Films of Mani Ratnam

[Nerd]

I think mouna ragam also inspired by Mahendiran's Nenjathai killadhey.

No. It isnt. I saw NK very recently, never did that movie remind me of mouna raagam. NK, IMHO is not one of mahendran's best works.

And rb, you are right about MR, thats his BEST movie, easily. Mani ratnam's presentation skills, technical brilliance, screenplays are unmatchable, IMHO

[Nerd]

Guru collections pick up

Syed Firdaus Ashraf | January 16, 2007 15:19 IST

The news of Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai's engagement has done well for Guru. After a slow opening, it has started picking up at the box office.

Guru saw a 50-60% opening on January 12, the first day of its release, but did increasingly better after the news broke on Sunday.

Guru is a crucial film for Abhishek Bachchan as it is being counted as his first solo success, both critically and commercially.

"Guru is on its way to become a hit," said Taran Adarsh, well known film trade analyst.

Interestingly, only 3 months ago Abhiwarya faced a disastrous flop with J P Dutta's Umrao Jaan.

The difference is in the reviews. While Dutta's film was savaged by critics, Mani Ratnam's film is garnering praise. "Guru so far has been appreciated well, and is a good film too," added Adarsh. Critics have unanimously praised Abhishek and Aishwarya's histrionics, and the word of mouth publicity is making a huge difference to the film.

A still from Guru"The film so far has done well in cities and multiplexes," declared trade analyst Komal Nahta, "and has done reasonably okay business."

Nahta feels the engagement news hasn't had an impact on the box office collections. "Not at all. Everybody knew that they were seeing each other. So, how would that help the film? It is like the story of boy crying about the wolf. Everyone knew that this news would come true. and finally when it has come true nobody is surprised about it. So it has no effect at the box office."

He further said the film's collections have started dropping again.

Unlike other Hindi films, an integral part of Guru's success comes from South India, largely because of Mani Ratnam's great fan following beyond the Vindhyas.

"The film has done well in South India," concluded Vinod Mirani. "Abhishek's performance has been appreciated and he is maturing as an actor day by day."

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http://www.time.com/time/arts/articl...8636-1,00.html

by Richard Corliss.

The entire article shows how much he enjoyed and analysed MR's films.

Guru, a fine polyester

[joe]

Nerd,
1.Who is that in your avatar?
2.One blogger in his review mentioned that Abishek's performance in guru is better than kamal's in Nayagan ..what do you think ?how do you compare?

[joe]

More reviews...

http://vavaasangam2.blogspot.com/200...g-post_17.html

http://madippakkam.blogspot.com/2007...g-post_17.html

[thinkfloyd]

Nerd,
1.Who is that in your avatar?

That is Peter Sellers, in and as Dr.Strangelove

[Scale]

I am of the opinion that I can write much better screenplays than Saturn .

Sure, you can! And its so easy in FH, everyone can do that in 1 or 2 sentences verdict. Then who will direct? Whatever you script on the paper doesnt transform to film's roll robotically. Doesnt he need a commercial break?
You go and approach SS for Rocky6 or JC for an HK film with your screenplay and presume how they reacts to it. Doesnt they need a commercial break? Thats what MR attempted with his trademark stamp.

[selvakumar]

b) Heroes like Ajith, Vijay,Visha,Simbu etc.etc. all need to learn what is acting before asking their fans to drench their cutouts in milk,beer and what not.

Just including the much needed lines
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btw, Would really appreciate it IF you avoid ajith's name in this thread !

won't you ?

[rockydeva]

b) Heroes like Ajith, Vijay,Visha,Simbu etc.etc. all need to learn what is acting before asking their fans to drench their cutouts in milk,beer and what not.

Just including the much needed lines
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btw, Would really appreciate it IF you avoid ajith's name in this thread !

won't you ?

yep

[Nerd]

Nerd,
1.Who is that in your avatar?
2.One blogger in his review mentioned that Abishek's performance in guru is better than kamal's in Nayagan ..what do you think ?how do you compare?

As floyd mentioned, he is Peter Sellers from a very old comedy movie, Dr. Strangelove. The best comedy movie ever

As far as the second question goes, IMHO, nAyakan is not kH's best performance. 16 vayathinilE, DM, MN are better. Abhishek's role is almost similar to that of vElu nayakar (20 - 60). For a non-actor like Abhishek its a dream role and he has done full justice to it.