Nirvana 4 Me!

Director : Sudhish Kamath Starring : Manu Narayan , Seema Rehmani In between my transit and my stay at various places in Kerala, I happened to see the movie 'GOOD NIGHT, GOOD MORNING' . It was one of those Indian English movies or rather what we simply call as NRI movies.  A noted film-critic with ‘ The Hindu ’, ‘ GOOD NIGHT, GOOD MORNING’ is Sudhish Kamath’s second movie, and as a regular reader of his movie reviews in 'The Hindu', I was naturally attracted to this second venture of his.   The title as well as the poster caught my attention and so did the synopsis, as I delved into this movie which is entirely shot in black and white. The Black and White narration seemed to be an anachronism at first, but it essentially turns out to be the movie's USP. It adds to the romanticism of the plot as only the dreamy sequences and the flashbacks are in color. The film employs the ‘Split-Screen’ narrative, where the entire story is shown happening side by side.   Plot...

Dir : James Cameron Starring : Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Signourney Weaver, Giovani Ribisi Though it may just be a quite coincidence that the world-wide release of the Movie was synchronized with the World Earth Summit of Copenhagen, 2009, the movie still made news for its technical brilliance and its 3D rendering. Avatar is an epic movie that borrows scenes and even the story-line from various other movies and incidents that happened around the world, upgraded them with brilliant 3D projection systems and delivered it on the silver screen like never before. Perhaps this is the reason for such a grand success of the movie, and the world that has been created for the movie - The Pandora - makes us to explore more of it. I would agree with the person who sat next to me at the movie hall that he felt as if he was back on earth once the movie was over. There is nothing much to mention about the story though as it is just a re-hash of so many other Hollywood movies that came and...

Dir : Peter Jackson Starring :  Kate Winslet, Melanie Lynskie Perhaps you might be wondering why I am writing a review of a movie which was released way back in 1994.  Today morning, with nothing else to do, I decided watch this movie on youtube and felt I should be writing about this (one of the most) under-rated movies ever. "Heavenly Creatures" is made by the man who directed  Lord of the Rings  trilogy -  Peter Jackson . The movie is about the famous 'Parker-Hulme Murder Case' where in Parker and Hulme, together murders Parker's mother, Peirse. Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme are two 14 year old girls played by Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey respectively. They meet in school and become fast friends immediately. They create a secret fantasy world and become obsessive about it and each other. As their friendship grow, even bordering on homosexuality, and their fantasy land Borovnia seems real to them just as the real world outside, their pare...

It is commonly believed that heroine (read women) oriented films are never a guarantee for success, especially in Bollywood.  But here is one movie that is out there to prove us all wrong.  'Dirty Picture' is a look back at the 1980's when plus-sized heroines as well as dance-girls posed as sex-sirens on the screen ensured a movies success.  The southern Starlet Silk Smitha was an undisputed queen of this crowd and this movie was a good  attempt at focusing on her life and times .  Pic Courtesy : Chitramala.in Dirty Picture is a semi-biography of sorts about this actress who used her oomph and sexuality to good measure, leaving men panting, and marking her presence in tamil movies as an instant guarantee for cash registers ringing. Vidya Balan, who is otherwise known for her non-conformist and clean image, plays the role of Reshma or just 'Silk' to good effect in this thought provoking film.  At these times, when her pee...

Director : Roy Sohan Starring : Joshua Fredrick Smith ,                 Linda Arsenio ,                 Vimla Raman ,                 Rajat Kapoor ,                 Thampy Antony & others Dam-999 was called as a concept movie,  showing a dam burst, in fact, an earthquake causing a dam disaster and flooding. The setting was supposed to be  Mulla-periyar , a 100 year old dam that was awaiting its death in southern Kerala. This movie directed by  Roy Sohan , a native of the same place where the dam exists had won accolades for his documentary ‘ Dams – The lethal water bombs ’. Perhaps, that was what inspired him to go further to direct a full-length feature film, taking up the cause of his people.  But when you have to enter into a realm of commercial movies, one needs to have a lot of other ingred...

Quite like what I wrote in my earlier post, I was waiting to see  “ TheThree Musketeers ” in 3D, and indeed I did yesterday, a day after its release in India .  Ours is the fourth country in the world, after its release in Germany , Austria and Switzerland   and is set to release world-wide on 21 st Oct.  This means, I can now proudly claim that I had seen the movie much before folks in US did. The Three Musketeers is an action movie and is loosely based on Alexander Dumas' novel of the same name.  The story has been changed a lot from the original and except for the title and the names of the characters, there is little in common between the book and the movie.  The plot follows the young D'Artagnan ( Logan Lerman ) who leaves his country home to go to Paris and join the valorious Three Musketeers,  Athos ( Mathew Macfadyen ), Porthos  ( Ray Stevenson ) and Aramis ( Luke Evans ).   In the meanwhile, the Three Musketeers have been...

It was quite by chance that yesterday, while browsing TV Channels, I stopped at UTV World Movies to watch the Frech movie 'Amélie' .  I found the movie to be a classic.  Very subtle depiction and a flowing story line makes this movie indeed special. 'Amélie' is the story of simple and innocent young girl (played by Audrey Toutou of the Da Vinci Code Fame).  Amélie lives alone in Paris and works as a waitress for living. She is a young woman who lives a solitary life after her mother's death and subsequently, her father leaving the child for another woman.  Following a couple of failed romances, she now contemplates living life in the simplest way, often deriving pleasures from an imaginative and a fantasy life. The story takes a turn on the evening of 31st August 1997, when she hears the death of Princess Diana, and shocked she is, accidently drops a bottle on to the floor and accidently loosens a wall tile.  The...