[arr] The first Sakkarakatti review

2008-09-25 Thread Gopal Srinivasan
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



Re: [arr] The first Sakkarakatti review

2008-09-25 Thread Vithur
Vijay The Lucky Fan always Thanks ..

Udayanidhi Stalin has come to see the film... meaning, the next project with
ARR, which is going to be directed by KSR with Surya and Nayanthara would
get confirmed soon...

Awaiting for the DVD of the movie... for BGMs... LOL.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 8:50 AM, 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

 




-- 
regards,
Vithur

ARR in my Heart;
His Music in my Blood;


Re: [arr] The first Sakkarakatti review

2008-09-25 Thread Thulasi Ram
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