15. Baron (2001)

Director:

Majid Majidi

Writer:

Majid Majidi (writer)

More at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0233841/

A cute , soft romantic movie with an unique style of narrating.
Great acting from all the actors regardless of the length and importance of their roles.

14 . Ratatouille (2007 , IMDB 159)

Directors:

Brad Bird
Jan Pinkava (co-director)

Writers:

Brad Bird (screenplay) and
Jan Pinkava (story)

More at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382932/

When your medium is life less digital images which is essentially zeros and ones the director has to direct the movie as well as act for all the characters in the movie.


This movie has redefined my concepts about Food , The art of making Food and yes - about Rats.
:) .

If you happened to read the book - Icon - An autobiography of Steve Jobs - you will have a fair idea about animation films.
I mean how difficult it can be.

When you have a fine - end product like this - of at least around 100 greatly talented people what you can say in return?

Thank you very much.

13. അനന്തഭദ്രം (Ananthabhadram-Malyalam)

Director: Santhosh Sivan

Cast : Pridhviraj , Kaavya madhavan , Manoj K Jayan


A beautifully shot movie in which each single frame carries a signature of Santhosh Sivan.
Of course all the three lead actors have done a great job.

If you really want to point out a draw back in this movie it is the lousy climax.
May be the best in Malayalam in this category.

12 . Slum Dog Millionaire (2008, IMDB 58)

Directors:

Danny Boyle
Loveleen Tandan (co-director: India)

Writers:

Simon Beaufoy (screenplay) and
Vikas Swarup (novel)

More Info at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/


I started watching this movie with great expectation but ended it with much disappointment.
There were lot of news and reviews about this movie all over internet.

If I have to believe what Danny Boyle has to say about India , Bombay in particular - yes Ashamed.
I am extremely shamed.
This is a very improbable , eccentric , illogical bundled together .

If you are a Westerner and you like the movie it is just because you like strange things once in a while.

If you are a Bollywood freak and you love this movie , it is just because - this is another stupid bollywood movie which speaks English.

11. A Mighty Heart (2007)

Director:

Michael Winterbottom

Writers (WGA):

John Orloff (screenplay)
Mariane Pearl (book)

More Info at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0829459/

A movie based on a real incident.
A perfect film with perfect story,background score,acting,editing,dialogues.
Hats off to the Director- Michael Winterbottom.
Brilliant acting from -Angelina Jolie.
May be the best of Angelina`s performance as an actress.

Archie Panjabi was great as supporting actress and Irfan khan as one of the supporting actr.

An extra ordinary movie which excels in all departments of film making with a perfect 10.

10 : Sivaji ( சிவாஜி )

No , Am not here to say my opinion, review about the Tamil movie - Sivaji here.
Just because i have millions better things to do with my time. This thing just don't deserve
it.

This is a talk on general terms.

I have nothing against the producers , the common public , actors , other technicians or the director.

Once upon a time director Sankar is someone who made movies like Gentleman and Indian .

There starts my respect to him and there ends the same.

My question is to the common public , thousands , millions who knows the entire population of people who speaks or Understands the language called Tamil.

Where is your common sense?
Where is your brain?

I need someone to explain me why this happens?
What make the very stupid and funny actions of this man called Rajni so attractive?
What make people go crazy about this?

[Again , it is none of my bcness to judge who Rajni the man is. I am talking about the so called SuperStar who can be called as an actor for the namesake]

If there is one film where I saw the Actor Rjanikanth alive - it is Dalapathy.

The rest were Rajni - the star ; not the actor.
Yea , it is like An actor can be a star at anytime. But only someone who knows acting can be an actor.

I remember the story of a Stupid King who wanted the most beautiful dress for him.Somehow he go tit .
Apparently he was told that this is visible to only the real good people. He literally walked around the city naked . Entire people praised the beauty of the dress.
It was a kid in crowd who asked why this man is walking naked?

I believe this man or this phenomenon is the single most destructive influence poisoning
Tamil film. May be there are 10 million who like this.It also make the rest of 62 crores of people
dumbs in front of the rest of the world.

Common , this is ridiculous.

It is ridiculous to make a movie which has nothing but a full hell of stardom.

I think Director Sankar did a shameful act.

It is a real shame to him considering that this same man has made few movies that made whole Indians proud of.

I don't remember the heroin-ic activities.
Well , I remember the flesh show in this film covered in nudity.

There are some people around there who are ready to go to court against every alternate statements of celebrities.
They cant tolerate a speech , they cannot tolerate an English word in film name, they cannot tolerate open talk on sex, they cannot tolerate modern dresses in functions and the list go on.

But they enjoy the films with item number , they laugh on dialogues with double or triple meaning in films , they love to see blood throughout films , they like violence and nudism in films.

Why there a double standards?

09 : Anchathe

Director: Mishkin
Story, Screenplay : Mishkin
Actors : Narein , Ajmal , Prasanna, Pandyarajan , Vijayalakshmi.


I really liked the movie. Right from the very first shot.
There was a touch of difference in it.
The director has done a great job within the scope of an average tamil movie market without compromising in story and screenplay.

One another aspect of this movie that I felt different is the actors chosen for characters.

I have never imagined the soft guy like Prasanna to do a full time anti-hero character !.
And i am sure , even he did not know.
However he did a great job by playing a negative role with all the mannerisms.

When i saw one of his movie with one of my friend he said this guy- Prasanna does not look like a hero.

I would love to see Anjathe with the same friend to hear his comment this time. :)
May be he don't have six pack right now , may be he dont look like a hero , but if he is able to play a hardcore psycho- serial - murderer and morover convnice you with his ability in acting , well nothing else really matters.
It is good if you have deep throat, big moustache, swollen muscles supported with 100 kg bodyweight to play a villain.
But it takes a lot of acting skills to do the same with a soft sound , soft look , average body mass index . Hats of to Prasaana.


Sure I have not seen many Tamil films.
But I am sure there are lot of films in which Pandyarajan play a negative character.
[correct me if i am wrong]. And he perfectly portraid the character.

Narain and Ajmal did a good job too.
I think Ajmal could do the dialogues a bit better in cetain scenes.

Narain could avoid the "Monkey Jump" that he do before each fight, even though it is the dierctor who is responsible for it. :)

If my guess is correct Vijayalakshmi is the name of heroine.
M sorry if I am wrong.
My point is that this girl is really good in what she did and stunningly beutiful.
She may not be the hottest in town , but really attractive with her innocent smile.

Hope she will concentrate in meaty roles than the flesh show like the rest.

Last note: Felt Bad not to get any images realted to this movie in internet.
May be the people who are responsible for publicity - its time for you to upgrade yourself.!