Bollywood, from long time has been dealing with roles involving some incurable diseases, like, Cancer, Mental Attack, Brain Tumor, Blood Vomiting and now Progeria. Sometimes to extend the story, and sometime the movies are specially based on it. This article is the review of the same….

Bollywood’s Super Star Amitabh Bachhan’s movie ‘Paa’ from last few days is getting more popular. The specialty of this movie is he(Amitabh Bachhan) has acted as a 13 year old boy, affected by an incurable disease called Progeria. This movie introduced an unfamiliar disease that was not known to many till now. Different role, different acting, and different incurable disease will definitely make the movie ‘Paa' memorable.

'Paa' is the story of child who is getting older day by day. Means boy was young but his body was old. This is a true nature of the disease. Few years back Sridevi has shown her acting ability in the movie ‘Sadma’, where she performed same type of role. But the situation was little different there, In that movie Sridevi behaves like a young girl due to a psychological attack on her. 'Paa' had some different story, this type of disease was unknown to viewers, and they haven’t seen it anywhere or on anyone. That’s why 'Paa' had a great success.

Producers keep on trying some new things to show something different or to make their movie little different than other’s. To do this actors and actresses are shown with some incurable diseases. It attracts people’s attention and empathy, this leads to attraction of huge crowd towards theaters. In these type of movies there is a tradition to show the lead with some incurable disease like Cancer, Brain tumor, Blood vomiting, etc. so as to touch the emotions of viewers. Whenever there is the movie showing some incurable diseases it leads huge success.

The disease that appeared most of the time in movies is cancer. Just go back in memory and you will easily remember the strong role performed by Rajesh Khanna in ‘Aanand’. At the end of the movie when Rajesh Khanna closes his eyes, and when Amitabh Bacchan says ” Baatein karo mujhse … "viewers too feel that Rajesh Khanna should getup and say something… at the same time viewers and Amtabh hears the known voice “ Babumushaay..”. It just brings the excitement among everyone but soon the screen shows a tape recorder & the excitement turns in to deep silence. It shows the fear of the cancer, danger of cancer. Later there came many movies based on cancer, but no one could match ‘Aanand’.

Superstar Amitabh Bachhan in the movie ‘Majboor’, had performed an excellent role of person infected by Brain tumor.

Further the movie, ‘Dard ka Rishta’ made under Sunil Dutt’s Ajanta arts, shows that the cancer of Khushboo was cured by American treatment. Anita Raj in ‘Prem Geet’ and Rajeeta in ‘Aakhiyon ke zharokhen mein’ were shown infected by Blood Cancer. And in ‘Chor aur Chand’ had both Aaditya Pancholi & Pooja Bhaat infected by Cancer. Randhir kapoor to acted very well as a cancer infected patient in the movie ‘Harzaai’. Shakti Samant took help of Cancer twice in ‘Anuraag’ and ‘Anuroodh’. In recent times too Shahrukh Khan in ‘Kal ho na ho’ & Dimple Kapadiya in ‘Dil Chahata hai’ had a cancer.

In a record nine role performed in movie ‘Naya din nayi raat’ Sanjeev kapoor had one role in which he has been a blood vomiting patient. The same type of role was performed by Sharmila Tagore in the movie 'Desh Prem'.

Mental attack is also one of the frequent diseases that are shown in Bollywood. Some of them that could be easily remembered are Simmy’s ‘Chalte chalte’, Rakhi’s ‘Dhuwa’, ‘Baseera’, and ‘Dusaraa Aadmi'. Sanjeev Kumar in ‘Khilauna’ Smita Patil in ‘Haadsa’, Akshay Kumar in ‘Sangharsh’ and Ashotosh Rana’s ‘Dushman’ are also some that clould be remembered.

In very recent time, Mr. Perfectionist, Aamir Khan shown a new disease ‘short term memory’ in 'Ghajini' , where as Darshal Safari stars Dialysis infected child in the movie ‘Taaren Jameen Par’ which was also brought by Aamir Khan. Darshal Safari also won a critics award by Film Fare for this role..

Avatar Vs 2012

Hi friends, in this article we will discuss about the most expensive film in the world, AVATAR. Lot of hype and lot of expectations for this film and I believe that his will be one the biggest hit ever in film industry. 2009 is really a great treat for cinema lovers, because two huge budget movies, 2012 and Avatar. Most importantly these two films deal with a very different subject one explaining that the world may come to an end by 2012, whereas other goes to our future and it explains the invasion of human to another planet called Pandora in 2154 AD. To view about te cost of this movie click here

James Cameroon and Avatar

I haven’t seen the movie AVATAR so far, but I managed to know the core concept and story line of the movie, thanks to Internet. James Cameroon has once again proved that he is unique and one of the best directors in the world film industry. As a matter of fact this film is like a dream project for him and he has been working on this script for more than 10 years, to be precise, it is 15 years. It is interesting to know that he had this project in his mind, even before making the blockbuster and record movie, which won 11 Oscars, i.e. TITANIC.

To be frank I really had no idea about James Cameroon, before knowing about this film Avatar. Even though I watched the film Titanic, I was unaware of the director’s name at that time. But the release of Avatar really made him very popular (even to those who are not aware of him, like me) all over the world and each and every cinema fan will love to watch his film Avatar. At first instant when I heard about this movie Avatar, I thought it is an Indian movie, but late came to know that it is a Hollywood film. But still I believed that this film has some Indian connection, because the name Avatar seems to be a typical Indian name. But now after hearing the story about this film, form my friends, I can understand the actual theme of the movie to an extent.

I believe that after a couple of months, from its release (Avatar), the name ‘Pandora” is also going to be a huge hit, the reasons is simple, because Pandora is the name of the creative Planet which comes in this movie. Cameroon was really fond of all Alien kind of stories, right form hi young age and this eagerness and passion, motivated him to do a very complex and costly film in the world. He was very much attracted towards all the science fiction books and about his inspiration he said "every single science fiction book I read as a kid" This film will also explain the amount of efforts involved in making this film, when we watch this movie. Major percentage of the movie involves animation and graphics and finding the correct software for this film, resulted in the delay of this mega project.

You cnn check this link, "AVATAR", to watch the video, which explains the making of avatar

Joy of working for his dreams: Path to the making of Avatar

Another important thing about the title of the film Avatar is that, Cameroon first planned to have the title called “Project 880”, but later changed the title as “Avatar”. It is also believed that we can expect another part also for this film and that will make his dream a double success. This is a great treat for all fans and has proved world that if a person’s dream is satisfied, then we can surely see the efforts made by him, to get his dream fulfilled. He spent a lot of time for this movie and most of them were involved in finding the new and perfect software for this movie.

This is a very different story because we would have seen many films, where the aliens form an imaginary planet comes to our earth and fight against us. This has been the trend when it comes to making cinema with alien concept. But Lames Cameroon has changed the entire trend and he took a very creative and risky subject. Here in this film, the humans invade the planet called Pandora and the citizens of the Pandora consider the humans as Alien. This is more or less like the recent hit animated film called “Planet 51”, which also explains about an astronaut form earth lands in an unknown planet called “Planet 51”. But Avatar is very different and the graphics work shown in this film reveals the beauty of the creative planet “Pandora”. At the same time it also explains the risk and the negative side of the planet. So Pandora is a beautiful, yet mysterious planet and anything can happen to you, if you try to invade this planet and that is what explained in this film, which shows the war between the Humans, who invade the Pandora and the natives of the Pandora planet Navi. Pandora is very far from the earth and to be precise it is 4.3 light years from the earth.

The story of the movie starts in 2154 AD, where the hero of the film Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) is paralyzed. The selection of Sam Worthington for this project is a very interesting story, because James wants a hero who is less popular, as it makes the character very lively and we can have the feel that a common man like us is travelling to the planet. Now coming back to the story, there is a program called “Avatar Program” which involves ending of troops to explore the Pandora planet. Jake’s brother was working in this program and his death gave Jake a chance to join this program. Actually there is a reason for Jake to accept this project, and let us see this reason.

Pandora is the planet where human can’t live and so the Avatar Program used a different technology to make humans to set foot on the planet. So they virtually make the humans as the natives of Navi people. So Jake who is unable to walk due to this paralyze attack, now has an opportunity to walk again and so he accepts this project. The rest of the story deals with the emotion and the different circumstance faced by Jake and at one instant he has to choose either Pandora or Humans, because he falls in love with a Pandora woman called Neytiri.

This is an outline of the movie and I believe that you will share your experience about the film as soon as you watch this movie.

Great artists together for a great film:

Hi friends in this article let us discuss about one of the oldest but superb films of KamalHassan, and it is none other than “16 Vayathinile”, which is translated as at the 16th age or at the age of sixteen. This is really an amazing village. I guess every KamaHassan’s fan would have definitely watched this movie and incase if you have missed this try to download form internet and enjoy this film. Maestro Illayaraja has done a great job in composing the music for this film, as all his songs were huge hit.

This is not a simple movie because each and every character in this film has done a great job and let me start with the Hero’s character.

i) Kamalhassan as”CHAPPANI”: The name Chappani is well known for innocent character in Tamil Nadu and this trend started only after this film. Kamal is an innocent man in the village and his innocent behavior and different walking style impressed everyone. Kamal was one of the leading young heroes at that time and even at that time he was very brave to do this character and at one scene he also appeared in one piece. This was the talk of the town, because no one would have acted in this character, except Kamal. This made many to predict that Kamal would became one of the best heroes of all time, not only in Tamil industry but also in entire India.

ii) Sri Devi as Mayil: She is considered as the beauty of the village, and everyone in the village like here. She was also educated and her dream is to become ea teacher. Everyone praised her beauty and this made her to think about marrying a well educated man. Chappani is hr cousin in this film.

iii) Rajinikanth as parattai: Our superstar “Rajinikanth” has done a negative role in this film and his character was very much appreciated by everyone. He often teases everybody and used to say “Idhu Epadi Irukuthu?” which means “How is it?”, to his group members. As a matter of fact this might also be considered as the start of using Punch Dialogue for Rajini. He later used the English version of this dialogue “Idhu Epadi Irukuthu?” as “How is it?” in of his films called “Veera”. Another important thing is that Koundamani was also in this group and he along with Rajinikanth, provided us a great entertainment.

Why this film is very special?

This film is very special and it has many reasons and let us sees some of the main reason here.

i)    This is the first film for the director Bharathiraja. Later he became one of the finest directors of Tamil Film Industry, along with K. Balachandar. Baharathiraja is usually known for his village subject and it is nice to know that he started of his carrier with a beautiful village subject.

ii)    This is the first Tamil movie, which was entirely shot in outdoor locations and no sets were used. Credit goes to Bharathiraja for changing the trend of Tamil Cinema. Many followed his path after seeing this film.

iii)    This is also the first color film for Rajinikanth and even though he was seen in major part of the movie in the negative role, you will be surprise to know the fact that only 3 days of call sheet were enough for Rajinikanth to complete his part in this movie.

iv)    This film was blockbuster and earned around 5 crores (Present value) and as a result of this the producer of the movie went hiding since the producer was afraid of Income tax problems.

Story line:

To start with let me just ask you to forget the present day cinema which involves all the graphics work because this film was completely shot in a village and it will never look as a movie, because it is so natural, thanks to the director and actors. So a practical story was handled very well by the debutant director “Bharathiraja”. So just imagine of a typical Indian village situation, before moving into further reading.

The film start sin a beautiful village and Mayil is considered as the beauty queen of the village. She is 16 years old and hence the name of the title. She has a dream and passion of becoming a teacher and so she wants to apply for a teaching job. Mayil’s mother (Gandhimadhi) was very much fond of her and also took a good care of Mayil. Another important character in this house is Chappani, who is Mayil’s cousin. Chappani like Mayil very much and he has his own dreams of marrying her. But on the other hand, Mayil never cared about Chappani and never thinks about the help done by Chappani.

At the same time the village has a gang, lead by Parrattai and their main takes is to make fun of everybody they see. Rajini the leader of this gang has the habit of teasing Chapani also and at the same time he uses Chappani very well to complete his entire task. The innocent Chappani doesn’t know about anything and he used to do every work assigned by the people of that village. He is also very good hearted and in once scene when some small boys of the village tried to kill a lizard, Chappani pleaded them not to kill and couldn’t tolerate the sufferings of the lizard. This is a great proof to explain the Chapani’s character.

Mayil, who is considered as the beauty queen, is always motivate by others that she will marry a well educated man, form a town. This made her to dream about her future and slowly and steadily she also decides to marry a well educated person. It was during this time a Doctor arrives to the village and it is shown as if they both were in love. But later Mayil realizes the truth, when the doctor tried to misbehave with her. This incident spreads like a fire and everyone doubts the character of Mayil. Parattai also tells badly about Mayil and stops her marriage. Later the death of Mayil’s mother has changed her entire character and she slowly understands the reality of who is working and helping for her benefit.

Slowly she was inspired by Chappani’s innocent character and also decides to marry Chappani. But Parratai, who always had an eye on Mayil tries to misbehave with Mayil when Chappani was not in home. But fortunately Chappani comes to that place and in order to save Mayil, this innocent man, kills Parattai. Then he was arrested and the film ends as Mayil waits for Chappani’s return.

Hope you enjoyed the review and I am sure you will enjoy the movie, when you watch it.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Movie Review :

Introduction :

The Term Hitchhiking refers to generally asking for a ride when you do not have a means of transportation. Hence as the name indicates, this movie is about hitch hiking a ride and the destination is the Galaxy. Therefore this movie belongs to the Science-Fiction category. This movie was actually based on the novel> Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy, written by Douglas Adams.

Cast and release information :

The novel is written by Douglas Adams as mentioned above and the Screen play is done by Karey Kirkpatrick. The movie is directed by Garth Jennings and produced by Robbie Stamp. Garth Jennings has also directed movies such as Hammer and Tongs and Son of Rambo. Though he has not directed many movies, he has done a very good job in making of the film, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The starrers are : Martin Freeman who plays the lead role, Mos Def who plays thr role of friend of the lead actor, Zooey Deschanel the lead actress, that is the girlfriend, Sam Rockwell who plays the role of being the president of the Galaxy, and others include Bill Nighy, Anna Chancellor, John Malkovich,Warwick Davis, and Alan Rickman. This Movie was released in United Kingdom and the United States in the year 2005, in English language. It was distributed by the famous Touchstone Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment. The run time of the movie is around two hours and provides a decent entertainment.

Story summary :

This movie starts with introduction of Dolphins at the water parks that run for entertainment and people come to watch the cheerful dolphins. It runs with the comedic state that the cheers and giggles posed by the dolphins which we assume to be play pranks made by them are nothing but warnings they are giving to the humans that the world is going to come to an end. And hence according to the writer, the dolphins are considered as the mature beings far more clever than the humans. They leave the planet earth and enter the vast space with a song called > So long and thanks for the fish.  This scene for beginners viewing it for the first time would be confusing as they do not understand what is going on when the dolphins get sucked into the space. What is actually being conveyed is that, the dolphins are clever creatures that should not extint when the earth destroys with the humans. Hence, the dolphins are considered more important than humans.

The next scene takes us to a man and his normal daily life. His name is Arthur. He lives far from the main city along the Green lawns. Apparently, he is the only person living there. He is supposed to vacate the premises as there is going to be a construction of local highway. But, he refuses to leave his house as the house would be demolished to pieces. He lays flat in front of his house to avoid them starting their work. Just then his friend, Ford comes with plenty of cans of beer and offers to take him for a drink and offers all the beer for the workers, so that they would be busy drinking. In the pub, Ford explains that the world is going to end in annother 5 minutes. Suddenly, when he hears some noices, they head out to see that the work on the demolition of the house is already started. the bigger problem is not only his house, but the entire planet is going to be destroyed in a couple of minutes. To escape from the tragedy, the hitchhike to leave earth.

When they Hitchhike, they get captured by the Vogon ship. Vogons are ugly creatures who are too dumb and rely on paper work than on common sense. The worst habit of Vogons is their poetry which is horrible to listen. It was them who actually destroy the planet Earth and who have successfully destroyed many other planets for the construction of an highway passing accross the universe. Arthur and Ford gets thrown out in the space for hitchhiking. Eventually, they get into the ship owned by the president. The president is out of control and goes in search of something called > The Ultimate Question. There he finds the girl whom he has net at a party and fell in love with. She does not know that the Earth was destroyed. Eventually they realize that the permission was give by the President who thought he was being asked for an autograph.

Review and Rating :

The story seems too random and misleading but the screenplay is good to watch and the animation was also effective to watch. The movie is best understood and enjoyed only when watched couple of times. Most of the audience might feel boring if the comedy aspect of the movie is not understood. Hence the movie is filled with adventure moving from one place to another in seek of the ultimate question. Hence the movie belongs to comedy adventure category.

I will give this movie a rating of  = 7 / 10 for Comedy. The roles played by all the acotors are supposed to promote humour and they have done a good job. The story content is not very exciting and hence the rating would be = 4 / 10. The story depth could have been creative. In most of the cases, i thought the story or the scenes were a bit silly. Though it has some action details,  It ia not an action movie as those are supposed to promote humour so the rating for this can be avoided. Just like most of the Science fiction movies in English, the animation and Graphics content is excellent to watch and has a very ppealing look. I will rate the Graphics =  7 / 10. There is a little bit of Romance but once again not a romantic category of movie. The boring and silly scenes occupy half of the movie, therefore the Overall rating for the movie would be 6 / 10. This movie is fine to watch up to a maximum of five times as long as the comedy is understood.

Hence the film, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy  need not be completely avoided. It can be watched when shown in the Television but need not buy it in form of DVDs as the DVD content is also not interesting and would be a waste of money. The DVD consists of some deleted scenes, no Bloopers which might be fun, and some simple game to play. This movie remained one among the Top 10 in the box office for the first four weeks.