Aparna’s Blog

Wishing Mani Ratnam a very happy birthday!

Seeing the trailer on Filmy channel on Friday that Khamoshi was going to be telecast on Filmy the next day, I realized that it had been quite a few months since I last watched/listened to one of my moooost favourite songs, aaj main upar!
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Yesterday being a holiday, I was doing channel surfing hoping to find some good movie to watch.

• A Simbu movie on Sun TV - Who can watch him on screen for 2.5+ hours!

• Some boring movie on K TV (featuring Sibiraj?)

• Mozhi on Kalaignar - this movie can be watched only once & I have already watched it once. Of course the movie was good, can be watched with the whole family, etc. But I couldn’t find anything great in this that would make have made me want to watch it again and again. I don’t like the kaaTrin mozhi song either.

• Ilayaraja concert on Raj TV in which whenever I saw, Ilayaraja was only singing - There are times when I wonder if he knows how bad his voice sounds! He is a genius music composer who has given so many wonderful songs and I wish he had stopped with that and not started singing his songs.

• IPL cricket match on Set Max - Cricket fails to interest me even one bit.

• Ambikapathi on Mega TV - Yeah Mega TV was the channel that finally came to my rescue.

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I enjoyed reading this wonderful interview with Mani Ratnam. A nice interview after a long time with none of the usual questions!

Continuing from my weekend post, kanDa naaL mudhal is one of my favourite movies. Though as is the case with most of the movies, I didn’t watch this one too until it was shown on TV (Thank God it was shown within a few months of its release), I liked it so much the very first time that I watched it that I immediately got a DVD and watched it again!
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and I am watching at least one movie on TV.

Right after I wrote about the song, kadavuL uLLamE, the movie, anbuLLa Rajnikanth was telecast on Kalaignar TV that weekend. Though I wanted to watch that song alone first, I ended up watching the whole movie. I anyway, didn’t remember anything about the movie since it had been more than a decade since I watched it. This is one movie that has so many moments that are sure to bring tears to your eyes. But thank God, I didn’t cry at all. Still that movie did leave me feeling sad.
Note to self: Don’t watch sad, serious movies.
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At first look, this movie starts off as just another love story set in a village. A guy getting floored by the beauty of a girl – that’s all. Unlike Rishi (Arvind Samy) and Roja’s (Madhubala) in Roja or Karthik (Madhavan) and Shakti’s (Shalini) in Alaipayuthey or Manohar (Karthik) and Divya’s (Revathy) in Mouna Raagam or for that matter, even Gautam (Prabhu) and Anjali’s (Amala) in Agni Nakshatram, which are love stories where their initial courting scenes to the scene where they express their love for each other itself are some unforgettable scenes, with the dialogues making them all the more memorable, this movie doesn’t have any of those. Except for the scene where Shekhar (Arvind Samy) gets into the same boat as Shaila Bhanu’s (Manisha) and tells her of his love, there are practically no dialogues between the two of them. But that’s where the song, ‘Uyire’ comes in - there couldn’t have better words than the lyrics of the song to express their love for each other.
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