Naane Raja Naane Manthiri...

Ever wanted to see Captain in a role other than him speaking about truth, justice, statistics... or don a role not wearing police uniform...? and that movie to be good?? Then this is the one.

Captain Vijayakanth, in the role of stupid and equally arrogant rich village guy fits the bill perfectly. The major plus point of the movie is the comedy and the way Captain delivers the dialogues during comedy sequences is absolutely perfect. Captain and comedy carry the movie.

Radhika as an unemployed girl coming to work in Captian's house and falling in love with him, does the role good. Jeevitha as the Captain's lover doesn't have much to do. Senthil in Captains group and Goundamani made a scapegoat by Captain was good and different to watch.

Music by Ilayaraja...Mayanginen Solla Thayanginaen... is the pick of the songs...

Directed By Baluanandh and screenplay/Dialogue by R sundharrajan(This explains the good comedy in the movie).

But at times I felt like the movie had a Bhagyaraj touch in it. The hero doesn't change much (Becoming a saint in a single scene...blah blah blah)... It was more real. The climax tells it.

Except for the crass Thali sentiment in the end... It was nice to watch though.

MogaMul

The story of a guy gifted to become the great Karnatic singer, almost loses it after falling in love with a girl(Yamuna). Things get more complicated as the girl he is love is 10 years elder to him and also born to the Brahmin father and Marathi Mother (The illegitimate second wife).Or is it more a lust than love towards her...

The good thing about the story is that the antagonist is the society we live in. Not the Village head... or some rich village guy who is often the villain in many of these kind of movies... instead its how we as a society would look at them. Whether we would accept them as part of us without any second thought...??

Apart from that, the movie doesn’t offer much. The cast: Abhishek; Archana; Joglekh; Nedumudi Venu; Vivek, and directed by Ghana Rajasekaran doesn’t ring any bell. None of them are able to exert any influence on the character in what should have been an emotional ride. The emotions just don’t get across. Many a times you feel like watching a TV serial than a movie. The story was lagging during the initial stages with most the time spent on looking for a groom for Yamuna. The story is much suited for short movie than a full pledged movie. The love between Abhishek and Yamuna was also not conveyed properly and also why is he in love with her except in a scene where he says that he grew up more with her than his mother. But a more convincing answer is that it is more lust towards her than love... as she says so in the final dialogue...

Music by Ilayaraja, and sung by Jesudas and Janaki (whom I could recognize from their voices) are all purely Karnatic of which I know little about to review/ comment about it. But unlike Sindhu Bairavi... it didn’t appeal to casual listener and commoner like me...

Old is surely Gold...

Got sick of watching hero footballing 200 guys... Or sick of Kuthu Songs... The so called "Punch Dialogues"... the useless costly sets... the lack of creativity... the copycats... too much Heroism... or the lack of different genres... or Just sick of "Perarasu"....

I for one got sick of all that's dished out by the new movies... Hero's bashing other hero's in the movies... all saying they are the next Rajinis... I feel much better watching the old ones than the new ones... Im not saying all new ones are bad... but mostly they are... the directors never try different things... Always the style and the theme are the same as that of their other hit movies....

But look at the varieties by the Balachadars, Bharathirajas , Mahendrans, Bhagyarajs of that era... with Viswanathan/Ramamurthy and Ilayaraja Masterpieces... Might be because I watch selected Old movies... I found there are no Blog or sites reviewing Old tamil movies... I will write about the movies I watch... might be useful to those who are interested...