Friday, November 30, 2007

Jab we met


This is a family type movie with love story.


Aditya [Shahid Kapur], an industrialist, is heartbroken as the girl he loves is getting married to someone else. Unable to muster up the courage to return home, he drifts out of the gathering and aimlessly boards a train, bounding away into the night.

As destiny would have it, he meets Geet [Kareena Kapoor] -- a beautiful but annoyingly talkative girl who is leaving Mumbai to go her hometown -- Bhatinda. Later, she has plans of eloping with her boyfriend [Tarun Arora].

Geet irritates Aditya to the point of getting him to leave the train. As she tries to get him back on the train, she ends up missing it and the two find themselves stranded on a desolate station with no luggage or money.

Begins the idyllic journey through the exuberant North Indian heartland in which this odd couple make their way through buses and taxis and camel-carts to reach her house in Punjab.

On arrival, Geet's family mistakes the two for lovers. Before this misconception can be cleared, Geet escapes to her boyfriend in Manali. Aditya leaves with her, confirming the suspicion that they are lovers. In Manali, Aditya feels empowered to return to Mumbai and resurrect his ailing business.

Life takes a positive turn and Aditya begins to do well. One day, Geet's family, who think that she is with him, confronts Aditya. He is shocked to learn that Geet has not returned home. He takes it upon himself to find her.

He finally tracks her down in a Himalayan town and begins another journey to reach Bhatinda and flow into the colors and conceptions of a loud and happy North Indian family. How their separate journeys become one, forms the remainder of the story.
 
Its dramatic and serious. Also, things seem to be stretched in this hour.

Shaid has done a very good perforance in this movie.

Thavam


The actor Arun Vijay’s Thavam is an average movie.

The movie starts by  a man and a woman meet at a suicide point atop a waterfall. He is unemployed and she is running away from a forced marriage. After a lot of discussion they decide against jumping down the falls as it would be too gory and prefer consuming sleeping pills and having a peaceful death. They pawn the girl’s gold chain and a have a good time before going back to the guy’s room and consuming sleeping pills. Just then the postman knocks and he brings the news that the guy has got a job .They raise an alarm and are saved at the nick of time from certain death.

After going their separate ways with their families, the ‘suicide attempt’ couple Subramanian (Arun Vijay) and Sumathi (Vandana) realize that they have fallen in love.Meanwhile Subramanian’s boss’s daughter Madhumita (Arpita) an aggressive woman flips her lid for our hero. Sumathi once again on the run from her Thai Mamman who wants to do a shot- gun wedding , ends up as Madhumita’s secretary. Soon Madhu realizes that the love lorn Subramanian’s girl is Sumathi and tries her best to see that the lovers never meet.

Zodiac


The Zodiac, is about astrologically nicknamed serial killer.


A boogeyman from their childhood growing up around San Francisco.


But the case lingers on, and another couple is attacked six months later. Letters purportedly from the Zodiac killer arrive at local newspapers, threatening a rampage of slayings and including codes that supposedly would reveal his identity. Police receive ominous phone calls from the killer, who chalks up more murders.

"The Zodiac" is a bore, crawling along at a dreary pace and presenting characters who are bland. Robin Tunney is wasted in a shallow role as Matt's wife, whose marriage is strained by her husband's obsession with the case, though the filmmakers never make you care if the family might withstand the distress.

As Matt's son, Rory Culkin meanders about in confusion and fear over the murders, getting the occasional father-knows-best pep talk from his dad.

From its feeble dialogue to its clumsy editing to its graceless problems of continuity, "The Zodiac" is an amateur production all around. Michael Suby adds a score that's such a cliche of ominous thriller orchestrations, it might as well be the music for the next "Scary Movie" installment.

Thoovaanam


This movie is not upto the mark.The hero Karthi(Kaushik) anarchitect and Anu (Nethra) are lovers. Karthi has been born and brought up in a village with typical middle class values, and has strong emotional attachment to his mother. Anu on the other hand is a US returned girl, brought up by her dad a yuppie guy (Bhanuchandar) who loves to party. Anu drinks beer and is bold and brazen and open in her life style and attitude, which causes the thaw in the relationship.

Karthi encouraged by his close friends (Maurya, Ponnumani, Suraj) falls madly in love with Anu. But she rejects him basically because of his approach. Karthi attempts suicide. He is saved by his friends who help him recover and start on a new slate. When Anu comes to know about his suicide attempt  she starts to love him.

Cheena Thana 001


his movie is a remake of Malayalam comic hero Dileep's C.I.D Moosa.

Its a good movie.

Prasanna has done a very good role. Prasanna wants to become a cop, but the comedians are determined that he does not get selected. So it becomes a merry-go-round of our hero Vs team of comedians- Vadivel, Mannivannan, comic villain Riaz Khan and assorted 'terrorist' baddies who want to kill the governor, Visu. Sheila is there for the songs tuned by Deva.

Katrathu Tamil


Katrathu tamil lead role is being played by actor Jeeva.This movie stands good in the theateres.This story is about a psycho how he has got frustated without job and faces his life in this world.

Prabhakar (Jeeva) is a Tamil teacher in a private school in west Mambalam area of Chennai. He is frustrated and even tries to commit suicide, in a system where knowing your mother tongue. 10 years back, there were people who were getting Rs 2000 and Rs 20000, but today all that have changed as there are individuals working for IT companies drawing Rs 2 lakhs as salary, while the guy who gets Rs 2000 .

Prabhakar, meets many people and he is always on the run and meets many people like saadhus etc. Jeeva kidnaps a television anchor (Karnas), who records his life story, where he confesses to killing 22 people in cold blood.In the flashback he reveals his past, his upbringing by a Tamil teache and his childhood sweet heart, (Anjali) .

Parattai Engira Azhagu Sundaram


 Director of this movie is  Suresh Krishna.

A village boy (Dhanush) who is very close to his mother (Archana). He goes to the city in search of job but ends up as the leader of an underworld gang. He becomes the kingpin of all activities while his mother craves for his love. She sets out to the city in search of him and stays with a journalist (Meera Jasmine). His mother comes to town to meet him.Does his mum gets chance to meet him or not its the story.

Chocalate


The movie is so hilarious.Its really worth watching movie.The movie is taken in cool way and its very good entertainer.It has lot of on-liner jokes, the movie is about love in campus.

St Mary’s woman’s college in Kochi has refused to turn into a co-educational college as the Parent Teachers Association (PTA) wants it that way. Ann Mathew (Roma), Nandana (Samvrutha) and Annama (Remya Nambisan) are students in the college who call the shots and are opposed to entry of boys to the college. But as per University rules for PG courses, a boy can be given admission, though PTA led by Das ( Rajan .P.Dev) is fiercely opposed to it, as his daughter Nandana is studying there.(her sisters who studied in co-ed colleges ran away with their boyfriends!)

The principal of the college (Sari), using the loop hole in the PG seat, admits her friend and colleague Vanaja teacher’s (Vanitha) son Shyam (Pritviraj) into the college to do his MA (English) course, which creates an uproar! The gang of three, led by Ann Mathew starts ragging Shyam, a guy who has faced 9 suspensions in his academic career and 7 police cases! Shyam’s advisors are his friends the middle aged Papa ( Salim Kumar) and Fashion designer Ranjit (Jaya Surya), who is in love with Nandana. Soon Shyam becomes the college heart throb, and the love-hate relationship between him and Ann leads to jealousy among the girls especially Neetu. This leads to further complications and drama.


Pritviraj as Shyam has come out with his most lovable performance Roma is sweet.
 

Rock ‘n’ Roll


This movie is not a success one.The movie doe not rock as per the title.

This movie is about Mohanlal tries to compose his songs in kodambakkam ,Chennai.I
In Chandraolsavam the Mohanlal character Srihari, internationally reputed student doing research on music and was living in the culture capital of the world Paris for years before deciding to come down to Kerala to spend time with old friends. He mouths punch dialogues in his inimitable style, has a way with women, enjoys and sings classical music, can speak Sanskrit slokas, has a battalion of friends, is an expert fighter and drinks everything from Nadan(Todday) to scotch whisky!

Now with Rock ‘n’ Roll, Srihari has metamorphosed into Chandramouli an internationally reputed drummer, introduced in the film as an “Ullagam Sutrum Valibhan (globe trotter), who is one day in London, next day in Cape Town and a day after in Chennai! He has played with all major music troupes in the world and is a close friend of Zakir Hussain and A.R Rahman. He will do anything for friends and is a compulsive womaniser and an alcoholic who in front of his bedroom mirror confesses for the first time when he gets smitten by a girl.


Mouli sees it also an opportunity to catch up with his old music troupe consisting of Henry (Rahman) the keyboard player, Issac (Lal) the violinist, Balu(Harisri Asokhan) the tabla player and Viswanathan (Mukesh) a music director. Meenakshi (Shwetha Menon) a choreographer, an old flame of Chandramouli joins the party, as they make merry.
 Chandramouli, falls in love for the first time in his life with Daya Srinivasan (Lakshmi Rai), a Mumbai based singer whom he meets during the Lal Jose’s music recording done by Guna.Friend Khader Bhai (Jagathy) so that he can woo and win over Daya who is protected by her mother and a rich businessman who wants to marry her, so the story goes to that track.

The story lost the track somewhere and it did not show the continuity and made the viewers disappointed.

Naalu Pennungal


The movie is very sentiment movie and it has been picturized well.The movie is realy touching story.

Its about 4 different women from Kuttanad area , who comes from different walks of life, each have a story of their own. The movie have blended the characters well in one form.A
 
The movie is quite authentic and the dress pattern is not about the present time,the dressing style and the set is changed to the 60's.

The first story tells about Kunjipennu (Padmapriya) decides to turn a new leaf by marrying Appukutty ( Sreejith Ravi), a headload worker. But society and one of her former client Ouseappachan (Manoj.K Jayan) still craves for her and falsely implicates the newly married couple who is imprisoned. The judge finds them legally not married and she is not able to stand up to legal scrutiny, as she is uneducated. Justice is denied to Kunjipennu, more due to her social standing and lack of basic knowledge.

The second short story is Kanyaka (The Virgin), about a paddy field labourer Kumari (Geetu Mohandas), who gets into an arranged marriage with Narayanan (Nandu), a shop- keeper and mama's boy who is interested in only watching films .Kumari finds that he is not interested in consummating the marriage, and soon leaves her with her parents. And in a bid to hide his failures, he and his mother spreads canards about Kumari, still a virgin after her marriage.

The third story is about Chinnu Amma (The Housewife). It is the story of a rich housewife Chinnu Amma (Manju Pillai), who after years of married life with her loving and caring husband,(Murali) still does not have any children. One day, a former classmate (Mukesh) for whom she had a crush turns up and enlightens her dull and drab life with his stories of sexual conquests. He tries to influence her by blaming her husband for all her woes and suggests that he can be the surrogate stud for her to have a child. But the strong womanly streak of being loyal to her husband and question of fidelity triumphs in the end. Manju Pillai is adequate for the role.

The final l story is about the Nithyakanyaka (The Spinster), about an unmarried elder sister Kamakshi (Nandita Das).The guy(Ravi Vallathol) who comes to see her first sees her beautiful younger sister (Kavya Madhavan) and marries her, as her helpless mother K.P.A.C Lalitha requests her to make way. Finally her brother (Asokan) and the youngest (Remya Nambisan) in the family too get married and she ends up as unwanted and lonely after her mother's death. She finally decides to go back to her family house and live a solitary life.

Hareendran Oru Nishkalangan


This movie is quite ok.Its quite a commercial movie.Vinayan has has done well. The trouble with the film is that it falls between two stools, and post interval there is no real story to say.

Hareendran (Indrajith) is a software person who runs Starlines a very successful listed company. His right-hand man is his childhood friend Gopalakrishnan (Jayasurya), called GK. Hareendran is a nice guy, who is straightforward and trusts people blindly, while GK is a cunning fox.Hareendran's mother (Ambika) fixes his marriage to Indu (Bhama) who is in love with Alex (Manikuttan).

The villain is GK uses others like a pawn in a chess game, and manipulates them to his advantage which results in Indu running away with Alex a few minutes before Hareendran was to tie the Thali around her neck. This leaves Hareendran shattered, and he becomes an alcoholic and leaves GK to run the company. But a few days later GK is brutally murdered and Hareendran is accused of killing him, and a media witch-hunt start and he is unable to defend himself even after the court acquits him and in the climax the real murderer is found.This movie is has taken a good way.



Thulasi


This movie is worth wtching so go for it.After giving family based entertainers like Lakshmi and Aadavari Mataluku Ardhale Verule, Venkatesh has emerged winner with this sensibly packaged sentimental family drama with an additional dose of action in the company of his lucky heroine Nayantara.

Tulasi Ram alias Tulasi (Venkatesh) loves and marries Vasundhara (Nayantara).Tulasi enters into a tug of war with the villain and takes up hectic campaign to see the win of his father (Vijay Kumar) and he does it. Raging with grudge, the villain sends his henchmen to kill Tulasi and in the clash, Vasundhara's brother (Sivaji) is killed.

Vasundhara starts fearing the faction politics. She gets separated from Tulasi, taking away their little son Harsha (Athulith). Now, it is the turn of Tulasi to rescue his wife and Harsha who suffers from a cerebral problem, which his wife doesn't know. Then how the problesm gets solves from operation and other thing is the story.

Music director Devi prasad has dome good job.

 

Viyyalavari Kayyalu


Viyyalavari Kayyalu has action, sentiment, comedy, emotion and also a message. But, the villains of the film are bad. Srihari's special role and Uday Kiran's ease are the strengths of the film.

A hairstylist Vamsy (Uday Kiran) rescues a girl Nandini ( Neha Julka) from the clutches of some rowdies. The girl immediately starts loving him and convinces him about her pure and selfless love. The boy sets out to convince the girl's brother Bhupati Rayudu (Srihari), a good-hearted factionist in Rayalaseema.


Srihari is the most important character in the film. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the real hero of the film, considering his dominating role in the second half and climax. J

Stunts by Ram Laksham deserve special mention. The audience might think that there would be no stunts as the movie's title is homely. You do have serious stunts and even bloodshed on par with any other violent movie. It might even compete with the recent films like `Tulasi`, `Chiruta` and `Atidhi` when it comes to violence.

Takkari



This movie is remake of tamil movie Tiruvilayadal Aarambham. Amma Rajasekhar has improvised his directorial skills.

Tirupathi (Nitin) is a brilliant guy, who wants to become a realtor, much to the opposition from his father (Chandramohan), who doesn't give him single paise to start with. Another thread is that Tirupati wins the heart of a rich girl Priya (Sada), sister of a business tycoon and villainous Guru (Sayaji Shinde). Now, he gets a chance to get investment and realize his ambition in the real estate business. Guru wants him to drop from the love game. Tirupati in return demands Rs. 25 lakh to forego his ladylove. The deal is clinched through. Then what happens does he able to do well in his business by investing the amount/does the hero gets back the lady love. Satyam Rajesh and other characters playing friends to Nitin did a neat job.

The story is predictable, but is treated with good commercial elements.

Good choreography. Chakri's music is a big asset to the film and among the songs, "AmmiAmmi.."

Maisamma IPS


This movie is not upto the expectation.

A girl child is born to a helpless mother when the jatara (a public religious festival) of Goddess Maisamma is going on in a Telengana village. The child is named as Maisamma. Her parents are killed in a natural calamity. The child is taken care of by her sister Durga. A small time rowdy Sadhu (Sayaji Shinde) marries Durga and forces her to do prostitution for his political ambitions. At one stage, the rowdy tries to rape minor girl Maisamma. While both sister run for their life, Sadhu prompts his dogs to kill his wife Durga, while Maisamma escapes. She later becomes a police officer Maissamma IPS (Mumaith Khan). She lives for one goal – to kill those who are responsible for her sister's death.

The characterization is weak and confused.

A couple of songs are worth watching. Though, Mumaith Khan is made to wear stylish and strange dresses on the lines of an action heroine of Hollywood, the effort isnot upto the mark