Starring Ajith Kumar and Jyothika in the lead role, the movie is about a musically gifted young man, trying to make it big in the cinema industry. His family supports his decision for a long time inspite of the difficulties. Along the way, he also finds love. For a long time, he tries hard to make it to success but is unable to. Along the way, his girlfriend’s father asks him to choose between music and his love and with much pain and reluctance, he gives up his love. But eventually he is forced to give up the music because of his family.
The movie was an interesting subject based on family ties. Nothing seemed too outlandish, although the music could have been better considering it was about a man making it big in the music industry. Jyothika, as usual, stunned with her overacting, but Ajith carried out the role of the pained, ambitious youth well. Good movie to watch with family, but fast forward the songs.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Mona Lisa Smile
Starring Julia Roberts in the role of Ms Watson, a revolutionary single woman (unheard in those days) trying to make a difference in the life of a traditional school.
Ms Watson is a single woman, who has refused offers of marriage to better herself and to make a change in the life of the women in the society. She receives an invitation to teach at a prestigious institution and accepts it. Daunted on the first day, she catches up with the rhythm of the school and becomes dear to many students, except one. Her arguments, discussions and advice falls on her deaf ears, but the student feels it, when calamity hits her life.
With the rigourous change brought about in the course outline, the school decides to oust Ms Watson and the teacher sees the difference and change she has brought about in the faces and eagerness of her students on the last day.
A good movie to watch – although it seemed like a typical chic flick, it covered other aspects and emotions of the era and society as well.
Ms Watson is a single woman, who has refused offers of marriage to better herself and to make a change in the life of the women in the society. She receives an invitation to teach at a prestigious institution and accepts it. Daunted on the first day, she catches up with the rhythm of the school and becomes dear to many students, except one. Her arguments, discussions and advice falls on her deaf ears, but the student feels it, when calamity hits her life.
With the rigourous change brought about in the course outline, the school decides to oust Ms Watson and the teacher sees the difference and change she has brought about in the faces and eagerness of her students on the last day.
A good movie to watch – although it seemed like a typical chic flick, it covered other aspects and emotions of the era and society as well.
Mamma Mia
Adapted with music by ABBA, the story was of a girl finding her father amidst three possible choices. Her reckless mother in youth dates three men around the same time and gets pregnant. Finding her mother’s diary, she invites all the three possible men to her wedding. After an explosive and emotional reunion, the men stay for the wedding, which never happens. In the end, one of the men proposes and her mother accepts.
Starring Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan and others, the cast was huge and the music was great, yet the movie failed to make no impression on the audience, except the remade songs, inserted at the appropriate moments in the movie. A tolerable movie for ABBA fans but the others can pass it.
Starring Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan and others, the cast was huge and the music was great, yet the movie failed to make no impression on the audience, except the remade songs, inserted at the appropriate moments in the movie. A tolerable movie for ABBA fans but the others can pass it.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
The Mummy 3
Here was the much awaited sequel of the Mummy and the Mummy Returns. The disappointment was in proportion to the hype and enjoyment that the prequels had.
Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello, Jet Li and others came together in this movie to portray the return of the mummy of the Dragon king, who was cursed by a witch, whom he double crossed.
O’Connor’s son, Alex, follows in his parents steps in finding and excavating the tomb site. He meets with some obstacles, but succeeds in finding the emperor. The financier of the excavation project is a Chinese general obsessed to bring back the Dragon king’s regime for the betterment of China. In spite of their efforts, Dragon king is brought back and seeks immortality. The O’Connors with Lin (daughter of the witch) and her mother, try to prevent him, but are unsuccessful. Now the Dragon king is invincible save a dagger, which will kill him if pierced through his heart.
After a battle of decomposing soldiers and victims and fight between the O’Connors and the Dragon King, he is finally sent to afterlife and the movie closes with some frivolity at Imhoteps, Jonathan’s bar in Shanghai.
The scenes were well made – good use of realistic and computer generated images. The camera, lighting and technical aspects were all good – except the coherence of the story. The jokes and punch lines were clichés from the older movies and were too overused to get laughter from the audience, especially someone who has watched the movies many times, to a point where they could recall jokes, etc.
A movie OK to skip, except for die-hard movie fans, but even for them, it might kill the appetite for more ‘Mummy’ fun.
Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello, Jet Li and others came together in this movie to portray the return of the mummy of the Dragon king, who was cursed by a witch, whom he double crossed.
O’Connor’s son, Alex, follows in his parents steps in finding and excavating the tomb site. He meets with some obstacles, but succeeds in finding the emperor. The financier of the excavation project is a Chinese general obsessed to bring back the Dragon king’s regime for the betterment of China. In spite of their efforts, Dragon king is brought back and seeks immortality. The O’Connors with Lin (daughter of the witch) and her mother, try to prevent him, but are unsuccessful. Now the Dragon king is invincible save a dagger, which will kill him if pierced through his heart.
After a battle of decomposing soldiers and victims and fight between the O’Connors and the Dragon King, he is finally sent to afterlife and the movie closes with some frivolity at Imhoteps, Jonathan’s bar in Shanghai.
The scenes were well made – good use of realistic and computer generated images. The camera, lighting and technical aspects were all good – except the coherence of the story. The jokes and punch lines were clichés from the older movies and were too overused to get laughter from the audience, especially someone who has watched the movies many times, to a point where they could recall jokes, etc.
A movie OK to skip, except for die-hard movie fans, but even for them, it might kill the appetite for more ‘Mummy’ fun.
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