Kaval Thurai Ungal Nanban - My View ( Not a Review)

 Movie Name: Kaval Thurai Ungal Nanban

Language: Tamil

OTT: Zee 5

My View:

First minute to last minute the movie is brilliant and stays with our nerves with the excitement and tension on what's gonna happen next. Very Very Hard hitting movie based on a real life incident, and once you watched to movie, it would leave an impact.

I will go with 100/100 for this movie. It's not a feel good, horror, action movie. but its a dramatic thriller and the way the completed the climax with the movie title at the last has the directors touch. If not based on the real life, the story could have moved in a different way, but truth to be told is held. One of a very high quality movie that will leave you with an impact throughout

Methagu - my View (not a review)

 Movie Name: Methagu

Language: Tamil

OTT: BS Live

My View:

A very honest and good biopic movie on the early life of  the revolutionary leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. The movie showcases the events focused between 1954 and 1975 in the life of Prabhakaran and eagerly expecting for the second part. 

The makers of the movie have put in a sincere effort with the the given budget and resource and though certain locations didn't bring back the authenticity, credit must be given to their efforts. Kudos to the makes for factually maintaining the event and characters authenticity and and brave enough to make use of the original names and the events which happened during the couple of decades.

In spite of being a low budget movie, credit goes to the direction, music, cinematography and the actors. Overall, a very good movie which takes its own pace in establishing the story and staying true to it. Hoping for a second part of the movie. 

I had a chance to pause and learn more on Google events depicted in the movie, be it the 4th World Tamil Research Conference or the names the Mayors/Politicians/Cops and it was 

I would go with 90/100 as this is a subject that interests me for learning. May be certain locations didn't give the actual feel of the story happening in Sri Lanka, but nevertheless given the budget and wonderful effort by the team, this shouldn't be an issue for the movie lovers who have interest in the subject.

Mare of East town

Name of the Series: Mare of East Town

Language:  English

OTT: Hot Star

Episode 1:

The episode 1 is more like a character introduction and getting yourself set up for the environment of the small Town, and the stage is set during the final few minutes of the episode, by revealing what is supposed to happen in the upcoming episodes. In terms of engagement factor,  it is definitely slow and not much boring, having learn the genre is a crime drama, no complaint so far.

(Views on next episodes coming up)

Thaen Movie - My View (not a review)

 Movie: Thaen

OTT: Sony Liv

Language: Tamil

My View:

First half is like a "Feel the Breeze" feeling and what a wonderful cinematography to take us through the hills, of TN Kerala border. The movie is written awards all over and hence it falls into 20% of non engaging/feeling bad atmosphere scenario for me. I would go with 80/100 for this wonderful movie. If you are a fan of action, thriller genre and doesn't want the story to be on the dip of a wave, probably a testing second half. Again quality of the movie throughout is brilliant.

Jagame Thanthiram - My View (not a review)

 Movie: Jagame Thanthiram

Langauege : Tamil

OTT: Netflix

My View:

I personally think the style of Al Pacino, Robert De Niro & Quentin Tarantino, which Karthik Subaraj(KS) likes, made him to do lots of inspiring scenes. The movie needed some time initially, as they need to establish the base, but felt the screenplay because of this was like bits and pieces initially. Could have done a better job. KS did say that his one liner of Mix of Foreign + Indian gangster, about this movie. He initially planned this in NY and also I guess he approached Al Pacino.

Gotto admit the fact that Karthik Subaraj did a good job to not dub the English dialogues, and as I could see the actual raw conversation. But at the same time this also would have an impact on commercial impact ( probably since Netflix, he went with this). This is definitely not the best of KS and not cult, and KS should have carried over his own style over inspiring his favorite stars. One liner is really good and I felt could have been dealt much better. I used to imagine when I watch some English thrillers, what would be if we need to have an Indian hero here and KS brought in a good visualizing and even maintained the authenticity of Football reference. Should give kudos to him. At the same time, KS has set a good profile for himself, the expectations were carrying in high of this genre.

The mid and post mid portion of the movie I felt really good and it worked for me. Kind of interesting sequence between Shivdoss and Peter. The emotional connect of what happened to Tamils in Sri Lanka was explained very well and kudos for good acting. They touched the key point on what India failed to do, which various European and other countries like Australia, NZ took, by welcoming in Tamils form Sri Lanka during war and gave them status. Many Indian & TN politician played politics all the time and made use of the situation for vote bank, and did not do enough.

I think the story's thought process is complex and challenging. Presenting the blend of 3 Key issues under 3 hours i.e, Gang War, Immigrant Issue, SL Tamil issue is definitely tough and I feel though we can appreciate KS for a try, but I doubt if he has executed extremely well. It's not bad and definitely somewhere just on par.I really wanted to KS to make a full fledge movies/series on SL Tamils and use this medium to educate and understand the struggle they went through.

Summarizing it, many dialogues were really good, especially from the "Murugesan" who acted as a dishwasher and thought process of the story is good, but felt could have had a better execution, to fall into cult category. The finishing touch on giving water is brilliant and so does the camera circling up two persons on 2 incidents, is a symbolic representation shift in things is about to happen. Those were few of the very good KS's touch. I liked it and felt could have been better with much more engaging factor and will go with 80/100

Dia Movie - My View

Movie Name: Dia

Language: Kannada

OTT: Amazon Prime 

My view:

The move is so heartful and has the soul and pain. The stroy's depth and its simplicity with an amazing feel good background music takes this movie into a cult status in Kannada Film industry. The charactreization of the lead actors ( the 3 main leads) is potrayed beautifully and the story progresses without any hiccups. 

I would go with 90/100 and the only reason I had to reduce the the 10 points is "one portion" of the movie ( didn't want to say which portion it is to not reveal any spoilers).. I don't question "that portion" from the director, but may the atomsphere and timings I watched the movie some time back, didn't want to take that climax and thought about an alternative.

Neverthless, its a really a good movie for m

Vishwaroopam Review - My View

Seldom you could see some films which produces two kind of audience reaction, after viewing the film,

i) "Superb Film"

ii) Can't understand the film.

Vishwaroopam falls in this category.

Gone are the days, where we would claim Tamil movies as "On Par With Hollywood" and Vishwaroopam breaks this jinx and went one step ahead, to be acclaimed as " It is an Hollywood film in Tamil language." As experts suggest,if Kamal is a Universal Hero, then his prefix for Directional field is,

(Universal Hero) + 1 = Universal Director.

Amount Spent Vs Satisfaction:

Total amount spent: 10 $ ( Yes, watched in USA)

The movie starts of in a slow pace and picks up with a jet speed during the transformation scene, supported by stupendous music which catches the pulse of the audience.Though I couldn't get the best of the best feeling, thanks to not a quality theater, but still it was the best scene in recent times. Take away 4$ for that scene alone.

Then comes the Afghanistan Scene, where most of them say, they couldn't understand, but that the part where the Tamil film has become an International film. Kamal proves an example of other Indian Artist how top act like an RAW agent. Brilliant portrayal of mix of war and emotions where shown in those scenes in Afghanistan. The way Kamal looks the child after the suicide attack, is a the message of the world and also depicts the ugly face of the war. Take away 8$ for that, since it will be completely new for Tamil and Indian cinema, of that standards, and that is why I mentioned it is an "Holywood film in Tamil language".

Then comes the thriller revealing scenes at USA. I guess not many would have seen a series called 24 where Jack Bauer deals with terrorists and other stuffs. It was the best for me and when I went in to watch Vishwaroopam I thought our film will have the same theme as 24. But on the other hand, Kamal proved me wrong, and he dealt it in a completely different way and believe it or not, he never showcased as one man army as Jack did in 24. Vishwaroopam was more practical at later part in USA. Take a bow Kamalji. Take 5$ for that.

Editing. That is the backbone of the movie. If you clearly see, hardly any logic missed in the movie. Everything is covered in this movie, and this could be possible only because of wonderful editing. Wow is the only word of appreciation for this marvelous job. It was supported by very good cinematography. In general technical aspects is an asset for the film. Take 10$ for that.

From my perspective I felt that they could have done some more good work on graphics, like helicopter stuffs. Andrea role is a doubt for all, may be Kamal will reveal the importance of the role in second part. On the whole just -1$ for negative shade for the film.

Satisfaction Index:

Total: 4$ + 8$ + 5$ + 10$ - 1$ = 26$

Ticket Cost: 10$

Satisfaction Index: 26$ - 10$ = 16%

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