Hype is not always good. 'Namo Venkatesa' was said to be going to touch the pinnacle of comedy before its release, but it turns out that the film has only an ordinary comedy track. Never matter, because it is enjoyable, even though a little less convincing than we would have wanted. For yet another time, director Sreenu Vaitla employs his favourite formula, in the hope that it gives him results. Will it or won't it? Let's wait and see. That not all tested formulae are fail-safe is to be borne in mind. Released on the day of Sankranthi, the film definitely makes a good family entertainer. Venkatesh, coming with an attitude of full-blown positivity and the main 'villain', Brahmanandam, who derives sadistic pleasures from fooling around the hapless singer-cum-ventriloquist, entertain us till the end. And, yes, though Venkata Ramana (Venkatesh) is ever-hopeful, there does come a point in his life when he loses all hope and calls it quits with his favourite deity the Lord Venkateswara. It seems that the power of the "Be Positive" mantra strongly seated in his subconscious brings him the ultimate luck in the end. To begin with, Mr. Ramana is a worried lot because he has remained 'pellikani Prasadu' all along. Let alone entering into a wed lock, he is not even finding bride matches, which his father Chandra Mohan explains away with an analogy. A follower of horoscope, he understands that he should get married in a month's time or he will remain a bachelor forever. Shift to Paris, where he arrives to perform his art of ventriloquism. Enter Prasad (Brahmanandam), who decides to play a mind game with Ramana by making him believe that his daughter-in-law Trisha loves him. Ramana builds castles in the air, but Trisha's conscience grows stricken. Though she does not like fooling around the good-hearted, clean-minded Ramana, circumstances compel her to do so. Back in India, Chengal Naidu (Mukesh Rishi) makes arrangements to marry his son off to our heroine, much against her wishes. Trisha tries to run away, but her efforts fail. The hapless girl, put under house arrest, seeks the help of Prasad. The wily Brahmi sketches a plan and enlists Venky in the mission to free Trisha from her blood-thirsty relatives. What follows next is to be seen on the screen. Story-wise, though it is not fresh, it doesn't push us to the limits. The idea should have actually appeared old-fashioned for a big star like Venkatesh. Vaitla repeats a scene or two from his previous films, which is not bad. What is surprising is that he doesn't show imagination and throw out those mindless goondas, all of whom Sreenu's heroes manage to make fool of so effortlessly. Yet another time, the same formula? Why not come up with something different, Vaitla? Performances of all lead actors is adequate. Devi Sri's tunes are just about okay. Dialogue by Chintapalli Ramana is elevating. Venky and Trisha strike chemistry. All in all, go for it with bare minimum expectations and you are sure to get a bang for your money.
Techinal crew:
Produced by: AVM Productions
Director: Babu Sivan
Cast: Vijay, Anushka, Salim Ghosh, Shayaji Shinde
Music: Vijay Anthony
Cinematography: Gopinath
Editing: V.T. Vijayan
Promotor and co-producer : Sun Pictures
You can see the advertisement for this film more than 30 times in a day in SUN TV ( A tamil channel ) which is the distributor of this film. Now they also offer free
entry to their game show "Deala No Deala" if the viewers answer the questions related to vettaikaran correctly.We went to this film as we did not get tickets for Avtar
and 3 idiots and here is the story of the film.
The story is neither different nor a great one. Same old tit for tat kind of thing. Vijay plays the role of 'Police Ravi'. As the name indicates his ambition is to become a
policeman. His mentor is Devaraj IPS , a sincere and honest police officer who does many good things in the city. Vijay keeps the cut out of devaraj in his place, listens
to his interviews and follows his advice and he is waiting for this plus two examination results ( which he has failed 3 or 4 times already ). Luckily vijay clears his plus
two exams and tells his father to get admission in the same college where his mentor devaraj studied.
He got admission in the college in chennai and he starts from tuticorin. While walking in the platform, he collides with Suseela ( Anushka ) and love at first sight happens
to him. While colliding one of her bangles comes to vijay. He is saying to his friend that he had imagined marrying and two kids ( one girl and one boy ) are born to them.
He boards the train and surprised to see anushka in the same compartment. Later he cames to know that anushka is not travelling in the train but his grandmother
( Actress Sukumari ).
On the first day of this college, while the lady lecturer was taking classes, a student named Uma comes late for the college and the lecturer scolds her for coming late. At that
time, some workers are making sound outside the room and the lecturer closes the windows as that sound is disturbing the class.Uma tells her neighbour that fresh air is not
coming and she is feeling difficult. On seeing this, lecturer scolds badly about the character of Uma. On seeing this, vijay opens the windows of the room and requests the
workers to stop the work for couple of hours as that is the first day of their college.Vijay tells the lecturer that uneducated people listens when we speak to them with affection.
But we the educated people judges badly about a person without actually knowing them. Lecturer says sorry to uma and students appreciates vijay's act.
Vijay is going to uma's house. Her father runs a travels. Vijay rents an auto from her father to earn money for this studies. ( His mentor devaraj also was driving auto and he
studied with that earning ). He cannot forget anushka. One day he is seeing her waiting for a bus in the bus stop.Vijay voluntarily takes her in his auto to her house.Anushka's
grandma invites vijay to the house and offers him snacks. Anushka is telling her grandma that she will hit the guy who stole her golden bangles. On hearing this, vijay gives the
bangle to anushka and says it accidentally came to him and he is keeping it in remembrance of her. Like this vijay's life is going smoothly. Meanwhile anusha is also impressed
with vijay after he finds out the stolen bike of her.
One day as vijay is regulating the traffic voluntarily, he stops the vehicle of Chella, son of local don Vedachalam who controls the entire chennai.That's the first meeting of
chella and vijay. Though vijay didn't see chella, chella gets angry with vijay for stopping his vehicle and he wants to kill him.Chella is a womanizer and wants to have the girl
he likes even if the girl is already married.
Vijay is going to uma's house to find out why she has not attended the college for past few days. Her father asks vijay to return the auto and tells him to see someother person.
Vijay asks her father why but he is not agreeing to disclose and says that uma has gone out of city. At that time uma comes from her house with a bag in her hands. Uma tells
vijay that the rowdy chella wants her. Vijay goes to chella's place along with uma and fights with chella.Chella suffers heavy injuries and admitted in hospital. Doctor says it
will take one month to recover.
Vijay was arrested by inspector ( Shayaji shinde ) for keeping heroine in his room. Anushka sees vijay in jail and tells him that she will get him out of jail.She comes to know
that vijay's mentor devaraj is not in delhi but in a bungalow in velachery. She goes to his house surpassing security and requests devaraj to help vijay and explains how vijay
admires devaraj. Devaraj is drinking wine and tells anushka that he won't provide any support. Anushka scolds him and leaves the place. Meanwhile shayaji shinde plans to
kill vijay in an encounter by swapping the file of vijay with a criminal and they are going in a jeep in a steep road. Vijay escapes from that place and jumps in a waterfall.
After vijay escapes, he goes straightaway to devaraj's house and tells him that how he admired him but he was not a good police officer. Then devaraj tells him that he lost his
wife ,children and his eye sight as well after arresting chella's men. Then they both decide to take revenge. Vijay comes to the house of vedachalam.Vedachalam shows vijay all
the properties he is having and says that vijay should be a slave for him till his life as a punishment for beating his son, chella.
Vijay starts a private detective agency with the help of devaraj and starts destroying vedachalam's wealth one by one. As a revenge vedachalam kills vijay's friend and sends him
the body packed in a box. Vijay gets more angry with this and destroys his jewellery, chitfund, building construction etc. Vijay also kills chella by making his car drown in a river
as chella doesn't know swimming.Vedachalam was shocked after chella's death and thinks how to destroy vijay. Finally he decides to become a minister and calls the party
leaders that he wants to become a minister and he will give how much ever money needed for that.
Vedachalam is getting ready to sworn in as minister and as he is about to start from his tea stall, vijay comes there. He hits everybody down and finally as he nears vedachalam,
he is caught by police.At that time vijay sees devaraj standing in the crowd with a gun in his hand. As devaraj is blind, vijay signals him by telling to put the siren of the car so
that devaraj can hear where the car is placed.When vedachalam opens the door of the car, vijay shouts minister has started and devaraj triggers the bullet. At the same time,
vedhachalam's man is having gun in his hand aiming vijay. So everybody thinks that vedachalam's man had killed vedachalam and that's the end of the movie as well.
Comments:
Vijay tried to imitate superstar Rajinikanth by following his style, talk etc. But he failed to succeed in that as it looks very artificial. The only thing that is good in this film is the
songs.All the songs are good especially 'Chinna thamarai', 'Karikalan' and 'Puli urumudhu'. The film can be watched once.
One flew over Cuckoo's nest, on its exterior is a movie about mentallly handicapped people and a person trying to escape from that asylum into a free world.But the beauty of the movie lies in the title itself which reflects the life of subroutine homo sapien.The mentally handicapped people has a limited piece of imagination.Their thoughts, their regular routines are always confined to their little minds. They are enveloping their ideas into a cuckoo's nest. An innocent cuckoo's nest.They fear their superiors, here a wicked nurse called Ratched.They drill their subroutine as per her instructions. They have their cuckoo's nest hanging on the branch held by these superiors. When their minds are cocooned with such limited imaginations meet a free bird always destined to fly, never meant to be caged, They will find a blessing in disguise.They realize what their wings are for.They peek their heads out of cuckoo's nest. They learn to fly. They learn to live Life.They will become elixirs of their self imagination.
Humans these days are no different than the mentally disordered people except that they are the ordered ones.The people in this contemporary world are forced to embellish their minds into cuckoo's nests.The cuckoo's nest contain a subroutine which starts as early as 7 in the morning.They press the accelerator to get themselves in time, swinging in jam packed vehicles, Waiting frequently due to traffic congestion.When they reach the office,they make themselves in the center of this nest. They neither see the world outside nor they ever try to look at it. This part consumes their lion's share and They start to leave to their homes swinging and waiting.They have their supper and spend a few moments with people eventually getting tired and falling into the dreams.I wonder when the people dream, will their dreams even dwell inside their nests or will they come out then to look the world outside ?
The world we live in is interwoven with different hierarchies.Its plight to say in these days that, Humans when felt of habituated to their live less life, They never try to come out of that instead They accommodate their minds into new nest, a bigger one much more complex to come out. One point of their life, They realize themselves jailed in the nest so much that when they try to come out of it,I am afraid, It might have become too late for them to explore the world with their jaded wings.Its already been a life time!!Only they are left to live their life imagining how beautiful, wise, serene free and moreover lively the world outside.Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying.
This is a comical movie, which has been released in three languages: English, Hindi, and Tamil on Aug 28,2009. The film is basically in English with a backdrop of Tamil and has been made with a touch of Western satire. It can be considered to be a funny melodrama which appeals more to children as it is somewhat innovative and runs in a different track from the usual kind of cinemas.
MAJOR CAST
Rajendra Prasad: As ‘Quick Gun’ Murugan
Nasser: As ‘Rice Plate’ Reddy
Rambha: As Mango Dolly
Ashwin Mushran: As Django
Anu Menon: As Locket lover
ShanMugh Rajan: As Gun Powder
Vinay Pathak: As Chitragupta
Director: Shashanka Ghosh
SYNOPSIS
The film starts with the villain, 'Rice Plate' Reddy, killing the hero, 'Quick Gun' Murugan The hero then goes to Heaven/Paradise and we are then transported back in time when he starts relating his flashback to Chitragupta.
The villian ‘Rice Plate’ Reddy of the McDosa Chain lays down a new rule stating that all the vegetarian hotels to be converted into non-vegetarian hotels, thus posing a threat to the cows. The villain, along with Django and Gun Powder, wants to create an ultimate non-vegetarian dosa. Meanwhile, Murugan, who is known as Quick gun Murugan because of his trademark pistols, takes a room in an inn. Coming to know of the situation, the heroic cowboy makes a fight with the villain, but is killed in the process.
Quick Gun Murugan is then reincarnated in the 21st century to finally put an end to the ‘Rice Plate’ Reddy and his gang, thus saving the cows and the vegetarian business.
REVIEW
The film is hilarious till the end and provides enough entertainment. Murugun with his cap and pistols appears like a true cowboy. His stylish clothes and some of his English dialogues like “Mind it”, “The whole creation is my native place” are billiant. Rambha As Mango Dolly, Murugan’s secret lover, plays her role well. Anu Menon as Murugan’s ‘Locket’ lover is another innovative idea in this picture.The special effects in the film are superb and the music scored by Sagar Desai is average. There are a total of 12 songs including remix versions and a Tamil Bhangra. Gaurav kappor makes a special appearance in the film.
The Imdb (Internet movie database) rating for this movie is 7.1/10
I hope next screen day brings some good films or else i always have the option of going back to my movie library and watching a classic (which never goes wrong). Do catch up with some good movie this weekend and watch it with your family members. If you want me to suggest any film, let me know. Bubye,
Live life filmy ishtyle.
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