Angadi Theru - Fine and Clean movie!

"No heroism. No punch dialogue. Be simple and show the reality. Movie will be a hit".

"Life at Ranganathan Street, T Nagar". Wow! Very interesting to hear the one liner. Good that the director got the spark to make a movie about life of people in that special street of Chennai. Though there was little exaggeration in portraying their life, it disappears since there was a huge amount of reality shown in movie.

Bala showed the other (mostly sad) side of beggars et al in 'Naan Kadavul. Vasantha Balan has shown the other (sorrow, happy, love) side of salespersons working in the gigantic shops of Ranganathan Street.

This movie need actors who look like our real life salesboy and salesgirl and it has got a perfect star cast. Mahesh resembles Kathal Bharath. Some one has to advice Mahesh, not to act in Perarasu movies :P. Anjali.. I am already a fan of her 'Nejama than soldriya?' in Katradhu tamizh (My all time favorite movie!) She has done a wonderful job in this movie too. Very dynamic and cute. Pandi's innocence is a treat to watch.

Director Venkatesh and Pazha Karuppaya have a done a good job in their 'anti' roles. I just wanted to tell you all that Pazha Karuppaya is a wonderful writer. Recently, I had posted one of his article for Dinamani in my blog.


With 2 young music directors (GV Prakash and Vijay Antony) who have been successful, recent days, the songs could have been even better. Only 'Aval appadi ondrum' is good. There should have been at least 2 more good songs. The songs were actually slowing down the pace of movie which was already going at a slower tempo. Vijay Antony has done a decent job in background score.

Direction: Vasanthabalan. What to say! This man is a wonderful film maker. We are expecting more and more good movies from you.

Angadi Theru is a fine and clean movie. Best among the recent releases and of course, a Must Watch!

Maathiyosi - Yosikkave Illa

Yes, it was told that movies like Subramaniyapuram, Paruthiveeran are trend setters. Of course, we saw good follow up movie like Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu.

On the negative side, It gave liberty to think that any movie taken in Madurai base will be a success. PSSR FIlms (Production) might have thought, with amateur director, useless music director and new actors, (overall with a LOW BUDGET) he could take more money out, just by producing a Madurai based movie. But I am happy that this movie will be a flop.

The 4 heroes are as bad looking as possible (typical south TN c*l*ny guys). Their slang, the place in which they are living, the high class Th*v*rs... everything was shown good, though there was some exaggeration. But all were shouting at high decibel (especially President's wife). It was very irritating.

After looking at that dry village, heroes who appear like they have never taken bath, Chennai slum etc. the heroine's face was so relaxing to see. She(Shammu, Kanchivaram fame) was looking very nice. I think, only she would have got the highest salary in the movie.

The small girl character (karuvaachi) was very nice and it should be the best character in that movie.

The movie had many logic flaws, suicide of Ponvannan's wife for a dummy reason is a sufficient example.

The songs and BGMs were horrible. Guru Kalyan! Nee mattum en kaila kedacha!!! Sundar C Babu would have been a reasonable pick. I don't think he asks for more money, does he? If PSSR Films wants all technicians for free, then they will get MD like Guru Kalyan only.

About the director, Nanda Periyasamy. Nothing much. He has been strongly inspired by Subramanaiyapuram and Paruthiveeran. There are lot more stuffs to be told about villages. Konjam Maathi yosikkanum sir.

Maathiyosi. If you are a person like me who has no other work and staying in a place where an expected movie like 'Aval Peyar Thamizharasi' didn't get released, then go for this movie.

I didn't see Thambikku Indha Ooru, but was convinced that it will be worse than Maathiyosi.

Vinnaithandi Varuvaya - Chemistry or Biology?

Well, people say, it is a great chemistry between Simbhu and Trisha in the movie Vinnaithandi Varuvaya. If kissing, touching foot, hugging and speaking about it throughout the movie are reasons for telling so, we could call it a good biology. Or maybe, shall we call it Biology due to chemical reactions? I am weak in biology, chemistry and the so called Love too (You are going to give a strange look at me for this? ). So Vinnaithandi varuvaya didn’t make me feel for Karthik(Simbu) or Jessie(Trisha).

I was happy that Karthik and Jessie didn’t marry at last. If they had married, they would have got divorce in not more than a year and it would have been Nadodigal part-2. I have never fallen in love. But I am rest assured; our real life lovers (not the daters) are not like Karthik and Jessie. Our real heroes and heroines never think 24*7 about kissing. Of course, I am not saying that sex is something bad and I will never say that such relationship is non-existent. But we are never ready to consider this sexually driven love as something poetic or classic. 

It was mere infatuation which is unreal for college passed-outs (like Karthik-Jessie) in today’s scenario. Such love happens these days in higher secondary or max college initial years. It was surprise and strange to see such an immature love which groomed at the age of 22(Karthik) and 23(Jessie). Fighting, saying sorry, admiring the beauty, kissing/touching, again fighting, and again saying sorry…..1^st half was mundane.

Second half was comparatively very good. 2^nd half dialogues were very effective. Showing a Positive ending, taking the camera out of screen with ‘Movie by karthik’ in it and then showing ‘movie by Gautham menon’ with a hard ending…There were lot of creative and feel good factors in 2^nd half.

I am a die-hard Simbu hater. But this movie didn’t have anything for which I should hate Simbu. As expected, he has done a decent job without doing any seshtais with his fingers or punch dialogues which irritate everyone to the core (The boxing scene was dhisti parikaram. “Naan unga kitta lam sollala. I am a boxer” Dhideernu adha sonnadhum sema comedy a irundhudhu). But Simbhu can’t act many soft movies like this. If one had watched his face reactions closely in songs, especially Hosanna, we could see how uncomfortable he is in doing such soft roles. He couldn’t bring that feel in face which Surya does with ease. Surya and an even more matured love story would have been a real classic.

Trisha was OK during 1^st half and very beautiful during 2^nd half. Started as a wonderful character with small smiles and careless looks slowly lost grip as she was shown falling in love (immaturely) for Karthik. The moment she started getting confused, the character lost the importance. May be, that was the need for movie but not very nice for Trisha. She missed expressing the real pain which a girl would feel while having such dilemmas.

That Kakka Kakka cameraman character was helping on the humor side but he was talking a lot.

Coming to technicians.

Appreciations to cinematographer ‘Manoj Paramahamsa’. Man! He is the backbone, front bone :P, muscle, tissue and most importantly, face of the movie. What a camerawork!! Every place was beautiful. Kerala is a natural beauty and it was even more beautiful to see on screen. Crystal clear picture! We need people like him to give technically perfect movies.

ARRahman. Sorry to say this my dear Pseudo fans. The music review which I wrote earlier holds good. Not to compare Harris and ARR and bring down the Oscar hero, but all of us should accept that Harris touch is missing in the movie. Harris was a major factor in the success of Vaaranam Aayiram while the ‘Mozart of Madras’ could not help the movie except for his name and fame. Tell me a song which added value to the movie. In my opinion, Aaromale was the only song which fitted the movie perfectly. Rest all were of same nature just lengthening the movie. Same kind of tune, same kind of dance (with 8 group dancers). No varieties in VTV music!

This review is not a complete VTV mockery. Of course, VTV is not a bad movie. It is good compared to many recent movies. The way love is proposed, they way it is rejected, the way it is confessed, the way confusions are portrayed, everything was very natural. I would say, there is no other movie which has zoomed the relationship of love between 2 youngsters this much. Thanks to Gautham menon for giving yet another soft movie. But is he going to give the same kind of movies forever? Vaaranam Aayiram had everything and it is a classic. I thought, Gautham will shift gears, change path and come up with something different. But he has taken a slow ‘U’ turn. Next is a police story eh?

50% of Gautham admirers (mostly A class)will like this movie. Rest 50% (I am in this group) will have an OK kind of feeling. The huge B,C and D will as usual have a puff for every song, come out 15 mins before the end commenting “Machi enna solla varaan?”