Luck – My Review and some notes about bollywood movies

It’s in Bollywood’s blood to make 1 good movie out of 15. And this definitely is not the one.

The film Luck is all about luck, obviously. The story is based on gambling on Humans and their luck. Karim Moosa (Sanjay Dutt, I wonder how they found this character name for him!) plays a perfect Ajith of Billa by making terrible walk in every scene he would appear. He finds people who always are lucky in life and puts them on the game to fight for their lives. We see a gambling arena (that resembles a stock market) with men betting on every person. The single lucky person who stays alive at the end earns Rs 20 crores.

The star cast could be the triggering point for a tired man in office to get out and watch this movie, but I am sure he would return unhappy and more tired than he already was. Imran khan, shruti haasan, ravi kishan, mithun and chitrashee rawat are all part of the stupid game, trying to make money. Despite the fact that there was absolutely no scope for acting in any of these roles, Chitrashee and ravi kishan did a brilliant job. On the other hand, the seriously beautiful daughter of an impeccable actor, was hopeless in the movie. Someone really needs to teach Shruti Haasan what acting is all about and I am surprised Kamal didn’t have time for that.

Here’s how the audience’s luck turned out when I saw this movie in Woodland’s Main theatre.

1. Guys was extremely lucky to see Shuti Haasan in Bikini.. :D

2. Since the theatre hardly had audience, some couples got very lucky!

3. And some men found themselves in a very lucky position coz of the theatre they had chosen to watch this film. They moved to the next screen as soon as the saw Sanjay Dutt walking for the 17^th time. Woodland’s symphony was playing Velu Prabhakarnin Kadhal kadhai!!!

The point that I really want to make is that bollywood movies are going nowhere. Kambakth Ishq was a terrible remake with akshay kumar scaring everybody out of the theatre. I can’t stand him even in the thumbs up ad. And because Pammal K Sambatham had no room for skin show with Simran playing a decent doctor, the bollywood remake had to make changes so that kareena could appear in bikini. She plays Doctor cum Model!!! How so stupid!! Shortkut, remake of Vellithirai, was another such disaster.

Bollywood directors, let me tell you, I can clearly understand that you all have taken classes from vijay on “how to remake movies”, and I hope you now realize that you lost money on the movies as well as on those classes. So please stop giving us your package of a terrible script, bad acting and irritating music. And skin shows... dudes, too much is too ugly and it cannot stand as a lone warrior in saving your movie.

Back to luck, if you are a fan of imran khan, go ahead and watch it for him but don’t expect to feel good at the end. If you love sanjay dutt, please avoid. This is one of his performances turned down.

*/5 – Poor....... but doesn’t deserve a zero.

Verdict: Sorry about your bad luck if you had seen this crap.

Thoranai - My Review

First of all, I would like to thank God for giving me a free ticket to this movie. I would have killed myself if I had paid Rs 100 for this nonsense. And God, I would be a very happy man if you could reimburse the money I spent on popcorn and coke as well. Having said that, you must have got an idea about how interesting the movie is and here is what it is all about.

The film is all about Murugan (vishal) who comes to Chennai in search of his long lost brother and gets entangled in problems with two famous thugs Guru and Tamilarasan (Prakash Raj) and in the process has romance with Indhu (shriya). I really don’t want to get into the details of the story as it makes no difference to the review, but one thing I should mention is the director has carefully preserved all the attributes of a “rowdy-good guy-related-action-film”. Let me give u a list of such attributes.

1. A pathetic high end introduction for hero. (but it doesn’t beat vijay’s kuruvi. Hero flying out of drainage)

2. Serious dialogues that can only make you laugh (or sometimes cry)

3. Absolutely no logic

4. Hero has friends who are comedians and heroine has friends who look sick.

5. Guy from village “corrects” software company girl.

6. Gorgeous heroine having absolutely no role in the story.

7. Average and unimpressive action sequences.

8. Hero going to minister’s house, rowdy’s house and probably even to white house, threatens to kill and comes out safe.

9. Stupid music

10. And hopeless lyrics

Thoranai has few more elements that makes the movie more nonsensical. Vishal’s overacting and dialogue deliver; hero’s brother saying to hero “hey if they know that you are my brother, they will kill you” after the hero trumpets the news to every enemy he has found; shriya kissing vishal without anybody seeing them outside her “software company” where people are walking in; and just because the movie’s name is thoranai, vishal shouting “thoranai thoranai thoranai” till everyone walks out of the theater while Prakash Raj does the job when vishal takes break.

The only aspect of the movie that is worth the ticket money (though I did not pay for the movie!) is Santhanam and his amazing comical dialogues. He was simply stunning in the movie.

½* / 5 – The half star is for Santhanam. If somebody could compile all his scenes from the movie and release a short film, I’ll watch it thrice!

Verdict: vomit

P.S: Shriya Saran, please marry me…

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!!