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    Quote Originally Posted by Balaji.r View Post
    karagattakaran
    Avaru neraiya andha madhiri pannirukkarunga.. Mike Mohan veetula IRku silai irukkuradha oru purali..
    I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

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    Besides, there is aNNan who has his own contribution to Karagattakaran's success/memorableness/kwality icecream. It is pretty well done as a movie, actually. Ramarajan isn't half-bad, if you can tolerate and survive the luminesence of his shirts. Mike Mohan, on the other hand...how on earth could people sit through udhaya geetham, NPP and other motherland pictures. Uchchakattam is the most succesful of 'em all - Journeys don't end. There is hardly any redeeming factor (atleast the other ones have Gounder, and in one particular case - udhaya geetham - atleast in my case, there is Revathy). Poornima Jeyaram, SV Sekar in competition mode with YGM...FTW only.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Plum View Post
    YGM...FTW only.
    Guess who almost ruined Marumagal movie
    " நல்ல படம் , சுமாரான படம் என்பதையெல்லாம் தாண்டியவர் நடிகர் திலகம் . சிவாஜி படம் தோற்கலாம் ..சிவாஜி தோற்பதில்லை." - Joe Milton.

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    Parts of Wake Up Sit - Blade.

    Rocket Singh - Bayangara timepass, despite the aangaange kaanappadum Vikraman chinnangal. Ranbir allergy irundhum padam paakkara madhiri irundhuchu, yenna avar oru Sardar!
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    Since Rishi Kapoor is the vadanattu sivakumar, Ranbir Kappoor is vadanaattu Surya?

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    Gulaal

    Thanks to that Russian girl named Ray (not Rai) for breaking the record of having the largest/biggest lips before it was Abhay Deol, Dev D and before some Lippocamel from Sahara desert named after the honour. Added to this size of women siliconizing in to Men's harmones Anurag Kashyap retreads 'Gulaal' with a celestial inspiration making it a far more engaging tale into the Rajputana's life of politics, betrayal & revenge.

    Superb performances from

    Kay Kay - The Master of all
    Jadwal - Ragging cell shows no mercy
    Rananjay Singh - teaches the necessity of timely withdrawal. Immortal!
    Aditya Shrivastava - Hopeless brother + Hopeful politician
    Dileep Singh - knows only to get locked up for 3 days
    Prithivi Bana & - too many connotations literally out of my understanding.
    Ayesha Menon - No Dirty Pic yet seduces all Kings
    Mahie Gill - No Money too much honey
    Anuja - Deep Condolences.

    The best of all is Kashyap's solid writing and the way he finishes the film with those inspired songs is simply mind-boggling. Brilliant!

    O Re Duniya
    Raat Ka Musaffir

    Piyush Mishra

    A state of complete trance! yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaaye to kya hai

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    Dirty picture.

    To start off, allow me to dig into some background on this movie. About a month ago or so, when the first teaser was out, I hated it and commented saying VB looked like a eunuch in it. Thereafter, every picture and teaser that was released, somehow never worked for me; they were overtly saucy. I was convinced that this movie was worth a skip and didn’t bother much about the hoopla surrounding it’s release. Cut to yesterday, my gang of friends, upon whom it seems to have suddenly dawned in the evening that there was a movie waiting to be seen at the theatre, lugged me along to catch the night show. I reluctantly agreed, knowing well that I could doze off if the movie was to be boring, something that I had previously done during two movies (Potter & Rajneeti).

    The theatre (Everest, a single-screen, erstwhile dirty theatre, upgraded, revamped and accepted as a decent one now) was overflowing with people and for a moment I was secretly happy that it’d be a sell-out and we’d return back home. Fate had something else planned – we managed to get tickets, only to discover that they were in the front few rows! By the time we entered, hunted down our seats and settled down, the opening titles and scenes were nearly done and there were moaning sounds emanating from the speakers which was greeted with wild hooting and screaming by the audience. Many a times it felt like the fourth wall was breached, not because of the filmmaker, but because of the setting we were watching the film in. It was like being part of the audience that was shown enjoying Silk’s moves, as opposed to an ‘outsider view’ that a multiplex viewer could be getting. It was clear that the crowd was getting what they wanted, right from the word go. (A middle-aged man requested us to swap our seats with his. ‘I’ve come with family, please’ said the brave, broad-minded chap.)

    The first half of the movie charts the course of a lackluster starlet transforming, with rapid progress, into a glittering booty-shaker, a voluptuous vamp, a state what she refers to quite simply as ‘a big film star’. From being a timid, touch-me-and-I’ll-burn-you girl, she gradually picks up the ‘tricks of the trade’, gets down and dirty, steamrolling herself to overnight stardom. She thinks she’s arrived at the big stage and is there to stay and to be loved by all, only to find that most people around her, even the ones she feels intimate to, perceive her as a device for nocturnal adventures to fulfill their secret fantasies. She feels betrayed and wretched and chides at the world, which in her opinion, enjoys the dirty things is life but doesn’t have the balls to openly embrace it. And then on begins the fall, the spiral descent into the abysmal that eventually gets the better of her.

    The movie was touted as a life history of Silk and knowing how popular she was/is in this part of the country, the tale is a predictable fare. However, it is in the performances and dialog writing where the movie vaults itself onto a respectable pedestal, which so easily could’ve gone awfully awry otherwise due to it’s context. Vidya Balan is, and I’m eating my words here, probably the best thing to happen to this movie. She looks and acts every bit of the role, oozing with charm in both the modes, the timid wannabe star and then the transformed but troubled hottie. It’s striking the way she carries off this role, that requires her wearing her attitude on the sleeve throughout the film (a directorial touch in this aspect, I’m guessing, is in the ever peeping-out strap from under her blouse in the initial stages, which then progresses to constantly reveal a portion of what it holds behind it, in the later stages). For a good portion of the film, VB’s clad in costumes that seem just about sufficient to cover her essentials. Not in a single moment, though, does she appear conscious of it or uncomfortable with it, like as though she was possessed by the real Silk. Not just that, there’s a certain synchrony that she displays in her performance - her eyes, facial expressions, bulbous figure and strong voice, all gelling in perfect harmony - the sole factor redeeming this film, that could’ve otherwise so easily got slotted and trapped in the pornographic variety. And if at all the promos are guilty of being indicative of this, it’s a cunning promotional trick pulled off by producers, speaking of which, one must also comment on Ekta’a shrewdness. It’s a given that a large scale movie like this, based on the life history of a vamp, spiced up with a generous serving of oomph, is bound to make it big in collections. I’m not sure whose original idea this was, but in my reckoning, Ekta’s pounced on this opportunity even if it meant making, very strangely, a Hindi flim on a south-indian actress (and even setting the story in the thamizh film industry). They apparently tried to be authentic, but the end product is bizarre. And in the name of authenticity, we also have to put up with Hindi cinema’s baffling representation of south/Thamizh people yet again. In any audience or in gatherings, be it at a cinema hall or a party, be it a veshti and shirt or a pant and suit that the attire is, every other guy is shown wearing a vibhuthi on his forehead (and every lady with jasmine flowers on her hair). Yeah right, we’re traditional, thank you for the recognition. :tiwsted: This gets me thinking… when was the last time that we had a caricature Hindi character shown in Thamizh cinema? Anything at all in the last five years?

    So much for the ranting, getting back to the film, dialog writing is another aspect that worked brilliantly for it. The dialogs are mostly in-the-face, explicit or hidden double-entendres, but they are really witty and intelligent and thankfully not too cheesy, which could’ve done real damage to the film. You’ll gape in awe at it’s perversion and laugh with it but rarely laugh at it. Quite an achievement in this setting! When a producer tells her that she’s going to be called ‘Silk’ from then on, she smiles and in a snap-response tells that he’d be called ‘keede das’ (keede=worms) because silk comes from silk worms! Local, yet incisive!

    Dirty picture… pretty neat!

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    Interesting post, KV. Confirms a lot of my fears. Is it being shown with subtitles?
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    Incidentally, hollywood star Cruise attended premier of new MI film with Hollywood superstar Anil kapoor!



    Worldwide phenomenon Dhanush attended too..

    ...an artist without an art.

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    Not where I watched it. Maybe at the multiplexes, but I haven't seen that happening for Hindi movies here in Bangalore.

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