Saturday, February 17, 2007
PACHAI KILI MUTHU CHARAM
cast- r.sarath kumar, andrea (introduction) , "mrs.jyotika surya saravannan" , milind "flop in bollywood" soman
director- gautam......gautam menon
music- harris jeyaraj
cinematography- arvind krishna , nirav shah
editor-anthony
stunts-stun shiva
choreography-brinda
mvl's ratings - 4/5
gautam... a name which everyone would like to see on big screen, this guy holds a name in many people, that's the reason why i made time to see this flick.
OK, into the story.........
venkatesh (sarath) , a med rep of alpha pharmaceuticals is happily married with kalyani(andrea) and the have a kid ,nanda( some toddler),
the kid turns out to be a level one diabetic , which worries kalyani and deceides not want to have a second child and denies him from making love to her....which pisses of venky a bit.........
next he meets "geetha" (jo) on the emu, and one more thing trains play a great role in the movie so learn to like them ,............... TRAINS ROCK.
they get close go for dinner and he rescues her from an auto which was kidnapping her and beats the goons ..........................
they plan to make out on a resort in ecr and while they going to start , MILIND "PLEASE LET ME ENTER KOLLYWOOD" SOMAN enters beats him up takes his money and numbers address and ties up sarath kumar and rapes jo.....................................
they return to their respective homes and sarath tells he fell down from the train and is injured due to that.......................
lawrence(milind) starts extracting money from venky and is blackmailed that if he doesn't give the money , jo's hubby would be notified .
the story goes and 8 lakh rupees are extorted from sarath , all his savings for his diabetic kid.............................
INTERMISSION
THANK GOD IT IS INTERMISSION.....................
Upton the interval the movie is slow paced and boring with very romantic dialogues and a role which sarath kumar isn't fit for, the audience gets bored and shouts are very clearly heard from most of the theatre.
back to the story,
after all the money is extracted , venky confesses to kalyani and kalyani leaves home which puts sarath in tension and nanda is in want of his mom.
the next day,
sarath kumar sees milind soman come to his office and hides from him and follows him to his destination on reaching a point he is "shocked" milind soman enters the call taxi which had taken him to the resort where he got robbed..................and when he gets out , along with him jo also steps out , so now the plot is clear;y defined , they are a gang whose modus operandi is what happened to sarath kumar.
meanwhile ,
kalyani returns home and venky tells her about the gang and vows to get the money back and....................................
the story picks up faster than a "shikansen" from this point.............gautam menon..........this is what the audience was waiting for ,all this while.................................
venky vows to get back all the money he has lost and asks kalyani to have faith in him , which she has.........
now venky gets an illegal gun , starts following the gang and he sees that another person has fallen into their trap, he follows them to the same damn resort where he got robbed...................................
he sneaks and before lawrence can enter the room, he hits him hard and enters the room and tells the guy everything and milind soman regains consciousness and fierce fight follows and when the guy who is trapped tries to go out the call taxi driver stabs him and in the process milind soman is badly stabbed, jo is shot, the driver is shot in the leg and stabbed and the guy who has been trapped is killed.....................................
venky takes out all the money and before he can escape the whole gang comes up and they get baten up by venky....................
the family now ditch chennai and move to hyderabad, and they are now a happy family...............................
one day when venky returns home he finds that his house is ransacked and kalyani and nanda are kidnapped , he gets a call from the gang to get all their money he took to a lane near charminar.........................
early morning next day........sarath approaches the place and is escorted by the same taxi driver into the gang's hideout .
now the gang is quite a big one and is headed by none other than jo herself and milind is dead , and she survives somehow..................
seeing jo play the villian is new and she has carried it out to perfection , the briskness of doing chandramukhi is seen............
she has the perfect gangser look and the dialogues are mean..............................
a violent fight takes place between the gang sarath kumar the whole sequence is superb.......................and jo is shot in the end and sarath kumar returns the gangs money back and warns them not to interfere with him anymore.......................................
that was the story.....................
the fight sequences by stun shiva are too cool giving sarath his typical style .......................................
the music harris jeyaraj is fantastic........................
in one song, jo shakes her booty big time , maybe she's enjoying it being the pre-final film for her...........................
the cinmatography is slick and the and a hollywood feeing is there.........
the dialogues are just like the ones seen in kaakha kaakha , but in a lesser quantity , gautam reduced the quantity of foul words and even abuses in english are used , which adds flavor to the roles of milind and sarath , even jo has a go at them................................................................
overall , this film would also run, but not to the extent of "VV" or "KK"
but, PKMC is surely a boost for sarath kumar's career and nice icing for jo's career end.................................
this film is nowhere when compared to derailed , the so called english version of the film..........it's just the same book , both films are based on......................
the film carries an "A" rating , appropriate only for the audience aboce 18 years of age.........................................................like it's going to matter eh ???????
director- gautam......gautam menon
music- harris jeyaraj
cinematography- arvind krishna , nirav shah
editor-anthony
stunts-stun shiva
choreography-brinda
mvl's ratings - 4/5
gautam... a name which everyone would like to see on big screen, this guy holds a name in many people, that's the reason why i made time to see this flick.
OK, into the story.........
venkatesh (sarath) , a med rep of alpha pharmaceuticals is happily married with kalyani(andrea) and the have a kid ,nanda( some toddler),
the kid turns out to be a level one diabetic , which worries kalyani and deceides not want to have a second child and denies him from making love to her....which pisses of venky a bit.........
next he meets "geetha" (jo) on the emu, and one more thing trains play a great role in the movie so learn to like them ,............... TRAINS ROCK.
they get close go for dinner and he rescues her from an auto which was kidnapping her and beats the goons ..........................
they plan to make out on a resort in ecr and while they going to start , MILIND "PLEASE LET ME ENTER KOLLYWOOD" SOMAN enters beats him up takes his money and numbers address and ties up sarath kumar and rapes jo.....................................
they return to their respective homes and sarath tells he fell down from the train and is injured due to that.......................
lawrence(milind) starts extracting money from venky and is blackmailed that if he doesn't give the money , jo's hubby would be notified .
the story goes and 8 lakh rupees are extorted from sarath , all his savings for his diabetic kid.............................
INTERMISSION
THANK GOD IT IS INTERMISSION.....................
Upton the interval the movie is slow paced and boring with very romantic dialogues and a role which sarath kumar isn't fit for, the audience gets bored and shouts are very clearly heard from most of the theatre.
back to the story,
after all the money is extracted , venky confesses to kalyani and kalyani leaves home which puts sarath in tension and nanda is in want of his mom.
the next day,
sarath kumar sees milind soman come to his office and hides from him and follows him to his destination on reaching a point he is "shocked" milind soman enters the call taxi which had taken him to the resort where he got robbed..................and when he gets out , along with him jo also steps out , so now the plot is clear;y defined , they are a gang whose modus operandi is what happened to sarath kumar.
meanwhile ,
kalyani returns home and venky tells her about the gang and vows to get the money back and....................................
the story picks up faster than a "shikansen" from this point.............gautam menon..........this is what the audience was waiting for ,all this while.................................
venky vows to get back all the money he has lost and asks kalyani to have faith in him , which she has.........
now venky gets an illegal gun , starts following the gang and he sees that another person has fallen into their trap, he follows them to the same damn resort where he got robbed...................................
he sneaks and before lawrence can enter the room, he hits him hard and enters the room and tells the guy everything and milind soman regains consciousness and fierce fight follows and when the guy who is trapped tries to go out the call taxi driver stabs him and in the process milind soman is badly stabbed, jo is shot, the driver is shot in the leg and stabbed and the guy who has been trapped is killed.....................................
venky takes out all the money and before he can escape the whole gang comes up and they get baten up by venky....................
the family now ditch chennai and move to hyderabad, and they are now a happy family...............................
one day when venky returns home he finds that his house is ransacked and kalyani and nanda are kidnapped , he gets a call from the gang to get all their money he took to a lane near charminar.........................
early morning next day........sarath approaches the place and is escorted by the same taxi driver into the gang's hideout .
now the gang is quite a big one and is headed by none other than jo herself and milind is dead , and she survives somehow..................
seeing jo play the villian is new and she has carried it out to perfection , the briskness of doing chandramukhi is seen............
she has the perfect gangser look and the dialogues are mean..............................
a violent fight takes place between the gang sarath kumar the whole sequence is superb.......................and jo is shot in the end and sarath kumar returns the gangs money back and warns them not to interfere with him anymore.......................................
that was the story.....................
the fight sequences by stun shiva are too cool giving sarath his typical style .......................................
the music harris jeyaraj is fantastic........................
in one song, jo shakes her booty big time , maybe she's enjoying it being the pre-final film for her...........................
the cinmatography is slick and the and a hollywood feeing is there.........
the dialogues are just like the ones seen in kaakha kaakha , but in a lesser quantity , gautam reduced the quantity of foul words and even abuses in english are used , which adds flavor to the roles of milind and sarath , even jo has a go at them................................................................
overall , this film would also run, but not to the extent of "VV" or "KK"
but, PKMC is surely a boost for sarath kumar's career and nice icing for jo's career end.................................
this film is nowhere when compared to derailed , the so called english version of the film..........it's just the same book , both films are based on......................
the film carries an "A" rating , appropriate only for the audience aboce 18 years of age.........................................................like it's going to matter eh ???????
Sunday, February 04, 2007
RAIL FANNING TAKES NEW HEIGHTS FOR ME
Today is 4th February 2007 , sunday and i planned to visit my grandparents in ambattur. The first thing that hits my mind when i think about it is the level crossing where one gets to witness hi-speed rail action.I landed in the level crossing at around 11:30 and a goods train halts , around 55 bogies of coal and 2 vijaywada wag-5ha's hauling it simultaneously, the halt had coused a lot of inconvienience as the last 4-5 bogies blocked the level crossing one side , by this time i comfortably place myself in of the foot-over brdge pillars, under the shade at aroun 11:45 west coast express heading towards mangalore starts the precedings horning all the way in an erode wap-4 after 15 minutes the mumbai cst express in a arakonnam wam-4 6pe cruises elegantly with a romantic set of horns . Ok , now a "11"007"" wdm-7 comes into the station and positions it self to the goods train end and the station master etc. are out inspecting , i kindly asked the SM whats happening , he asked me why , i said i like trains and i would like to know he treats with a glance such that he seen a terrorist, silently i go away not falling in his eyes . the wdm-7 is attached to the goods train and the last 5 bogies of the freight are seperatly pulled away and clearing the level crossing and ending the distress for the passer-by's , at this stage i speak to sridhar joshi (irfca) and he tells me that he's in vizag....................................there goes my mobile out for a six already it comes to around 550rs/month.
ok i start getting tensed , lalbagh express hasnt yet crossed and then i see the signal change and in less that two minutes and erode wap-4 whizzes past me around ten minutes late "it is"......... (G.P. style). and then in 15-20 minutes trivandrum weekly super-fast horns asking people to clear the way for it as it was running behind schedule ,the loco - wam- 4 6pe. freight traffic was frequent and they were hauled by erode wag-7's
i take a lunch break................................................ 12:30
i returned at 2:00 p.m. sharp, angry that i had missed the coimbatore intercity towatrds central (actually i hadnt'). At 2:20 p.m. i see a yellow green livery EMU cab approaching at fast pace towards me, that is the Tirupathy express in such hurry , dust was all over the place. Then i notice that the signal towards madras is green and a wap-4 i seen, erode shed and i think , a late coimbatore intercity express dashing towards central, the horn was so harsh , maybe due to its delay , marvellous speed must above 80. at this point i sit under the foot-over bridge waiting for the hubli express to grace the occasion of my rail-fanning and it was done splendidly a WDG 3a ,krishnarajapuram , cool blue livery and a romantic horn....i fell head over heels with it.........i stand less than two metres away from the speeding train and i get blowm back and after it crosses i could notice that my hair has been spiked and refused to settle........i would call it the UBL (HUBLI) EFFECT. Shortly a barbie doll wam-4 shows up pulling the bangalore express and at this point i was speaking to ashwant (irfca member and one sided lover of the wam-4) and man he was in good spirits after listening to its charming horn. at 2:45 pm i retire for a tea break.
At 5 p.m. i had come back for the last session of my rail fanning for the day and i saw that the goods train which stationed itself there in the morning had been put into one piece and causing stress and hatred towards trains i heard curses like "darudala train vandiga" (stupid trains)," sanninyan trainga "(some abusive word)," giraki station master" (the station is ...........), etc. etc. etc. , the other problem was that people had to go across the bogies even to buy tickets. the wag pilot should have stationed it little further , i could see old people , physicaly challenged people finding it so though .
The boy scouts were there handling leaflets about the dangers on croosing the tracks and stressing to use the foot over bridge . Apart from that they were helping people cross , giving directions . ( even i gave directions )
by this time two freight carriers passed towards arakonnam and 4 wag-7's were used two from erode and two Ajni locos, sturdy horns ..........................
the garudadri express crossed with a wam-4 arakonnam , man wam-4's................i wanted to see more of wap-4's , just not my day .
the chennai egmore kacheguda express whistles its way past ambattur and i expected a wdm-3 from guntakal or erode or trichy......................................................................ugh................... .......................no prizes for the loco it was pulled with , the boring wam- 4 6pe arakonnam ,sorry ashwanth i got sick and tired of seeing that locomotive same damn livery , excluding the barbie doll and sapthagiri ones , man a wap-4 still didnt cross..........................
i sit back and wait for the bangalore bound shatabdi ,while talking to Mr."koochukchuk" Krishnan, and i see this little kid (must be 3-5yrs) fascinated by the freight which was parked there with coal , he was excited on seeing the "stones" inside the bogies and they walk away as his mom explains it is coal................................and finally 5:45 i feel something...............something thundering approaching in my way , the bangalore shatabdi and damn it why in the world i should see it hauled by a wam-4 arakonnam again (barbie doll livery), since it had only 7 coaches the speed was astounding i positioned my self two metres (lesser actually) away from the track and mr.krishnan was hearing the train pass as it thundered past me in such speed i was blown back , superb .... simply superb.
that signalled the end of the day for rail fanning for me and i left satisfied after getting "shatabdied".
few things i noticed,
the 11007 loco had the tondiarpet shed logo in front and the guys in the railways had forgotten to take the ernakulam written on the side of it, an engine with two sheds.
the kacheguda express had two extra a/c compartments and a v.i.p. saloon.
ok i start getting tensed , lalbagh express hasnt yet crossed and then i see the signal change and in less that two minutes and erode wap-4 whizzes past me around ten minutes late "it is"......... (G.P. style). and then in 15-20 minutes trivandrum weekly super-fast horns asking people to clear the way for it as it was running behind schedule ,the loco - wam- 4 6pe. freight traffic was frequent and they were hauled by erode wag-7's
i take a lunch break................................................ 12:30
i returned at 2:00 p.m. sharp, angry that i had missed the coimbatore intercity towatrds central (actually i hadnt'). At 2:20 p.m. i see a yellow green livery EMU cab approaching at fast pace towards me, that is the Tirupathy express in such hurry , dust was all over the place. Then i notice that the signal towards madras is green and a wap-4 i seen, erode shed and i think , a late coimbatore intercity express dashing towards central, the horn was so harsh , maybe due to its delay , marvellous speed must above 80. at this point i sit under the foot-over bridge waiting for the hubli express to grace the occasion of my rail-fanning and it was done splendidly a WDG 3a ,krishnarajapuram , cool blue livery and a romantic horn....i fell head over heels with it.........i stand less than two metres away from the speeding train and i get blowm back and after it crosses i could notice that my hair has been spiked and refused to settle........i would call it the UBL (HUBLI) EFFECT. Shortly a barbie doll wam-4 shows up pulling the bangalore express and at this point i was speaking to ashwant (irfca member and one sided lover of the wam-4) and man he was in good spirits after listening to its charming horn. at 2:45 pm i retire for a tea break.
At 5 p.m. i had come back for the last session of my rail fanning for the day and i saw that the goods train which stationed itself there in the morning had been put into one piece and causing stress and hatred towards trains i heard curses like "darudala train vandiga" (stupid trains)," sanninyan trainga "(some abusive word)," giraki station master" (the station is ...........), etc. etc. etc. , the other problem was that people had to go across the bogies even to buy tickets. the wag pilot should have stationed it little further , i could see old people , physicaly challenged people finding it so though .
The boy scouts were there handling leaflets about the dangers on croosing the tracks and stressing to use the foot over bridge . Apart from that they were helping people cross , giving directions . ( even i gave directions )
by this time two freight carriers passed towards arakonnam and 4 wag-7's were used two from erode and two Ajni locos, sturdy horns ..........................
the garudadri express crossed with a wam-4 arakonnam , man wam-4's................i wanted to see more of wap-4's , just not my day .
the chennai egmore kacheguda express whistles its way past ambattur and i expected a wdm-3 from guntakal or erode or trichy......................................................................ugh................... .......................no prizes for the loco it was pulled with , the boring wam- 4 6pe arakonnam ,sorry ashwanth i got sick and tired of seeing that locomotive same damn livery , excluding the barbie doll and sapthagiri ones , man a wap-4 still didnt cross..........................
i sit back and wait for the bangalore bound shatabdi ,while talking to Mr."koochukchuk" Krishnan, and i see this little kid (must be 3-5yrs) fascinated by the freight which was parked there with coal , he was excited on seeing the "stones" inside the bogies and they walk away as his mom explains it is coal................................and finally 5:45 i feel something...............something thundering approaching in my way , the bangalore shatabdi and damn it why in the world i should see it hauled by a wam-4 arakonnam again (barbie doll livery), since it had only 7 coaches the speed was astounding i positioned my self two metres (lesser actually) away from the track and mr.krishnan was hearing the train pass as it thundered past me in such speed i was blown back , superb .... simply superb.
that signalled the end of the day for rail fanning for me and i left satisfied after getting "shatabdied".
few things i noticed,
the 11007 loco had the tondiarpet shed logo in front and the guys in the railways had forgotten to take the ernakulam written on the side of it, an engine with two sheds.
the kacheguda express had two extra a/c compartments and a v.i.p. saloon.
