Year 2009, the year where again wasn't a very prominant year for Tamil Cinema. We have had big surprises in both forms. Most anticipated movies failing to satisfy the audience and we had a few dark horses as well. We also had a few stars to whom year 2009 was in deed a boon and likewise the other side shares a major space too.
So to the statistics, Tamil Cinema had seen approximately 103 movies this year, just marginal difference from the last year where we had close to 117 movies. This time we had around 8 movies officially considered as remakes from other language and of course there are a bunch of unofficial remakes as well. Out of the 8 movies, a special mention should go to 'Unnai Pol Oruvan' which was remade into tamil from the usual remake principle.
Sasikumar, the director turned producer turned actor had two of his products this year and both of them got a great response from the audience as well as the critics. His production venture 'Pasanga' satisfied many and also earned accolades. 'Nadodigal', a tale about friendship, directed by Samuthira Kani also tasted success at the box office with it's racy screenplay and a polite and clean acting by all the cast. It's very clear that this man has raised in a swift and become very popular in a short span.
Tamanna will anticipate every year to be a 2009 when she wakes up every morning. She had 4 movies released this year and out of which 3 were bagged by Sun Pictures and 1 turned out to be a block buster and other 2 were considered as hits. She has also got good list of movies in the pipeline with the next one 'Payya' pairing opposite to Karthi. Hope she continues to do the same in the years to come.
Coming to Music, it was Vijay Antony whose started with his peppy numbers to attract the listeners. He started with 'A Aa E Ee' and closed the year with another chart buster 'Vettaikaran'. Not to forget Sun Pictures who played a vital role in the field of marketting in media and in radio stations. But still, the music director earns full credit for his foot tapping numbers. Yuvan Shankar Raja also had 5 movies which released this year and turned out to be a good chartbuster. His Sarvam and Kunguma Poovum Konjum Puraavum songs literally occupied the hello tunes.
Now comes the master who literally rules the 2009. Yes, it's Sun Pictures. They were able to turn every movie released this year at least a hit. And they also have the year's biggest block buster 'Ayan'. But, they must also focus on a few quality movies which are desperately trying hard to get released because of various distribution reasons. If they start doing that, they can even promote those movies in the best way than any other distributor.
Official bombers
Every year, every site brings you the most anticipated movies in this year. 2009 is no exception we have had many expected movies from big stars and directors. Well, as usual, unfortunately, most of the movies failed to even just meet the expectation. It all started with the opener of the innings with Vijay's Villu. Coming from the expection Vijay-Prabhu Deva combo, it was trashed even by the actor's fans. Good nightwatchmen innings by Vadivelu and glimpse skin show by Nayan were just the condolence factor for the movie.
Sarvam, by Vishnu vardhan, carried the expectation from the block buster 'Billa' failed to even cross 25 days. Again, some good show by the camera man Nirav Shah and pleasant music by Yuvan which had left the movie songs to become a chartbuster and it was Nirav who had a good name with the critics for this fabulous photography especially the night shoot sequences in the movie. It also had Chakkravarthy who added more expectation, but eventually, it was all the script and the screenplay which the audience expect than the stars or the directors.
Cheran's Pokkisham was another bomber which had quite a reasonable expecation. The lengthy biography literally tested the patience of the audience. Repetitive scenes and dialogues added pain to the agony. Thought a few critics appreciated the movie, it still a loss for Nemichand Jabak.
Immediately following Pokkisham was 'Kanthasamy'. Perhaps, the most anticipated movie of the year I can call. Critics just ripped the movie to the maximum they can. Once again Kalaipuli Dhanu failed to witness profit with his yet another big budget movies. Susi ganesan, thinks he can become Shankar in his third movie like how Shankar become. This movie had nothing great except for some skin shows and songs.
Aadhavan, KSR-Surya combo is yet another bomber where Surya carried intense expecation from Ayan and also KSR who need no explaination for the anticipation he creates. The hype created for the 10 year role bombed again and KSR must seriously consider the fact that story is again a key element in movie making and he shouldn't depend on Ramesh Kanna. Vadivelu is again a life saver in this movie with his spontaneous comedy has just saved the movie to cross the bridge.
Worthy Numbers
Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu, had all new faces and with the notable Villian Kishore doing a decent role of a coach was really a worthy watch exception to the artifical climax where the director unnecessarily planted a tragedy. Not many movies with having a subject as a sport has been seen in Tamil Cinema. The director has utilized the script in a proper way and mixed it with the native feel of village and given us a worthy product.
Naan Kadavul, 4th product from the macho man, Bala. Easily the best movie released in this year, though failed in the box office, it just swept every critics. This is also probably most anticipated movie this year, last year and the previous year as well as it was made for nearly 3 years because of various issues. I wish this movie and the cast and crew gets reasonable accolades for the fantafabulous performances.
Yaavarum Nalam, a long time no see from the actor Madhavan and a long time no see from the Horror genre to Tamil Cinema. Directed by Vikram Kumar, this horror flick tasted success in both forms. The film dominated the box office as well as it was acclaimed critically. This movie also differentiated itself from the usual in-the-name-of horror flicks where we saw gory horrifying blood shed faces in the name of ghost. Yaavarum Nalam is certainly one of the better products this year.
Delayed 'Kanchivaram' from Priya Darshan, story about a weaver during the freedom struggle. The movie has already fetched a National Award for Prakashraj for his fantastic performance. The movie which was censored years back finally hit the screens of Tamil Nadu this year.
Pasanga, from the school of Sasikumar, the director's assistant Pandiraj proved a different class. With just pasanga as the cast, he just moulded the movie perfectly to win the satisfaction amongst the audience. Sasikumar should be given a special mention for producing as well as encouraging such aspiring talents.
Eeram, from the production house of S Pictures, comes another talent in the name of Arivazhagan. Yet another horror genre, thought it had loop holes, it was still made very well. The concept for the product, Water, was efficiently used by the director with incorporating nuances and symbolism.
Unnai Pol Oruvan, the brilliant remake of 'A Wednesday'. Hardly we have seen a movie which runs for just 2 hours and it's very hard to see a movie without any songs in the current era. But the master who has done Ph.D was brave enough to give a fantastic remake also bringing in the ace actor Mohan Lal. UPO was certainly a standard movie that could possible be an inspiring movie for aspiring movie makers.
Peraanmai, the diwali cracker, has managed to blossom very well dealing with a patriotic script. SP Jananathan, yet again proved to be a class director with casting Jayam Ravi in an unusual role from his stereotyped character.
Hollywood Rulers
Titanic and Jurassic Park wave has just arrived in the form of 2012 and Avatar. Quite surprisingly these movies shattered all other regional movies not just in Tamil Cinema, but it just swept other movies to the corner in all the regions it got released in their regional dubbed version earning gross quite more than the big star movies.
So, let's hope the next year to be a better year than 2009 and we also have a few most anticipated movies eagerly waiting to hit the silver screens in the year 2010.
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
Peraanmai - Powerful Action Adventure
When he directed 'E', the director wasn't known at all though his 'Iyarkai' is a very good movie. 'E' got an initial to this director and with that expectation, leaves him with his third venture 'Peraanmai'. This time, the director again used patriotism in its usual form. Saving the country's pride from terrorists reminds us none other than Vijaykanth, who is known and also done such a plot plenty. Well, there are reason for choosing Jeyam Ravi for the lead role. The Protagonist is seen with 5 lovely girls. Else, our captain would have made it a cakewalk.
That's the plot, saving the country's pride, launching a rocket, from unknown forces is the plot of Peraanmai and the director has written and executed the plot in a power packed action adventure and in a form of travelogue. 5 girls will 1 guy in a deep forest trekking makes us think how the story would have been connected in a justifiable manner. Yes, the director has done a remarkable justification to bring in 5 girls go with a man for a trekking. Jayam Ravi is the in-charge for NCC training camp for girls and he picks 5 girls from the group and take them for a one day trekking where they unleash the unknown forces trying to shatter India's pride and eventually they fight for the country's pride.
The above para is the main plot, but the director also shares a sub plot where he dictates a life of scheduled tribes and their education or rather the interest in education. He has shown how a guy from such caste behaves and also a portion shows their lifestyle. It was a surprise or rather a shock to see Jeyam Ravi in 'komanam'. In the same scene, the NCC girls, teases him. Also, when they hear the same person to be in-charge for them, they show a feeling of sigh because of his caste. A few other scenes were also used to showcase this underestimation of the caste.
First half of the movie focus primarily on the camp and the girls. It shows lifestyle of a women camp and the kind of language they use. Here is where, the censor board played a vital role. It tested the patience of the audience as most of the double meaning dialogues were muted. The director primary intention behind those dialogues are to imply the real lifetime scenario of what used to happen in a women training camp and in their rooms. And these 5 girls were not just picked for the sake of skin show and they have done a reasonable job. Immense focus is given to realism. And the director knows the importance of this realism and whenever he picturizes something, he comes up with an explanation. This is a good learning thing for the audience as they can come to various things about different things told in the movie.
Ponvannan character is shown very well in the first half as it acts as an important piece of justification towards the climax and also the second half where he hunts for Jayan Ravi in the forest. His character is shown as a person who earns popularity and at the same time he makes sure that his respect isn't disturbed. Presence of Vadivelu I would say kinda apt for the movie as it doesn't affect the pace of the movie much and also he did not use a separate track either that spoils the movie.
Moving onto the second half, the story primarily or rather completely shot in the deep forest. This is perhaps the first tamil movie which is shot extensively in forest. When the director called it a trekking, he meant trekking. Even when the team, when the so called trekking turned into a tragedy, uses the same situation as a learning experience for the NCC girls. He explains what to do and what not to do? Their travelogue instances leaves the latter portion of the second half to act as valid evidences.
The action sequences involved between the unknown forces and the NCC team is very realistic. Initially I felt it's gruesome to see some gory stunts but it's needed for this movie and well explained by the director. Again the director connects the first half instances with the second half sequences. It's shown how the girls practise during the training camp, how they shoot, how they react, etc., and accordingly the weapons will be distributed to them. It's a very good move by the director, where Jayam Ravi asks for the senior officer Kalpana's opinion on whom to distribute the weapons. As I said earlier, wherever the director says something, he makes it very logical with substantiating evidences.
With almost half of the movie shot in deep forest, with day/night scenes, it's not an easy job for the cinematographer. Unknown man, Sathishkumar steals the show. Amazing shot sequences. Shooting inside the forest itself is a very tough job and the color correction is used fantastically and more care is taken to enrich the shot especially during the night shots in the deep forest. Man, it's very difficult to shoot the chasing sequence inside the forest, and they have done it very well with the help of crane shots and run along shots.
Editing was real smooth throughout the movie. Again, the forest sequences and the switch over scenes from day/night has been cut brilliantly. Fast motion war game between the terrorist forces and the team has been cut crystal clear by VT Vijayan.
Action sequences again is amazing. Here, it's almost a carnivore strategy being used in all the fight sequences. A carnivore hunts its prey by grabbing the neck first and the prey eventually loses and surrenders. Likewise, in order to hunt a prey that's bigger than it's physical size, it hunts gradually making the prey immobile. Exactly the similar thing is followed in the stunt sequence where Jayam Ravi cuts the opponent's neck so that they don't shout which might alarm others and similarly, he takes a cunning movie with poisoned knife to hunt the giant Roland Kickinger.
Music is not bad and the BGM was OK in places. The songs were used effectively, what I mean effective is that they did not use the entire song. The climax song is really good with the voice of Madhu Balakrishnan giving more energy to the song.
Dialogues and the slang used in the movie is something noteworthy. As I said earlier, censor played a havoc in the first half but good that Sangam cinemas shares the muted dialogues and the reason why they muted. Anyway, they aren't very important though it gives a sigh to the audience when the audio goes mute then and there. Well, now the slang, literature tamil, 'Thooya Tamil' is used mostly in the movie. Another in direct and very good attempt by the director. One must know that, handling a plot where you have ammos, rocket launcher, directions, forest, landmines, rocket, computer, etc., it's quite tough to use literature tamil dialogues but it was done without any slightest glimpse of sighness from the audience. You can also observe, slowly the NCC girls starts speaking proper tamil after communication with Jayam Ravi. Why I am stressing so hard is because, towards the end of the movie, there will be scene where the girls come to know that Jayam Ravi speaks good english and wonder why he didn't speak to them in English. Jayam Ravi replies "Enga Makkaluku naan english pesina puriyaadhu, ungalukku naan english pesinaan pudikaadhu".
One area where the movie fails to the expectations is the CG. But the portions involving CG are minimum and it's negligible. Another thing which I often use for Jayam Ravi movies is his voice. I am still waiting for THE director who wants to experiment dubbing someone for Ravi. I often quote his voice doesn't sound mature. It's acceptable if it's a college boy, lover boy, chocolate boy role, but with a Captain's role, such a voice doesn't give us a complete result. But we have to appreciate the fact that he has done a good homework for the role he has taken.
Verdict : Peraanmai for Tamil Cinema
That's the plot, saving the country's pride, launching a rocket, from unknown forces is the plot of Peraanmai and the director has written and executed the plot in a power packed action adventure and in a form of travelogue. 5 girls will 1 guy in a deep forest trekking makes us think how the story would have been connected in a justifiable manner. Yes, the director has done a remarkable justification to bring in 5 girls go with a man for a trekking. Jayam Ravi is the in-charge for NCC training camp for girls and he picks 5 girls from the group and take them for a one day trekking where they unleash the unknown forces trying to shatter India's pride and eventually they fight for the country's pride.
The above para is the main plot, but the director also shares a sub plot where he dictates a life of scheduled tribes and their education or rather the interest in education. He has shown how a guy from such caste behaves and also a portion shows their lifestyle. It was a surprise or rather a shock to see Jeyam Ravi in 'komanam'. In the same scene, the NCC girls, teases him. Also, when they hear the same person to be in-charge for them, they show a feeling of sigh because of his caste. A few other scenes were also used to showcase this underestimation of the caste.
First half of the movie focus primarily on the camp and the girls. It shows lifestyle of a women camp and the kind of language they use. Here is where, the censor board played a vital role. It tested the patience of the audience as most of the double meaning dialogues were muted. The director primary intention behind those dialogues are to imply the real lifetime scenario of what used to happen in a women training camp and in their rooms. And these 5 girls were not just picked for the sake of skin show and they have done a reasonable job. Immense focus is given to realism. And the director knows the importance of this realism and whenever he picturizes something, he comes up with an explanation. This is a good learning thing for the audience as they can come to various things about different things told in the movie.
Ponvannan character is shown very well in the first half as it acts as an important piece of justification towards the climax and also the second half where he hunts for Jayan Ravi in the forest. His character is shown as a person who earns popularity and at the same time he makes sure that his respect isn't disturbed. Presence of Vadivelu I would say kinda apt for the movie as it doesn't affect the pace of the movie much and also he did not use a separate track either that spoils the movie.
Moving onto the second half, the story primarily or rather completely shot in the deep forest. This is perhaps the first tamil movie which is shot extensively in forest. When the director called it a trekking, he meant trekking. Even when the team, when the so called trekking turned into a tragedy, uses the same situation as a learning experience for the NCC girls. He explains what to do and what not to do? Their travelogue instances leaves the latter portion of the second half to act as valid evidences.
The action sequences involved between the unknown forces and the NCC team is very realistic. Initially I felt it's gruesome to see some gory stunts but it's needed for this movie and well explained by the director. Again the director connects the first half instances with the second half sequences. It's shown how the girls practise during the training camp, how they shoot, how they react, etc., and accordingly the weapons will be distributed to them. It's a very good move by the director, where Jayam Ravi asks for the senior officer Kalpana's opinion on whom to distribute the weapons. As I said earlier, wherever the director says something, he makes it very logical with substantiating evidences.
With almost half of the movie shot in deep forest, with day/night scenes, it's not an easy job for the cinematographer. Unknown man, Sathishkumar steals the show. Amazing shot sequences. Shooting inside the forest itself is a very tough job and the color correction is used fantastically and more care is taken to enrich the shot especially during the night shots in the deep forest. Man, it's very difficult to shoot the chasing sequence inside the forest, and they have done it very well with the help of crane shots and run along shots.
Editing was real smooth throughout the movie. Again, the forest sequences and the switch over scenes from day/night has been cut brilliantly. Fast motion war game between the terrorist forces and the team has been cut crystal clear by VT Vijayan.
Action sequences again is amazing. Here, it's almost a carnivore strategy being used in all the fight sequences. A carnivore hunts its prey by grabbing the neck first and the prey eventually loses and surrenders. Likewise, in order to hunt a prey that's bigger than it's physical size, it hunts gradually making the prey immobile. Exactly the similar thing is followed in the stunt sequence where Jayam Ravi cuts the opponent's neck so that they don't shout which might alarm others and similarly, he takes a cunning movie with poisoned knife to hunt the giant Roland Kickinger.
Music is not bad and the BGM was OK in places. The songs were used effectively, what I mean effective is that they did not use the entire song. The climax song is really good with the voice of Madhu Balakrishnan giving more energy to the song.
Dialogues and the slang used in the movie is something noteworthy. As I said earlier, censor played a havoc in the first half but good that Sangam cinemas shares the muted dialogues and the reason why they muted. Anyway, they aren't very important though it gives a sigh to the audience when the audio goes mute then and there. Well, now the slang, literature tamil, 'Thooya Tamil' is used mostly in the movie. Another in direct and very good attempt by the director. One must know that, handling a plot where you have ammos, rocket launcher, directions, forest, landmines, rocket, computer, etc., it's quite tough to use literature tamil dialogues but it was done without any slightest glimpse of sighness from the audience. You can also observe, slowly the NCC girls starts speaking proper tamil after communication with Jayam Ravi. Why I am stressing so hard is because, towards the end of the movie, there will be scene where the girls come to know that Jayam Ravi speaks good english and wonder why he didn't speak to them in English. Jayam Ravi replies "Enga Makkaluku naan english pesina puriyaadhu, ungalukku naan english pesinaan pudikaadhu".
One area where the movie fails to the expectations is the CG. But the portions involving CG are minimum and it's negligible. Another thing which I often use for Jayam Ravi movies is his voice. I am still waiting for THE director who wants to experiment dubbing someone for Ravi. I often quote his voice doesn't sound mature. It's acceptable if it's a college boy, lover boy, chocolate boy role, but with a Captain's role, such a voice doesn't give us a complete result. But we have to appreciate the fact that he has done a good homework for the role he has taken.
Verdict : Peraanmai for Tamil Cinema
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