My home PC got fixed last weekend, phew ! Immediately installed Clive Barker's Undying. Resumed where I left off on Halflife. Burnt a few CDs. Kreegah !
Saw Mani Ratnam's Kannathil Muthamittal last week. Good movie, one of his best. Its extremely difficult to extract good performances from children. Its tougher to get the likes of Simran and Madhavan to act. However Mani Ratnam has managed both in this movie. The camera angles are good, the photography first rate and the music excellent.
The title song is haunting and you don't mind listening to it twice, once in either half.
The characters are natural and people whom you can identify with. Emotions are underplayed and the whole issue of adoption is handled quite delicately. The director doesn't appear to take sides in the Tamil-sinhalese conflict, which is another blessing.
I think Ratnam could have been inspired by the Elian Gonzales story which happened in the US a while ago. Quite possible.
73 on my scale.
So I should be watching it sometime this week.
ReplyDeleteWonder whether it would still be running then.
A friend of mine says that the movie is inspired (ahem) from Mike Leigh's Secrets & Lies (winner of the Golden palm at Cannes in 1996). Mani's last few movies sucked...
ReplyDeleteOh ! I havent seen Secrets and Lies but know it was based on Bosnia...hmm...could be.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Mani's last few movies were quite bad - the likes of Dil Se et al. However my personal favorite is Iruvar, which he made a few years back.
oops, sorry. Secrets and Lies was not about Bosnia...which was that ? Welcome to Sarajevo ?
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