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Movie Review: Saithan – Somber
Runtime – 2 hours 4 minutes
CBFC Rating – U/A
Cast: Vijay Antony, Arundhathi Nair, Charuhasan, Meera Krishnan, Y G Mahendran, Aadukalam Murugadoss.
Direction: Pradeep Krishnamoorthy
Cinematography: Pradeep Kalipurayath
Music: Vijay Antony
Editing: Veera Senthil Raj
Production: Vijay Antony Film Corporation
Distribution: Auraa Cinemas
Lyrics: Annamalai, Chinna Ponnu, Ko Sesha
Storyline
An intelligent IT employee hears strange noises in his mind, tempting to find, kill a woman named Jayalakshmi; reasons behind.
The Big Picture
Said to be an adaptation of the great Sujatha’s novel, “Aaah,” this has nothing outstanding to do any justice to it’s credibility.
Vijay Antony’s has opted for some psychological drama in hopes of continuing his dream run in Tamil Cinema since turning actor. He has been clever with his script selections, those that flirt along the borders of effective commercial cinema and some decent content.
This is a bit of a let down considering the buzz and pre-release talks about the movie being Vijay Antony’s biggest release. The scenes are placed to confuse the viewer with strange sounds attempting to lure the lead into trouble. The viewers are not perplexed with the storytelling but instead are able to see what’s coming next very clearly, and that puts off the engagement factor for something that could’ve been a gripping thriller.
There are quite a few drawbacks that end up harming the narration’s effectiveness. The romance isn’t natural between lead pair that spoils the content and back end story that links them together. Possibly the director thought that establishing a complete romance mightn’t be helping the suspense factor, sadly the choice didn’t pay off since the sequences weren’t able to sustain the curiosity levels.
Secondly, for an individual who gets into battle within oneself like the lead of the story, the person is relatively calm even for this brilliant person as per the narration. And to add to the drawbacks, the later stages simply go with the flow instead of delivering the promised edge-of-the-seat thing.
The psychiatrist portions and the first reveleations of the reincarnation theme were better planned among others and were received well in the cinemas. Arundathi Nair as the female lead is good at times. Supporting cast are not strong. The composer in Vijay Antony comes good in parts.
Linking the happenings to the medical crimes, this turns into commercial cocktail thereby placing a better bet to take home the investments. The action block was choreographed to please the gallery.
Bottomline
Decent debut for Pradeep Krishnamoorthy, might work for people who won’t dissect films.
Movie Review: Kavalai Vendam – Keyless Lock
Runtime – 2 hours 17 minutes
CBFC Rating – U/A
Cast: Jiiva, Bobby Simha, Kajal Aggarwal, Sunainaa, Shruti Ramakrishna, Mayilsamy, RJ Balaji, Bala Saravanan, Manobala, Madhumitha, Manthra.
Direction: Deekay
Cinematography: Abinandhan Ramanujam
Music: Leon James
Editing: TS Suresh
Production: R S Infotainment
Distribution: Abi & Abi Pictures
Lyrics: Ko Sesha
Choreography: Sheriff
Storyline
The female lead is asked to live with her man for a week to get divorce; will the cupid strike again?
The big picture
The one-liners on promotions indicated an adult comedy, but it’s not. It does have a few such dialogues and that mean this is rated U/A. The curious factor here is that the dialogue when Jiiva struggles with his zipper is muted on screen while it is going on and on in televisions. How strange is that?
There is no strong story, just screenplay-based filmmaking attempting to deliver a rom-com. The same is not adequately catered to fulfill the majority. No questioning Jiiva’s acting capabilities but his choice of films haven’t been spectacular and has let him down more often that not. He has tried to go back to his most successful genre here where he could easily turn good with free flowing narration filled with funny moments here and there. But the comedy part could’ve been written well.
Kajal Agarwal is one lead actress who is struggling for any critical reception for each of her characters have no direct impact in storytelling. Here, in the rom-com, some better homework would’ve given her quite a lot of brownie points.
Bobby Simha hasn’t been much impressive lately but this is better than the characters he has been doing. Sunainaa has always been that capable lead actress confined to some secondary roles. The same here. Shruthi Ramakrishna, last seen in Thirukumaran Entertainment’s 144 opposite Ashok Selvan plays a friend of Kajal.
A couple of Leon James’ tracks have decorated the top charts but we are not able to feel any good except for Sid Sriram’s Nee Tholaindhaayo.
The roughly two and a half minutes blooper video at the end credits was more entertaining, sadly. Bala Saravanan and RJ Balaji have been good individually all these years, but somehow the combination isn’t that outstanding. The have a handful of sequences that gives a laughter. Mayilsamy as father is a rather good alternative to the usual fathers we’ve been seeing.
Deekay has attempted a carefree ride to cheer up the audience, he is partly successful in fulfilling his target audience. The overall work is not up to the level that would be entertaining enough for all sections. DOP Abinandhan Ramanujam has made good use of the cool locations and colorful costumes.
Bottomline
Only when we overlook everything, it will make a good watch.
As you await with bated breath to find out who the mysterious ‘Jayalakshmi’ is, watch this video which is the gripping opening scene of Vijay Antony’s ‘Saithan’ . The video will leave you at the edge of your seat and is sure to leave you guessing as to what the demonic ‘Saithan’ would do next.
Song Name – Jayalakshmi
Movie – Saithan
Singer – Yazin Nizar
Music – Vijay Antony
Lyrics – Annamalai
Director – Pradeep Krishnamoorthy
Starring – Vijay Antony, Arundhathi Nair
Producer – Fathima Vijay Antony
Studio – Vijay Antony Film Corporation
Music Label – Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt. Ltd.
First 10 minutes of Saithan officially released on YouTube: Saithan Hunts for Jayalakshmi
An adventure that would send shivers down your spine, a spooky teaser that will give you nightmares. Get ready for this terrifying ride!
Watch the official teaser of ‘RUM’ here.
Movie – Rum
Music – Anirudh Ravichander
Director – Sai Bharath
Starring – Hrishikesh Krishnakumar, Sanchita Shetty, Vivek
Producer – Vijaya Raghavendra
Studio – All in Pictures
Music Label – Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt. Ltd.
Rum teaser
Loaded with tongue-in cheek humour and delightful visuals, here’s presenting the second teaser of ‘Kavalai Vendam’ starring Jiiva and Kajal Aggarwal in lead roles with stellar music by Leon James.
Watch the official video here.
Movie – Kavalai Vendam
Starring – Jiiva, Bobby Simha, Kajal Aggarwal, Sunaina
Director – Deekay
Music Director – Leon James
Editor – T. S. Suresh
DOP – Abinandhan Ramanujam
Producer – Elred Kumar
Banner – R S Infotainment
Music Label – Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt. Ltd.
Kavalai Vendam teaser 2
Movie Review: Kadavul Irukaan Kumaru – Kittenish
CBFC Rating – U
Runtime – 2 hours 19 minutes
Cast: GV Prakash Kumar, Anandhi, Nikki Galrani, Prakash Raj, RJ Balaji, Robo Shankar, Singampuli, Motta Rajendran, Kovai Sarala, MS Baskar, Urvashi, Mandy Takhar.
Direction: M Rajesh
Cinematography: Sakthi Saravanan
Music: GV Prakash Kumar
Editing: Vivek Harshan
Production: Amma Creations
Lyrics: Na Muthu Kumar
Choreography: Dinesh
Storyline
The lead runs into trouble with police the day before his marriage, with his friend, did he make it on time to tie the knots with his real love?
The big picture
Another dud from M Rajesh, the director who’s faded a shade since sending the state into comical carnivals by his first three films. Duly noted on his capacity and witty nature of evoking laughter from unusual circumstances, but he has a lot of critical negatives in the past and this film is not to improve that one bit.
GV Prakash Kumar, the composer-cum-actor has been playing safe, opting for comical-romances, that has carried himself into his fifth film as the lead. With upcoming actors struggling for opportunities, the bunch of films he holds assures of the trust the makers have in him to get their money back, despite his critical appreciation ranging from mediocre to average. Here, his ‘virgin boy’ romance blossoms again, with Anandhi and Nikki Galrani, but who to choose?
There is even a dialogue of how his films have been criticized with ratings from RJ Balaji, but they provided average entertainment, even that’s missing here. The album is no good judging by how well the composer can be. Nikki Galrani, Anandhi play just the kind of characters we’ve seen in Rajesh’s movies. Sadly there is no scope for performance and romance is not likable one bit.
Also, Rajesh’s films have this unavoidable trait of being utterly lean on storytelling except for a couple of films but when they fall short of comical execution, there is hardly anything that could save them. That’s why picking comedy as your strength is a big risk. It has failed here, again. The script that’s targeted at the locality boys, as described in the film, might not really be able to receive any favorable response from the masses despite having a release in a handful number of screens.
Another film, another spoof on Solvathellam Unmai. RJ Balaji and Urvashi try to liven up the scene, MS Bhaskar helps somewhat. Another habit of extended climax continues, a cameo from Jiiva, too. With a love story as thin as this, one gets no feel at all when love strikes again. As GV Prakash enters a dilemma to pick the right girl, we also stare at the empty popcorn pack, wondering how this is going to get a move on from here.
The cop combo of Prakash Raj, Robo Shankar, Singampuli is fairly successful. Motta Rajendran and Kovai Sarala are utterly remorseful, used under bizarre circumstances. RJ Balaji struggles to save the film. Multiple Vijay references, ‘Aaluma Doluma’ for Ajith fans. But references alone will not be enough.
A lead, on the night before his marriage, gets out to Pondicherry with his bestie, RJ Balaji, ends up playing hide & seek with police, enters a haunted bungalow for a completely irrelevant horror-comedy(!) song, the unforgettable first love, his future wife suddenly gets unattached, more strange drama and what else?! If all these things make sense to you, then this is for you.
Bottomline
Largely unimpressive.
Who invented the QWERTY keyboard
The keyboard that we use today with the alphabets starting from Q, W, E, R, T, Y in the first row was invented by American Christopher Latham Sholes. The Pennsylvania-born is credited as the “The Father of the typewriter” for the same.
Before this invention, many other typewriters with different keyboard patterns were in use but this was obviously the most successful of those since it’s the one that’s used by the majority around the globe.
The main reason behind the success of this keyboard is how it rearrange the letters to help typewrite easier. The positioning of letters enabled quicker input by placing the commonly occurring adjacent letters in a way that the keys won’t jam.
The first movable typewriter patented in the United States of America in 1868 originally had letters arranged in alphabetical order “ABC” that caused the keys to jam when neighboring letters were operated quickly. Both the first and existing model was invented by Sholes in association with fellow printer Samuel W. Soule and Carlos S. Glidden.
With help from Amos Densmore, he studied the letter-pair frequency that paved way for the better one. The invention was funded by James Densmore.
Wisconsin Historical Marker identifying the site in which Christopher Latham Sholes invented the first practical typewriter. Image: Wikipedia
A cyborg policewoman attempts to bring down a nefarious computer hacker.
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Michael Pitt, and Juliette Binoche
Directed by Rupert Sanders
Produced by Avi Arad, Steven Paul, Ari Arad
Written by Jonathan Herman, Jamie Moss
Based on Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow
Starring Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche, Michael Pitt
Music by Clint Mansell
Cinematography Jess Hall
Edited by Neil Smith
Production companies: Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, Amblin Partners, Arad Productions
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date: March 31, 2017 (United States)
Ghost in the Shell trailer 1 (2017)
Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” is a live-action re-telling of the studio’s animated classic which refashions the classic characters from the tale as old as time for a contemporary audience, staying true to the original music while updating the score with several new songs. “Beauty and the Beast” is the fantastic journey of Belle, a bright, beautiful and independent young woman who is taken prisoner by a beast in his castle. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle’s enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the Beast’s hideous exterior and realize the kind heart and soul of the true Prince within. The film stars: Emma Watson as Belle; Dan Stevens as the Beast; Luke Evans as Gaston, the handsome, but shallow villager who woos Belle; Oscar winner Kevin Kline as Maurice, Belle’s eccentric, but lovable father; Josh Gad as Lefou, Gaston’s long-suffering aide-de-camp; Golden Globe nominee Ewan McGregor as Lumiere, the candelabra; Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci as Maestro Cadenza, the harpsichord; Oscar nominee Ian McKellen as Cogsworth, the mantel clock; and two-time Academy Award winner Emma Thompson as the teapot, Mrs. Potts.
Directed by Oscar winner Bill Condon based on the 1991 animated film, “Beauty and the Beast” is produced by Mandeville Films’ David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman with eight-time Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken, who won two Academy Awards (Best Original Score and Best Song) for the 1991 animated film, providing the score, which will include new recordings of the original songs written by Menken and Howard Ashman, as well as several new songs written by Menken and three-time Oscar winner Tim Rice. “Beauty and the Beast” will be released in U.S. theaters on March 17, 2017.
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