Variety is the spice of life

At some stage, every one of us would have, will be, using this phrase - "andha kaalathula". That is your graduation ceremony into geriatry , password for being labelled perusu , valedictory speech of being vayasaaidchu, kinder way towards being/becoming kezham. Ardha raathrila edhuku indha post? What was the trigger?? Well.  I saw a speech by late Mr.Nellai kannan about Kannadasan. He was speaking about the depth of philosophy on his thathuva songs and how his command over his language helped him churn out so many immortal creations. One such song, he just mentioned a para that stayed with me.. haunted me to be precise. "Iravin kanneer panithuli enbaar Mugilin kanner mazhaiyena solvaar Iyarkkai azhudhaal ulagam sirikkum Manidhan azhudhaal iyarkkai sirikkum" Even while reading the lines you can't resist hearing Chandrababu's voice and the immense sadness it leaves in your heart from the movie "kavalai illaadha manidhan". I've never seen the movi...

Intha padatha disturb pannama release panna vitruntha, result automatically maari irukkum. Idea illatha arasiyalvaathis!!

As the final part of the trilogy, Last town answers many questions that arise after and while reading the previous two parts. Gathering the remaining population of the town, how Ethan manages to save them from the marauding abbies forms the crux of this story. He breaches the lab where Pilcher, the person responsible for creating the town and all the mess associated with it, resides along with his team. He wins over the support team of Pilcher by showing his evil side where he goes to the extent of murdering his own daughter just to ensure his way of getting things done succeeds. Eventually, Ethan manages to re-electrify the fence, keeping the rest of the remaining population bit safer. In between, there is a K.Balachander movie like love triangle involving his wife and his ex-boss from 2000 years back. After a minor scuffle and some soap opera moments, the ex-boss unites with Ethan's ex-lover while Ethan wins back his family. Not having enough food or rations to sustain them beyon...

 If "Pines" set the tempo for a blockbuster opening, "Wayward" lives up to the name.  In the first book of the trilogy, "Pines" Crouch introduce us to Ethan who finds himself in a creepy hospital where he is not sure if they are treating him to make him better or messing his medication to actually kill him. He is confused as to where he is and why his belongings are missing. The sheriff of the town is not much helpful and even ends up roughing him. He recollects that he was a secret service agent who was sent to that creepy little town in search of his fellow agents who were visiting the town before him and have been missing. While trying to escape from that town he notices an electrified fence and hears weird noises which makes him wonder if the fence was to keep the town people inside or to keep something away. The entire town tries to beat him to death as a punishment for trying to escape the town. Despite getting beaten to his last breath, he somehow m...

There was a time when people used to make fun of those who mentioned him as their favorite director for his kind of movies were more known for their adult content than anything else. More than Rajini or any one else who claims to be the hero who resembled the guy next door, it was Bagyaraj who could stake claim for that role and was well and truly justified for that moniker by the kind of roles he wrote and played. Often praised as the king of screenplay writing, what many miss out is the witty and intelligent brain behind such scripts and scenes. Considering his battalion of assistant directors who later went on to shine in their own way, how much of those were team effort and how much were his own is open for debate. But the fact that he was able to identify such content and justify them on screen, at least makes him worthy of all the praises he receives. This is one clever man who knows how to twist a scene or a story just enough to tie into a knot and untie the same using clever si...

Like tax and death, if there is one another thing that is unavoidable that would be ads!! Even if you opt for ad free subscription, they will always find a way to seep into your eyeline!! I always used to wonder how they decide on the duration of the ads for some of them would go on for almost half a minute will some may be just 5 seconds! But even for a 5 second ad, the amount of effort that might go behind in making wouldn't be any less than a movie shoot i guess, for you need to pick the right crew, cast, script, artwork, camera and above all music, which i believe plays an all important role in ads, even more than how it used to be for movies. Airtel became a household brand as much as by its product as much as by ARR's theme song. Same goes for Titan, Washing powder Nirma, Green clad glam gal bathing under a waterfall fame Liril soap, and the simplest yet cutest Pug dog fame Hutch - which launched the dog as much as the service provider and several other ads which have the...