There are a couple of good things about Gautham Menon’s Raghavan, the Telugu dubbed version of Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu. One. When Kamal Haasan makes a movie about psychopathic serial killers, the subject, hopefully, gets more attention than when Simbu (Manmadhan) does. There are so few movies about serial killers, not psychos, it makes me wonder what [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2008’
Happy Days: Romanticizing College Life
First posted on Desicritics on 12th October, 2008. Happy Days is the only Telugu hit in over a year. The people involved with the movie are still basking in its success, giving interviews and appearing in various TV shows. In an interview before the release of Happy Days, its director Shekar Kammula said that he [...]
To Leave or Not To Leave
First posted on Desicritics on 7th October, 2008. A year and a half ago, particularly inauspicious planetary positions conflicting with my time of birth have made me blurt out “Pune”, in a choice of destination between Chennai and Pune. I should have stuck with my old and old-fashioned Tamil da’s and dei’s. Today, when a [...]
Crappy Days
… crappy days… crappy days… That is how I would describe my college days when compared to Shekar Kammula’s Happy Days. Not just me, many of my friends who’ve had very eventful lives might describe them that way. None of us got to sit beside a beautiful girl on the day of our counseling, perhaps [...]
DVD Review: Remember the Titans
First posted on Desicritics on 28th September, 2008. “Based on a true story” is one note that tunes our minds to suspend disbelief more willingly than we normally would. We have come to accept that truth is stranger than fiction, at least when books are written or movies are made about them. As an outsider [...]