Aparna’s Blog

I am stepping onto the second year of blogging today. At the end of one year of blogging, I am happy that I started blogging. Since this blog has become an important part of me in the past one year, there is no way I am going to settle for a short post now. Here’s looking back at the first year of my blog.
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This category has been screaming for my attention for a very long time now and I am back with a post along with a note to myself to keep this category alive by updating it with more posts regularly.

Thalapathy is supposedly the story of the man fondly called by his friend as his Thalapathy. But, is it just the story of that man alone? This is yet another movie in which Mani Ratnam portrays the emotions felt by each and every character so beautifully! As far as Mani Ratnam’s movies are concerned, even if the movie itself does not have a great script (of course, this is not the case with this movie), most of the characters nevertheless, stand out and so do a lot of scenes.
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I watched some parts of Aayitha Ezhuthu telecast on Kalaignar TV today. I was surprised to see that one scene was not shown on the channel. The scene right after the song, Jana Gana Mana, where a Sun TV reporter is shown interviewing Suriya after he files his nomination was the one! Was that because the reporter was shown to be from Sun TV?! :O

A few extra dialogues were shown at the end of the movie. This was not there in the movie when I watched it in theatre. When Suriya is seated in the Assembly, in the background you can hear his voice saying, ‘Idhu mudivillai. Idhu oru aarambam. Iniyoru iniyoru vidhi seivom. Vidhiyinai maatrum vidhi seivom.’

I have always liked Santhosha kaNNeerey more than Dil Se Re. Maybe it’s because I listened to the Tamil version first. Anyway, I love the lyrics of both the songs (I like the words Santhosha KaNNeerey itself). What great lyrics that suits the mood of the song so beautifully!
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Simple, Neat and Contemporary – That is how I will describe the costumes in Mani Ratnam’s movies. As far as his movies are concerned, you very rarely come across a costume that doesn’t suit the actors or that you don’t like. The costumes go well not only with the setting of the movie but also with the current trend and that makes you feel as though the characters are one among us. Though there is nothing extraordinary about the costumes in Mani Ratnam’s movies, the natural look and feel that they give to his movies is what makes it appealing and the costumes in his movies have always been an object of interest to me.

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I got the VCD of Aayitha Ezhuthu (seems DVD has still not been released) released by Moser Baer today. Neither the picture quality nor the sound quality is that good. So, don’t buy it unless you very badly want to watch the movie.

Rains have started in Chennai and celebrating the rains, here is a post on some of my favourite rain songs. The list of songs is in no particular order.
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