Hi friends in this article let us discuss about the film that won the Best Film Award at the 55th National Award along with the Best Actor Award, which went to Prakash Raj for his character "Vengadam" in this movie.Ive got a chance to watch this movie and I will say that everyone should watch see this film.
Even though it is a Tamil film, it has no language barriers, as it shows how the hard working peolpe struggle and how they work hard to keep their promise.
Truly sensational acting from Prakashraj who deserves this award. He is known for his best acting, but in this film he lives as the Silk Weaver "Vengadam". Apart from Prakashraj, Shreya reddy has also done an extremely good job.When you find a chance to watch this movie , make sure that you are relax, so that the core of the movie can be easily understood.
Really you might cry during the climax, if you are sensitive as it is a true story and so when you feel that this incident had happen to a human being some 60 years back, you might shed tears. Credit goes to Priyadarshan ,who has directed this movie, and franky speaking he has showed the sufferings of the Silk Weavers very naturally and real.
Actually this story takes place in Canjeevaram (also called as Kanchivaram). Kanchivaram is nothing but the present Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu which is famous for its silk. During the Britis period it was called as Kanchivaram.Eventhough the film is about the story that takes place in Kanchivaram, reports says that shooting took mostly in Mysore.
Another view of the film is the raise of Communism and they have shown very clearly in this film.Before Russia becomes an allie during the second world war, Communism was against the law in India.Prakahsraj has done this part very well because the introduction of communism made the Silk Weavers to fight for their rights against the rich Zamindars.
Technical Crew of the film
i)This film was written and directed by the well known director Priyadarshan
ii)Shailendra Singh is the producer for this film
iii)This film was released officially on September 12, 2008
iv)The music director for this film is M. G. Sreekumar
v)This film runs for about 2 hours and to be precisre it is 8 minutes short of 2 hours.
vi)The Editing work for this film was done by Arun Kumar
Artists and casts
i)Prakash Raj as Vegandam, and he is a poor Silk Weaver and from my point of view he lived as this characater.He was shown as 30 years man when she was married and he was also shown as an old man when his daughter dies and the transformation between these two characters was extremely good and hats off to him.
ii)Shreya Reddy as Annam, who is the wife of vengadam and she is always very calm and at point of time she becomes a victim in a stampade and om that time onwards she becomes ill which lead to his death.
iii)Shammu as Thamarai, and she is the daughter of Vengadam and Annam.She has also acted in Kamal's Dasavatharam as the Scientist Doctor, who is responsible for the monkey anu to escape for the box and die, and it is shown in the image below.
About the movie
The film starts in a police station, on February 1st 1948 (Madras Province), when Prakashraj was released from the jail, under the custody of two policemen who also comes with him.Then they travel from Coimbatore to Kanchipuram.
Prakash Raj was seen with hand cuff and this says that he was released with special permission and the reason is kept as suspense.
Then he along with the two police officer travels in a bus and they start to travel in the bus in spite of heavy rain.Then the bus stops in a tea stall and everybody goes to drink tea.At that place, one of the police officer looses his batch and he scolds Prakashraj, as he was responsible for that.
Then the flash back starts, where Prakash Raj was getting married to Shriya Reddy and they come to the village of Prakash Raj.
There he was teased by a old lady, as Prakash's wife was wearing only an ordinay sarrie and not a silk sarrie, because before this Pakash promised the entire village, that in his marriage he will bring his wife with a Silk sarre.
Then again the films comes to the present(i.e., 1948) where the bus stops as a tree fell on the road and the driver says that it will take time for the bus to start again.
Again in the flash back, it is shown that Prakash Raj father dies and he doesn't have silk clost for final formality but he manages with a silk thread.The next day when Prakash goes to the Zamindar of the village and there the Zamindar says that he will not give Silk thread to the house of silk weaver, rather all silk weaver should come to temple for weaving.
So next day all the Silk Weavers comes to the temple and Prakash Raj was called by the Zamindar and asked to make a saree for his daughter's marriage and that must be unique. After that he works hard to finish the saree and he also discusses this with his wife every time regarding the design, but unfortunately he couldn't show the saree to his wife.
A foreigner comes to Zamindar's house and he was astonished to see the beautiful work done in the saree and he also praises Prakash Raj and the foreigner was also informed that each saree costs 800 and Zamindar tries to makes business with this.Prakash Raj was given additional 1 rupee for this work along with his salary of 7 rupees.
Prakash Raj was very happy and he comes to his wife happily and says that everybody appreciated his work and both of them were happy.
But his wife asks Prakash that she want to see the saree and Prakash also promised that he would show here during the marriage of the Zamindar's daughter.
Next morning both of them decided to go to te Marriage so that they could see the saree and when they reach the Zamindar's house, Prakash got the news that his wife was pregnant after she vomits.
Then the film comes to present and this time the bus got punctured and the driver asks all to get down form the bus in spite of heavy rain.But a child and mother was inside the bus.
So again the film goes to flash back where a girl child was born to Prakash Raj and during the function Prakash Raj promises that he will buy a Silk Saree for his daughter during his marriage, and the name of their daughter is Thamarai.
Everyone critisize Prakash Raj as during that time it was only a dream for the silk weavers to buy a Silk Saree and Prakash already failed once as he wasn't able to buy a Silk Saree for his wife at the time of his marriage.
Then after this Prakash finds his sister's husband was missing as he was not having enough money to run the family.Later Shreya asks why he promised to get the silk saree as it was highly impossible.But Prakash raj says that he was collecting money for years and he also believes that working hard till his daughter's marriage will make him to get the enough money to make a silk saree.
The next day in the temple Prakash's friends says that he wil come late next day and he asks Prakash to get his silk thread for him.Meanwhile Prakash's brother-in-law threatens that he will not take his wife back until Prakash gives him money.Under this crirical circumstance Prakash decides to the use the money to save for his sister's life as her husband takes her wife back to his house.
But Shreya was upset because the money can't be used to get silk saree for his daughter.Then he decides to work hard and also he goes to the extent of smuggling the Silk thread and hides them in their mouth so that he could not be caught when the security checks him.
He keeps this as a regular habit and also starts to weave a own silk saree in his house with the help of small amount of strings he used to collect everyday and he used to weave every night after everyone in the house were asleep.Then his daughter grows and she started to go to school along with his friend's son.In the film Prakash Raj is shown to forget his wallet, key etc when he goes to work and his wife will help him and these scene are humorous.
During that time motor vehicle was unknown among the people in the village as they were used to see only horse vehicle and they believe that a horse vehicle that runs without horses and everybody was eagerly expecting for the arrival of the Motor car.
The day has finally come and it was a holiday as the Zamindar has brought a motor car and everyone were expecting for that and they were surprised to hear that the driver earns a huge amount of 35 rupees every month for this.Finally when the motor car was coming everybody was shouting and running after the car and during this a stampede occurs and Shreya becomes a victim due to this stampede.
After some days a man comes to the village says that he was a writer and he is a communist man and during that time Communism was strictly prohibited as it was under the British rule.Later during a function in a village Shreya vomits and everybody was shocked to hear that she was blood vomiting, and the locals there said that they should take her to Town hospital.
So Prakash asks his friend to arrange for a horse vehicle to go and see a town doctor, but Shreya believe that she wont be alive for the next day.So Prakash Raj carries her and shows the unfinished sarrie that he was weaving for these days with the help of the smuggled strings.While she was seeing the unfinished saree Shreya dies.
Now Thamarai has grown up and she take care of all the responsibilities of the house and he also helps her dad o find the wallet,key,spectacles when he leaves for the job. She also goes to the tailoring class.At the same time Prakash's friends son,Ranga, joins the British - Indian army as the world war 2 has started and he is also in love with Thamarai and this love is double sided.
Meanwhile the writer slowly changes the mind of the people in the village by saying stories and also making them to act in drama, that particularly criticises the Zamindar of the village.But the writer slowly promotes the communist idea and this made the weavers think that they were slave to the Zamindar.
But the police surrounds that village in search of the writer who teaches the Communist principle as it was against the law at that time and they kill the writer.After some day Rangan writes a letter and he also says that he is willing to marry Thamarai and as a result of this Prakash goes and asks his friend whether he is willing to allow his son to marry his daughte and he also accepts and both were happy and he again promises that he will give Silk Saree to his daughter.
After the death of the writer, Prakash takes car of the writer's work and he along with others makes a demand with the Zamindar and according to that demand that includes
i)Weavers after 60 years should be given pension
ii)The salary for 3 saress should be 45 than that of 25
iii)Silk Weavers those who wevae in house must be independent to sell their saree on their own.
So they decided to ask for this demand, but the Zamindar refuses it and Prakash was arrested saying that he was a Communist and as a result all the weavers involve in a strike as they didn't go for work.So the Zamindar finally makes prakash release from jail and he was badly beaten.
Meanwhile the foreigner makes a contract with Zamindar and he also asks them to deliver on the exact date, but the zamindar feels it would take time, but he somehow plans to finish the job by bringing the silk form Mysore as quickly as possible within 10 days and also orders the weavers to work 3 hours extra everyday.
So using this opportunity Prakash and other weavers again ask for their demand and threatens they will not come to job if the demand was not made.But the zamindar says that he will import and weavers from Mysore and finish the job.So Prakash decides to takes the pedal from all the weaving machine, which is necessary for weaving, so that they couldn't start their job without the pedal.
So naturally the work stops and there is no source of income for all the weavers.Meanwhile in the Second World War Russia becomes an allie with Britain and so Communism becomes legal in India.Apart from this Zamindar agreed to give 20 % extra salary but rejected all the other demands.So they decided to continue the strike until all the demands are accepted.
As the strike continues Thamarai was very much concerned about how he is going to get the Silk Salary.Meanwhile Ranagn comes from the army and he came so that he could get married to Thamarai.So Prakash Raj was worried whether he could finish the saree or not so he decides to return to work and also asked others to return.
But Prakash friend was against him and he feels that he was selfish.When Prakash was returning from the work his friends starts to fight with him and in this fight the silk strings which he was hiding in his mouth comes out and the employee of zamindar beats him and he was arrested for this and this is the reason he was in jail.
Now the film comes to the present and when Prakash and the policemen reach Kanchipuram and they receive the news that Thamarai was very ill.Prakash goes home and he couldn't see Thamarai in that stage.His brother-in-law was not interested to take care of her and Prakash was having 16 more months to complete his punishment in the jail.
So he takes a decision that might not be correct but that will do at least some good to his daughter as he mixes poison in the food and feeds her and as a result Thamarai dies.After this he goes and get the unfinished silk and tries to cover the body, but unfortunately the saree was not lengthy to cover the entire body.The film finally ends when Prakashraj turns and laughs which indicates that he has become mentally ill. Surely most of them would shed tears after watching this scene.Surely he deserves an award and moreover the film is also very nice even though it is slow.
The IMDB rating for this movie is 8.6 out of 10
Hi friends in this article let us discuss about the Hindi film called "TAHAAN".This is about the film of a young boy in Kashmir and this is a great film and especially the location where the film was shot was amazing.Santosh done a great dual job as he is the cinematographer and also the director for this film.
Tahaan is the name of this boy and the story revolves around how he lost his pet animal, i.e donkey and how he gets it back.In the midst of this he was used by a terrorist saying that he could elp him get the donkey back and the terrorist uses him to transfer the bomb, when it comes to security issues.
The donkey name is Birbala and this is very close to Tahaan and so he never want to be separated from the donkey.In the meanwhile Tahaan's father was been arrested and when Tahaan was about to commit a terrorist act, he sees his father and then realises what was happening around him.
I don't know Hindi, yet I managed to watch this film with the help of subtitles and this is definitely a must watch film.
Technical crew about the film
i)Santosh Shivam is the director and the cinematographer for this film and this is the 5th film as director
ii)Shripal Morakhia and Mubina Rattonsey are the producer for this film
iii)The music director for this film is Taufique Quresh
iv)The editing for this film was done by Shakti Hasija
v)This film was written by Santosh Sivan , Ritesh Menon and Paul Hardart
vi)After many years a full film was shot in Kashmir, thanks to Tahaan
vii)Officially this film was released 5 September 2008
viii)This film has won many awards and also nominated for many more both in National and International arena.
Artist and casts
i)Purav Bhandare as Tahaan.This is the debut film for him and he has done a great job.His expression was too good and he also acted as an innocent boy.Throughout the movie he has perfromed well and also got many appreciation from all.
ii)Anupam Kher as Subhan Darr an he is also an important character in this film and he is the one who buys Tahaan's donkey for his nephew.He was kind but at the same time Tahaan felt that he broke the promise many times as he didn't return the Donkey after winning the race against his Subhans assistant Zafar.
iii)Rahul Bose as Zafar and he is the assistant of Subham.He was in love with a girl and he was shocked to hear that his lover was going for marriage as he misunderstood that to be her marriage.But the girl was saying that she was going to attend her friends marriage.He with his horse race with Tahan and his Birbala and he loses the race.
iv)Sarika as Haba and she is Tahaan's mother.She couldn't speak and she also lost her hsband and regulary visists jail with his photo to find whether he was in jail and once he was followed by Tahaan.
v)Rahul Khanna as the local money lender and he is the one who takes away Birbala and also some of the family's assets.
vI)Victor Banerjee has done a small role as he is the grandfather of Tahaan and he dies one early morning whic leaves the family without any support.
vii)Sana Shaikh as Zoya and she is the elder sister of Tahaan.She works as a local guide in a hotel.
About the film
This film starts in a beautiful valley of Kashmir when Tahaan searches for Birbala(his donkey) and in this search he also hears gun shots, due to the fighting between Indian and Pakistan Army.At that time his grandfather comes and he warns him not to come here alone.Then they find Birbala and reaches home.Usually Tahaan was teased by his friend when he was with Birbala.
One early morning Tahaan's grandfather was find dead and the family is without a support and there is no one to earn money to give the loan back to the moneylender, Rahul Khanna.So some of the properties of Tahaan and most importantly Birbala was taken by the moneylender.
So get his donkey back Tahaan tried various resources and somehow managed to get money and he goes to the money lender and there he finds that his donkey was already sold to Subhan.So Tahaan goes to Subhan and says he knows how to make the donkey work and he also asks Subhan to take him so that he could take care of Birbala and Tahaan also said he doesn't need any money for this.
Subhan refuses and he along with his assistant, Zafar, started to travel with Birbala and Tahaan begins to follow them without their knowledge.But Subhan realises that he was following and at one stage he also said the if he wins the race with his donkey against Zafar(who had horses) he will give his donkey back and the destination was Subhaan's house.
Meanwhile when they were crossing a bridge which has very high security a terrorist notices Tahaan and he also plans to use Tahaan to overcome the security problem.As Subhan was a well known person security people knows him bver well and he can easily cross the bridge.
Meanwhile Tahaan manages to win the race but Subhan didn't keep his promise as he gave the sun glass instead of Birbala and the disappointed Tahaan started to go to his home.On his way back he was interrruped by a terrorist and the terrorist also said he will help Tahaan in getting his Birbala back.
So the next time when Tahaan was travelling with Subhan to his village the terrorist gives a parcel to Tahaan because he was coming with Subhan dnd he won't be checked by the security guards.Tahaan also accepts to this because he believed that he will get back his Birbala back.
So the security didn't check and after crossing the bridge the terrorist gets the parcel and back in Subhan's house Tahaan sees his Birbala and he also realised thet Subhan brought his Birbala for his Nephew Yasin and he also tells Yasin that Birbala was very close to him and also asked him to buy a new donkey.
During the climax the terrorist assures to get Tahaan his donkey if he throws the bomb on the specific destination and when Tahaan was about to threw the bomb he finds that it was a police station and his father was also there and immediately he throws the grenade in the river.
Tahaan comes home and says his mother about his father whereaboutsMeanwhile Yasin says Subhan to return back Tahaan's donkey
back and it is also shown that a positive result when Tahaan's mother was expecting for her husband to return back.The film finishes, when Tahaan was suprised to see Birbala, when he woke up early in the morning and he was very happy.
The IMDB for this movie is 7.1 out of 10.
Hi friends in this article let us discuss about the movie Saroja directed by venkat prabhu. The movie was a thriller based comedy with all the entertaining element present in it.The expectations for the moive was high after the hughe success of chennai 600028. The director went with almost the same cast as of his previous movie. The movie was produced under the banner amma creations by T. Shiva and releade in the year September 5, 2008 in tamil and telugu.
Technical crew
* The story and direction for this movie was by vengat prabhu.
* Music scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja.
* The lyrics was by Gangai Amaren(Father of the director), Vaali and by Yuvan Shankar Raja.
* Cinematography for this movie was by Sakthi Saravanan.
* Art direction by Vitesh.
* The movie was produced under the banner amma crations by T.Shiva.
Editing for the movie was shared between K.L.Praveen and N.B.Srikanth.
CAst
* SPB Charan as Jagapathi Babu
* Prakash Raj as Vishwanath
* Jayaram as Ravichandran
* Shiva as Ajay Raj
* Premji Amaren as Ganesh Kumar
* Vaibhav Reddy as Ram Babu
* Sampath Raj as Sampath
* Vega Tamotia as Saroja Vishwanath
* Nikita Thukral as Kalyani
* Nagendran as Naaga
* Kajal Aggarwal as Pooja
Story line:
The movie is a thriller based comedy that mainly captures the happenings that take place within 24hours.Nearly 70% of the movie was shot in night time. Saroja deals with the story of four ordinary men who end up in an extraordinary situation on a day that is perfectly normal to start with.
The movie starts with the shooting of a serial where Ajay is a Tv serial artist.Ganesh, Jagapathi Babu, Ram Babu and Ajay are close friends.In the movie Ajay acts as a TV serial artist, Ganesh as a fun-loving man who falls in love with every woman he sees, Jagapathi Babu an engineer who is married and has a six-year-old daughter, and Ram Babu as Jagapathi's younger brother.Ram Bau fell in love with Pooja and he plans to tell her love to pooja, but Pooja tells Ram Babu that she loves Ajay before Ram could express his love.Ram Babu slowly tries to forget his love.The engagement of Ajay and Pooja gets fixed and all the three friends attend the engagement function where the first song(Aaja Meri Soniye) of the movie starts.The song features some of the television actors and actress.Vishwanath (Prakash Raj) is a business man in Hyderabad who has no time for his wife and teenage daughter Saroja.
One day, Saroja is kidnapped, and the police enter the scene, with Vishwanath's friend ACP Ravichandran (Jayaram) handles the case. On the same day here in Chennai all the four friends decide to go to Hyderabad to watch a cricket match. They travel in a old type of caravan.On their way to Hyderabad a huge tanker lorry carrying highly inflammable and dangerous chemicals overturns on the National Highway between Chennai and Hyderabad and the four friends are bloced in a massive traffic jam.Then they decide to take a shortcut route to Hyderabad, but they enter into a isolated area where the problem begins. It is now already dark and they dont know how to reach Hyderabad. Ajay the driver asks for the route to a village man who is the director venkat prabhu, who tells the route. After driving for a while the road cuts into two sides and they dont know of which route to go.After a small discussion they took one route and travelled. All of a sudden an injured man suddenly falls on their car from above. They try to help the injured man who has bullent wounds.Jagapathi Babu asks Ganesh and Ram Babu to ask for help in a nearby building. The dying man tell them to get out of this place but Jagapathi attempts to save the man, who repeatedly requests them to leave the place quickly.
A few men arrive in a jeep and start to shoot at them from a distance. Ajay rushes to the driver's seat and attempts to flee from the area. Their van gets hit by the other vehicle and is overturned, throwing the injured man outside. Shiva and Jagapathi remain inside the overturned van. Sampath Raj, the leader of the gang in the black jeep, steps out of his vehicle and starts firing at the injured man after a short conversation. Sampath then sees two men(Jagapathi and Ajay) along with the injured man, and he shouts at his men to shoot Jagapathi and Ajay.On hearing that Sampath telling to kill them both Ajay and Jagapathi starts running into the dark. Meanwhile, Ganesh and Ram Babu have entered the factory in search of help. Finding the place empty, they walk out and wander around for some time. They soon reach the place where the van had overturned and realize that their friends are missing. At the same time, Ajay and Jagapathi are trapped inside a room within close range of one of the hitmen and escape narrowly.
Ganesh and Ram starts searching for their missing friends and finally all of them meet. In a distance they hear the sound of train and they decide to escape in the train. On their way to catch the train Jagapathi finds his purse is missing and he tells them to go in the train and he will go back to the factory to find his purse. Ajay and Ram try to convince Jagapathi to board the train. Jagapathi fears that problems may come in fyuture c for his wife and child at his house, since his purse contained passport driving licence is now in the hands of the gangsters. After a small argument all four friends return to the factory to find the lost purse.
The argument starts again this time of who to go along with Jagapathi to the factory to find the purse.Then Jagapathi and Ganesh enter the room in which the purse had been dropped. One of the gangsters momentarily walks into the room, in the view of Ganesh. Ganesh hides and tries to warn Jagapathi to stay out of sight. When Jagapathi finds the purse and turns around he realizes that Ganesh has disappeared. After searching the room thoroughly, Jagapathi decides to leave. When he walks out, Ajay and Ram are waiting alone, and there is no sign of Ganesh. Now the argument starts, Ajay asserts that he would not leave the place without Ganesh.
Meanwhile, Ganesh had wandered into another room in order to save himself where he finds a school girl(Saroja) tied up inside, he frees her and explains to her that he is not a member of the gang. Saroja and Ganesh then sneak out of the room. The other three went in search of Ganesh, but they get caught in the process.
Sampath continues to demand money from Vishwanath to release his daughter. ACP Ravichandran consoles Vishwanath and does all he can to help rescue Saroja.Meanwhile, the gangsters taunt the three men they have captured and continue to do so until Kalyani (Nikita Thukral), Sampath's girlfriend, walks in and informs the group that Saroja has escaped. Sampath sends all of his men to find the girl, leaving a single gangster with the three captives. Ram attacks the sole gangster and kills him. They run out of the factory and catch up with Ganesh and Saroja. They are soon trapped in a lonely building with a single entry. The gangsters follow them and await them at the front of the building. The friends are convinced that the only way to escape from the building is to fight the gangsters. Meanwhile, Sampath asks Vishwanath to come to the area to take his daughter in exchange for the ransom money.Ravichandran is disguised as Vishwanath's driver Suddenly, Jagapathi comes up with the idea of trapping the gangsters bu using the objects in the building as weapons.They get success in their plan and all the four with Saroja reach the railway station to escape. For their bad time they see Sampath and his sole gangster waiting for Vishwanath to get the money.
At that time Vishwanath and ACP Ravichandran reach the spot. Vishwanath and Ravichandran are standing on the other side of the tracks. Saroja leaves the hideout, crosses the tracks, and embraces Ravichandran out of relief. Just as Vishwanath is overjoyed that his daughter is back in safe hands, Ravichandran pulls out a gun and points it at Saroja. At that moment, Vishwanath realizes that Ravichandran is actually the mastermind behind Saroja's abduction and that Sampath is just another henchman responsible for caryring out Ravichandran's orders.
A flashback reveals that Ravichandran and Sampath are good friends and that they have long been jealous of Vishwanath for his social status and wealth. In the nick of time, the heroes emerge from the hideout and fight the goons with all their might. Vishwanath finally shoots and kills Ravichandran, and Saroja is reunited with her family. As everyone returns home, the four friends try to recall the name of the girl they have just rescued. And the time clocks to 06:02:08 rembering the coincidence with chennai 60028 movie.
Songs
The movie totally has six songs of which one is title song (Cheeky Cheeky) .
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Hi friends in this article, let us discuss about the film called "INSIDE MAN" and really this is a fantastic film.This is based of Bank Robbery theme and really the screenplay of this film was awesome and to add our Indian song "Chaiya .... Chaiya ...." by A.R.Rahman was also added during the opening credits.
Ive watched this movie and I can guarantee that you can't feel bored even a second and every scene is interesting and so the movie moves very fast.
Denzel plays a very important role as a detective and the most important character is that of Clive Owen who did a great job as Dalton Russel and he deserves appreciation.
Eventhough this is a bank robbery subject, but the reason for this robbery is different and the screenplay is fantastic and it is definitely worth watching.
Technical Crew of the film
i)This film was directed by Spike Lee and it was written by Russell Gewirtz
ii)The music for this film is composed by Terence Blanchard
iii)Officially this film was released on March 23, 2006
iv)The editing for this film is done by Barry Alexander Brown
v)This film was produced by Brian Grazer and distributed by Universal Pictures (USA) and UIP (International)
vi)Matthew Libatique has done the cinematography for this film
vii)The budget for this film is about 210 crores and it earned a revenue of around 856 crores.
Artists and casts
i)Denzel Washington as Keith Frazier and he is the detective who tries to save the hostages for the Bank
ii)Clive Owen as Dalton Russel and he is the one who plans for the robbery attempt in a bank.
iii)Christopher Plummer as Arthur Case and he is the Chairman of the Bank and he also had dealings with the Nazi's during the second world war 2
iv)Chiwetel Ejiofor as Bill Mitchell and she is also a detective and she works with Frazier
v)Jodie Foster as Madeleine White and she was appointed by Case so that she could help to solve the crisis and get the Safe box of Case.
About the movie
One of the amazing thing about this movie is that, the movie starts with "Chaiya Chaiya...." for Dil Se and this song comes and it perfectly matches the artists introductions and also during this job they show how a group of robbers plans and comes to to rob a bank.
And also when the film moves very fast the detective will interrogate with the hostages so as to find the real person who has involved in this robbery attempt.The screenplay is very good in this movie and it makes us very eager to know the next scene.
The film starts when Dalton Russell, who was in a confined cell says his name and asks him to listen very carefully, as he won't repeat again.After that he begins to narrate how a group of his men plans to rob a bank and he often describes that this as the "PERFECT BANK ROBBERY".Many of us would confuse whether he narrates inside a cell or prison, because that place is very small and resembles a prison.
After that in the flash back, a group of robbers dressed as painters plans and they start to their destination,i.e, the bank and this happens during the opening credits of the characters,(when the names of the characters are displayed) and during this our Indian song "Chaiya Chaiya..." makes the scene extremely good to watch.
When the group enters the bank they disables the security cameras and after that they take all the staffs, customers to the basement of the bank and they ask them to give all the keys and cell phones.But during this one of the bank employees, named Peter Hammond tries to hide the cell but the robbers manage to find this and he was beaten.
After getting all the properties of the hostage, the robbers asks all the hostages to change their dress into painter uniforms and also to cover their faces using kerchiefs so that all the hostages resembles the robber, because now all wear same uniform and the main reason for this is that it would be difficult for the police to identify the exact robbers.
After this the robbers started to execute their plan and as a part of their plan they lock the hostages in different rooms, and also they shifted them periodically and introducing the robbers and during this operation they also made one of their member to sit along with the hostage.The robbers demand that they need a plane.
After some times a police officer who was passing that side found that the bank was robbed and he informs the police department and as a result of this the police arrives surround the bank.Meanwhile two detectives Keith Frazier and Bill Mitchell comes to the location and they introduce themselves to the police.
At this point of time Arthur Case who is the chairman of the board of directors and also founder of the bank, asks Madeleine White to ensure that the contents of his safe deposit box at the bank to remain secret.Meanwhile Frazier suspects that Russels's intention was not to rob the bank but he may plan something different.
Frazier also calls Russel and says that he might need some time to organise the plane so that he could find the actual plan of Russel. Russell also trusts him and he test Frazier by asking him a question and he also asks for the cops to bring sandwiches, rather than pizza, to lessen the chances of bugging the containers.
After that White gets permission from the Mayor to speak with the Russel and after meeting Russel she requests access to the safe deposit box. So Russell shows a document that contains Swastika Symbol, and he also said that Arthur might have got huge amount of money from the Germans during the World War 2 for unspecified services that resulted in Jewish deaths.
It was at this time Russell reveals his motivation,and says that
"All lies they stink, you can cover them up for a while but they don't go away."
But white assures that he will help Russel to get out of the bank with huge amount, if he gives the document.Meanwhile Frazier says that he wants to check the hostage conditions and Russel also gives permission to Frazier to come to the Bank and see the condition of hostages.
During this time Russel drops the ring into the Frazier's pocket,which he found in the Case's box, when Frazier was informing Russel that he was going to propose a girl next week.
After checking the condition of hostages and when Frazier was about to leave the bank, Frazier attempts to overpower Russell, only to fail when another robber comes to Russell's aid.
But Russell doesn't hurt Frazier and he leaves him unharmed.Later when Frazier meets his colleagues, he said that he intentionally tried to provoke Russell, so as to understand the intention of the the Robbers and he finds that they were not killers and he is confident hat he might have some other plan behind this bank robbery.
After some time Frazier and his team was shocked to see a transmitter which helped Russel and others to get the information regarding what were discussing in that room and what would be the next step of the Police.
Mean while the robbers detonate the smoke bombs throughout the bank and they also released the hostages,and all the robbers except Russel came along with the hostages.
As all of them were dressed as painters the police was confused and they start to interrogate with everyone, but they failed to recognize anyone.In this robbery attempt no money was stolen and no people were killed and Frazier finds that this was a fake robbery attempt.
The police were also shocked to see that the guns used by the robbers were merely toys and Frazier finds that safe deposit box No.392 has never appeared on any records since the bank's founding in 1948,while he was searching for the documents.
So Russel was missing and everyone was very eager to find where Russel would be and later in the film it is revealed that Russell was hifing behind a fake wall, which they erected inside the supply room, with the help of multi-skilled thugs and this is the meaning of the movie Inside Man and it was form this place he was narrating the story at the beginning
After one week he comes out of the supply room and he joins his associates and mean while Frazier opens the safe deposit box after getting the warrant form the judge and he founds it was written as "Follow the ring." and with the help of White he manages to get the information form Case as Frazier gave a recording pen that has recorded all the conversation.
It was during the second world war Case betrayed a Jewish friend to Nazi and gets that diamond ring. At last when Frazier goes home and he finds a loose one-carat diamond in his pocket and he realizes that it would have been dropped by Russel when he met him in the bank and at the end of the movie he proposes his girlfriend using the diamond.
The IMDB rating for this movie is 7.7 out of 10
Hi friends in this article let us discuss about the movie which was the first movie for our National hero A.R.Rahman, and it is none other than "ROJA".This film is based on how a software engineer who was kidnapped by the terrorist escapes from them.I guess most of you would have watched the movie and this is one of the best movie I have ever seen.
The story of this film starts from a village and then it moves town and at last to Kashmir where terrorist kidnap the hero.One important thing that made this movie a very emotional and successfulis the music and this was done by A.R.Rahman and this was the first film for him and reports says that his salary was 25,000 rupees.
Till this movie Maniratnam, used Illayaraja as the music director for his previous films and after this movie, till date A.R.Rahmam is the music director for the rest of his movie and the latest being Ravanan.This combination has done miracle and some of their best movies includes Bombay,Kannathil Muthamittal etc.,
Most of these movies are based on National Integration and Maniratnam is well known for making these kind of movies.In this film he explains the Patriotism shown by the citizen of India and I assure you that,our spirits will be high after wathing this movie.
Technical Crew of the film
i)This film was produced by the famous director Mani Ratnam and he also won the Flim fare award for Best director.
ii)Mani Ratnam and K.Balachandar produced this film and it was distributed by Kavitalaya Productionas and Pyramid
iii)2 times Academy Award winner A.R.Rahman composed the music for this film and this was his first movie, and this also got him National Award for the Best music Director.He also won the
iv)The story for this film is written by Maniratnam
v)Famous cinematographer Santosh Sivan was used in this movie.
vi)Officially this film was released February 14, 1992 and it runs for about 2 hours and 15 minutes
vii)This film was a Blockbuster and the gross revenue for this film was around 20 crores.
viii)Times Magazine in 2005 announced the top ten best sound tracks in 2005 and in this list Roja was also featured.
ix)Vairamuthu was the lyric writer fro this film and he also got National Award for the best Lyric writer.
x)The theme of the movie is National Integration and naturally this film win the "Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film" on National Integration.
xi)Apart from the National Award this film also won Best film award in the Flim fare Award and also in Moscow International Film Festival in 1993.
Cast and Characters in the film
i)Aravind Swamy as Rishi Kumar.He is a software engineer and this was the second film under Maniratnam's direction, the previous being Thalapathi which was his first movie.After this film he also acted in another Maniratnam big project,i.e,Bombay which was also based on National Integration and a huge hit.His acting was really great and especially in the scene when he tries Bring down the fire, on the National Flag which was set by the terrorist.This is a scene, where every Indians couldn't control their emotion after seeing the National Flag being burnt.
ii)Madhoo Bala as Roja and she is the important character as the entire film is about how she tries and fights for his husband to be rescued for the terrorist.She is a village girl but she is brave enough to fight alone for his husband in Kashmir.At first she doesn't like Rishi as she felt he didn't marry her sister, but later she realises the truth.
iii)Nasser as the Police Officer in Kashmir and he is also responsible for capturing the terrorist Wasim Khan(which is the opening scene of the movie) and he was not willing to trade Wasim Khan for Rishi as many soldiers lost their life during the process of capturing Wasim Khan.
iV)Pankaj Kapoor acts as the terrorist who kidnaps Rishi and he is the temprory leader of the group and the reason why he kidnaps Rishi is that he wants the release of his leader Wasim Khan.
v)Janakaraj plays a small but also an important role and he is fortune teller at a temple in Kashmir.He knew all the languages spoken in India and he is the one who helps roja for translating after her husband was kidnapped.
About the movie
This film starts in Kashmir when the Indian Army circles the terrorist Wasim Khan and they also managed to capture him.During this operation many soldiers have lost their life and this makes Nasser sad as he lost many his team.
Then the movie moves to a beautiful village in Tamil Nadu and it starts with a beautiful song "Chinna Chinna Aasai...." and
it was beautifuly picturized.This was a huge hit of that year and it was also used in advertisement i.e for the chocolate Aasai.
Then Roja, who is very playful goes to check about the character of the person who is going to marry her sister and she did this along with his younger sister by hiding, when Rishi, who comes to marry Roja's sister, was coming to the village and stops the vehicle when he saw sheep crossing the road.
But many unexpected things happen, because Roja's sister says Rishis she was in love with other person and he asks to say other he doen's like her.But Rishi goes and says that he likes Roja rather than her sister so that he could save Roja's sister and also makes her wish happen.
But Roja who was totally unaware of what was going, was shocked to hear that Rishi wants to marry her.But somehow both the marriage of Roja and her sister takes place and Roja was starts to hate Rishi as she doesn't know why Rishi did this.
Then Roja leaves the village along with Rishi to Chennai and after that in Chennai he finds the truth why Rishi asked Roja to marry her.Now she believes Rishi and after that they begin to live happily.After some time, Rishi was asked by his company to go to Kashmir for a secret project for the Indian Army.
Terrorists plan to kidnap him and when Roja was not there in the hotel,Rishi goes out of the hotel in search of his wife and when she sees her in a Temple there terrorist kidnap Rishi in front of his wife.
Then the rest of the story revolves how Rishi escapes from the terrorist group and also how Roja fights for her husband by asking the Government to meet the demand of the terrorist,i.e., to release to Wasim Khan.
Songs in the movie
i)“Chinna Chinna Aasai” sung by Minmini and this is the opening song and the picturization of this song is excellent and it explains how playful Roja is.
ii)"Rukkumaniye Rukkumaniye....” sung by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Chitra and this comes after the marraige of Roja and in this son we can see the dance of the choreographer Rajasundran
iv)“Pudhu Vellai Mazhai” sung by Unni Menon, Sujatha and this occurs when Rishi and Roja reach Kashmir
iii)“Kaadhal Rojave... Enge Nee Enge...” sung by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and this is my favourite song ever absloutely great music, lyrics and voice. Mind blowing song.
v)This song “Tamizha Tamizha” sung by Hariharan and this is one of the best inspirational song and every Indian will have a feeling when they hear this song and it provokes our patriotism and hats off to the music director, Lyric writer and the singer
The IMDB rating for this movie is 8.1 out of 10
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