Mankatha - Ajith's One Man Show!

MONEY! MONEY! MONEY! 

 My review to the recent blockbuster Ultimatestar Kingmaker Thala Ajith's 50th film MANKATHA! This IS definitely a pretty biased review because its from an ardent THALA fan who has watched the movie three times ( as of now ) in the big screen and booked for more already. To start with, I watched the movie pretty late and expected a dull crowd at the theatre. I knew I had totally underestimated Ajith's mass during the uproar at his entry in the movie! The salt and pepper look perfectly suited with the role and then on it was Ajith , Ajith , Ajith all through the movie. What's so special about the movie for this huge a hype and success? Is this a totally new story ? No. Have we not seen a single movie in this genre? No. Is the twist in the climax completely unguessable? No. Then what is it about the movie that demands a second watch? One word for this - Ajith. Simply whatever Ajith does, supported with the awesome BGM by Yuvan can be watched with dropped jaws again.. and again..!

The first half of the movie is slow paced to form a base to the racy second half and superb climax. There are too many characters in the movie which gives little room for any to perform on screen. Even at times it feels its been sometime since Ajith was last seen. The comedy by Premgi has become too stereotyped and boring. Except for that the movie is untouched. The second half is completely racy starting from the last ten minutes of the first half itself. The bike and car scenes are a treat when combined with Yuvan's background score. The climax is made well such that the usualness is well covered. Some flaws here and there like everyone in and around Mumbai seems to speak Tamil and the convict whom Ajith saves to get suspended seems to go around the city not 'wanted' there on also the way they snatch the money van are made pretty much unnoticable in the first watch by the fast screenplay and camera. The songs are well taken except for some placed at movie pausing places.

Bottomline : Awesome. Definitely demands second watch.

GAME OVER!

What scores : Ajith , Yuvan , Machi open the bottle song , Scene before intermission , Climax

What doesnt : Premgi , Heroines , First half slight drag.

The Indian 'definitely not the people's' Government

" For the people , By the people " goes the saying about the Indian government , Id like to trash this saying as its definitely not true even to the smallest extent. After so many attempts by movies , books , newspapers , critics trying to mock , humiliate The ( Our :| ) government there doesnt seem to be the slightest change for good. People dont care who they vote for ( most of time its the government who promises the most freebies comes to power here ) and then finally put the blame about the bad government on the politicians. That word has definitely become something synonymous to Goon , smuggler ( After all the famed 2G and CWG scams ). I asked a friend of mine who she was going to vote for( I know its illegal but just like that) during the recent elections and she was like "Dude who cares? will jus go ther n put 'inky pinky ponky' n vote! As if my one vote is gonna chang the result" WHAT THE ! :O At this rate we have chances of becoming a under developed country let alone becoming a Super power! Id like to quote a few examples about the government of the to-be Developed country in 2020 ( keep dreaming.. ) on my personal experiences and what Ive heard from others.

LMAO INGLEESH!

Tourism department and Immigration - This is the place which bugged me bad recently and is a cause for this post. I wanted to go to my cousin's place at Singapore with my other cousin for around 15 days , simple. How many problematic processes in between?! GOD! "Thaniya poringana Visa kedaikaathu saar!" ( If your going alone you wont get visa saar! and yeah in TN we say 'saar' for 'sir' and we cant say 'film' we say 'filim') "Immigration la maatum , pudichi vachukuvanga " LOL ( Youll get caught in immigration , theyll catch and keep you! , Are going to traffic drugs or what? Just two innocent guys on a tour :P ). The whole thing is that people are leaving India to settle down abroad and they want to keep us here fearing we might get a job there. This totally is dumb because of two reasons 1. Im doin my engineering and im half way through so its obvious that I wont get/think of getting a job right now. 2. If you dont want people leaving your country make your country reach standards so noone would consider leaving rather than stopping people from going on tours!

We welcome terrorists  tourists like no one else!

Traffic Police - Now there is so much to say about the Kings of the road! The swindling goes to heights at times. Once my friend was to buy us a meal from KFC and after parking his bike and entering the resto he saw his bike being booked for parking in a No-parking area. The cops got 500rs from him claiming that the parking had been changed to the opposite side only that day! [ Neenga nenachu nenachu mathuna? , Btw the saddest part was KFC meal gone :( ]. And then this once me and my friend were going home in the night after dinner out two cops stopped us and asked my friend to blow in to the most disgusting ethylometer ( Half of the town wouldve blown into the same thing! ) and when he refused the was like "Ok jus blow" then when my friend blowed, he said to the other cop " Sir koli satrukanunga " (Theyve had chicken). We were like WTH ? Then we had to shell out 100 bucks for a unknown over speeding infraction. Wonder how it changed in one second!

LOL!

Electricity board - Read prev. post. Cant compress this in one paragraph.

NHAI - This is another sad story here. The amount of money spent on petrol to drive from Madurai to Chennai < The money spent on tollbooths on the way. Ofcourse the 4 lane track offers safety but this is too much a price to pay! Few of the tollbooths have expired but still continue to stop people and rip off cash. The way this goes will make air travel cheaper than road travel if its not the case now itself.

HAHA!

After all the genuine attempts to bring about a change ( Definitely not counting the Baba's fast and stunt jump off the stage :P ) , lets have our hopes alive and look forward to change as always! After all Nambikai than vaalkai!

180 - Movie Review

180.. A feel good movie with a 'sad' ending.. ;)

Dint expect anything at all from the movie after all the bad reviews and the "Machi poirathaaaaaa" from friends. Maybe because of that it was, I liked the movie personally. Sidharth fans are in for a treat here and he has done a good job in part acting and perfect lip sync. Both the heroines have done their parts well ( Priya Anand <3 ) and none looked stupid like in the usual commercial flicks.The director being an ad film and serial director is shown all through the movie with long scenes and the last 15 mins of the movie is literally a tv serial episode. The camera and BGM support the movie very well and the first song and Nee korinaal have been picturised so well. Movie lacks strong story and logic ( Where does Sidharth get his money for all the flight tickets? , First time Priya talks to her parents in INDIA then its like her family is settled in the US?! and few more flaws! ). But the way the movie is carried doesnt make the audience realise the flaws then and there. Worth a watch.

What scores : Sidharth , Priya <3 , Music , Camera
What doesnt : Draggy scenes , Climax

My rating : 3.5/5

P.s. SIDHARTH thaniya maatna setha da!! Realised why my friend said this only after watching the movie.

The HELL Hours!

If you live in Tamilnadu, India , you will definitely know what Im talking about already. Yes, the frequent power cuts ranging from 2 to 9 hours a day! Ofcourse the 9 hour power cut is once a month but even that one day is unbearable( If you stay home that is, most of the movie plans are on that day ;) ). The saddest part of this is the sudden 5-10 min power cuts frequently. Im able to finish a blogpost thanks to Google's auto draft saving after every letter typed :P I am most affected by power cuts in the midnight that stop your downloads (I have 50 movies in queue dammit!). Just when you want to watch TV or blast music or even sleep , pOOf its gone.

 
But this is not the case outside India or even outside Tamilnadu , Why ? Dont we have enough power plants?  NO. We have a very good Electricity board and enough sources for generating current. If youve ever doubted that check here. So what is the reason behind this misery ? There are few reasons to which we suffer this and the majority of which doesnt put us to blame.

POLITICS - This this the major current consuming  wasting thing happening in town! A political meeting , , some Politician comes town , some leader's birthday The whole town goes dark to light up the million tubelights placed at 5 feet from each other along the road where the 'THALAIVAR's(Leader) car would pass. And not to mention the glow from the ground where the meeting takes place! These meetings are such a waste of resources. Intha thalaivargal tholla thaanga mudiyala pa!

IT Buildings and Malls - The flashy lights and centralized A.C. in any Mall/IT building consumes amounts of current that are unimaginable! All this is done to make the mall look posh and 'modern'. For a simple example a tube as it is for lighting purpose is consider cheap in a mall. But the same covered by a glass case and art on it makes it posh. Seriously WTF? Even few other aspects in Malls like heights of bright lighting, powerful Air conditioning , escalators without sensors are wastage of priceless power.

ILLEGAL WIRING - Intha kodumaiya epdi yen vaaiyala solla?! This happens only in India, if you look at a wire junction you cant even tell the difference between 2 wires even by eye! Many localities , small ones rope illegal wires from the sources and draw current which is billed on someother 'poor' person in the nearby locality.

Now thats what Im talking about!

OWN WASTING - Now this is the part that puts the people to blame. Not switching off the fans while going out , running the Air conditioner for hours together in a empty room (to keep the room cool when you come home , WTH ? ). These small things happen in every house and can be resolved simply with just a little lesser carelessness.

The hopes of a new government bringing an end to this problem have gone down with the power cuts continuing. This is definitely something to ponder upon , and anyways lets do our parts to the best , then hope for the best, in the rest!

FaceBook.in :D

Definitely an addiction!

There had to be a post about this. This enormous and ever growing social network created ( rather stolen ;) Watch The social network) by one student from harvard now turned billionaire. But seriously it takes hardship to beat google in an aspect and make such a big migration in little time span. So salutes to Mark Zuckerberg ( CEO , Facebook ). Now to the our side of the story, Facebook in India. Facebook is become more than a social network for many in India. It is an addiction , passion , a hobby from school kids to veterans. But how many use it the proper way is the real question? Facebook use is made annoying by..

·        People who join facebook to befriend random people and flirt (These people are ‘cheap guys’ but there are so many girls who do this ‘cheap’ activity also).

·        People who SPAM.

The first type of people are personally annoying because you get random friend requests ( 0 Mutual friends : HOW THE HELL DID YOU FIND ME ! ) and sometimes with dumb descriptions Eg) ‘Hey wassup? (Attitude itseems.) I was jus surfing around n found yer profile . Pretty kewl yaar wanna be frnz?’ Sad. Not working definitely. First of all I hate the use of ‘yaar’ and feel like strangling the person using it. The second type are in your friend list or the group you joined or a page you liked. You get tagged in random images of roses or teddy bears with outright stupid quotes. And there starts the flooding of notifications. Jobless people post meaningless comments mostly drooling if at all a girl has commented on it. Eg ) Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww , Cuteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee , Loooks like uuuuuuuuuu JJJ,something seriously wrong with their Keyboards I guess. Then I got a invitation from a random person to the event “Talks on ‘Avvaiyar's Vinayagar Agawal’  in Tamil” recently, WTH ? :/ The apps that FB has come up with are down-right annoying these days. Friendmeter , Friend castle , My football team , Friendship cup , Friend-couples ( Now this is THE stupidest app which picks two random friends from your list and posts them as a couple , now think twice before adding your family to your list ;) ) are all useless apps for so called fun. Farmville :/ I cud dedicate a whole post to screw this game!  

Truth..

Then about the must mention love stories on FB and the murders that follow. It is pretty stupid how someone falls in love with someone he/she has just chatted for a few days and then commit suicide for the same. The stories don’t seem appealing or even worth your pity for the killed guy or the kidnapped girl. Plain stupidity. On that note this short-film is nice and worth a watch MUGAPUTHAGAM. Also there is serious gender discrimination on in FB. ( Ok , I am and every guy will say this with a bit of jealousy and little frustration )  Why do girls ( Even the worstu ones ;) ) have 10000 friends within a week? Why does each status update of a girl get a minimum of 20-30 likes and 100 odd comments? Which does every profile picture of a girl ( even if it is a Barbie doll or a cat or a dumb teddy ) get 100 likes? This is all true but is it because girls the coolest things on earth? DEFINITELY NOT. This is just happening in India if everyone here change they way they look at FB as place to meet your partner. And when there are 100 guys trying , competition boss, COMPETITION :D

ROFL!

 It is just a network to keep in touch with your family/friends even if your separated by miles. Proper use of FB would be real fun as done by the rest of the world as far as I know.

So mulichuko , Sunrise kudichuko!

Ofcourse I love you , Till I find someone better - Book Review

The cover!

This is one of the feel good books Ive read and certainly the best after Chetan Bhagat's Two States. Good job on story , character definition and humour Durjoy Dutta and Maanvi Ahuja. Story revolves around Deb student of DCE his friends and girlfriends. The usual story of a nerd in school going to college to freak out said in a nice way. Deb's only friends are Shrey ( A completely dont care kind of guy ) and Vernita ( Only girl  who hasnt been Deb's girlfriend ) and his girlfriend Smrithi ( Med student ). Story goes on with Smrithi telling her parents about her relationship and Deb dumping her for Avantika ( Vernita's boyfriend's sister ) whos just out of rehab for drug addiction and is THE ANGEL. Their relation is defined well in the story or their relation defines the story. Deb gets a taste of his own medicine when Avantika dumps him for his own good( VTV touch ;) ). He goes crazy , loses his career and then rises slowly from the ashes then the story and climax there on is predictable. But the storyscenes that take you to the end are beautiful  and the book is seriously unputdownable. I dont want to say more as I think Ive already spoilt it enough for you. :P The book certainly makes one feel 'J' for the northi guys :P xD

Rating : 4/5

Senseless message service

VTV :D jus something related..

I woke up this morning to see 78 messages(Damn you Twitter!) then started banging my head on the pillow aimin to Kill Self , Reason : another text message..

                             FEELING STORY : -

Thêre wäs a gïrl ño ône lôve hër becausë shë waş nöt ablé tô seë, bùt ône bôy lôve thât gîrl ând câre hër.......onë day girl said if i would be having eye i would marrying you........one day girl eye came back......now boy said marry me, girl rejected because boy was blind then boy went far away N gave her letter """PLEASE TAKE CARE OF MY EYES""" --
                                   "FEEL THE LOVE"                Good Morning :)

         

WTH?!?!?!?!

Does it look like I even care early morning?! The rage to kill the sender was less than that to kill the person who typed that! These messages called "FORWARDS" are become the lame way of communication between people. Sweet ones become convo starters , senti ones are used to mend relationships funny ones are meant to impress but most are just down right pissing off! Here are few types of these :

#1 irritating message which say this message is from some so called god or angel or devil or joblessness and asks you to make a wish and forward it to 20-30 people. Fine if they had stopped with that. The message goes on saying You will die/suffer bad luck/fail in your exams if you dont forward it. CRAP! Have you enchanted the message with a curse written in C++ ? or is E.T. travelling with the forward?! :/

#2 are the ones where the sender asks you to forward the message to many people to help a sick person. Now I am not talking about the messages that say rare blood group needed help if you know anyone with it or something similar. These are the ones that say " I am @#$%^&*( , I am suffering from @#$%^&* and i need so much for this treatment and Airtel or Aircel or Vodafone or some Network service provider has agreed to give me(Since when did they started 'GIVING'?) 10p/time this message is sent.. " This is stupidity because we have never seen on the news or the internet any network paying someone's hospital bills.. 

#3 is not much irritating when the sender is a person you like :P This one asks you to fill down a big form about what you know/think of the sender. Now that's a chance ;) It starts out like 'Lets see how much you know me : My DOB : Check orkut . FB or skip. My fave color : *WTF?* Hmm ok Black? Thats what you wear all the time (Reply : That was last month , Its green now *Now seriously GO TO HELL*) Give me a nick-name : *Heres where you get all the wierd ideas and the anger that youve stacked upon to work* :P What do you like in me : *Devilish laugh* Cute smile , Your dresses in pink *YUCK* and finally What do you hate about me/What should i Change in myself : Better leave this blank if you have any idea of making an impression on the person.' ;) 

One more message specially dedicated to piss off the reader.. Id say that im totally not responsible for any side-effects you may face after reading..

                            

                                             A boy loved a girl very much. Everyday he would meet her on her way to college and give her a rose and propose. But the girl kept rejecting him saying some reason or the other. One day when the boy was crossing the road to talk to her , he got hit by a car (Alaipayuthe eh ?) and was in the hospital in coma. The girl came to meet him and kissed him ( Now SLEEPING BEAUTY ? :/ ) and the boy woke up from his coma. When the girl askd how he survived such a fatal accident , he said "Boost is the secret of my energy" Then the girl said "Our energy" And they happily lived ever after..

Let me end this post in the usual VISHAAL movie ending style :D

     SMS being used to keep in touch , chat with friends , get to know people and few other other things :D is well and good.. But irritation from someone you dont want it is serious mindscrewing stuff.. A survey says more than half of the break-ups in India are done through SMS , now thats Pathetic. 'Now for the Vishaal touch' YEN INTHA VERI ? OLUNGA IRUKANUMNU THANEYA NENAIKUROM ! EPO THIRUNTHAPORINGA?... 

                                                                                          A film by , 

                                                                                                          Priyadarsan ;) 

First shot..

First try @ blogging .. Don mynd the randomness as its a compilation of thoughts and views from a flubbing n bubbling mind..

So here goes.. 

I will start with something docile i.e. something im known to be good at so i dont make a disaster of it.. Narrating incidents and movie reviews.. About a 15 day training , trip , fun tour , internship at Chennai.. Staying out with a friend was the cool part and in the midst of an awesome locality was even cooler.. First the Training : 9am to 1pm everyday (Even Sundays :/ ). The first one hour dragged with Computer science classes, totally alienated since we wer Electronics students(Gethu!). Next hour was aptitude wich was a piece of cake for us since we where from the so called awesome college! The others wer pretty sad as in who wouldn get up from their seats n go out at the very mention of the word 'BREAK'! All we got to was showoff which was good at tymes even tho the need was not fulfilled ;) . Then came the fun-to-hear-bad-to-experience part : Two levels of 'mock' interview.. It was unimaginable as u can imagine! 50 questions back to back n u cant lose eye contact,look tensed,stammer,blabber,answer wrong,say you have no clue but answer answer keep answering about stuff you have no idea about.. Even this part was fun with the "Machi you go first" , "Machi rod ethuvanga da" usuals :D Then finally the evenings.. the real fun part.. Sadly all the fun was limited to the theatres of Chennai except for the evening at the beach.. We watched all the movies until the theatres had nothing to offer and still wer not satisfied that HP7 : Part II , Cars 2 , and whatnot dint release earlier on..
                                               

  FUN @ THE BEACH

                                       

     LOL @ ESCAPE CINEMAS

                                                       

    EA!!

                                                     

TOTAL SHUT DOWN :P

Now to the reviews , will keep them short having in mind the number and my first tym :)

Firstly LIMITLESS (My Rating : 4/5)                       

                                     The first movie at PVR , Ampa skywalk.. The theatre was emprty as expected but the expectation on the movie was high considering the IMDB rating and ofcourse Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro.. The movie dint fail in any way except for a few draggy scenes and a abrupt climax.. Acting is Cooper's cup of tea and the music n special effects are very good in this movie. Very different plot , brilliant dialogues keeps the viewer engrossed.. A must watch for people craving a different movie after all the usual commercial ones.

What scores : Special effects , Plot , Bradley Cooper.

What doesnt : Not much from Robert De Niro , Climax.

Then KUNG FU PANDA 2 ( Two times Twice the Awesomeness ;) , My Rating : 4.5/5 )

                                    This movie I din expect much from as I hadnt watched the previous movie when I watched it the first time.. Completely blew me over.. Perfect use of 3D , thats what you call a visual treat not crappy Avatar.. Funniest dialogues , awesome graphics , and Zimmer's BG score make this a must watch!

And the experience at Satyam cinemas was AmAZiNG!

What scores :  WHAT DIDNT ? 

What doesnt :  ---

And then HANNA ( My rating : 2.5/5 )

                                      Average movie.. Nothing of the special sort.. All we could think of during the movie was it resembled BLACK SWAN so much.. Not in plot , not in characters but the movie type.. It was the typical meant for Oscar type movie.. Jus a time pass. The girl who acted as HANNA was such a expressionless weakling which adds to the bore.

What scores : Few funny and innovative scenes

What doesnt : Everything else

And then SOURCE CODE ( My Rating : 4.75/5)

                                     After so many good reviews and my first movie at ESCAPE cinemas ( supposedly India's best multiplex ) the expectations wer high.. You mightve heard movie with scenes that bring you to the edge of your seats.. Evryone watched this whole movie at the edge! Such awesome storyline  and direction..

Definitely demands a second watch..

What scores : Story. Acting. Direction.

What doesnt : Lite repetitiveness

then AARANYA KAANDAM ( First and only tamil movie , My Rating : 4.25/5 )

                                  A very different attempt from the usual pathetic tamil movies.. Direction , music and dialogues (Mostly swearing) are worth mentioning in the movie.. A must watch but definitely not a family watch.. The new heroine is pretty cute but cant act jus like the other ones.. Yuvan has done a epic job in the BG score for the fight , chase n evry other scene.. Different try , not a massive hit..

What scores :  Yuvan's BG score , Sampath , n 'C' class comedy 

What doesnt : Draggy scenes in the middle.

then Xmen : First Class ( My Rating : 4/5 ) 
                                   Not a fan of the series , havent watched any of the previous movies in the series. Went with the blind hope since it was a prequel. Was expecting a pathetic superhero movie fullof graphics. But definitely not. Awesome movie made me download all the other parts.. Different movie seemed very grippy since ive considered the Xmen series to be wierd till then.. A must watch for the fans and definitely worth a try for the others..

What scores :  The actors , special effects.
What doesnt : Too many flaws.
                                     

finally the big one THE HANGOVER : PART II ( My Rating : 5.5/5)

                                  It is the exact movie again just set in a different country(Thailand) different place(Bangkok) different person's wedding(Stu :D) different person missing(Stu's fiance's little brother)! But who cares , its a full time laugh riot when watched with a big gang of friends wich makes it even more fun.. It is like you just cant stop laughing from the funniest dialogues. At the end evryone wants another sequel. 

What scored : EVERYTHING!

What doesnt : Repetition!

Finally the trip was fun-filled with the company of my besties

RAGHAV

RISHI 
CHANDRA

AJAY

Thankyou guys you rock :D

thats it with the reviews and my first post! 

P.s. About the blog name, all the words are synonymous to Random and 'Suiji' is chinese(Who doesnt love chinese? Its dedicated to Russel peters n Chow(Hangover) :D ). If you think its sad having the same word thrice, let me tell you I have seen a girl's blog called I , me , myself , moi , mujhe , mir, minua.................... Think again.