Topic started by Raja (@ 24.205.39.51) on Tue Apr 2 23:27:21 EST 2002.
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Post the latest on Baba music here.
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- From: C~P (@ 202.9.180.142)
on: Sat Oct 12 13:23:16 EDT 2002
Rajni fans are immature! ;)
- From: ravi (@ 210.214.131.142)
on: Tue Oct 15 01:11:14 EDT 2002
I think that the songs of the movie r very different it's hard to like them but they are extremely melodious
- From: ravi (@ 210.214.131.142)
on: Tue Oct 15 01:12:13 EDT 2002
I think that the songs of the movie r very different it's hard to like them but they are extremely melodious
- From: Siva (@ 203.126.218.98)
on: Tue Oct 15 02:26:42 EDT 2002
If this is the definition of melody, then what could be the definition of cacaphony?????
- From: Harish (@ 202.156.2.59)
on: Wed Oct 16 00:27:19 EDT 2002
Baba songs are wonderful and extremely nice. The order of songs which i liked most.
1. Baba Kichu
2. Maya Maya
3. Tipu Tipu
4. Sakthi Kodu
5. Raajiyamma
- From: ayyo-baba (@ 195.74.155.75)
on: Wed Oct 16 10:32:19 EDT 2002
another funny thing which i noticed in that movie. when the cheif minister gets shot and our hero Rajni comes back, then the ooru janangal are seen smiling and happy.no one cares about the slain Cheif minister. pity ...people are happy about rajni's comeback..And there is no espression of shock in anyone's face. :).seriyaana padam pa..Manisha probably had some hopes that Rajni will negate his Gatam Gatam Dialog and get back to her.or for what ever reason. I was scared to see the "Thodarum" at the end. I dont hope to see this thodar kadai again
- From: C~P (@ 202.9.149.108)
on: Wed Oct 16 12:00:26 EDT 2002
hehe.....this thing as said above was written in The Hindu......it sed "in the end when Rajni turns back after the CM is shot evry1 feels soo happy....no1 cares abt the CM....this is one such lapse" ...... and quite surcastically had sumthin in brackets....."story by rajnikanth!" :))
- From: Harish (@ 202.156.2.59)
on: Thu Oct 17 05:30:30 EDT 2002
So what?
Most of them are watching only Rajini in every angle. So they don't care what is happening about others.
- From: curses (@ 203.199.248.44)
on: Thu Oct 17 06:00:28 EDT 2002
Harish..
r u such a big RK fan??
CP and a few others.. stop clearing ur throats. Ur scaring me!
- From: Shadotcom (@ 203.124.0.247)
on: Thu Oct 17 09:30:53 EDT 2002
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- From: C~P (@ 202.9.149.149)
on: Thu Oct 17 11:12:11 EDT 2002
curses,
:)
Harish,
ok agreed mann.....but doesnt it defy logic....dats wat ppl askin.....or are u saying that the entire film is like that ;)
:)
- From: Harish (@ 202.156.2.59)
on: Thu Oct 17 23:43:52 EDT 2002
Curses,
You are talking about normal actors. For Rajini, it is different. All the Rajini fans are only looking at Rajini - the way he speak, dance, fight, style, walk, look, dress, even his hair, eyes, etc. After watching few times, they will change their attention to others such such as co actors, story, etc
If you notice few Rajini films such as Annamalai, Batcha, Arunachalam and Padaiyappa. Basically all these movie concepts are same but this movies are silver jubilee. Why? Because Rajini fans want Rajini to be like that.
- From: ayyo-baba (@ 195.74.155.75)
on: Fri Oct 18 05:22:50 EDT 2002
Sooper pa harish..completely agreed tgo what you say. Rajni fans want Rajni to be like that. And so They would have loved the way Rajni turned back and walked towards the crowd at the end. wouldnt that be enuff?? do they need to be seing people happy when someone dies?There is something called a story and sence.Rajni used to make sence in his previous movies. He made perfect sence in Arunachalam. And thaz why he has a good following.Its not just what he does in the movie is important. But also The sence of the movie which is important. If Rajni Takes the movies only for his fans.. then its a blunder.If i show this movie to my friends in UK ( Non tamilian or Non - indian). What is the explaination i can give to the scene when people are happy when someone dies. THAT SCENE VERY CLEARLY IMPLIED THAT THE GUY WHO DIED ( THE MINISTER ) IS AN EVIL PERSON. AND SO PEOPLE ARE HAPPY....doesnt make sence atleast to me..rajni should have put in some sence out of his huge filming experience.. and may be added both the emotions into the movie.May be expressions which shows people's sorrow for the slain minister and the happiness @ rajni's comeback
- From: Harish (@ 202.156.2.59)
on: Fri Oct 18 05:38:30 EDT 2002
What basically people wants is that Rajini should enter politics or at least act in movies. They don't want him to go to Himalayas as he is so spiritual.
- From: ayyo-baba (@ 195.74.155.75)
on: Fri Oct 18 05:45:34 EDT 2002
Ya so ??? would they be so mad to show no sorrow for the minister who is shot? Hang on.. are u by any chance trying to justify the last scene?
- From: tigger (@ 205.219.204.23)
on: Fri Oct 18 17:04:21 EDT 2002
I received this from a friend - very funny! I have no idea who wrote it.
BABAJI - i TOO NEED A BOON
On the 55th anniversary of India's Independence, the
major problems facing India are:
1. Corruption
2. Old people acting like teenagers
3. North Indian actors speaking Tamil
This is the impression I got after watching the new
Rajnikanth movie Baba, which was released on August
15th. Rajnikanth had not acted in a movie after the
super-hit Padayappa and that was three years ago. As
a result, Tamil Movie fans were forced to watch
movies like Alavandhan, Hey Ram, Panchathanthiram,
and Tenali. All these movies explored subtle nuances
of the human psyche using character conflict
resulting in some powerful human drama and their
resolution required Kamal Haasan to kiss young
actresses.
So when Baba was released, we, Tamil movie fans were
excited and became insane. 21-year-old Vijaya pawned
his mother's jewellery to buy tickets on the first
day. Another person, Mr. Parasuraman, requested the
doctor to perform a cesarean operation so that his
child's birth would coincide with the release of the
film. One of the first things the baby did after
coming out was to ask for a beedi, which the baby
caught in his mouth after flinging it up in the air.
I saw the movie on the first day itself here in the
San Francisco Bay Area because I saw Chandni Bar the
previous day and needed something strong to offset
the depression. Chandni Bar is a hard-hitting look
at the life of beer bar girls and their family. It
is the kind of movie where the director's idea of
humor is when a local goonda comes into Tabu's house
and asks her uncle to stand up. When the uncle
thinks of shaking hands with the visitor, the
visitor stabs him many times to death.
The story of Baba, penned by Rajnikanth himself,
goes like this. Baba is a child born to a
middle-aged couple by the blessings of Babaji, a
2000-year-old Y2K-compliant saint living in the
Himalayas. Baba grows up to be a young atheistic
ruffian played by a middle-aged Rajnikanth with the
help of industrial strength makeup. In the first
half of the movie, he drinks, smokes and fights with
the son of the Deputy Chief Minister, because the
interval of the movie has been scheduled couple of
days later.
Even though Baba is a goonda at heart, in some
issues he is very naive, like for example, love. He
falls for his neighbor, Chamundeshwari, played by
Manisha Koirala (not the body double) with the help
of a dubbing artist. The dubbing is so perfect that
Baba thinks she is a Tamilian. The fact that
Manisha's mother's role is played by the Malayali
actress, Seema, would have triggered the attention
of any Intelligence Agency. A Malayali mother, a
Tamilian father and a Nepali daughter; if this had
happened in the United States, F-16s would be
escorting Manisha's family to Guantanamo Bay.
One day a beggar who is actually a saint comes to
Baba and tells him that his fake beard is constantly
falling off. So they both decide to go to see Babaji
who is in the Himalayas. Baba follows him even
though the beggar is Sayaji Shinde speaking Tamil.
They enter a nearby tunnel in the mountains in order
to reach the Himalayas but actually end up in
Switzerland because the Indian Government denied
them permission to shoot in Kashmir. According to
the Government, various people from Pakistan were
shooting there already withoutpermission. The
official policy was to deny permission to anyone who
specifically asked for it. This is the answer to all
those critics who have been saying that the
Government is not doing anything in Kashmir.
In Switzerland, Baba meets Babaji, the 2000-year-old
saint who gives him seven boons. Baba would have
tried the boons immediately but for A.R. Rahman, who
interrupted him saying, "I have composed these
songs, many of them over the phone from London at
unearthly hours." So Rajni breaks off to sing a few
songs with Manisha Koirala while the rest of the
cast go back to apply more makeup, especially
Goundamani who has to act as a teenaged cool dude.
After verifying some of the boons (including a
thrilling three-hour scene where a kite chases
Rajni), Baba becomes a believer. Soon Baba had to
face something very evil, something that no Tamil
Hero had ever faced before -- Amrish Puri speaking
Tamil.
He was brought in by the evil Chief Minister, Bharat
Dabholkar and his evil Deputy, Ashish Vidyarthi,
both speaking Tamil to grab Baba's Divine Powers
(elder brother of Austin Powers).
But all these people were no match for Rajni. He
delivered some dialogs with political overtones such
as: "I will not forget the salt I have eaten of
Tamil Nadu because it did not have iodine." Sitting
right behind me was a Rajni fan with a towel around
his head, 'Baba' style. For each dialog Rajni
uttered on the screen, he whistled with such force
that often people had to collect his internal organs
from various corners of the theater and return it to
him.
Seeing all these North Indians in a Tamil movie I
was reminded of a Hindi play, which some students of
my college performed during one of the college Youth
Festivals. I studied in Kerala and the only Hindi
that we were familiar with was the one spoken by the
Krishi Darshan anchor. The play was set in Bombay. A
bunch of strangers are playing cards. They introduce
themselves and find that all of them are from
Kerala. So one of them suggests that they all speak
in Malayalam instead of struggling with Hindi. For
the rest of the Hindi play, they spoke in Malayalam.
The judges of the play were last seen standing in
front of an oncoming train.
Similarly, I thought Rajni would suggest that they
all speak in Marathi. Instead he decided to renounce
the world and become a sanyasi. But as Baba along
with his sanyasi mates were going back to
Switzerland, the person he had chosen as the Chief
Minister gets shot. At that point people expected
that he would turn around. But he did not. He turned
back after 30 seconds because the camera was not set
in slow-motion mode. The End. At this point I was
willing to see Chandni Bar again.
To the usual ingredients in a Rajni movie, like
style, political punchlines, the much-expected
introductory song, coriander and MTR sambar powder,
the filmmakers tried to add some spirituality and it
was not well cooked. If you are cooking
spirituality, you are supposed to wait for three
whistles in the pressure cooker according to an old
jungle saying. The story and screenplay of the film
was by Rajnikanth himself. Director Suresh Krissna
in an interview said that, "When he narrated the
story to me, I was amazed by his vision and
clarity." The media thought that Suresh Krissna was
referring to the story of the film, but it turned
out that he was talking about Rajni's contact
lenses.
In Tiruchirapalli, an unruly mob ransacked the
theater and ran away with the film rolls. The mob
also damaged a special screen erected for the
release of the film at the Sri Ranga theater at
Jayamkondam and burnt giant cut-outs of the matinee
idol. This was their way of saying, "We saw this
movie and lost our money, so please don't watch it."
A 24-year-old woman committed suicide allegedly
dejected with her husband for not taking her to Baba
at the suburban Korattur area. She reportedly rushed
to the kitchen and set herself ablaze after dousing
herself with kerosene. She died of severe burn
injuries at a hospital, police said. This is a story
which can be made into a movie with Nandita Das
playing the role of the woman, Raghubir Yadav as her
husband, and Bobby Deol as the can of Kerosene. If
she had seen the movie, she still would have
committed suicide.
But at the end of the movie, when Baba turns back to
face the people in slow motion, the words that came
up on the screen sent a chill down my spine right
into my Muladhara Chakra causing my Kundalini energy
to rise up. The words read: "To be Continued." If
anyone knows the location of that tunnel to
Switzerland, let me know. I plan to go there to meet
Babaji and ask for just one boon, "In the next
movie, give us the Padayappa Rajni back."
- From: Harish (@ 202.156.2.59)
on: Fri Oct 18 22:37:23 EDT 2002
Ayyo Baba,
I am not defending the last scene but i am very much delighted with the last scene. Not only in the screen people clapped and whistled but also the audience in the theaters. The reason is same as i have told u earlier. We are looking Rajini only! When i watched the movie third time and then i focused all the things happening around Rajini and also regonised the last scene. But still i don't care
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