hmmm, so another JTYJN.. anyway, the pleasure in watching ARR songs on big
screen and hearing ARRs BGMs for every scene is the mighty pleasure..
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Gopal Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
> sakarakkati vs sakARakkati
> First
> the Sakarakkati audio launch and now the special preview. Went to Four
> Frames last night with the wife and kid and whilst we were waiting
> outside chatting with Blaaze and his wife, spotted a hummer pull up
> right next to me and out came a young couple. Blaaze and me both got
> excited and started inspecting the hummer from all sides. And then once
> the young gentleman had gone in, I asked Blaaze who he was. Udayanidhi
> Stalin - a future leader in a very very futuristic car indeed. Must
> cost a couple of crores ? Do let me know.
>
> Kala Prabhu's debut vehicle is driven single handedly by one driver, A
> R Rahman. The credits come on to some amazing guitar riffs and mellow
> sounds which is completely spoilt by the next ten minutes of the movie
> showing the hero's childhood pranks with his friends. Cheap, uncalled
> for and without relevance but maybe the director wanted to fit in a
> song - 'Yelle' tracks the progress of the hero and his friends from
> childhood to youth.
>
> The story is a oft repeated and done to death boy sees girl - falls in
> love at first sight - girl does not reciprocate but later is convinced
> - another girl loves the boy - misunderstanding between the boy and the
> original girl - patch up - second misunderstanding - original girl
> pretending to sacrifice her love and asking the boy and second girl to
> be together - boy mouthing some cliched ' love cannot be measured in
> percentages ' dialogues and finally boy and original girl walk into the
> sunset. That's the story in 2 lines. You still want to go and sit in a
> theatre for 2 hours ? Maybe yes...
>
> And that's because the driver is cruising full speed and completely in
> control. No need to wear seatbelts. You are in safe hands. Each song
> barring (and this is a personal opinion) the Meenaxi re-hashes are an
> absolute delight to listen to in Dolby. Pump up the volume !! What's
> more, there are almost 3 english tracks as part of the BGM. Two tracks
> play upto the end of the 1st stanza while the 3rd only plays 4 lines. R
> & B, Hip Hop genres :):)
>
> Ya ! you may not close your eyes and end up seeing the song
> picturisations and compare it to the difference in quality between an
> asterix / tintin comic book to a chacha chaudhary. LOL. The young
> director seems to have got his hands on some special effects package
> and has gone overboard using them. Or he had plenty of moolah still
> left over. A lot of them though are again oft repeated - like the
> graphics in 'Marudhani' may remind you of the film 'The day after
> tommorow'. 'Chinamma' may remind you of some of Shankar's works though
> this looks pale in comparision. '
>
> Taxi Taxi' comes on twice, the second one being towards the end as I
> guess they reshot the song as an afterthought. I was very happy to see
> my friend Blaaze on screen in the song. I personally think he has a lot
> of potential which still remains un(w)rapped -:)
>
> Sakarakkati is strictly for the dozen Shantnoo fans, the dozen what's her
> name heroine fans and the millions of A R R fans.
>
> - Vijay Iyer
>
>
>
