the cities. The village youth are trying to adopt the modern lifestyle. The use of mobiles, television enables these young people to watch the colorful and attractive city life but the situation in which they are dwelling prevents them from living this life. They are always in a hurry to change this situation. Cities are changing so they believe that their villages should also change. But what this change actually means to them? It means that they should get all those things, which are required to lead a lavish life. Such youths falls prey of today’s hungry and selfish politicians. They utilize the energy and determination of these youths for their selfish intentions. Every political party wants these youth-league for their agitations, acclamations etc., which gives birth to negativity in these young people.
The story of Deoul forecasts all these above factors. The film shows the situation of a small village called Mangrul. The village does not have a good hospital. The village leader Bhau Golande and archaeologist Anna Kulkarni makes a plan to build a hospital in the village. In the mean time one of the villager have a revelation of Shri Dutta Digamber. The news of revelation spreads in the village like fire. The nephew of Bhau Golande, in order to outwit his uncle makes a plan to build a temple of Shri Dutta Digamber instead of hospital. For this purpose he even takes the MLA in his side and finally a temple is build in the village. The film focuses brilliantly on the way by which the propagation of this temple is done. Nowadays we see stickers and posters, which publicize a divine place. The whole country has thousands of such awakening divine places then why do these awakening places bring about the development of the country?
Umesh Kulkarni has given full justice to this burning topic. The film shows how
1) Marketing is done under the name of God.
2) The pockets of one’s own and one’s relatives are filled.
3) The coconuts and the garlands, which the devotees offer to God, are brought back and sold.
4) The devotional songs are composed and sung on the filmy beat.
This is a fact but no one cares. A devotee when comes to worship with full devotion, he catch the sight of these things and gets hurt. In the temple, which is the place of faith of lakhs of devotees, thousands of rupees are taken as bribe to enable them to enter the queue. In spite of paying the bribe, the devotee is not able to obtain the sight of the God even for half a second. This is the situation today. Besides these, due to 50% reservation the females are elected as the head of the village. Their condition of such females is also beautifully shown in the movie. The changing status of village, the increasing promotion of mobiles, T.V and set top box and its effect on the village life is also shown very intellectually.
The director of the movie has tried to open the eyes of the people by handling this sensational topic. The Cast of the film which includes Nana Patekar, Dilip Prabhawalkar, Sonali Kulkarni and others along with the director, producer and all the crew members are truly deserves a big thanks. The film is worth watching in order to awaken one’s own strength.
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