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Saturday, May 24, 2008
A hero from North India
The south Indian film Industry has always its good share of heroines from the northern part of India.
Kollywood received these girls from the other side with open hands and made some of them to be screen goddesses.
On the other hand never a north Indian Hero has ever made a mark as a leading man in the Tamil Film Industry.
The times, trends and techniques of the film making process and attitude is changing and nowadays film lovers are more open about almost everything they think about films.
So this is the right time for Shiv Pandit to mark his innings in the Tamil Tinsel Town with Oscar Ravichandran's 'Leelai'.
People have seen this extremely handsome actor before in the advertisements of Colgate Active salt and Airtel.
He had his stint as a sports Anchor for the IPL matches too.
Andrews will direct this new film.
There have been several instances of actors who came to Kollywood years ago completely becoming the sons and daughters of Tamil soil dissolving themselves into the life culture of Tamilnadu after finding incredible success in their careers here.
Time will tell the stock that is in hold for the new actor Shiv Pandit.
Kollywood received these girls from the other side with open hands and made some of them to be screen goddesses.
On the other hand never a north Indian Hero has ever made a mark as a leading man in the Tamil Film Industry.
The times, trends and techniques of the film making process and attitude is changing and nowadays film lovers are more open about almost everything they think about films.
So this is the right time for Shiv Pandit to mark his innings in the Tamil Tinsel Town with Oscar Ravichandran's 'Leelai'.
People have seen this extremely handsome actor before in the advertisements of Colgate Active salt and Airtel.
He had his stint as a sports Anchor for the IPL matches too.
Andrews will direct this new film.
There have been several instances of actors who came to Kollywood years ago completely becoming the sons and daughters of Tamil soil dissolving themselves into the life culture of Tamilnadu after finding incredible success in their careers here.
Time will tell the stock that is in hold for the new actor Shiv Pandit.
A hero from North India in 'Leelai'
he south Indian film Industry has always its good share of heroines from the northern part of India.
Kollywood received these girls from the other side with open hands and made some of them to be screen goddesses.
On the other hand never a north Indian Hero has ever made a mark as a leading man in the Tamil Film Industry.
The times, trends and techniques of the film making process and attitude is changing and nowadays film lovers are more open about almost everything they think about films.
So this is the right time for Shiv Pandit to mark his innings in the Tamil Tinsel Town with Oscar Ravichandran's 'Leelai'.
People have seen this extremely handsome actor before in the advertisements of Colgate Active salt and Airtel.
He had his stint as a sports Anchor for the IPL matches too.
Andrews will direct this new film.
There have been several instances of actors who came to Kollywood years ago completely becoming the sons and daughters of Tamil soil dissolving themselves into the life culture of Tamilnadu after finding incredible success in their careers here.
Time will tell the stock that is in hold for the new actor Shiv Pandit.
Kollywood received these girls from the other side with open hands and made some of them to be screen goddesses.
On the other hand never a north Indian Hero has ever made a mark as a leading man in the Tamil Film Industry.
The times, trends and techniques of the film making process and attitude is changing and nowadays film lovers are more open about almost everything they think about films.
So this is the right time for Shiv Pandit to mark his innings in the Tamil Tinsel Town with Oscar Ravichandran's 'Leelai'.
People have seen this extremely handsome actor before in the advertisements of Colgate Active salt and Airtel.
He had his stint as a sports Anchor for the IPL matches too.
Andrews will direct this new film.
There have been several instances of actors who came to Kollywood years ago completely becoming the sons and daughters of Tamil soil dissolving themselves into the life culture of Tamilnadu after finding incredible success in their careers here.
Time will tell the stock that is in hold for the new actor Shiv Pandit.
Pandi Movie REview
Starring: Raghava Lawrence, Sneha, Namitha, Sreeman, Nasser, Saranya
Direction: Raasu Maduravan
Music: Srikanth Deva
Production: Hitesh Jabak
With its simple story woven into the texture of the movie, Pandi proves to be an average entertainer that seems tailor-made for frontbenchers.
Raghava Lawrence and Sreeman, sons of the couple Nasser and Saranya, are two extremes. While Sreeman is the perfect example (note, only example) of an ideal son, Lawrence figures in the dangerously-short-tempered-son-who-is-of-less-value-to-the-family category. For these reasons, his entire family, except mother Saranya, hates him with their whole heart. Meanwhile, Lawrence meets Sneha and falls in love.
A crucial gridlock in the family brings to light Sreeman’s ugly side and he elopes with his father’s hard-earned money saved for his sister’s wedding. Lawrence takes over from this point and shoulders his family’s responsibility. In the process, he moves to Dubai for greener pastures.
Sneha is the show-stealer and announces the arrival of a siren. So much for her good girl next door image. She gyrates hard for the three songs in her designer outfits – of course, scantier than her earlier movies. The songs Kuthu madhippa and the Maasi Maasam remix song (done shoddily, making you wonder what the point was in brutally butchering the lovely original) provide ample scope for Sneha’s dancing skills. Sneha’s sexy dance moves also makes poor Namitha’s item numbers look lackluster.
While Nasser, Saranya, and Sreeman score with their performances, Lawrence looks as if he definitely needs acting lessons. Or is it just that director Raasu Maduravan felt felt a hero need not bend backwards to make himself look credible?
That apart, U.K. Senthilkumar’s camera feasts on Namitha big time and Suresh Urs’ neat editing flows with the movie without interrupting the course of it.
Verdict : Sneha overrides!
Direction: Raasu Maduravan
Music: Srikanth Deva
Production: Hitesh Jabak
With its simple story woven into the texture of the movie, Pandi proves to be an average entertainer that seems tailor-made for frontbenchers.
Raghava Lawrence and Sreeman, sons of the couple Nasser and Saranya, are two extremes. While Sreeman is the perfect example (note, only example) of an ideal son, Lawrence figures in the dangerously-short-tempered-son-who-is-of-less-value-to-the-family category. For these reasons, his entire family, except mother Saranya, hates him with their whole heart. Meanwhile, Lawrence meets Sneha and falls in love.
A crucial gridlock in the family brings to light Sreeman’s ugly side and he elopes with his father’s hard-earned money saved for his sister’s wedding. Lawrence takes over from this point and shoulders his family’s responsibility. In the process, he moves to Dubai for greener pastures.
Sneha is the show-stealer and announces the arrival of a siren. So much for her good girl next door image. She gyrates hard for the three songs in her designer outfits – of course, scantier than her earlier movies. The songs Kuthu madhippa and the Maasi Maasam remix song (done shoddily, making you wonder what the point was in brutally butchering the lovely original) provide ample scope for Sneha’s dancing skills. Sneha’s sexy dance moves also makes poor Namitha’s item numbers look lackluster.
While Nasser, Saranya, and Sreeman score with their performances, Lawrence looks as if he definitely needs acting lessons. Or is it just that director Raasu Maduravan felt felt a hero need not bend backwards to make himself look credible?
That apart, U.K. Senthilkumar’s camera feasts on Namitha big time and Suresh Urs’ neat editing flows with the movie without interrupting the course of it.
Verdict : Sneha overrides!
Rajini: from boss to beggar
As the grand receipts for Sivaji: The Boss pour in, Rajinikanth is in a small room in Chamrajpet, Bangalore. He is lying on the floor, on a hard mattress, with a ceiling fan rotating on top. This is the simple room of his oldest friend, Bahadur, who used to send him hundred rupees every month in the years Rajini was struggling in Madras. When he visits Bangalore these days, the Superstar spends a few days at his friend’s house, sleeping on the floor in a non air-conditioned room.
Rajini suggests to his friend that they go to the temple and give thanks. His friend is astonished and says, they will be mobbed. Rajini disguises himself as a 70 year old beggar and wanders through the temple, and goes unrecognised. But a Gujarati lady mistakes him for a beggar and hands him ten rupees. Rajini accepts it gracefully. Later, the lady thinks her eyes are playing tricks on her: the old beggar leaves a 100 rupee note on the altar and another one in the temple hundi. She realises her folly as she sees the beggar get into a posh car. She runs to the car and asks forgiveness, and for the ten rupees back so that she can donate it to the temple. But Rajini says he’ll keep the ten because, “every time God finds a way to remind me that I am nothing but a mere beggar at his altar.”
Bus number 10 A
He was born in Bangalore at the Vani Villas hospital to Ranoji and Rambai Gaekwad on 12 Dec 1950 at 9.45 pm. The first bus that Rajini was a conductor of was the 10 A Bus that ran from Majestic circle to Srinagar.
Rajini sleeps on Mount Road pavement
Borrowing a little money from his brother, he joins an acting school in Madras. On his first night in the city he has no place to sleep, and spends the night on the pavement outside the LIC building on Mount Road. Later, his classmates take pity on him and allow him to share their little accommodation in Aminjikarai: Arun Lodge, Room 28.
There were many days Rajini and his classmates starved because they had no money. One day they stood outside a fancy hotel on Mount Road and wondered if they would ever get to eat there. Many decades later, Rajini drove one of his classmates to the hotel, and asked him if he remembered the
hotel. “Do you own it now?” asked the classmate. Rajini smiled and said: “I own the whole building now.”
How he acquired his name
He gets an audition call from K. Balachander. The director sees promise in the struggling actor at once and offers him not one but three roles. Rajini is overjoyed. In one of the movies –Mundru Muduchu,- he learns that he will be acting with the legendary Kamal Haasan and Sri Devi. But he does not know Tamil. “We will dub your voice,” says KB, but my advise to you is to learn Tamil as quickly as you can. Learn Tamil and I will take you places.” Later, KB asks Rajini what screen name he’d like to use. “Sivaji Gaekwad, Sir” replies Rajini. “Oh no, that will not do, said KB, and asked him if he had seen his play, Major Chandrakanth.
“Of course, sir”.
“There are two characters in the play. One is Sreekanth and the other is Rajinikanth…Since I have already named someone else Sreekanth, I would like to call you Rajinikanth.”
“I take it as an honour, sir.”
His first dialogue
Rajini’s first dialogue is for KB’s Mundru Muduchu: he has to go towards Kamal Haasan and ask, “Is this Bhairavi’s house? I am Bhairavi’s husband.”
Called Superstar for the first time
Kalai Puli Dhanu released Bhairavi in a big way. Hoardings and ads all over the place, with the legend on the poster written broadly: ‘Watch Superstar Rajinkanth in Bhairavi’. Rajini was embarrassed to be called a superstar - this being the first time he has been described that way. He thinks only MGR and Sivaji can be called superstars. He phones Dhanu and says, Sir, why did you call me that?
Dhanu says: Because you are.
The kadavule kadavule scene
Kushbhoo: “Do you remember the famous ‘kadavule, kadavule scene? If you notice carefully, every time he said that I was grinning. I could not control my laughter. Even after the shots were canned, he would tease me with kadavule, kadavule. That was quite embarrassing.”
Aishwarya Rajinikanth’s crush on Silambarasan
He was her schoolmate. But it came to nothing. Later, she meets Dhanush at a preview show and is drawn to him.
Kamal talks Rajini out of it
At one point Rajini decides to renounce everything, take sanyas. He informs his wife, Lata, who is stunned. He goes to KB and declares he wants to give up acting. Later that day Kamal meets him and talks him out of it, saying he could remain an actor and balance spiritual quest with family and profession. Rajini listens to him.
Rajini suggests to his friend that they go to the temple and give thanks. His friend is astonished and says, they will be mobbed. Rajini disguises himself as a 70 year old beggar and wanders through the temple, and goes unrecognised. But a Gujarati lady mistakes him for a beggar and hands him ten rupees. Rajini accepts it gracefully. Later, the lady thinks her eyes are playing tricks on her: the old beggar leaves a 100 rupee note on the altar and another one in the temple hundi. She realises her folly as she sees the beggar get into a posh car. She runs to the car and asks forgiveness, and for the ten rupees back so that she can donate it to the temple. But Rajini says he’ll keep the ten because, “every time God finds a way to remind me that I am nothing but a mere beggar at his altar.”
Bus number 10 AHe was born in Bangalore at the Vani Villas hospital to Ranoji and Rambai Gaekwad on 12 Dec 1950 at 9.45 pm. The first bus that Rajini was a conductor of was the 10 A Bus that ran from Majestic circle to Srinagar.
Rajini sleeps on Mount Road pavement
Borrowing a little money from his brother, he joins an acting school in Madras. On his first night in the city he has no place to sleep, and spends the night on the pavement outside the LIC building on Mount Road. Later, his classmates take pity on him and allow him to share their little accommodation in Aminjikarai: Arun Lodge, Room 28.
There were many days Rajini and his classmates starved because they had no money. One day they stood outside a fancy hotel on Mount Road and wondered if they would ever get to eat there. Many decades later, Rajini drove one of his classmates to the hotel, and asked him if he remembered the
hotel. “Do you own it now?” asked the classmate. Rajini smiled and said: “I own the whole building now.”
How he acquired his nameHe gets an audition call from K. Balachander. The director sees promise in the struggling actor at once and offers him not one but three roles. Rajini is overjoyed. In one of the movies –Mundru Muduchu,- he learns that he will be acting with the legendary Kamal Haasan and Sri Devi. But he does not know Tamil. “We will dub your voice,” says KB, but my advise to you is to learn Tamil as quickly as you can. Learn Tamil and I will take you places.” Later, KB asks Rajini what screen name he’d like to use. “Sivaji Gaekwad, Sir” replies Rajini. “Oh no, that will not do, said KB, and asked him if he had seen his play, Major Chandrakanth.
“Of course, sir”.
“There are two characters in the play. One is Sreekanth and the other is Rajinikanth…Since I have already named someone else Sreekanth, I would like to call you Rajinikanth.”
“I take it as an honour, sir.”
His first dialogue
Rajini’s first dialogue is for KB’s Mundru Muduchu: he has to go towards Kamal Haasan and ask, “Is this Bhairavi’s house? I am Bhairavi’s husband.”
Called Superstar for the first time
Kalai Puli Dhanu released Bhairavi in a big way. Hoardings and ads all over the place, with the legend on the poster written broadly: ‘Watch Superstar Rajinkanth in Bhairavi’. Rajini was embarrassed to be called a superstar - this being the first time he has been described that way. He thinks only MGR and Sivaji can be called superstars. He phones Dhanu and says, Sir, why did you call me that?
Dhanu says: Because you are.
The kadavule kadavule scene
Kushbhoo: “Do you remember the famous ‘kadavule, kadavule scene? If you notice carefully, every time he said that I was grinning. I could not control my laughter. Even after the shots were canned, he would tease me with kadavule, kadavule. That was quite embarrassing.”
Aishwarya Rajinikanth’s crush on Silambarasan
He was her schoolmate. But it came to nothing. Later, she meets Dhanush at a preview show and is drawn to him.
Kamal talks Rajini out of it
At one point Rajini decides to renounce everything, take sanyas. He informs his wife, Lata, who is stunned. He goes to KB and declares he wants to give up acting. Later that day Kamal meets him and talks him out of it, saying he could remain an actor and balance spiritual quest with family and profession. Rajini listens to him.
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