Cast : Magesh,Anjali,Director A.Venkatesh
Guest Appearance : Sneha
Direction : Vasanthabalan
Music : Vijay Antony & G.V.Prakash kumar
Production : Ayngaran international
Released on : March 2010

Both the hero and heroine are making debut in this film. There are no big actors and actresses in the film, except Sneha who plays a cameo role as Sneha. This film depicts the sufferings of the sales boys and girls working in textile showrooms and supermarkets. May be some things are exaggarated. This film is definitely a good one as compared with normal masala films in Tamil.

This film revolves around a single shop in Ranganathan Street located in T.Nagar, Chennai. Ranganathan Street is in the heart of T.Nagar and it has got so many textile shops. Selva Vinayagam Stores is the popular textile shop in this street run by Annachi. This stores indirectly resembles the popular Saravana Stores in T.Nagar.

The film starts with Jothilingam ( Mahesh ) and Kani ( Anjali ) playing and making fun of each other in night time asking many people "How is the match between us"? They get in to a bus and the song "Kadaigalai pesum" starts.  As they don't have any house, they found a place in street where masonry workers are sleeping. While they were dreaming, a fire engine after colliding with another vehicle completely loses its control comes out of the way and hits the people sleeping in street. The next scene shows the jammed vehicle,blood , crying people and the hospital where jothi is lying in a stretcher with blood all over this body.Policeman were asking jothi "What is your name?Where are you from?". He just murmurs "Kani,Kani....Kani". Now the flashback starts and goes to a village in Tirunelveli.

Jothi is happily playing cricket with this friends as his 12th exams are over and waiting for the results. He is a bright student and always gets good marks. tirunelveli.  His father was working as a mason and he encourages his son to study well and get a good job instead of suffering like him. His wish is to make his  son an engineer.Jothi has two sisters. When things are going smoothly like this, it takes a turn when Jothi's father dies on the spot in an accident while the vehicle in which he is travelling crosses the man-less railway crossing.

Even though Jothi has got first mark in his school, he is forced to quit his studies and look for a job as his father was the only earning member in his family.He and his friend applies for the salesman job in Selva Vinayagam Stores in Chennai. Both of them got selected and boards bus to chennai with lot of dreams.Annachi opens the shop for the day and meets the newly appointed sales persons. He tells them to work well. They the photos and thumb impressions of the employees are taken to give identity card to them. Then they are given uniforms. It is said the uniform cost Rs.250 which can be given in cash or deducted from salary.

Jothi and marimuthu were given job in godown section. Here only the introduction of villain of this film named Karunkali
( A.Venkatesh ) who is working as the main supervisor of the showroom. He brings kani with him and asks Jothi and Marimuthu whether she came here for getting clothes. Kani signals to Jothi through her eyes to say Yes. But they says no. Karunkali beats kani and shouts at her for telling lie. This is the first meeting of Kani and Jothi. Later a colleague warns jothi that this supervisor is a very dangerous man and one has to be very careful with thim.

Like this work goes for Jothi and Marimuthu till afternoon and the lunch break comes. They are told that the duration of lunch is 30 minutes and 1 rupee per minute will be deducted from their salary if they come late. Then Jothi and Marimuthu goes to the mess which runs exclusively for the employees of the showroom. There they see a huge crowd and big line standing for food and there were no free plates. The place is so dirty and food items are scattered on the floor. Seeing this Jothi and Marimuthu were shocked and they don't have the mood to eat. Then Marimuthu tells Jothi that there is no option for them and they have to eat this only for surviving. This is how the first day has finished and they are coming out of the shop. On the way they meets a handicapped person who can't walk and he says that he was once working for the showroom and they utilised all his energy and now he is not able to walk because of standing for long hours. On hearing this Marimuthu was scared and tells Jothi to quit the job. But Jothi says he can't do that because of his family situation.

The next surprise for them is the lodging place where they have to stay. It is just a big hall filled with many people and there is only little space for one to walk. There is no seperate room and only less number of bathrooms are available for so many people. Bathrooms are not even fully closed.There is no privacy for them in that place.In short it is looking like a railway station fully crowded. The same situation prevails for ladies lodging place. These scenes reveal how pathetic is the life of these guys and girls.

One day Jothi and Marimuthu are informed that they are shifted to the 3rd floor.They are very happy as 3rd floor is fully air conditioned. But their happiness does not last for long as they come to know that Karunkali is supervising that floor. Kani and her friends are also working on the same floor. The cruelity of the supervisor is shown in many scenes. One of them is when a girl asks permission from the supervisor to go to rest room.The supervisor shouts at her and gives her 5 minutes time. He also tells her 1 rupee per minute will be deducted from her salary if she comes late. The next scene shows annachi giving money (bribe?) to police inspectors,traffic police,politicians etc.

Like this Jothi's life is going. One day a customer asks a different colour of the saree. Supervisor tells Jothi to bring other colors from godown. Jothi climbs the stairs and gets different colors. He sends Jothi like this so many times. At one stage, Jothi feels very tired and drinks water by sitting in the staircase. Kani informs about this to the supervisor as a vengence for Jothi's previous act. Supervisor scolds and beats Jothi and tells him to quit the job. Jothi pleads the supervisor by touching his legs and finally the supervisor lets him to work. Jothi gets very angry with Kani for her act and expects another chance to give it back. Kani gives money for interest to other people without the knowledge of the supervisor. Jothi tells the supervisor about this and he beats and tries to misbehave with Kani for his act.

Later when Jothi comes to know about the supervisor's behaviour he feels very bad and asks Kani to forgive him. He and Marimuthu makes a big cloth bag to fall on the supervisor's head for his misbehaviour with Kani. This act joins both of them and they start loving each other. Jothi's friend Selvarani loves a guy named Soundarapandi and they both use a doll there for sending messages. They keep the letters in the doll. One day the letter slips out of the doll and reaches the hand of the supervisor. He gets very angry and asks that who wrote this letter. After some time Selvarani agrees that she only writes the letter to Soundarapandi. But soundarapandi,fearing for his job refuses that she did not love selvarani. Selvarani was shocked and hurt to see that the person he loved for so many years is such a coward like this. Unable to bear this, she jumps from the top and commits suicide.

Jothi gets upset about this incident and fears that the same thing will happen for him and Kani. He discusses this with Marimuthu. Unable to see his friend's sufferings, Marimuthu tells Kani to stop talking with Jothi as their love is not good for them. On knowing this, Jothi gets angry and shouts at Marimuthu why he has done like this. Kani is hurt by this and stops talking with Jothi even after Jothi convinces that he truly loves her. Jothi feels very bad and goes to Kani's hostel in the night. He shouts at kani that he is ready to take her away and marry her. He asks her to come with me. Then he explains Kani that as their earning depends on the current job, he wished to maintain distance between them but he still loves her and have the courage to marry her.

One day Kani meets Jothi and tells him that his sister who is working as a servant maid in a house is not feeling well and she doesn't know what to do. She asks Jothi to help him. Both of them goes to the house and finds that her sister has attended the age. Kani feels very bad that she doesn't even has a house to do the age attending function for her sister. Then Jothi goes to a temple and informs a lady there about this. That lady agrees to do the function in the temple itself . This again unites Jothi and Kani after the quarrel.

In the meantime, actress Sneha visits the showroom for the shooting of the advertisement. Marimuthu is a die hard fan of Sneha. He has collected all the pictures of sneha from her childhood and was keeping with him. He was very interested to see sneha. Amidst of the security, he caught sneha's attention and meets her and shows her the album. Sneha is surprised and happy to see the album. She says to Marimuthu that she will keep the album herself. While Jothi and Kani were talking in the showroom, the supervisor comes there. On seeing this, they both hides in the place. Unfortunately the security locks the door of the showroom without knowing this. Kani shouts at Jothi and they don't know what to do. They have to spend the whole night there itself. After some time they are putting the dresses in that room one by one, sings and dances.

Like this they spends the night and the next day morning they goes to their places as if they came only in the morning.Unfortunately the dance by Jothi and Kani got caught in the camera running there for the shooting with Sneha. Annachi sees this and calls the supervisor. Supervisor caughts both Jothi and Kani and beats them. Then the supervisor gives a complaint to the police that Jothi had stolen a costly saree from the shop and the police takes Jothi away. Jothi tells the inspector that he knows all the fraud activities done by annachi. So the inspector calls annachi and advises him to take back the complaint.Otherwise it will be difficult if Jothi tells all these things to media. So Jothi is released from the custody.

Jothi goes to the showroom and threatens the supervisor that if they did not release Kani, he will tell these things to the public there. On hearing this, Annachi orders the supervisor to send Kani with Jothi. They both leave the place and searches for job in all the shops in that street. Finally a blind old aged person who is selling clothes on the platform tells Jothi that he will give commission to them if they help him in selling his clothes. So they starts selling clothes and earns some money for the day. The old man tells him a street where they can safely sleep. They goes to the street and that is the end of flashback.

The camera now points to the hospital where Jothi and Kani are admitted. Jothi regains his consciousness and sees Marimathu there. Marimuthu joined as makeup man to Sneha. Jothi had slight injuries on his head,legs and hands. Jothi asks Marimuthu about Kani. But Marimuthu remains silent. So Jothi himself gets out from his bed irrespective of the injury in his legs and searches to find Kani. He was shocked to see Kani there without legs. She has lost her both legs in the accident. Marimuthu advises Jothi to forget Kani as she cannot do things on her own and she needs someone's help. If Jothi takes care of her, who will earn for his family?

Many things are running in Jothi's mind and finally he decides to marry Jothi. The film ends with the scene showing Kani sitting in the platform selling things and Jothi sells things by walking in the street.

Comments : A good movie depicting the pathetic life of sales people working in textile showrooms and supermarkets. Kudos to director Vasanthabalan for giving a good film !!!

Cast : Farhan Akhtar,Deepika Padukone, Ram Kapoor
Director : Vijay Lalwani
Music :Shankar,Ehsaan,Loy
Category : Thriller / Romance

The story revolves around Karthik ( Farhan akhtar ) who works in a construction company. He is basically shy in nature
and could not say 'NO' to anybody. That is his weakness. Everybody takes advantage over him and treats him very
badly.His houseowner asks him to give amount for the maintenance of the lift repeatedly but karthik is not able to refuse
him.Also karthik spent a lot of money for maintaining things in the house which has to be borne by the house owner but
he does not have the courage to tell his house owner.

Karthik's boss ( Ram kapoor ) tells him to prepare a document which is needed the next day morning. Karthik sits late till
night in office , finishes the work and reaches home. While he is sleeping, his boss calls him and tells that the document
he prepared is not for the company which he asked. So he orders him to come back to office and finish that work. Karthik
gets very angry , throws the phone away and goes to office in the night and finishes the work. But the pity is that the
meeting got cancelled next day and the document was not used.

Shonali ( Deepika padukone ) is also working in the same office. Karthik loves for the past 4 years but he don't have the
courage to send even a mail to her. He had written more than 1300 mails to her and stored all in Drafts. Shonali moves
closely with another colleague but she doesn't know that he is already married.

One day karthik's boss scolds him very badly infront of all his colleagues. So karthik leaves office and goes home. He sits
at home for many days doing nothing thinking of his life. He thinks why he should live in this world where nobody is there
to support him. Karthik had a brother. During his childhood days, while karthik and his brother were playing and fighting
with each other,his brother accidentally slips from the top and dies. Karthik feels guilty of himself and he could not erase
this thought which frequently comes to his mind. He meets a psychiatrist and tells her about his problem. She tells
karthik that he is not responsible for his brother's death and gives him lot of advises.

Karthik goes to a phone shop and buys a new phone for his house as the old is broken. Suddenly one night, the newly
bought phone rings. Karthik picks up the phone and says "Hello". The other ends says " Hello. iam karthik". The person in
the other end claims him as Karthik and tells all the things about karthik including his ATM pin number. Karthik could not
believe this. How one can call himself? Let's keep the name of the person who is talking in phone as Karthik II. Karthik II
promises karthik to alter his life and achieve all the things he wants. He also tells karthik not to reveal the conversation
between him and karthik to anyone.

The next day, karthik goes to telephone exchange and asks them the details of the call that he got yesterday. They say
that he did not receive any call yesterday and the last call he received was 4 days back. Karthik is confused on hearing
this. He goes home and waits for the call. Karthik II talks with Karthik daily and slowly increases his confidence, make
him change his appearance, his dressing style etc.

Next day karthik is getting ready to go to his office. On the way he meets his house owner and the house owner asks him
the money for lifts. Karthik immediately replies back that he could not give the money. Instead he tells the house owner
the expenses he had done for his house and asks him to give the money which is more than that of the money he asked
for lift. The house owner is shocked and gives the money to karthik. Karthik congratulates himself for his act and starts to
office.

Everybody in office are staring at the new look of karthik. Karthik enters his boss room. When his boss starts teasing him
as usual, karthik interrupts him and tells him that his license for the construction company is going to expire in 1 day and
all his projects will be unapproved after this.His boss is shocked now and asks some of the employees in the other about
this. As nobody is aware of this, his boss requests karthik to tell the procedure. Karthik demands a seperate cabin and
many facilities for him for doing this. He gets all the facilities in the same day.

One day shonali comes to know that the guy with whom she is moving closely is already married. She is shocked and
feels very bad. On seeing this karthik goes to her and talks with her. Slowly their relationship started to develop and she
starts loving karthik and they spend their time together happily.

Like this, karthik's life is going very happily. One day while shonali is in the house, the phone rings. Karthik knows that is
the usual call from Karthik II and he doesn't want to pick it up infront of Shonali.He slowly tells her about the phone call he
is getting. Shonali is shocked and could not believe this. She tells karthik to see a doctor.After some arguments, karthik
meets his psychiatrist. She could not believe this and tells karthik that she will come the next day to his house and see.

The next day psychiatrist comes to karthik's house and both are waiting for the call. The phone rings at the usual time.
Karthik gives the phone to his doctor. She also hears the voice of karthik II, shocked and she rans away from the house.
When karthik tells these things to shonali, she is not willing to accept it and she agrees to visit karthik's house at the time
of the call. Shonali goes to karthik's house and waits for the call. When the phone rings, shonali prevents karthik from
attending it. But karthik wants to attend the call. But shonali did not allow him to attend the call that day.

The next day karthik eagerly waits for the call. Phone rings. Karthik II tells karthik that he had broken their relationship by
revealing the conversation. Karthik II says, "As a revenge you will lose everything you got because of me. You are finished
Karthik.Wait and see what happens tomorrow". Karthik tells Karthik II to forgive him for the mistake he did but invein.

Karthik goes to office next day. His boss calls him and says "Yesterday night you called and threatened me and my
family. I don't need you anymore. You are dismissed".Karthik says he did not make any call. But his boss does not
believe him. On the way he meets shonali. She tells karthik "You called me yesterday and made fun of all the private talks
we had and described me as a prostitute". He tells the same thing to her that he did not make any call. But she doesn't
believes it. He takes the car to his home and on the way the fuel indicator shows empty. While he tried to put petrol using
his debit card, they say the card has zero balance. Karthik is shocked. In one day, he lost everything he had got.

Karthik gets some money by selling his watch and other things. He asks a person to buy a ticket for him and tells him not
to tell the name of the place but only the platform. He reaches kerala and joins in a small company. His boss there wants
karthik to get a phone for him. Karthik says he could not get a phone as he have some problems.But his boss does not
agree. So he gets a new phone. He sends a mail to Shonali about him and says he is fine and not getting any calls.

Meanwhile karthik's psychiatrist tells shonali that she had found out from whom the call is coming. She says that the
phone has a voice recording facility and repeats the recorded message at the specified time. She tells that karthik is
having some disorder and he calls himself. Shonali is shocked and rushes to karthik's place to find karthik lying down on
floor and had eaten sleeping tablets.

The story ends with karthik and shonali living together normally.

Comments : Although it was interesting in first half the ending is not acceptable. The film is little different from the usual masala films.

Everybody knows that Bollywood refers to the Hindi Film Industry.I have gathered the birthdays of the famous bollywood celebrities and presented here. I could not attach the photos of each celebrity here as the list is big. Check out the birthday of your favourite personality from the below list.

 

January:

1st : Nana patekar, Sonali Bendre, Vidhya balan, Tanisha, Asrani

4th:Kiran Rathod

5th : Deepika padukone

7th: Bipasha basu, Mandakini, Reena Roy, Irfan Khan, Johnny Lever

9th.Farhan Akhtar

10th : Hrithik Roshan

17th: Javed Akthar

18th.Monica Bedi

22nd.Namrata Shirodkar

23rd:Ramesh Sippy

24th:Subhash Ghai, Riya Sen

27th:Bobby deol

31st: Preity Zinta

February:

1st: Jackie shroff

4th:Urmila matondkar

5th : Abhishek Bachchan

9th.Rahul Roy, Amrita Singh

12th.Pran

14th:Madhubala, Mohnish Behl

15th:Sonu nigam

23rd: Bhagyashree

24th.Pooja Bhatt

25th:Divya Bharathi, Shahid Kapoor

March:

7th: Anupam kker

8th:Fardeen khan

14th:Aamir khan, Farida Jalal

18th.Shashi Kapoor

20th.Kangna Ranaut

21st:Rani mukherjee

26th: Madhubala Raghunath

27th.Renuka Shahane

28th.Moon Moon Sen, Akshaye Khanna

April:

2nd: Ajay devgun

3rd:Jaya Pradha

4th:Lisa Ray, Parveen Babi

7th.Jeetendra

9th:Jaya Bachchan

15th.Mandira Bedi

16th:Lara dutta

18th.Poonam Dhillon

20th.Mamta Kulkarni

23rd.Manoj Bajpai

May:

1st.Diana Hayden

11th.Pooja Bedi

14th.Waheeda Rehman

15th. Madhuri Dixit

25th.Karan Johar

30th.Paresh Rawal

June:

1st.Nargis

6th. Sunil Dutt

9th: Amisha patel

8th. Dimple Kapadia, Shilpa Shetty

16th.Mithun Chakraborty

19th.Ashish Vidyarthi

22nd. Amrish Puri

23rd.Raj Babbar

24th.Vijayashanti

25th. Karishma Kapoor, Aftab Shivdasani

27th.R.D.Burman

July:

4th.Neena Gupta

8th.Neetu Singh

15th.Shatrughan Sinha

16th:Katrina kaif

18th:Priyanka chopra

20th.Naseeruddin Shah, Gracy Singh

25th:Ayesha Jhulka

27th.Rinke Khanna

29th. Sanjay Dutt

30th.Sonu Nigam

31st.Mumtaz

August:

1st.Meena Kumari

4th.Arbaaz Khan, Kishore Kumar

5th. Kajol, Genelia D'Souza

11th. Sunil Shetty

13th. Sridevi, Vyajantimala

15th.Raakhee

16th. Manisha Koirala, Saif Ali Khan

18th. Gulzar

23rd. Saira Banoo, Malaika Arora Khan

27th.Neha Dhupia

September:

1st.Mumaith Khan

2nd.Sadhana, Sonam

3rd:Vivek oberoi, Shakti Kapoor

4th. Rishi Kapoor

6th. Rakesh Roshan

8th. Asha Bhosle

9th. Akshay Kumar

10th.Atul Kulkarni

12th.Aditya Pancholi

13th.Mahima Chaudhry

18th. Shabana Azmi

19th.Isha Koppikar alias Eesha Narang, Lucky Ali

21st. Kareena kapoor

23rd.Prem Chopra

25th.Feroz Khan

26th. Dev Anand, Chunky Pandey

28th.Ranbir Kapoor, Lata Mangeshkar

29th.Mehmood

October:

2nd: Asha parekh

6th.Vinod Khanna

7th: Yuktha mookhey

10th. Rekha

11th. Amitabh Bachchan

13th.Ashok Kumar

16th. Hema Malini

17th.Sanjay Kapoor

18th.Om Puri

19th. Sunny Deol

21st. Shammi Kapoor

24th: Mallika sherawat

26th. Raveena Tandon

27th.Pooja Batra

November:

1st.Ileana D'Cruz, Padmini Kolhapure

2nd. Shahrukh Khan, Isha Deol

4th: Tabu

7th. Kamal Hassan,Nandita Das

11th.Mala Sinha

12th.Amjad Khan

13th. Juhi Chawla

16th. Meenakshi Sheshadri

19th. Zeenat Aman, Sushmita sen

24th: Celina Jaitley

December:

3rd.Konkona Sen Sharma

4th.Javed Jaffrey

8th. Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore

9th: Dia Mirza, Priya Gill

10th.Rati Agnihotri

11th. Dilip Kumar

14th.Sameera Reddy, Raj Kapoor

18th.Sneha Ullal

19th.Om Prakash

21st. Govinda

24th. Anil Kapoor, Mohammad rafi

25th.Nagma

27th. Salman Khan

29th. Rajesh Khanna, Twinkle Khanna, Heera

One of the all time favourite on screen Bollywood couples are celebrating their birthday this week.  While Jayaprada born in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh celebrated her birthday on 3rd of April, Jeetendra's birthday falls four days later on 7th of April in Amritsar, Punjab

Though Jayaprada born in 1962 is 20 years younger to Jeetendra born in the year 1942 they probably made the best on screen couple of all time.  Other couples who came closing to matching the Jeetendra-Jayapradha pair was Jeetendra himself with Sridevi apart from Amitabh-Rekha though in subsequent years Sharukh Kajol, Anil Kapoor Madhuri pair and Akshya Katrina too became popular but none of these pairs never ever achieved the same level of popularity or success achieved by the Jeetendra-Jayapradha pair.  It is a wonderful co incidence that the pair who delivered hits in succession also were born in the same month of April. The late 80s was dominated by the pair of Jeetendra and Jayaprada who gave super hits like Tohfa, Pataal Bhairavi, Singhasan, Swarag Se Sunder, Majaal, Mawali, Sanjog, Sindhoor & Aulad.  The pair who shared a wonderful onscreen chemistry acted in 27 movies together, of which almost all movies released in 80s were huge super hits.  Apart from movies being huge super hits even the songs in which they were paired together were the most popular during those times and were repeatedly played on loundspeakers during festivals, functions or rallies.  The pair looked their best and were the most successful in family oriented movies and what made the pair so popular was the fact that both of them were very good dancers.  While it is a known fact that most heroines are very good dancers, heroes those days were not blessed with dancing skills and that is where "Jumping Jack" Jeetendra was an exception. While Jeetendra became famous for his white trousers and white shoes which has been copied by subsequent generations, the beautiful Jayapradha looked the best of the lot in gorgeous sarees. 

Let us wish the Jeetendra and Jayapradha, the favourite pair of millions who gave us memorable moments a very very Happy Birthday.