Topic started by Tamilan (@ 62.199.220.2) on Mon Dec 16 08:41:09 EST 2002.
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Here is my suggestions:
Run, Baba, Nandha, Kannathil Muddhamiddal...
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- Old responses
- From: Piraba (@ 216.7.228.169)
on: Wed Jan 22 20:29:47 EST 2003
best movie
baba
kannatil muttamital
Gemini
King
- From: Pulikan (@ 66.185.84.76)
on: Wed Jan 22 20:30:27 EST 2003
Sri Lanka(KM) is way better than India(Ramanaa). India(Ramanaa) has a bunch of old dudes corrupting the dirtiest place on earth. Sri Lanka is soon going to kick some Indian butt. Sri Lanka the next Singapore, Malaysia while India is being ruled by a bunch of fat women and men with sunglasses.
- From: Pulikan (@ 66.185.84.76)
on: Wed Jan 22 20:32:21 EST 2003
By the way. I was just joking around but still Kannathil Muthamittal was the best movie of the year. Its also my favourite movie in the history of Indian cinema. I always wanted to make a movie like that.
- From: geeth (@ 213.121.248.170)
on: Thu Jan 23 00:41:06 EST 2003
Kannathil Muthamittal is creating waves in SanFrancisco pre-run shows to Oscars. It was voted no.3 in a top ten selection in which Devdas never even got a slot. People remarked why movies like KM were not selected for Oscar instead of a run-of-mill (but extravagant) hindi movie. With its popularity among the viewers a repeat show was asked and it was re-run on the last day of the festival. Only Lagaan got a repeat request last year.
It is really heartening to hear a tamil film getting worlwide appreciation. Certainly should be the best tamil film of the year.
- From: A.R.Rahman (@ 217.44.89.203)
on: Thu Jan 23 02:25:01 EST 2003
1.Mounam Pesiyadhe
2.Thulluvatho Ilamai
3.Ramana
4. Kannathil Muththamittal
- From: Ilayaraja (@ 61.6.38.132)
on: Thu Jan 23 02:34:21 EST 2003
1. Kannathil Muthamittaal
2. King
3. Run
4. Pancha Thanthiram
5. Baba
- From: Paran (@ 210.193.13.206)
on: Thu Jan 23 03:24:06 EST 2003
1) Kadaloram Kannapan
2) Kadai Varisayil Oru Kavithai
3) Kathal Alunthalum, Naan Alumatten
4) Yennaku 36, Unnaku 76
5) Ambleen...Ambalam
(and this is definitely a joke...please don't come after me...anyone)
- From: x (@ 156.153.254.42)
on: Thu Jan 23 04:02:50 EST 2003
>> Its also my favourite movie in the history of Indian cinema.
-- You have not seen any other movie before and after Kannathil Muthamittaal so it remains your favourite :)
Joke of the history of Indian cinema.
- From: curses (@ 219.65.108.153)
on: Thu Jan 23 09:37:28 EST 2003
some posts in this thread have been funny w/ a capital F!!!
Paran, Prabhu, geeth... can we have some more!
- From: C~P (@ 202.9.180.25)
on: Thu Jan 23 09:49:52 EST 2003
Paran,
ungaloda "eriri" (!) ML-a vittuteengaley! :) ..... sorry if i spoilt ur mood ;)
- From: Paran (@ 210.193.13.206)
on: Thu Jan 23 21:43:24 EST 2003
ML-le..vidirathavathe.....
watch pannikitte iruken...
have sent my people to Kuwait to look for him.....
heheheh...
spoilt my mood?....naaa......so..have u watched Hindustani last nite...
i was searching for it..hi-n-low...here in Singapore...ade pavi..next time..tell which country please....heheheh
- From: Pam (@ 202.51.148.249)
on: Mon Jan 27 12:28:37 EST 2003
1. Kannathil Muthamittal
2. Mounam Pesiyadhe
3. Five Star
4. Panchathanthiram
- From: LP (@ 61.6.38.132)
on: Mon Jan 27 20:22:20 EST 2003
A Peck on the Cheek
A longtime Festival favourite, Mani Ratnam is one of the few Indian filmmakers who is recognized both artistically and commercially in his own country. His films acknowledge the codes of Bollywood cinema, yet combine these with more wide-ranging concerns. In many ways, his oeuvre has been a harbinger of the current, somewhat uneasy coalition between Bollywood and alternative or art-house cinema (evident in films like Lagaan, a Festival presentation in 2001). The principal difference is that Ratnam, who was the subject of a Festival spotlight in 1994, has been refining and re-defining this formula for many years.
Like many of Ratnam’s films, A Peck on the Cheek uses contemporary politics as a backdrop. It begins with an extraordinary reverie focusing on the marriage of two Sri Lankan youths: Madhavan, a shy but determined young girl from the country (played by the phenomenal Nandita Das, the star of Deepa Mehta’s Fire), and Dileep, a committed activist opposed to the invasion and military dictatorship. Their post-marital bliss is painfully shattered by the arrival of the military, which leaves Madhavan alone and pregnant in a refugee camp.
At this point, the film abruptly shifts focus to concentrate on a happy, middle-class family. Their pride and joy is their effervescent, infuriating daughter Amudha, who is perceptive enough to know just how far she can push one parent before seeking refuge with the other. Ratnam pays tribute to the girl’s innate intelligence and the chameleonic nature of her generation with a stunning musical number rivalling anything to come out of Bollywood in recent years. Yet, a shadow hangs over the family: Amudha was adopted. Her quintessentially liberal father wants to tell her; her mother isn’t so sure. Their eventual decision will change the family forever, instigating an odyssey that is terrifying, quixotic and troubling.
A Peck on the Cheek twists conventional Western fairy-tale logic. Instead of placing its heroine on psychologically dangerous ground, it posits her in the midst of the political and ethnic strife that has become the keynote of our times. In some ways, it also represents the apotheosis of Ratnam’s work: a powerful, vibrant mix of pop, politics and tragic circumstance.
– Steve Gravestock
- From: vengayam (@ 203.200.84.67)
on: Thu Jan 30 05:42:20 EST 2003
How about Pandavar Bhoomi for its sincerity and simplicity- in screenplay, performances & music. Only ye samba is a sore point in the movie. of course song is catchy but does not fit into the mood of the movie.Baradhwaj especially has excelled without doing any of the musical gymnastics of you know who!
- From: C~P (@ 202.9.180.174)
on: Thu Jan 30 06:16:53 EST 2003
Paran,
hehe....i din watch it...."hindi" aachey....dats y....i still Think(!) twas on Sony :) .... btw do u get it there?
>>have sent my people to Kuwait to look for him..... <<
nalla kaaryam pannineenga....."kilai pudungara dept.-a neenga"! :) .... "neenga election-la nalla en vote ungalukku thaan"! :)
- From: Are Yaar (@ 203.115.31.67)
on: Thu Jan 30 06:21:50 EST 2003
>>>Baradhwaj especially has excelled without doing any of the musical gymnastics of you know who!
You coolly call it gymnastics because nobody other than him could anywhere do at least 25% of it. I too saw pandavar bhoomi. Quite good and BW did good job...to his standard.
- From: vengayam (@ 203.200.84.67)
on: Thu Jan 30 23:17:24 EST 2003
Are Yaar, While writing about Pandavar Bhoomi I let my heart do the writing. I knew that people will be after me the moment I saw the post. but I have this to say "to my stand is that the BGM should not stick out like a sore thumb and spoil the movie" There is athread on BGM wherin there was lot of discussion but the result was inconclusive. Neither the pro BGMers could convince me nor unfortunately could I convince them.
- From: Logi (@ 141.149.215.144)
on: Fri Jan 31 00:21:19 EST 2003
Steve Gravestock calls KM a bollywood movie!!!
I thought I will hang my head in utter shame only when Sonia Gandhi becomes prim minister. But this guy Steve Gravestock has made my head hang in greatest shame by associating tamil films with filth like bollywood.
Kannathil Kanneer Vazhiginrana
- From: Are Yaar (@ 203.115.31.67)
on: Fri Jan 31 02:59:22 EST 2003
An interesting Mail in ARRYG regarding KM
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The lines below are not mine, though I very much agree with those - Are Yaar
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I dont know about you guys but NOW I am awfully extremely prfoundly
depressed at KM not making it to Indian Oscar Entry
I have consolidated a bunch of reviews from Internationa watchers of
Mani's Gem Kannathil Muthamittal.
What a shame this film was nt nominated for Oscars. Shame on India!!
I feel so Ashamed to be part of this country which hates real
talent. Jealousy everywhere!!
KM got a re-run request. Only very few movies get re-run requets in
Toronto film festival.
I feel like murdering the B&%*%@# who sent a shitty crap
like 'Devdas' to Oscars.... painfully depressing!! Oh god save India
from this Bias shit!! when will we change?????
Anywhere read these reviews and enjoy... if you get depressed in the middle forget it.
Dave D-2
Toronto, Canada
Date: 14 September 2002
Summary: I defy you to view this film and not be moved emotionally!
Recently had the pleasure of seeing this emotionally charged film by
Director Mani Ratnam at the 2002 Toronto International Film
Festival. I have bestowed my highest honour of the Film Festival on
this feature. Make sure that you do not let an opportunity to
experience this cinematic gem pass you by ... but be forewarded:
this film will make you shed a tear if you belong to the species
known as homo sapien! A 10 !!
learnnew
Florida
Date: 12 September 2002
Summary: Sensitive, top-notch film from a great director ...
The film has Maniratnam written all over it. It is subtle in its
content, yet manages to be in-your-face with some trademark-
Maniratnam blunt dialogs and blunt visuals too. I've only seen
Spielberg and Benigni who have managed to balance subtlety and
directness wonderfully. Maniratnam is not their class but very close
on their heels. At times he is better than them!
The performances are superb, the production values are excellent,
particularly the camera and art direction. Yet I have to mention two
let downs in the movie. One is sort of major - Rahman's background
score. It had a widely fluctuating quality - at times (in the final
scenes and in the scenes following Amudha's birthday) bordering on
superb and at times (in most of the war scenes, in the scene when
Amudha sees the young LTTE girls) downright intrusive. The second
one is a minor let down - editing. The movie could have used a good
10 minute trimming in the middle stages.
The first half hour is a series of disjointed events thrown at you
at a rapidfire pace, which may not be easy for even Tamilians to
follow, not to say how difficult it is for the Western audience.
Yet, being a Tamilian, while I relished the first half hour of the
movie so much, I can't help but wonder how much of that brilliance
remained after translating the dialogs. Personally I had a very hard
time translating all the comedy in the movie when I attempted it for
North Indians and Americans!
That said, I have watched the movie 5 times already. I don't think
I'll stop watching it anytime soon. One of the best to come out of
India, heck, one of the finest movies ever made. Kudos to Maniratnam
and the entire team!
A hearty 8.5 out of 10.0!
Mitch Gurowitz
Piscataway, NJ USA
Date: 10 September 2002
Summary: If not perfect, what is?
The Director of Kannathil Muthamittal directed the first Indian film
I had seen "Dil Se" which led me down the path of buying well over
122 Hindi DVDs in the
course of four months. I can say I understood the total attraction,
I was
somehow confused as to why the film would stop for "music videos".
It was an excellent movie, I didn't know what to make of the dancing
and the female
vocals were a bit shrill for my western ears, but somehow I found AR
Rahmen's score hypnotic. I bought the soundtrack the following day
and then Lagan, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and K3G the following week and
with the exception of "Ichi the
killer" a few other Korean films , I can't be bothered to watch much
else. Kind of strange for someone who has only watched a strict diet
of Hong Kong, Horror
and Action/Science fiction films for the past 30 years.
But I should get back to Kannathil Muthamittal, It is one of the
Mani Ratman's latest efforts and I laughed, Cried, Got totally mad,
terrified and most of all I didn't feel manipulated. The acting was
superb, the photography was beautiful, I think you could stop the
movie at any given time and would notice that any give frame would
be worthy of painting. The music fit the movie perfectly and after
the
credits rolled, I wanted to watch again... so I did.
It would be foolish to discuss the plot for fear that you may miss
the pleasure of watching the events unfold and the characters
develop. This is what great film is all about! I stood and applauded
in my home theater when it was over!
My wife is watching now, and I can't wait for her reaction, I can't
expect it will be anything less than mine.
James McNally
Toronto, Canada
Date: 11 September 2002
Summary: Deeply touching...
I saw this film at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival.
This is the first Indian film I've seen in the Tamil language, and
while it does share some
similarities with other Indian films (wonderful music and
choreography,
sweeping storyline), the director attempts more than just to
entertain. The film tells the story of Amudha, a precocious nine-
year old whose parents reveal to her that she was adopted, thus
beginning an odyssey that takes them all from
India to war-torn Sri Lanka. Gorgeous visuals mix with horrifying
scenes of
violence expressly to make a point, though it is a simplistic one.
Amudha is
played by P.S. Keerthana, and she is one of the few child actors
I've seen who can be precocious and yet not annoying. Her charm and
beauty held the film
together.
John Henderson
Melbourne, Australia
Date: 7 April 2002
Summary: WOW!!!
To tell you the truth, I do not speak Tamil, and I did not
understand the film. My good Tamil friend, Kaneswaran
Kumarswamypillai (wow, what a long name), explained every thing to
me. What a great movie!!! After watching this movie, I felt I should
have watched many more movies from Tollywood (Tamil Film Industry).
The war scenes were amazing, camera work excellent, and plot
beautiful. The actress "Simran", what a beauty. Give her an award
for best looking someone. Ding, Ding, Ding, come on I smell a OSCAR
winner. I didnt understand the songs, but they were excellent. Mani
Ratnam is a great director, and I hope his next film was a success.
These reviews were obtained from www.imdb.com
- From: Are Yaar (@ 203.115.31.67)
on: Fri Jan 31 03:02:44 EST 2003
vengayam :
I too don't like to see BGM as saperate entity and would like it to play to the flow of the movie. Evne though I have mentioned IR as the best in this business, I have been critical of him for the very reason of taking over a scene.
I don't know when, but this practice has come into our cine fans to see BGM as one totally disjoint area of film making and they try to eveluate it independent of the content and worth of the film. IMO that is wrong.
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