The past two weekends were gorgeous with sun showing allout naked. We must have been missing warm weather so badly that we get so ridiculously excited to see a bright sunny day. What we do with it is out of question ( since we don’t do anything ) but the cheer and excitement it brings in is a good feeling. Today is also looking awesome and we will heading out soon to get our skin cell refurbished for the week!
On friday night, we saw ‘Mumbai Express’, the latest kamalhassan movie. I would say the movie was ‘good’ [Kamal could have killed us with another ‘Alavandan’, so I don’t mind giving ‘Good’]. Two phrases would perhaps sum up the movie easily : ‘Comedy of errors’, ‘Old wine in a new bottle’. I thought ‘Panchathanthiram’ was better.
Nothing more can I say about Kamal’s performance, it is ‘as good as it has always been. Perhaps, only less romantic. The story, screenplay is a slamdunk for Kamal. Even if it isn’t obvious, there are shades of Crazy Mohan’s touch all over the place. I still wonder why Manisha is still cast as lead in Tamil movies. There must be more than what the skin says!. Pasupathy, I felt, could have shaved off his villianic attitudes and stares a bit for there was very little to be ‘comical’ for him anyway. Ramesh Arvind, as always, stands out, which is why ‘Panchathanthiram’ still felt better to me; Kamal-Ramesh Arvind-Jayaram is a lethal combination for comedy. Illayaraja can be identified on occasions. Unless you are intelligent, you shouldn’t care why this movie couldn’t have been ‘Chennai Express’, whats the deal with Mumbai when everyone simply speaks Thamizh?
Heard from someone who saw the opening show of ‘Chanramukhi’ that Ranjini has niether lost his star attraction nor his on-screen gimmicks. Perhaps, they have only become worse!
Until next…
