Monday, March 23, 2009

My Weekend

I had watched two movies on this weekend. One is Padikathavan starring Dhanush as a lead and the other Arundhathi starring Anushka as the lead. Both are of different genres. First - Arundhathi It is a thriller movie spanning over 2 decades. Anushka dons double role for the first time in her career and has done her best. Eventhough veterans like Manorama and many others are there,it is mainly she who is present all over the movie and does proves her skills. Sonu sood plays the baddie. Be it dance, acting, Anushka excels!! Actually I had seen the dubbed version[Thamizh] of the original. I think the original would be surely better than this. Dubbing voice was not apt for Anushka in Thamizh version. The story has several loopholes like the concept of punar janma, pretatma but still it makes you glued to the screen and does not let your mind to trigger such questions till the end of the movie. Secondly about Padikkathavan nothing much special to speak about. It's just another commercial movie. Hero is illiterate who has an ambition in life to love and marry a well-educated woman[Good Aim indeed!!] just because he is teased by his father for not passing 10th standard. Acting wise, there is not enough scope for anyone except Dhanush[for action and comedy sequences] and Vivek. Actor Tamannah was indeed good in both Happy days and Kalloori. But she is here just for dance sequences. Anyways, we can't except anything more than this for a hero-oriented movie. Padikkathavan was released by Sun Pictures. Till date whatever movies released by Sun Pictures are all commercial movies and I hope all the films were atleast profitable because of Sun Network. Hope Ayan will be different from Sun Pictures's other releases. Entrance of Raj TV Production will slightly pressurize Sun Pictures. As Sun Pictures and Raj TV has their strong base in TamilNadu having many channels under their company, they can make a film a decent hit. They should also come forward for taking experimental movies. Atleast 20-30% of the films they produce every year should be experimental. This will pave a way for encouraging fresh talents as well as give a relief to people who really appreciates different movies nowadays.

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