Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Vaaranam Aayiram – My Review


Dasavatharam was probably the most hyped movie of the year which turned out to be completely disappointing to me. Vaaranam Aayiram, being one more the highly hyped film, is a bigger disappointment. By law of averages, a person having success more than once continuously, must fail once to live in this world. That’s life. We thought Pachai Kili Muthu Charam was the downfall, but this film is more of it.

The movie is about the life of Surya, from his birth till his father’s death. His father, Krishnan (which happens to be the Surya’s another role), is supposedly a cool, understanding and supportive dad. The film presents Krishnan’s life in short, Surya’s teenage to college days to successful career, which includes his love life, days of drug addiction and adventure. In all these phases, he is guided by his father who is Surya’s inspiration.

After Mani Ratnam, I believe that Gautam Menon is the only director who can make realistic movies but he has over done it in this film. No movie shows realistic sequences of play and the unrealistic actions (I don’t mean fight sequences) is always blown up and hence you can watch it for fun. But in this film, such ideal characteristics and impossible sequences are displayed so casually which, I think, is the biggest mistake.

The point is, you will never find a dad like Mr.Krishnan of this movie. I should say that Surya did a marvelous acting as this father personality. The make up suited him well, his dialogue delivery was brilliant and in short, his ways gave such feel good factor to the movie. But, what made it hit the reverse track is that kind of a person is nowhere to be found because of the exaggeration given here.

Here are some or actually, many of the unconvincing methods of the movie

1. Surya is inspired by his dad. Good. But in the movie which claims “dad shapes son up”, there is actually only 3 scenes where the father advices his son. The son decides everything by himself, learns everything by himself and does things that he likes to do. So I don’t see a great influence of the dad on him, which the movie claims to do.

2. Love at first sight is only faintly accepted in the world. Not many believe in it. Surya falls in love with Meghna (Sameera reddy) as soon as he sees her in the train. Alrite, it’s a movie so let’s accept it. But……….. Proposing at first sight?????????

3. The son is bad engineering student and after he finishes college (with arrears still uncleared), he starts a company with his friends, makes it really big and even builds a huge house in less than a year. Please…. On screen this was stupid.

4. The son, goes on a hunt for finding his acquaintance’s son who has been kidnapped. He finds the boy and saves it from them as a single man army. I would have accepted this if it had been Vijayakanth or Vijay’s film, but definitely is not a formula to be used by someone like Gautam Menon.

These are only parts of the movie that are unacceptable. If you watch it, you’ll find more!! Screenplay, choreography and others don’t really cover up for this mess.

Maybe Gautam Menon has gone to cloud-9 after the real successful ventures and thought that everything that’s his would be accepted. Unfortunately, the movie lacks reality to a level that cannot be endured.

*/5 – one star for the father surya’s acting and music.

Verdict: Aiyayooo 100 rupees pochaeyyy…

P.S : Sameera Reddy is the most beautiful girl I have ever seen this year!!

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Saturday, November 15, 2008

Dostana - My Friend's Review

All right... The great suraj (yeah, thats me!) was on rest for a few days now... I took a break from blogging, listening to music, reading etc (but of course, not from watching movies!!) because i got busy with a few other things and now i am back! More posts are going to be coming, and to start with, here is a review of Dostana...
This review has been sponsored to this blog by my friend, Sandeep Kumar known as S@ndy in his messages! Sandeep is a very good friend and the most popular among the opposite sex (btw, he is male. I learnt that when he answered "male" across the row "sex" in a form that he filled in front of me in Chennai Trade Center. He initially thought of something else given the fact that the form was given by a girl, but i explained to him before he leaped!!). This is his first hand at reviewing a movie and I am sure u all will enjoy it. More reviews will be coming to this blog from him and here we go with the first one.... Dostana

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This one is a comic caper to the core and not even one part of the movie is such that you write it off. Abhishek is excellent especialy the Venice Love Story that part is the best part of the movie where actually my jaw was paining and i could'nt laugh anymore.
Priyanka has acted brilliantly she perfectly suits the role of a NRI Sindhi girl and not to mention she looks Sizzling.
John is cool and guys dont neglect his body ..... I am sure he's gonna be the next MACHO ICON ....
Boman Irani is wasted in just a cameo he could have played a more potential role in the movie Kitty Gaajar (I dont remember her name) is too good with her Sindhi accent and does good justice to the role SPOILER
Bobby Deol plays a perfect suave business man but i think Shahrukh Khan or Akshay kumar could have handled the job better .... Karan johar are you listening !!!
Scenes to watch out for
1.) Hot Dog Counter Scene Between Abhishek & John
2.) Venice Love Story Scene (Best Scene)
3.) Boman Irani Vists Priyanka's House and Bidi Jalai Le Dance
4.) Kiron Kher Does grah pravesh pooja for John
5.) John & Abhishek teach Bobby Deol to impress Priyanka
6.) CLIMAX ..... no clues here GO AND WATCH THE MOVIE


A comprehensive verbal view of the movie's story would only spoil the show and i think you should watch it instead to know the fun involved!
On the whole the movie is a great sign of relif for Karan Johar after disastrous Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna (Though it worked wonders in international circuit)
Songs are a awesome. especially "desi girl" , "jaane kyun" , "maa da laadla" , "shut up and bounce".

Its Simply superb movie...I loved it.......n coudn't contrl my laughter thruout.....evry1 acted well...Abhishek,john n priyanka...all were superb......bobby was also good.....

Go Ahead and watch "DOSTANA".--"it's a best movie to watch with your gang of friends....not with family plzzz.....(its okay if watched with cousins though).... :-) I am sure you wont be disappointed

Thanx to suraj for letting me write here in his blog....

next review will be about shahrukh khan's "rab ne bana di jodi" which is coming out to screens on Dec 12th....

Until then...bye bye...
$@ndeep

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Mobile number - 9841245566 ( Guys are requested to call him and girls are ordered to call me.)

More coming into this blog...

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