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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: xml (@ 128.148.68.110) on: Fri Sep 5 12:01:13 EDT 2003
  
  Everyone should understand this minimum commonsense. There is more than an year difference between TI and Boys. If the boys story is really belongs to shankar after seeing the TI he should have been told to media about that or he should have been gone to court.
  More ever if he is a perfectman he should have changed the story after seeing TI. It clerarly shows shankar followed selvaragavan's foot step in boys.
  
  
• From: dinesh (@ 210.186.42.114) on: Fri Sep 5 12:47:00 EDT 2003
  
  ur prooving ur a pure du*mb a*ss!!i think u didnt read or know the news when Shankar went to watch TI,he was shocked & he quickly changed the whole thing again!!if u dun belive,...see this 1st trailor of boys which was shown few years back (its really diff from the trailors they showed lately)even shankar told he changed many things & came up with something simular to TI but he took it in a diff angle!!if u were willing to sponsor him to changed the whole thing,im sure SHankar wont hesitate to change from the story to the dance steps!!if u cant do that...just keep ur GAPS closed!!!Vanthuthaange....moonjiye toookikitte!!
  
  
• From: Nattamai (@ 207.44.154.35) on: Fri Sep 5 12:51:29 EDT 2003
  
  dinesh:
  
  It won't take much time for me to call you names, but I know where I stand. You are on the losing side, so you are furious. I perfectly understand that.
  
  
• From: dinesh (@ 210.186.42.114) on: Fri Sep 5 13:08:21 EDT 2003
  
  amma va naate aamai?seringe....ungge ulagathille neegelei valunge...un karpunaileh vaalunnge...annal ondre...oru nal...Unmai than Vellum!!btw...im not on the loosing or the winning side..im just telling u what is right...not telling u im right...hope u know the differents country broot!..hehehehe..just kidding!
  
  
• From: pg (@ 199.50.29.42) on: Fri Sep 5 13:32:33 EDT 2003
  
  http://www.webulagam.com/cinema/cinenews/0309/05/1030905026_1.htm
  
  
• From: pg (@ 199.50.29.42) on: Fri Sep 5 13:34:05 EDT 2003
  
  http://www.webulagam.com/cinema/cinenews/0309/05/1030905006_1.htm
  
  
• From: Nattamai (@ 207.44.154.35) on: Fri Sep 5 13:35:10 EDT 2003
  
  dinesh:
  Unmai than Vellum!!
  
  that's what happening these days, isn't it? hehehe
  
  not telling u im right...
  
  I agree you are wrong. that's my understanding even from the beginning.
  
  xml:
  It clerarly shows shankar followed selvaragavan's foot step in boys.
  
  Even I think so too.
  
  
• From: sharad (@ 219.65.140.58) on: Fri Sep 5 13:50:30 EDT 2003
  
  AIYAPPA SWAMY SONG in arr group files sec (boys)
  enjoy. sharad the song rocks...
  
  
• From: sharad (@ 219.65.140.58) on: Fri Sep 5 13:51:56 EDT 2003
  
  AIYAPPA SWAMY SONG in arr group files sec (boys)
  enjoy. sharad the song rocks...
  
  
• From: pg (@ 199.50.29.42) on: Fri Sep 5 13:57:16 EDT 2003
  
  http://www.thinnai.com/pl0904039.html
  
  
• From: pg (@ 199.50.29.42) on: Fri Sep 5 14:02:22 EDT 2003
  
  http://www.thinnai.com/ar0904033.html
  
  
• From: Vatsa (@ 160.83.32.14) on: Fri Sep 5 14:46:19 EDT 2003
  
  Hi V,
  
  If you feel sad about Anbe Sivam not doing well in the box office, atleast you are right. But I cant feel sad because BOYS failed. I feel its good that movies like BOYS and Baba failed, because they simply dont DESERVE to be a hit. I recently saw Iruvar on Channel 4 in London as one of the movies from "BOLLYWOOD"(hehe), I dont feel Iruvar is a good movie ... not even as good as Kannathil Muthamittal because Iruvar was shallow when it comes to facts, logic and dialogues. I would have liked Anbe Sivam and Kannathil Muthamittal to become a hit had some kind of near completeness in them (in the movie theme). I would except these kind of movies instead of masala ones. I dont think we are used to vikram's wonder for 20 yrs before, we had movies from mahendran, balumahendra and other eminent directors which are art movies (by todays standard), way better than iruvar and were hit movies. Infact drama, which is a challenging art than a movie has detoriated as well because youth are not up for it. I include myself when it comes to drama, its solely because the quantity of good movies and business minded movies and the quality of movies got detoriated lately and so is the taste of audience.
  
  Shankar's movies have never been artistic, its just masala movie in a big scale. i dont see him go far as Maniratnam or others who have style and commitment to make good movies. To me, Shankar is just someone who has not given a good one still. I doubt his potential to give a good movie. I dont think sujatha alone should be blamed for the movie's vulgarity because in any of shankar's movie there is always alot of inclination to vulgarity (Gentleman is a great example, remember couplings and dikilona).
  
  The main cause for these kind of movies is that we dont have a broad category to categorise a movie. Every movie should be strictly categorised (like G, PG, 12, 15 and 18) based on the content and censor should not cut a scene unless the content is absolutely apalling ... we will get good movies (because directors will target majority audience i.e., families) and movies will be targetted at certain audience, which is not happening now ... so directors like Shankar trying to satisfy all kinds of audience in a movie (with konjam sex, konjam kathai, konjam current affairs and a movie looks like different serial episodes than a movie), instead they know their story and theme (atleast!) and they know what is good for the movie.
  
  Vatsa
  
  
• From: Anbe sivam (@ 206.102.161.11) on: Fri Sep 5 15:16:45 EDT 2003
  
  Vatsa,
  
  Shankar never know how to take a low budget movie. I think succeeding in low budget movies is a acid test for directors, because they could succeed only by good story line, dialogue etc.
  
  KB has proved this time and again that big budget is not always required for good movie.
  
  Also, it is good that some time people like shankar should get failure, to correct their mistakes.
  
  
• From: rajasaranam (@ 210.214.128.10) on: Fri Sep 5 15:35:13 EDT 2003
  
  Vatsa,
  
  i agree to u that Iruvar was shallow when it comes to facts, logic and dialogues.( dont get tempted V ive said this in my previous post itself:-) that MR twists historical facts ) but i liked the movie for mohanlal, prakashraj and aishwaryaas acting.
  moreover i didnt like ARRs BGM in that movie(though i liked the songs). somebody shouts, in the bgm, in many of the scenes so that we cannot follow the dialogues. this has been ARRs style rgt frm his first movie and nobody has condemned him for this.
  
  
• From: MusicIsLife (@ 170.146.91.6) on: Fri Sep 5 16:02:38 EDT 2003
  
  RS,
  I was one of the few people who raised my voice in discussions regarding more Music in the BG than shoutings ( I dont make any impact for the actual MD, but my opinions and thoughts were always that).
  
  
• From: Vatsa (@ 160.83.32.14) on: Fri Sep 5 16:27:49 EDT 2003
  
  rajsarnam,
  
  I agree with you when it comes to Mohanlal and Prakashraj acting in Iruvar (though I found the movie was dramatised a little with Karunanidhi talks always in good tamil, which is a overkill). What I like about Kamal and Maniratnam movies is that they dont exaggerate things. Similar to what Mahendran and balumahendra did. They make movies which are simple and intelligent. Its a shame we dont have many good directors going on this line.
  KB sometimes dramatises things but we need people making different genres of movies rather than youth movies or romantic movies.
  
  Instead of having the same story with different incidents which dont go with the movie, directors should look at making different kinds of movies. A movie does not need strong story line, but it can just potray some characters in the soceity. It need not be sequential (pulp fiction is a great example). But all we see in a tamil movie these days is just crap. As I said even if sex and youth is the theme it should be made in a good manner with serious or hilarious approach, not half-baked stuff like what shankar dishes. Its good that these movies get rejected along with movies with Rajini's antics (though I think Rajini's acting alot better than most of current heroes and he has wasted some of his years on acting in movies like Muthu). But, I would like Simbhu movies to be a flop where he apes rajni, vikram's movies where he wastes his acting prowess, formula movies even some of kamal movies where he just gives priority to the makeup rather than for the movie (which he does not do these days) and MR movie where he exaggerates stuff or does not have any logical backing. Great that MR's next movie does not contain songs. That is a good improvement, because songs does not flow with the movie (unless its used in a background or has some good reason).
  
  I think when it comes to good movies we should not talk about BOYS kind of movies. There are good tamil movies which potray youth and their sentiments. Infact I dont like a comedy track instead we can have Vivek doing a supporting role in a movie which is a comedy.
  
  Also, I dont know why we cant make intelligent movies. There are very good tamil novels which are intelligent they can made as movies. Sujatha can propose some science fiction movies (with logic and originality rather than like Koi Mil gaya kind) instead of writing some perverted dialogues for someone.
  
  I suspect with the failure of boys, there will not be anymore Thullavatho Ilamai pattern movies. Wondering what will be the next formula movie in TN? With action movies running succesfully, I think there are many more action movies to come.
  
  Vatsa
  
  
• From: Raj (@ 206.97.63.112) on: Fri Sep 5 16:48:24 EDT 2003
  
  If you want to watch a 'coming of age' movie, watch Summer of '42 starring Jennifer O'Neil and compare against Boys. The movie was released in 1971 !
  
  

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