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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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Responses:

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• From: Haha (@ 217.44.92.50) on: Sun Sep 7 01:18:09 EDT 2003
  
  Piratheepan, ARR himself copied Beat of Passion from somewhere else!
  
  
• From: MADDY (@ 203.94.233.56) on: Sun Sep 7 04:04:46 EDT 2003
  
  can u tell where is that "somewhere" haha......u cant bcos u just hate ARR without any reason and want to find fault with him....u can never prove that ARR has copied a tune.... my bet on it... that holds gud for IR too....
  
  
• From: MADDY (@ 203.94.233.56) on: Sun Sep 7 04:09:31 EDT 2003
  
  well actually, Boys was shankar's 2nd script after Gentleman, but he did not want to risk with such a script after a success like gentleman... so he shelved the project.... but after Mudhalvan, TI came up and shankar was shocked to see a similar script and was forced to change the script and it resulted in such a messy 2nd half.... this is wat shankar's asst. directors are telling ppl..... dunt know how far it's true.....
  
  
• From: cell (@ 202.156.2.218) on: Sun Sep 7 05:07:45 EDT 2003
  
  Boys is no. 1 in suntv top ten movie... even kadhal kondaen n thenavan went down..... But i'm 100% sure tat the anti arr shankar idiot must come up with some kinda f*ckin sh*t to object the top ten ratin.... I'm waitin....
  
  
• From: Ramkey (@ 203.145.161.178) on: Sun Sep 7 07:08:23 EDT 2003
  
  The Boys run into rough weather
  
  http://www.newstodaynet.com/talkies/0709tt1.htm
  
  
• From: Piratheepan (@ 67.210.20.62) on: Sun Sep 7 09:22:22 EDT 2003
  
  Do the politicians in India have nothing better to worry about other then movies?Who is this Puthiya Tamizhagam president Dr K Krishnaswamy?That is probably why he critisizes movies to get his name out there.
  
  
• From: xml (@ 128.148.68.110) on: Sun Sep 7 09:33:18 EDT 2003
  
  checkout
  I am fully I agree with you.I am not at all saying about shankar's past movie. In this thread some one claimed that selvaragavan copied shankar.I posted it for them.
  
  
• From: srina (@ 61.1.205.233) on: Sun Sep 7 12:23:17 EDT 2003
  
  suntv's thirai vimarsanam on boys was like the governers adress in tamilnadu assembly!!!
  
  
• From: C~P (@ 202.9.149.48) on: Sun Sep 7 13:01:31 EDT 2003
  
  Piratheepan,
  this Krishnaswamy is the same useless guy who created problems for Kamal in Sandiyar
  
  
• From: Vicky (@ 207.44.154.35) on: Sun Sep 7 13:07:01 EDT 2003
  
  Seems like Boys took a heavy beating from today's review in Sun TV's Top 10. More beating to be followed as the week's go by i guess.
  
  
• From: MADDY (@ 203.94.234.157) on: Sun Sep 7 14:56:27 EDT 2003
  
  keep ur fingers crossed till it becomes numb mr.vicky.... it is never going to happen..... Boys is a success.......
  
  
• From: Piratheepan (@ 67.210.22.228) on: Sun Sep 7 15:15:59 EDT 2003
  
  yeh i know that he's the useless guy who created troubles with kamal's movies that's why i was asking if he has nothing better to do.At first i thought okay just one movie,but then he starts more stuff with boys now i'm beginning to wonder if he has a life.
  
  
• From: rajasaranam (@ 210.214.132.87) on: Sun Sep 7 15:54:06 EDT 2003
  
  Piratheepan,
  this is something like saying politics shud not be critisiced in movies. if a director makes movies on politicians critisicing them. the same applies for the politicians to criticise a movie. this is democracy.
  
  
• From: rajasaranam (@ 210.214.132.87) on: Sun Sep 7 16:09:16 EDT 2003
  
  MADDY,
  
  r u the same who was shocked seeing boys and condemned shankar for such a movie. now u come up saying the movie is going to be a success when its announced flop by the industrty.
  Hmmmmm u make all the forums interesting and funny by making such sssstupid statements.
  carry on MADDY we all love u for the humour ur providing :--)
  
  
• From: V (@ 147.129.97.246) on: Sun Sep 7 16:44:58 EDT 2003
  
  I dont give a damn about SUn TV Ratings! It is so stupid to see thennavan on top there.
  
  The most palatable review I have seen so far is that of "The Hindu"s. Mostly it feels the same way I do. The script is interesting (though no big story) and the movie is excellently made however should one go so far in depicting things?? This holds true for Shankar and also Selvaraghavan.
  
  However given the calibre of someone like Shankar I cannot believe he could not exercise some kind of prudence to tone these things. The song picturisations were really wonderful. Very heartening to see such technical whizardry enhancing the magic of ARR's tunes!
  
  
  
• From: V (@ 147.129.97.246) on: Sun Sep 7 16:47:13 EDT 2003
  
  I dont agree with rajasaranam's view that politician's can freely criticize movies. Though objectively it is true that anyone can criticize in this democracy, politicians can do other useful things for the public than raising uproars about movies.
  
  it just shows their "vettithanam"
  
  
• From: rajasaranam (@ 210.214.128.246) on: Sun Sep 7 19:25:49 EDT 2003
  
  when vetti movies r being made vetti politicians will criticize them for sure :-)
  
  
• From: V (@ 147.129.97.246) on: Sun Sep 7 19:53:43 EDT 2003
  
  Yea I guess thats true for Sandiyar too :-)
  
  Still I feel Politicians should keep out. They should not use cinema to express their pathetic state of non-recognition and gain publicity.
  
  
• From: V (@ 147.129.97.246) on: Sun Sep 7 19:56:44 EDT 2003
  
  "when vetti movies r being made vetti politicians will criticize them for sure :-)"
  
  Yeah, Also true for Hey Ram :-)
  
  
  
• From: Piratheepan (@ 67.209.20.223) on: Sun Sep 7 21:20:24 EDT 2003
  
  rajasaranam:
  Is all you like to do is disagree?Now really think about what you said and what i said k? Now if this politician complained about Gentlemen,Indian,Citizen or Mudhalvan it would make sense.But what does he have to do with BOYS or Kamal's new movie?To use his power to try and ban movies not even related to him is not democracy.Democracy would be leaving it to the fate of the fans.
  
  Anyways rajasaranam i want you to really start thinking about what you say from now on.It will really help.
  
  
• From: MADDY (@ 203.94.234.119) on: Sun Sep 7 22:43:04 EDT 2003
  
  see mr.rajasaranam, i dunt like certain scenes in Boys.... but i want it to do well,so that ARR will stay in TFM for longer..... also industry never declares any movie hit or flop within 1 week... if they do so then their judgement wud be wrong...... also u remember u called Boys music a flop when it went to revive the dullness created by YSR,HJ,VS.....
  
  
• From: Speaker (@ 203.126.142.232) on: Sun Sep 7 22:53:12 EDT 2003
  
  HeyRam and AnbeSivam are not fit for TN??unfortunately, it is not noticed for national awards,and other junks gets awards, so these movies are not fit for IN??
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• From: rajasaranam (@ 210.214.132.203) on: Mon Sep 8 00:09:20 EDT 2003
  
  V,
  
  yes it applies for Sandiyar too.And i condemn IR and Kamal for coming up with already with caste based movie like devar magan which had stirred caste riots in southern tamilnadu. and this movie is gonna stir it up again if the movie is speaking abt caste again. while i feel Rajini kant is better in this area as his ejaman did not say which caste he belonged to and it was weel thought off. all the movies in the early 90's had a caste like kounder, devar tag attached to it. this had made those people frm that castes think they r some superior race in this country and tried to oppress Dalits more cruely than before but the backlash given by them to these castes made the riots calm down.
  for the past 3-4 yrs TN is peaceful and the attempt by KH to revive wat he has done in devar magan is to be condemned and i dont want IR to come up with another crap song like 'potri padadi'. while his 'ejamaan kaaladi' is ok bcos it hails a hero, thats all, no caste in it. i think u get my point :-).
  Heyram is a different story which i need to discuss elaborately.
  
  
• From: rajasaranam (@ 210.214.132.203) on: Mon Sep 8 00:16:41 EDT 2003
  
  Piratheepan,
  
  let movie directors make movies abt directors, musicians, dancers etc., why do they make movies like gentleman,citizen or indian abt politicians who r not related to them at all :-)
  critising politician thro the media movie is also unfair going by ur own standards and let the public decide abt the politicians fate:-)
  
  
• From: rajasaranam (@ 210.214.132.203) on: Mon Sep 8 00:18:55 EDT 2003
  
  MADDY,
  
  The movie is a flop which is known to whole TN. and the music was receved well only by teenagers and college guys . the mass public has rejected the album.
  
  

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