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Topic started by saw virumandi (@ 67.125.27.215) on Thu Jan 15 01:18:52 EST 2004.
All times in EST +10:30 for IST.

I saw Virumandi by paying extra.
Why KAMAL..? Why u proved all that told by K.Balachander in Virumandi VIZHA.
It is better to have directors like BHARATHAN ( DEVAR MAHAN ) to deliver a good interesting movie.
Virumandi was very raw and not able to sit in the second half.
Dont confuse the audience with ur confused state of mind.
Iam UPSET and my friends ridicule me as a fan of yours.

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• From: C~P (@ 61.2.224.91) on: Wed Feb 25 13:07:11 EST 2004
  
  Heard that Autograph is very good as well. It seems it got 52 marks in Ananda Vikatan. If SunTv has the rights to show "Autograph" on small screen, then it might be the Number 1 next week. Watch out!
  
  
• From: mnt (@ 198.73.152.100) on: Wed Feb 25 13:10:51 EST 2004
  
  Just to compare:
  
  Of the 172 films at Rotterdam Festival,
  
  La meglio gioventù - 1 (The Best of Youth - 1) finished at the top of the KPN (People's Choice?) ratings with a rating of 4.75 with 665 people responding.
  
  Noviembre (November) finished second with 4.52 with 499 responding.
  
  Nest, there are four movies with 4.49 with various number of people responding.
  
  Virumaandi was rated 4.06 by 611 respondents to finish up at 38th spot.
  
  The least popular movie got 2.31 by 67 respondents.
  
  Going by these stats, Virumaandi did very well at the festival and seems like it was quite well received by the audience.
  
  vive le Virumaandi!
  
  
  
  
• From: Cinefan (@ 61.95.200.171) on: Fri Feb 27 06:16:49 EST 2004
  
  http://www.newindpress.com/sunday/sundayitems.asp?id=SEF20040220064337&eTitle=Cinema&rLink=0
  
  
• From: multi (@ 198.73.152.100) on: Fri Feb 27 11:52:18 EST 2004
  
  Great link Cinefan.
  
  Thanks
  
  
• From: MusicIsLife (@ 170.146.91.6) on: Fri Feb 27 14:39:32 EST 2004
  
  CP
  i cant get to the AV site.. what is it?
  
  
• From: geeth (@ 62.215.3.38) on: Sat Feb 28 02:32:42 EST 2004
  
  so soothing to hear a tamil film has done well in the Rotterdam film festival, thanks to Kamal and his team. hope the film wins more accolodes at many more world centers. heard they have released it with arabic sub titles in the middle-east - hope it does well there too.
  
  
• From: C~P (@ 61.1.201.89) on: Sat Feb 28 14:00:54 EST 2004
  
  MIL,
  http://www.vikatan.com/av/2004/feb/29022004/av0502.shtml
  
  I din see it myself...I saw it in the book!
  
  
• From: Cinefan (@ 61.95.200.119) on: Tue Mar 2 05:24:26 EST 2004
  
  http://sify.com/movies/tamil/interview.php?id=13415258&cid=2408
  
  
• From: geeth (@ 62.215.3.38) on: Wed Mar 3 05:12:26 EST 2004
  
  in the kothaalathevar's version of the story, there is a bit song - eesaeesaane, eesakaraiyaane. in fact these are the starting lines of the 'annalatchumi kaNN asaichaa' song. (wish the full song was there). the scenes show a kind of function in the fields, like a pongal. can any one explain about this festival. curious to know how this bit song synchronises with the scene.
  
  
• From: Cinema Virumbi (@ 203.197.220.196) on: Wed Mar 3 06:34:21 EST 2004
  
  
  geeth,
  
  Even I am interested in knowing about this!
  The bit song goes something like this:
  'eesa eesaanE, eesak karaiyaanE,
  (o)ngoppanum aaththaaLum
  nadhik karaiyOram
  seththuk kedakkaanga!
  angittup pOneennaa
  Rekkaiyap pippaanga!
  ingittu Odiyaa! ingittu Odiyaa ! (one or two words could be inaccurate, though!).
  
  In the fields, people are seen to be protecting a lamp from the winds and catching (and removing the winglets of) those insects!
  
  Though 'annalatchumi kaNNasaichaa' song doesn't feature in the film, you have the female version viz., 'saNdiyarE saNdiyarE!'
  
  Again, in the end, in credits, Shreya Ghoshal is written as Shreya Ghosh!!!
  
  
• From: geeth (@ 62.215.3.54) on: Wed Mar 3 09:19:23 EST 2004
  
  o gosh! angeyum pronounciation thappaa pochu !
  
  CV, is it 'ongappanum aathaaLum
  thaNNi karaiyoram...
  
  i liked 'annalatchumi kaNNasaichaa' better than 'sandiyare'. that 'aithalakka aithalakka' is just great.
  
  
• From: Cinema Virumbi (@ 203.197.220.196) on: Thu Mar 4 00:10:10 EST 2004
  
  
  Geeth,
  
  I noticed one more flaw, if I may call it one! VirumaaNdi's land /well is supposed to contain water table at very shallow depths. Once he says " thONdinaa 15 adila thaNNi vara nelam / keNaRu". Elsewhere he says 18 adi and in yet another place he says 20 adi! I don't know if it was deliberate (as he is not very literate and has a devil-may -care attitude) or a mistake by the director!!!!
  
  
• From: mnt (@ 198.73.152.100) on: Thu Mar 4 11:17:24 EST 2004
  
  CV
  
  neenga ethanai thadavai padam partheenga? You amaze me.
  
  Anyway, I suspect the reason for this is the later one suggested by you. 15ft, 18ft and 20ft are all 'relatively' shallow compared to the other lands where they have to dig for over 100ft.
  
  I am also pleasantly surprised to note that the movie is a block buster. You never can predict the Tamil movie audience. What's more, even Autograph and Thendral are said to be doing well. Hopefully, this will revive a 'good movie' culture in Tamil cinema. This trend can only be supported by the failure of movies like Boys, Baba, and PKS.
  
  
• From: x (@ 156.153.254.41) on: Fri Mar 5 02:53:00 EST 2004
  
  Good that movies like Boys and Baba, PKS are flop
  ....
  
  
• From: paran (@ 203.123.16.163) on: Fri Mar 5 03:42:34 EST 2004
  
  CV..did u noticed another error in the movie...
  
  after the massacre of 24 person...bakc in the Kottala Thevars' home, when Annaletchumy were scolding Kamal....then Kamal grabs a "mammooti" from the rack hanging on the wall and jumps at Kottaisaamy...
  well in Kottalathevar's version there were 2 "mammooti" left in teh rack....
  but in Kamal's version..there were only 1 left!...
  
  
  
• From: Mythila (@ 203.200.33.65) on: Fri Mar 5 03:55:54 EST 2004
  
  perhaps kottalathevar was hallucinating and everything appeared as double trouble
  
  
• From: Cinema Virumbi (@ 203.197.220.196) on: Fri Mar 5 08:06:13 EST 2004
  
  
  paran,
  
  I didn't notice this flaw. Let me see again! (Because it's a Kamal film, I didn't expect to see 'Mammootti' in it!!!!)
  
  But you have to pardon me for correcting your observation! Annalakshmi scolds VirumaaNdi after the murder of Coimbatore KoNdaraaju & a few others (including a child)in KoNdaraaju thOttam of nallamanaickenoor, a crime which he didn't commit in the first place! Subsequently, when the 24 murders take place, Annalakshmi is already no more! As regards KOttaichaami, he gets a cut on his forehead in the first episode, while his arm is chopped off in the second lot of 24 murders (both courtesy VirumaaNdi!!!)! Of course, till the end, I couldn't understand whether VirumaaNdi committed a single murder or not!!!
  
  
• From: mnt (@ 198.73.152.100) on: Fri Mar 5 13:15:21 EST 2004
  
  CV
  
  "I couldn't understand whether VirumaaNdi committed a single murder or not!!!"
  
  I couldn't either. I thought it is implied he didn't.
  
  When he assults Kottaichami for the second time, he chops of his hand and then, instead of chopping off his head (a la Thevar Mahan) he just lightly slashes his neck - sparing him his life. This is assuming that Kottaichami survives the chopped off hand - if you have watched Mahanadhi, then you know it is survivable:-)
  
  The only person VirumaaNdi would have murdered given the opportunity is Koththaalathevar. But he is not given the opprtunity till the end, and when he has the opportunity Angela inteferes.
  
  Great movie though. Are you in TN?
  
  
• From: Vatsa (@ 160.83.32.14) on: Fri Mar 5 14:47:24 EST 2004
  
  its a great movie, except the "death sentence" concept looks like a "thinipu" in the movie.
  
  Vatsa
  
  
• From: jacky (@ 61.1.202.232) on: Fri Mar 5 14:53:26 EST 2004
  
  Assuming Kottaichami survives :), we can also infer the guy got a kiss from Kamals spear also survives.
  Enough reasons for him 2 get vindicated, if at all!
  
  
  
• From: jacky (@ 61.1.202.232) on: Fri Mar 5 14:58:51 EST 2004
  
  Vatsa,
  That might be a thinipu but it might be the one word mantra for him to sell the movie in the west.
  Cannes or anywhere!
  
  
• From: Vatsa (@ 160.83.32.14) on: Fri Mar 5 17:11:34 EST 2004
  
  The movie got a good rating in Rotterdam Fim Festival. Although, it has few lapses if you watch a couple of times, the movie was crisp (cant beleive the move was almost 3 hrs), had less compromises, the execution of two different narration for the same story, BGM (very subtle) and a brilliant situational song composition, same/similar songs for two different narrations.
  
  Vatsa
  
  
  
  
• From: V (@ 69.136.137.141) on: Fri Mar 5 21:05:24 EST 2004
  
  jackie 'Capital Punishment' is two words!
  
  ok ok dont kill me for this. :)
  
  
• From: jacky (@ 61.2.225.132) on: Fri Mar 5 23:04:32 EST 2004
  
  Thanks V :)
  i thought execution was one word!
  
  
• From: Cinema Virumbi (@ 210.214.95.18) on: Sat Mar 6 13:21:36 EST 2004
  
  
  mnt,
  
  My heart is in TN!!!!
  
  
• From: mnt (@ 172.161.183.48) on: Sun Mar 7 13:55:17 EST 2004
  
  CV,
  
  :-)
  
  
• From: Cinefan (@ 61.95.199.216) on: Mon Mar 8 05:43:00 EST 2004
  
  http://www.thatstamil.com/news/2004/03/08/kamal.html
  
  Check out Kamal's interaction with the press yesterday
  
  

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