Life of Pi -- (English Genre)

I had always wished to watch this spectacular movie of the decade on the big screens with a 3-D glass on my eyes, but it was my exams and i missed the same. My friends were much agreeing about the no-nonsense story and magnificent graphics in the movie and had to keep listening to their experience and slowly the topic faded.

Last week, I had to share some technical materials with my friend and in return he loaded the pen drive with a HD quality print of the movie " LIFE of PI"

Eager to watch the film which had made a great news across the globe, film was loaded into my computer and speakers were set to huge decibels, show began for the one man audience. Believe me, the film did justice to the hype and was far better than my level of imagination.

Story did begin from Pondicherry, a union territory of India to speak about the happenings in the life of Pi-Patel, son of a zoo keeper. After the family head decides to close the zoo and sell the animals to western countries, they begin their sea travel along with animals packed in a ship. 

Pi Patel, a sharp minded, straight forward individual , followed his passion on a high scale. It may be about his interest in practicing three different religions , his eagerness to watch the Richard parker (a Bengal Tiger) close into its eyes or to speak to Anandi about his first love. Never would have this guy, imagined about his wildest days ahead and was busy enjoying rains pouring into the ship caught amid-st a wild storm.

Slowly and steadily, the wild waters swallowed the big ship but was kind enough to allow Pi-patel along with his zoo-mates to survive with help of a rescue boat. Pi-patel saw his co-survivors- Zebra, oranguton, hyena die in-front of him to become a feed for Richard parker (same old Bengal Tiger). The rest of the story is about the struggle between Pi-patel and Richard parker to survive and get out the wide deep ocean alive.

During this struggle, Pi-patel , who was vegetarian was forced to feed on non-veg, he grows his persona to the level of mastering the art of controlling a tiger under his command. He is introduced to his beloved god, a carnivorous island and at-last gets out of the sea along with Richard Parker alive to share this magnificent experience with the world which never believes him.

More than words, its the artificial world of water and the animation graphics speaks volumes and a big kudos to the Director of Film- Mr.Ang lee for getting this superb piece of art into reality.

Its worth watching Life of Pi. Five out of Five stars for the film.

 

EPIC-2 (A 3D movie)

And the cinema hall near my locality had installed a new Sony 4K 3D projector and i hadn't experienced the same for quite some time. And being a lover of cartoon movies I never wanted to miss the opportunity for watching EPIC-@ which got some positive reviews from my friends circle and decided to watch the same.

It was the last day for the movie in the theater and I got to the same quite early and i was entertained outside the theater by the kids who were quite eager to get into the cinema hall. It was time up and show started little earlier ahead of the scheduled time. With few people inside the cinema hall, i had a comfortable viewing angle of my choice.

Film is all about the fight between the good and the old and this time is in terms of afforestation and deforestation and i personally appreciate the concept which serves as an eye opener about our failure to acknowledge the beauty associated with the nature and for sake of monetary gains we are into making this beautiful earth a barren land indeed.

Queen character and associated VG of the way she is taken out on the leafy chariot is quiet awesome and even the race scene in the movie pulls us into the same. Music is good.

The movie is quiet a good experience especially for the ever enthusiastic kids who never get tired like we the adults.

Overall it was a good 3D experience and i loved the same....

Myna- Kannada movie review

Director: Nagashekhar

Producer: NS Rajakumar

Music Director: Jessigift

Lyricst: V. Nagendra Prasad

Cast:

Chetan Kumar as Sathya Murthy

Nithya Menon as Myna

I had borrowed a software and needed to return to my brother whose house was situated at Jayanagar. It was Sunday evening and even my brother was feeling bored. It was a last minute decision that we immediately made up our mind to watch a film at Eshwari theater and to our luck tickets weren't sold out.

Got the tickets and entered the wide hall. People were busy settling and film began as per schedule. It is a romantic story with a tragic ending. Though the story line is unbelievable but carries a tag of " TRUE STORY" with it.

Lead actor who is selected for a TV show happens to meet his lady love on a train which runs between Castle rock and Goa via Doodh Sagar waterfalls. The guy gets so much in love with his girl that he walks out of the show not wanting to share his hundred rupee note ( Watch the film you will do understand). If i were in his place, I would have borrowed another hundred rupee note and would have continued with the game.

So the hero manages to impress his lady love in disguise of a beggar without a leg. Story just builds pace when the heroine comes to know that hero is indeed with good legs and when hero comes to know that heroine has no walk-able legs.

After romance, its about a bad doctor who is killed by the hero and finally both hero and heroine are killed due a word uttered by police officer which is heard wrong by the constables and it is " DON'T SHOOT". And I got to know a new meaning for the word " COLOURFUL" from the film.

Cinematography is great and camera man has been successful in capturing the wet look of the Doodhsagar water falls.

Finally I would like to say that I cant believe the story line and Chetan needs to tune up his emotional skills like Nithya menon who is truly fabulous. A superb song for you from the film:

Charminar- Kannada Film review

Director: R Chandru

Producer: R Chandru

Music Director: Hari , Gurukiran

Lyricst: Kaviraj

Cast:

Prem Kumar as Mohan

Meghana Gaonkar as Radha

Had done with my exams, called my dip friends and a date was fixed to get together for those funny moments of life...we love to be together..

And my horse was ready on a Sunday morning ,I mean my bike, got on to it and reached CPRI , suddenly clutch wire of my bike got cut. Now i didn't want to disappoint my friends and parked the vehicle near a school to join my gang.

Four friends together and there was happiness, checked out the nearest theater and it was Santosh featuring CHARMINAR FILM. Got the tickets and settled in our seats.

Charminar film did start with story line about group of people arranging for a get together and it was a co-incidence we friends did watch the film after a get together indeed.

Though the film starts with friendship, it is more about the love between a guy and his school mate who happens to be alumni of the school.

Film is quite romantic which has that ability of of inciting love in your heart and makes u feel that unique experience and story line is not so complicated too. But there is a unnecessary speech and story twists at the end part of the film which u may find it difficult to digest.

Otherwise it is a movie with good message which has that ability to make ur hearts melt. I loved the music too but don't remember any songs or its lines. In the acting department Prem and his co-star have done justice to their roles.

Charminar , its a one time watchable movie. A song for you from the film.

Godavari- Telugu Film Review

Director: Sekhar Kammula

Producer: Raju GVG

Music Director: K.M.Radhha Krishnan

Lyricst: Veturi Sundararama Murthy

Actor:      Sumanth

Actress:  Kamalinee Mukherjee

I am loving to write a review about this movie...though little old (2006) but I had missed to include this one in my collection...to be fulfilled now...!!!

Godavari.. name of the river flowing in Andhra Pradesh state of India...and this film is about a love story sprouting between two souls travelling together on a wonderful boat journey to Bhadrachalam...

Love this film as it clearly distinguishes love from other age based feel..which many telugu cinemas fail to convey to the audience....a matured love story indeed..!!!

Film keeps u involved in its story with its unique high quality content...Lead heroine, an aspiring enterpreneur on a holy visit to temple meets her love who is good but unsettled in life..Hero is quite sad as a girl who he liked rejects him due to his slow upright behavior ....

Both the lead actors find good attachment in them in terms of their ideas and  enjoy their togetherness...!!!

But in a twisting tale even the other girl feels to be missing the hero and comes back to him...This creates confusion in the story..

Rest of the film is about the incidents which gets Hero and Heroine closer as well as gets them far away...in the end .. u will find them being together...A happy ending indeed...Its something exotic which u will enjoy about the film..!!!

Director has done a great job to create that cute feel or long for true love, music assists director in a great way...

A Superb song for you.....

Vishwaroopam/Vishwaroop - 2013 review- A Kamal Hassan Film

Director:          Kamal Hassan

Producer:       Kamal Hassan

Cast :            Kamal Hassan and others

Well U can now understand the reason for his nick name "Ulaga Nayagan" ( Leader of the World in English). 


After much hue and cry about the film and many obstacles indeed, the film is released all over Tamil Nadu, a treat to the Kamal Fans. But being in Bangalore, I faced no such problem to watch this film as easily as I could watch any other.

Jumping quickly to the topic, Dr.Kamal Hassan deserves accolades for pointing the fingers at the wrong people straight and fearless through an art medium.


Vishwaroopam is a film with a short documentary about life of Jihad-is, which is nicely incorporated in between the commercial part of the film without disturbing its sanctity. You can find the usual unbelievable stunts being performed by Kamal Hassan (unique to Indian cinemas) and unbelievable introduction of Kamal hassan as Viz, a dance teacher who was trained in a terrorist organisation which is not known to his pretty sexy wife too. And story gets bigger and bigger explaining the super hero form of Mr. Kamal Hassan out in  New York to save the city from dirty bombs.


Many things are unbelievable except one thing that is the life of brainwashed Muslim youth. A twenty minute documentary explains the mindset of hardcore Muslims who are yet to understand the Gandhian Philosophy that an Eye for an Eye shall make the world go blind. 

It starts right from Rahul bose's excellent acting representing medieval mindset of hardcore Muslims prohibiting ladies from speaking in a group, teaching kids on ways to handle weapons instead providing them the education and stealing their childhood in the name of holy war. And a filthy nexus between the oil producing countries whose leaders/kings in the name of religion try to incite the terrorist activities among its people just to deflect their attention from claiming a democratic setup ie rule of law which will steal these self appointed kings off their wealth and comfort.


A Good try or experiment by Mr.Kamal to have both real as well as commercial elements incorporated in the same film.Hope our Afghan Muslim  brothers will come out the wrong web spread by greedy kings and fight for the democracy which is the only way to have our say in the administration of the country we live in.


Apart from the story line, stunts are superb to watch and music sounds good. But the level of violence is pretty too high for the kids to watch.If you want to understand the life of terrorists watch the film which has 40% truth and 60% unbelievable stuff. Its Kamal, Kamal , Kamal all the way.......