2007 - Tamil movies - A Flashback

Last year, 2007 seems to be a good year for the tamil movie industry with lot of commercial hits and also with some quality movies.

The Top Tamil movies of 2007, which made commercial success,
Sivaji, The Boss (Ultimate rajini movie, with A.R.Rehman and Sankar)
Mozhi
Pokiri
Chennai 600028
Naan Avan Illai
Paruthi Veeran (One of big time hits, which also introduced Karthi)
Deepavali
Thamirabarani
Karuppasamy Kuthagaitharar
Lee
Marudhamalai
(Last but not least) Billa 2007

The Top Quality Tamil Movies of 2007 includes :
Katrathu Tamizh
Pallikoodam
Periyar
Kireedom
Evano Oruvan
Onbathu Rubai Nottu
Mirugam

Hope, this year 2008, will also bring lot of good movies.

Taare Zameen Par - A Masterpiece

Taare Zameed Par - directed and produced by Aamir khan itself. The main characters are Darsheel safary (the child) and Aamir khan. THIS IS MY LAST MOVIE REVIEW FOR THE YEAR 2007 AND I WANTED TO REVIEW A VERY GOOD MOVIE. THIS MOVIE DESERVES IT.

This film strongly concentrates on a dyslexic child. Darsheel was a child studying 3rd class. When every other child in his age thinks in a way, he thinks different. He sees everything different. He has a inability to read alphabets, because of which he is not able to study or concentrate. But he does drawing well. There is no one to understand his problems. His parents always scolds him to do things in right way and they failed to think, whether he suffers with any problem. Then he was put in a boarding school.

This is where he meets Aamir khan, art teacher. Aamir understoods the kids problem and helps him to recognize alphabets. He turns the kid in to a bright boy.

This movie doesnt have any commercial, masala, fights, comedy, romance, action and other factors which we expect. But this has one strong message, about a child. This movie will definitely change the way you look you kid. This movie deserves lot of awards.

I dont have words other than saying excellent. Its a great work by Aamir Khan.

Mirugam - Definitely Animal

Mirugam - Tamil movie directed by sami has Aadi and Padmapriya in the lead roles. This movie is about AIDS awareness and it deals with a story happened during 1980's, when AIDS infiltrated tamilnadu.

Aadi was the so called mirugam, who is a tough person and also a bad guy with the character of an animal. He never cares for others and does what ever he wants. Ganja karuppu, who is with Aadi, has done excellent job in makes us laugh. The first half of the movie shows how people are affected by Aadi and his worst character.

In the second half, the movie takes a turn. Aadi is affected by AIDS and he is the first person to get affected in tamil nadu. Then the movie goes about how people react for aids and how this guys character get changed.

Director has taken a serious concept and handled well. He is able to tell people what ever he wanted to say. This is really a awareness movie. Aadi's performance is excellent. This movie will get a name to Aadi and padmapriya, like Paruthi veeran for Karthi and priya. The second half is more of sentiments which drags the movie a bit.

Overall this movie is a good lesson.

Grudge 2

Grudge 2 - Movie directed by Takashi Shimizu. Casts are Sarah Michelle Gellar, Amber Tamblyn, Arielle Kebbel, Teresa Palmer and Jennifer Beals.

"A young woman, Amber, is exposed to the curse which affected her sister sarah. The supernatural force, which fills a person with rage before spreading to its next victim, brings together a group of previously unrelated people who attempt to unlock its secret to save their lives." - This is the theme of the movie.

As it is a horror movie, i dont want to discuss the story line. This japanese movie Ju-on, is released in english as Grudge. But this movie is not worth for it. The horror scenes are predictable. There are lot of twists in this movie, which shows the skills of the director. But, i have to admit, that these twists in the story are excellent, if it was in a thriller movie. Since, this is a horror flick, it didnt suited well.

Its just wasting time to watch in theatre. Better watch it in TV.

Welcome - Welcome to 'no worries' world

Welcome - Bollywood movie by Anees Bazmee and the casts are Akshay kumar, Anil Kapoor, Nana Patekar, Paresh rawal, Feroz khan and Katrina kaif. This movie is by the director who already given us "No Entry".

Nana Patekar, Anil Kapoor and their boss feroz khan are the famous mobsters in Hong Kong. They all wanted katrina (Nana patekar's sister) to get married in to a respectable family. They found that Akshay is the best choice for katrina. Paresh rawal (Akshay's uncle) without knowing about Katrina's brother, accepts for the marriage. But later he came to know about it and wanted to stop the marriage.

He brings in Mallika and creates confusion in the marriage. Later akshay, wanted to change the character of Nana patekar and Anil to convince his uncle.

This movie as a whole is excellent entertainer. Dont think about story, logic etc., because you cant find it. This movie is only to have fun while watching it. Performance of akshay, anil and nana patekar is good. Feroz khan comes in late but is in good form. Paresh rawal is excellent when comes to comedy and did it again.

If you want to relax and have fun, certainly watch this movie.

Puli Varuthu - Dare to dream

Puli Varuthu - Tamil movie directed by G.V.Kumar with Ramesh and Mallika kapoor in the lead roles. Infact, i could say karunas as the hero of the movie. Except for his comedy, there is nothing in this movie.

Ramesh is a s/w engineer and his parents did love marriage. So, they wanted his son to fall in love, as they believe in his. They also do some attempts for making his son fall in love. ( Are they really parents for him or ...? ). When Ramesh travels for his friend marriage, he dreams some strange events. But in reality, most of the things doesnt match.

In his another dream, he saw his father got heart attack and died, on the occasion of his marriage with mallika. Now, he is in confusion, whether to marry or not. Finally, they experiment with the dream and concludes that dreams wont be true.

This could be one of the worst movie, i saw recently. Music is also not good. The only compromising factor in this movie is the comedy by karunas. He brings out some laugh. But other than this comedy, dont expect anything from the movie. Because there is nothing in the movie.

DON (Telugu) - Not up to the mark

DON - Telugu movie by ragava lawrence which has Nagarjuna and Anuksha in the lead roles. This is not the story of hindi don or tamil billa. This name "DON" has got nothing to do with the original versions. This is entirely a different story.

A boy named surya (nagarjuna) who always fights against bad things, helps a group of kids. From then he became the leader to that group. Finally he becomes the don. But, he is not the DON, which is characterised in other movies. Here DON is good guy, who helps public. People go to him for justice. (Instead of don, he should be called as god).

An international don, who captures state by state in india, find trouble in andra because of local DON (surya). Then the story continues with his attempts to capture AP and surya's attempt to save the state.

Nagarjuna is stylish, but not fitting properly for DON role. This could be an impact of the tamil and hindi versions of DON, which i had seen recently, because of which this telugu movie doesnt meet my expectations. Portraiting him as a don, they shouldnt have let him to fall for love. unnecessary songs and storyline.

In a nutshell, the name DON is wasted for this movie, which could have been utilised for some other good movie.

Severance - Office outing cant be worser than this

Severance - A thriller / horror movie directed by christoper smith from UK. Its yet another movie in the category of "Hills have eyes", "Wrong turn" etc. It meets the expectations of this genre.

Seven colleagues from the british office, goes for an outing to enjoy their weekend, where they can also take part in the team-building excercises. In the middle of their journey, the road was blocked by a tree. The driver refuse to take the alternative route. They decide to stay in this forest itself for their weekend.

And so the remaining story is very usual. They find a lonely house inside the forest with nobody inside. In this gang one by one, gets killed by some unknown. Finally two people alone will escape from that jungle.

Even though the story is not something new, the thrills are good. Its an exciting movie for fans who loves thrill.

I am Legend - will smith deserves it

I am Legend - Hollywood movie by franchis lawrence. Cast i could only say Will Smith and ofcourse the dog. Even though the core concept is a kind of virus attack, dont expect this movie to be like resident evil, dead man walking or in that genre. This one is really exceptional and no shedding of blood except in one or two scenes.

After the infection of virus in new york, Will smith is the only survivor. The people who is infected turned into zombie-like cannibals, who wont come out in sun. They will only come out in dark. So, Will smith will search for other survivors during the day and get himself locked in his house during night. This happens for three years and his only company was his dog.

Then his dog is also infected and dies. Two other survivors joins will smith and they wanted to move to some other place where humans are still alive. But will smith, wanted to find cure for this virus and he resist to move from the place. He also find the cure, but he is surrounded by zombies. So, he gives the medicine to the two survivors to make use of the formulae and lets them escape. He kills himself, while trying to kill the zombies.

The first half of the movie is only with will smith and the dog. The zombies is also not shown. But will smith, with his extra ordinary acting, keeps the scene interesting. The expressions which he shows are all excellent.

Its a very good science fiction movie.

Billa 2007 - Rocking

Billa 2007 - Remake of old tamil movie Billa, by vishnuvardhan. Ajith (with a stylish appearance), Nayanthara (fit for hollywood), prabhu, rahman and namitha are in the lead roles.

Storywise there is not much of a change from the old Billa. The original Ajith, who is actually a criminal will be killed by the police officer, prabhu. But Pabhu wanted to catch the entire gang and so, he plans to send another person who has the same appearance of the criminal in to the gang and collect the details. In the meantime, prabhu was killed and how this new ajith will prove that he is not a criminal is the rest of the story.

Even though the concept is derived from the original version, few alterations has been made. Thengai Srinivasan character is eliminated. Also, there are few changes in the screenplay, which we can notice. In hindi, the remake version of Don, had a change in the climax which was not there in the original. But in Tamil, the climax is same as the old version.

I could say everything is perfect in this movie, they are able to deliver what they planned to. Ajith's look is rocking. After a long time, he is giving a big hit. Nayantha looks slim and sexy. She reminded angelina jolie in few scenes. At this point, we should also give the credit to one more person. He is no other than yuvan shankar raja. More than the songs, the theme music is superb. Background music is excellent.

Overall this movie is a very good entertainer. Its racy, stylish, etc......