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AR Rahman's Tamil Blockbuster "BOYS"

Topic started by Theepan (@ 209.197.167.70) on Tue May 6 23:23:20 EDT 2003.
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Rahman's much anticipated "Boys" is set to release soon and everyone is keen on finding out more about this album. Who are the singers? What are the soundtracks like? When is the release date? Will the album be delayed? If anyone has any idea; please post here....

Also; use this thread to discuss this album..

Here is what i found::

Typical of Shankar, the director is not prepared to say much about the film at this point. However, it is known that the film will be very youthful, almost teeny-bop, in content, with the majority of the cast being in the 16-23 age group.

Shankar, apparently, has decided to cast all new faces in his film – and the younger the better.

In fact, a mention in various Tamil periodicals, and an accompanying advertisement to the effect that Shankar was looking for new faces, has created a headache of sorts for the producers. Curriculums vitae have been pouring in to the Surya Movies post box ever since the ad and the story ran in the vernacular press – and last heard from, the flood shows no signs of abating.

Curiously enough, the ad appears – thanks to emails and discussion groups – to have reached an audience abroad as well, with the result that newer batches of applications have US, British and suchlike stamps on them, which suits the producer and director fine since the film does incorporate a lot of NRI faces.

For Shankar, Boys will be a return to romance after Kadhalan, and to comedy after the Aishwarya Rai-Prashanth starrer Jeans. Though the film will feature fresh – and ergo, inexpensive – faces, Shankar maintains that the film will be typical of his style, which means lavish budgets, and expensive production values.

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• From: Venkat (@ 61.11.57.61) on: Mon Sep 8 01:34:34 EDT 2003
  
  Boys Review
  
  http://www.chennaionline.com/moviereviews/tammov292.asp
  
  
• From: Mesh (@ 202.9.107.231) on: Mon Sep 8 02:14:46 EDT 2003
  
  The politician only want to be popular...there is
  nothing about the movie at all..only want to be popular..U should remember the target audience for boys movie is teenegers not old people with no taste at all...u all just watch serial on TV...
  Anbe sivam is damm good movie and hey ram...
  may be it is failure at TN but not at Malaysia...
  Boys running packed house at Malaysia Theatre...
  
  regards
  Mesh(MALAYSIA)
  
  
• From: OBSERVER (@ 66.119.34.39) on: Mon Sep 8 02:54:56 EDT 2003
  
  How come MADDY can go around swearing in vulgarity?
  
  Why is that the matha farkers from ARR camp find it disgusting when others use vulgarity but not when MADMAN(boy/gal/eunuch?) MADDY use it?
  
  
• From: ambleen (@ 203.117.10.18) on: Mon Sep 8 05:18:27 EDT 2003
  
  it was already known of how hypocrytical ARR camp was/are all this while. nothing new.
  
  
• From: Ilayaraja (@ 137.73.8.176) on: Mon Sep 8 06:43:30 EDT 2003
  
  Whatever these cheeky bast@rds say, -- there is no denying that ARR is GOD!!He is the greatest musician ever!!All the other craps MDs cant be even compared to this great Legend Bharat Ratna ARR!!ARR is GOD!!Hail the King of Music!!
  
  
• From: bj (@ 203.200.49.220) on: Mon Sep 8 06:56:57 EDT 2003
  
  http://www.dinamani.com/Cinema/cineItems.asp?ID=DA120030907143348&Title=Cinema&lTitle=%A3%B2U%F4&Topic=0
  
  
• From: Rajesh (@ 167.202.196.72) on: Mon Sep 8 09:08:18 EDT 2003
  
  after Hindu, this review was very decent in analysing the movie, rather than bashing/praising simply. thanks for posting it bj.
  
  
• From: MusicIsLife (@ 170.146.91.6) on: Mon Sep 8 10:16:33 EDT 2003
  
  RS,
  I disagree that "Potri padadi" as a crap song, it had melody written all over it, the Ghadam in that was gr8..
  But lyrics could have been different as u might think, but based on the situation, i dont think there was any violence after the movie, the movie potrayed something that happened then ( if i remember correctly). The last scene when kamal requests people to learn, educate themselves was wonderful..
  
  
• From: MusicIsLife (@ 170.146.91.6) on: Mon Sep 8 10:22:01 EDT 2003
  
  Mesh
  "not old people with no taste at all..."
  
  Dont you think Old people are mature enough and have different tastes instead of no-tastes?? and that is the reason they are discussing here!! something is contradicting??
  
  Anyways, some ppl who live in malaysia can clarify if Mesh is saying something real..
  
  Here in the US (NJ/NY area), actually BOYz was supposed to be played all through the long weekend, but surely one of the theatres i went to had problems.. may be they did not screen the next days coz of that, or probably felt it was not worth it.. I could get tkts anytime?? so it was not surely full
  
  
• From: dinesh (@ 210.186.42.7) on: Mon Sep 8 11:34:57 EDT 2003
  
  From: Nattamai (@ 207.44.154.35) on: Sun Sep 7 23:25:42 EDT 2003
  
  
  MADDY:
  
  Boys audio is not that great success. This was asked to arr in the sify interview, even he is not denying that. And still you're claiming that? funny....
  _____________________________________________
  u dumb duck...they meant was boys audio success was down comparing to previous rahman hits..but as for now (with pirated cd around)the sales r the best....i hope u understand simple eng!
  
  
• From: Nattamai (@ 207.44.154.35) on: Mon Sep 8 11:49:02 EDT 2003
  
  you DD (dumb dinesh),
  
  "they meant was boys audio success was down comparing to previous rahman hits"
  
  It wasn't well received compared to Kakka kakka and Kathal kondein not with rahman's earlier hits. Boys is gone, dude.
  
  "(with pirated cd around)"
  
  Yes, as if no other MDs songs are available in pirated CDs and people buy only original cds of their songs. You dumb dinesh, they are giving hits and arr's career is over.
  
  
• From: dinesh (@ 210.186.42.7) on: Mon Sep 8 11:50:25 EDT 2003
  
  plzz see this :
  http://raaga.com/channels/tamil/top10.asp
  http://www.cinesouth.com/specials/topaudio.shtml
  http://thenisai.com/top10.htm
  
  
• From: abc (@ 198.232.250.51) on: Mon Sep 8 11:52:29 EDT 2003
  
  You mean compared to Udhaya, Parasuram, Alli Arjuna ?
  
  
• From: dinesh (@ 210.186.42.7) on: Mon Sep 8 11:52:41 EDT 2003
  
  hahahah...ur prooving ur a pure naate aamai...so dam bloody village guy...i gues u dont have connecttion with current news...go to ur local store & ask boys sales...its the highes my friend..
  
  
• From: dinesh (@ 210.186.42.7) on: Mon Sep 8 11:54:09 EDT 2003
  
  no abc.compared to alaipayuthey,Kandukoindain2,rthym..etc etc (b4 2001)
  
  
• From: test (@ 161.142.112.8) on: Mon Sep 8 12:06:34 EDT 2003
  
  test
  
  
• From: dinesh (@ 210.186.42.7) on: Mon Sep 8 12:12:43 EDT 2003
  
  TO NAATE AAMAI -
  
  “Boys" audio revives the music industry!
  
  
  Friday, 25 July , 2003, 11:56
  
  By Moviebuzz
  As rumours are making the rounds that director Shankar and A.R.Rahman have split, the audio of Boys are chartbusters and have revived the audio industry.
  
  A spokesperson of Star Music Audio company told Sify.com: “The audio of Boys is doing amazing business. We had initially ordered for 60,000 casettes but within 20 days we have already sold over 1, 50, 000 cassettes and CD’s!”
  
  Suddenly Boys has become the largest selling cassette in the last two years and may change the fortunes of the music industry. And once the film releases, the sales are sure to go up. The numbers in the album like “Dating”, “Boyfriend”, and “Boom Boom” are already on the lips of the youngsters.
  
  Three cheers to that great Shankar- Rahman combination. Lets hope that they shake hands and make up and give us more peppy chartbusters in future.
  
  http://sify.com/movies/tamil/fullstory.php?id=13208728
  
  
• From: dinesh (@ 210.186.42.7) on: Mon Sep 8 12:47:29 EDT 2003
  
  boys - telugu no 1!!
  http://www.raaga.com/channels/telugu/top10.asp
  
  
• From: rajasaranam (@ 210.214.131.245) on: Mon Sep 8 13:36:01 EDT 2003
  
  MIL,
  
  i think u understand that i meant only the lyrics of the song 'Potri paadadi'. But sure IR cud ve influenced to change that. BTW the title of the movie was also suggested by IR. Even kamal accepted the fact that the movie had some part, creating tension in southern parts of TN in an interview with Rabi bernard in Sun tv.
  i dont understand when he knows the society becomes tense when such movies r released why shud such attempts be made by him. as a peson coming frm south TN i know how these movies r perceived by the illiterate masses over there. fuelling the fire which is dormant in these areas is wat such movies do.
  i too know that KH requests people to learn and educate in the last scene. but showing violence all thro the movie and lecturing abt non-violence in the last scene is something like a porn story in where the title reads something like 'sarasakkavudan sallabam' and the whole story goes describing how he did with a sister then at the climax of the story he will be caught by his uncle or anybody else then he gets thrashed up. and the final line reads 'ithanaal akkavudan sallabam seithvathu thavaru endru purinthu kondaen. neengalum ithu pol thavaru seithu matti kolla vendam enbadarkaaga ithai ezhudhugiraen'.
  
  
• From: MusicIsLife (@ 170.146.91.6) on: Mon Sep 8 14:44:49 EDT 2003
  
  I surely dont know about Saras...bam story..
  You might be right, what IR the did is condemnable.. I dont have the facts straight with me. But when I was doing my M.Sc i saw the movie, but surely i did not feel there was tensions that time.. (being born and bought up in trichy). I surely know when Vedham Puthidu created a stir in Brahmin Community, but surely liked the dialogue regarding the caste being the "title"
  Apart from that.. If it created tension, i take back my words, but surely thought there was one prior to the movie, and the movie entirely based on that ...
  
  
  Maddy!!
  Read this too... Dont just keep on cribbing.
  
  
• From: Vatsa (@ 160.83.32.14) on: Mon Sep 8 14:46:55 EDT 2003
  
  V,
  
  I think its Shankar and the producer to blame, because they got the censor certificate from other state knowingly. If they are clean they should have presented it to the TN censor board.
  Censor board as an organization should have some standard rules. I dont have any problem sex being a part of the movie, unless its not used for commercial purpose in a movie which is meant for different kind of an audience.
  
  Rajsarnam,
  
  I dont accept your argument that there should not be any caste based movie or sex based movie. An artiste has the right to say anything. The censor board is there to restrict some unwanted things and rate it properly. Instead of putting the blame on the wrong person we need to pick the one who is accountable for this. In case of BOYS its the censor board system, shankar and the producer. In case of Thevar Magan, I dont see any problems with the movie because it did not say kill the lower caste people or of that sorts (to me, even that can be potrayed in a movie, provided they are historical facts and not someones personal agenda). Its just about two rival families of the "same" community and how the whole village gets involved in an unwanted violence.
  The movie does not say anything against other communities (Freedom is not interfering on others work). Its bad to shy away from bitter facts that there are still these community riots in South TN.
  
  Do you call Bombay a movie which explicitly mentions "Hindu" and "Muslim" in the movie ... so its bad. It caused a riot in some place in India, so is it no better than a porno movie. As I already said, infact thevar magan didnt have anything against other communities. I am just wondering if there can be a movie made which potrays "Gujarat violence" with these kind of audience.
  
  An adult and educated has the right to decide what he wants to see. If all these go well, I dont have any problems about a movie talking about religion, violence or anything. I feel sad about our country when people say a movie made an "adult" go crazy and an adult cannot decide on his own. We need to educate these people instead of restricted them from these kind of movies. The government instead of banning such movies has to restrict and educate people. These tensions are caused by politicians like (Krishnamurthy) for their political benefit, instead of the people itself, because many have work to do.
  
  Thevar magan is just a potrayal of whats happening in south of tamilnadu. You cannot talk about hitler without saying the attrocities he has caused.
  
  Vatsa
  
  
• From: vatsa (@ 160.83.32.14) on: Mon Sep 8 15:05:31 EDT 2003
  
  Hi kum,
  
  I blame shankar (if he is involved while "censoring" the movie, which he should be) and the producer because they were not true to their heart by not presenting this to the tamilnad censor board, instead they chose AP (so you know the trick) and bypassed tn censor board. The censor board system has to be blamed too for their slackness.
  
  As I said already, if the censor board certifies properly, I dont have any problems even if they talk explicitly about human sexuality in the movie. Because as an adult I have the right to see what I want to see and can reject it if I dont want to go. But if it was advertised UA then its like advertising something as pure vegetarian food and has some meat in it. The consumer need not test before he eats it because he beleives in the advert, but the producer of the good should be condemned for the act.
  
  About songs in the movie, I want TN movie makers to also make SOME intelligent movies instead of being monotonous (this will also make people realise what movie is .. instead of causing riots because of a movie). This is not primarily hollywood, because there have few older movies w/o songs, which were intelligently made (check out for Andha Naal).
  
  Vatsa
  
  

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