odadune
Star of the item number
not around much due to stuff in my personal life.
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Favorite actor: Currently a certain Kumar, but I like most of them
Favorite actress: whoever's in films I'm interested in this week
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Post by odadune on Nov 23, 2013 20:07:31 GMT
You can view this movie legally (I think) on youtube with subs:
Basically, this uses the "Pay It Forward" concept (help three people, then ask them to help three people each) as the background plot to a rather slack family drama about hot-headed humanitarian and former military man Stalin. There's a lot of momma drama relating to his mother's estrangement from the older sister who married a Sikh, there's some standard masala action elements related to an evil politician (Prakash Raj) whose family Stalin offends, there's some flag waving military action in the flashbacks, there's a brief romance/comedy subplot involved Trisha where the comedy mostly works (although I really could have dispensed with Chiru going on about the color of Trisha's undergarments) and the romance mostly doesn't-frankly he has more chemistry with item girl Anushka Shetty. It's directed by ARMurgadoss, around the same time that he made Azaad (inspiration for Vijay's Velayutham) and Ramana; he does a good job of holding a rather shapeless and generic movie together and adding some cool touches (the sequence where the baddies trap Stalin and his nephew in a dried out well is really interesting.) But Indra the Tiger and Tagore (the Murgadoss-free Ramana remake with Chiru) were both more entertaining movies for me, and Indra like Stalin is pretty easy to find subtitled.
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bangaram
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Favorite actor: Aamir, SRK
Favorite actress: Kajol, Tamannaah
Upcoming release you're most excited about: Bahubali
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Post by bangaram on Dec 1, 2013 13:03:48 GMT
Never seen Chiranjeevi in a film before and only know the director because of Aamir's Ghajini (which I didn't really care for).
Nevertheless, I'm definitely going to watch this film since it has Trisha and Anushka Shetty in it (even if Ms Shetty's just doing an item number). Besides, I kind of liked the American movie with the same Pay "It Forward" concept starring the kid from The 6th Sense.
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odadune
Star of the item number
not around much due to stuff in my personal life.
Posts: 1,494
Favorite actor: Currently a certain Kumar, but I like most of them
Favorite actress: whoever's in films I'm interested in this week
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Post by odadune on Dec 3, 2013 14:36:14 GMT
I've not seen Ghajini (in either version) but my impression of Murgadoss is that he's good at the more technical aspects of filmmaking and decent at creating some sense of empathy with his characters, but just doesn't have anything interesting to say, beyond the standard combination of humanism/humanitarianism, national/regional pride, and anger at the establishment that all the major South Indian directors seem to trade on. His best ideas mostly seem to be problem-solving exercises, like the scene with the dried well I mentioned above, or the "corpse in the healthcare system" setpiece in Ramana.
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bangaram
Junior artiste
Posts: 55
Favorite actor: Aamir, SRK
Favorite actress: Kajol, Tamannaah
Upcoming release you're most excited about: Bahubali
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Post by bangaram on Dec 7, 2013 17:03:21 GMT
I've not seen Ghajini (in either version) but my impression of Murgadoss is that he's good at the more technical aspects of filmmaking and decent at creating some sense of empathy with his characters, but just doesn't have anything interesting to say, beyond the standard combination of humanism/humanitarianism, national/regional pride, and anger at the establishment that all the major South Indian directors seem to trade on. His best ideas mostly seem to be problem-solving exercises, like the scene with the dried well I mentioned above, or the "corpse in the healthcare system" setpiece in Ramana. Thanks for pointing out where lies the appeal of SI movies for me I kind of like their basic/sketchy demonstration of idealism. As for Murgadoss, your impression of him seems right if I take the particular case of Ghajini. It was not a good film in terms of script content but a decent timepass with great production values.
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