Sen's Spot

Yesterday i was feeling a bit down and wanted to listen to some songs.My search on youtube for good tamil songs led to this guy who has posted so many videos.After a few minutes watching the video and reading the comments on his youtube channel stocknsurf i was ROTFL.




churake dil mera woh KOREA challi(DOnt miss the last one minute of this video)
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Muthappa Muthappa

Stephen devassy and karthick jamming



Stephen Devassy and balasubramaniam




unplugged with srinivas

Ahh....the book is too good.M.V.Venkatram tells a mythological story of a women , who has a special boon.The boon of being a virgin forever.Venkatram tells a wonderful story with it, actually i found out later that this was based on, one of the mythological branch stories of maha bharatha.But not taking any credit away from venkatram, He just turns that mythological story into a one, that portraits the power structure of our society and what's a women's role in that.He actually goes even further and talks about the mighty and the weak.A wonderful book.

A beautiful novel. On the surface it looks like a detailed description of a man destroying a garden.But through various metaphors , Sa.Kandaswamy opens up the novel for various lines of interpretation.Excellent writing.

I wanted to write about Vishnupuram and so many other good tamil books that i read.But never got time.Writing on Nan kadavul, i thought i should do a post on Vishnupuram immediately.Immediately became more than a month and still couldn't do it.So i decided to at least write a couple of lines and do a post ,rather than procrastinate for a detailed big post.


Coming to Vishnupuram.This is simply an awesome book.If i have to describe it in 2 words, i would say "Imagination Unbound".I like magic realism and iam a succor for latin literature.But reading a book like this in tamil was an experience in itself.Vishnupuram just stunned me.I kept dreaming about it continuously for sometime , i didn't do that even for gabriel garcia's "Macondo".This is a wondeful piece of work.


The book is divided into 3 parts corresponding to the 3 sections of vishnu and so many other 3 things of hindu mythology.The first part is the best.The second part is a spiritual one which goes into detailed spiritual discussions on hinduism and buddism, most of the stuff in this part went over my head.The 3rd and final is the end/destruction, again jeyamohan's imaginations runs wild here.

This is a huge booking running close to 850 pages.Read it, at least the first section, and transport yourself to another world :).

Bala has done it again.He has shown the middle finger to the entire tamil film industry.He has broken all the conventional norms of tamil film industry to give one of the darkest tamil film ever.

Yes the movie wont run for packed houses, yes most of the english bloggers with trash it.That's because this is not a movie for the light hearted audience looking for a good time pass or mild intellectual discussion.If that is the case, you should stop with maniratnam, sujatha and kamal(probably watch anbe sivam again, with a slightly ugly looking kamal walking into the sun set with a stray dog).This is heavy stuff, this is bala and jeyamohan hitting you hard with reality.

The movie has its flaws,screenplay could have been tighter, could have avoided lot of repeat scenes from pithamagan, etc etc.But none of this matters as you wont be thinking about them, when the movie finishes.The movie will stay with you for a while and make you THINK AND ASK QUESTIONS.A rarity of rarity among tamil movies.Hats off to bala and jeyamohan.

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5)Pachathanthiram and Very Bad Things

Very bad things is a dark and serious movie.Panchathanthiram was the lighter version of VBthings.pachathanthiram has many lift offs from very bad thing.Here is the major one.

Panchathanthiram


Very Bad Things




6)Thenali and What About Bob

Thenali is a full and full copy of what about bob.Here is one scene

Thenali



What About Bob



7)Sathya and Arjun
Sathya is basically a remake of arjun.I don't want to put the whole movie up here.So here is 3 minutes from the first 10 minutes of the movie.

Sathya


Arjun


Talking about remakes.. here is another one
Unnal Mudiyum thambi and Rudraveena.
K.B remade his Chiranjeevi's starring Rudraveena, which was also produced by chiranjeevi, in tamil as Unnal Mudiyum thambi.

Ithazhil - Unnal mudiyum thambi


Lalitha priyakamalam - Rudraveena


Jhanee Bhi Dho Yaaron -Michael Madhana Kamarajan ???

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