Chanthupottu (2005) : A Controversy

                            Chanthupottu is a Malayalam movie directed by Lal Jose and released in 2005 . It tells the story of Radhakrishn...

Nov 24, 2012

Mistakes in the movie Jab Tak Hai Jaan


In JTHJ, Samar(SRK) meets, fall in love and get separated from Meera(Katrina) from London and all these takes place in 2002. Since the movie is shot in 2012, many elements that could never be in 2002 creeped into the movie.

  • The song 'Challa' is taking place in 2002 but we can see SRK singing and dancing in this song around a place where there is the 5 rings of Olympic games.



  • Katrina's family owns a Rolls Royce Phantom and Buggati Veyron in 2002. However, the Rolls Royce Phantom was not available until 2003 and Buggati Veyron until 2005.



  • A Mercedes Benz S-Class is parked outside Katrina's house, during a scene in Kat-SRK romance period. However, that S-class model was launched only in 2007.

 

Samar gets separated from Meera and returns to India. He joins the Indian army and get posted in Kashmir.


  •  The fact is that Indian Army doesn't hire anyone after the age of 25 but how did Samar join the army whose already 28???


Samar meets Akira Rai(Anushka Sharma) in ladakh. Akira Rai, dives in a cold river in Ladakh because of a bet. As soon as she got into the river, she started drowning and cries for help. Samar saves her from drowning. Akira gets a dairy from Samar's jacket and comes to know about his past.



  •  Anushka Sharma's dry body is shown while jumping off the small island into the middle of river. Lemme ask How did she reach the island without getting wet?



  •  Later in the movie its revealed that Anushka's character is a national-level swimmer and deep sea diver!!!!!!!!??

      SRK comes back to London under persuasion to launch the film of Akira. There he meets Meera and finally the rejoin.


  •  After 10 years, Shahrukh khan looks changed with beard and all. But Katrina Kaif looks the same and also she doesn't look 10 years elder than Anushka Sharma.



  •  Anushka recognises Katrina at once but Anushka has never seen her before nor her picture in Shahrukh khan's dairy.

         You may feel some of the above mistakes are silly ones. Yes they are silly but I have avoided many sillier, unclear, justifiable mistakes. If you have noted any other mistakes, feel free to comment.


Nov 23, 2012

My Boss Malayalam Movie Review and Boxoffice Collection Report

PLOT :

                Dileep plays the role of a young IT professional, Manu Varma. He is appointed as an executive assistant to Priya (Mamta Mohandas) in Mumbai. The film tells the story of the conflict between the boss and her subordinate. Dileep who is brought up in kerala, mainly aims to work abroad. Whereas Mamta, an Australian citizen dreams of leading a normal life in kerala. The conflict between them is mainly due to varied cultural backgrounds.
Priya is bold and abuses her subordinates for even a slightest mistake. She gets into trouble when some visa problems arises. She seeks help of Manu and asks him to act as her husband. Both of them moves to kerala. As the story proceeds, there are some usual comic situations and with some predictable twists and turns.


REVIEW :

           First of all, let me say that it is pakka blatant copy of the Hollywood movie 'The Proposal' (2009) starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds. At times, the film also reminded me of Priyadarshan-Mohanlal team's Chithram.
         This movie is entirely different from 'Mayamohini' or 'Mummy & Me'. The main positive side of the movie is Janapriyanayakan Dileep himself. As usual he makes us laugh with his one-liners, expressions, movements and steals the show entirety. To an extent Mamta did justice to her role, but at some parts she seems lost especially during emotional scenes. Sai Kumar and Mukesh also needs special mentioning for their roles.
          Cinematographer Anil Nair has done an appreciable job. Jithu Joseph with a neat direction and with the help of an appreciable script, My Boss can be stated as a decent entertainer.


BOXOFFICE :

Initial reports shows that My Boss is gonna have a decent business in the Boxoffice. Dileep proves again with 'My Boss' that he is Janapriyanayakan. My Boss is receiving highly encouraging word of mouth from all around.
2 days collection is estimated to be 1.04 crores.
5 days collection is estimated to be 2.40 crores (1400 theatrical shows).
14 days collection is estimated to be 4.7 crores.
19 days collection is estimated to be 6.30 crores.
30 days collection is estimated to be 10.38 crores.. Another superhit for Dileep in 2012
My Boss is second blockbuster for Dileep in 2012. My Boss which is nearing its 50 days run has collected around 12 Crores with 9000 number of shows. It still holds up in 15 theaters even after 4 Christmas releases which includes 2 superstar releases.
The total number of shows has reached 9,500. My Boss is one among the highest grossers of 2012.

Nov 21, 2012

Top 5 thrilling Introduction scenes of MOHANLAL


Three decade long career, acted in more than 300 films and Mohanlal is one of the greatest actors ever produced by India. Even in his 50s, he is enjoying a huge fanbase all over kerala. Even in 2012, he had a blockbuster and a superhit in his credit. He was elected as most popular Keralite in a 2006 online poll conducted by CNN-IBN on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Kerala's formation.
I discussed with my friends, Mohanlal well wishers and fans to list the Top 5 introduction scenes from Lalettan movies.



1) Narasimham

                        Narasimham is considered to be an all time highest grossing movie in Malayalam Cinema when the collection is adjusted to inflation, considering the high increase in number of releasing theatres, ticket rates and money value. It stood as the highest grossing malayalam movie for over 6 years. The film completed 200 days in a theatre and 150 days in three theatres. The movie was directed by Shaji Kailas and written by Ranjith
                        Mohanlal's introduction in 'Narasimham' as induchoodan is an epic one. Lalettan craze spread all over kerala through this movie. Narasimham's english translation is Lion-man and the director of the movie visually synchronised footsteps of Mohanlal and a real Lion thus made it a wonderful visual treat.


2) Twenty20

                             Directed by Joshiy, Twenty20 will always be a special movie for malayalee film-goers as it brought almost every stars under the same platform. It is much more special for Mohanlal Fans since the introduction scenes of Mohanlal is a blow at Mammootty. As the movie progress there are many interesting encounters between them and finally Mammootty supports Mohanlal to end kinda revenge story in stylish manner. Upon it's release, Twenty 20 managed to break all the box office records. The movie was well received in Tamil Nadu as well. Twenty 20 is graded as an 'All time Blockbuster'



3) Sagar Alias Jacky

                          Sagar Alias Jacky is one of the much hyped movie in the malayalam industry. This action flick was directed by Amal Neerad who did the cinematography as well. The film was produced by Aashirvad Cinemas. It was the sequel of 1987 superhit movie 'Irupatham Noottandu' in which Mohanlal runs a clandestine gold smuggling business. In the Introduction scene, Mohanlal is disguised as Police superintendent preceding Dubai Police Force. The dubbed version of the movie was also released in Hindi.


4) Spadikam

  In Spadikam, Mohanlal is characterised as aadu thoma, sort of bad guy with habits like drinking the blood of goat. Spadikam was released in 1995, written and directed by Badhran. The film was well received by the critics as well as public and the film was a blockbuster.

5) Rajavinte Makan

                           I included Introduction in Rajavinte Makan without considering Naran, NattiRajavu etc because this is a unique one. It depicts the actual status, honour and respect we malayalees give to Mohanlal , our Lalettan - The Prince of Kerala. Rajavinte Makan is 1986 film directed by Thampi Kannanthanam and written by Denny Joseph. One of the earliest hits of mohanlal and it is this movie that turned Mohanlal into a superstar overnight. The film's racy script and hard hitting punch dialogues made the movie a huge success in boxoffice.


Some of the recent best introduction of Mohanlal is in Casanovva(including the song), Run Babby Run, Karmayodha etc

Nov 13, 2012

Thuppakki Tamil Movie Review and BoxOffice Collection Report

REVIEW :

                Thuppakki is never a one man show, superhero movie as we expect about vijay movies. AR Murugadoss has perfectly blended vijay's mass image with a racy script and thus a complete entertainer is Thuppakki. The cinematographer Santhosh Sivan and the editor Sreekar Prasad are the persons who deserves to be applauded next. The introduction scene of Vijay is well pictured and importantly not exaggerated.
       Vijay has succesfully conveyed the undercover intelligence officer in an outstandingly stylish and convincing manner. Also Vijay's costumes were appreciable. Eventhough the character was on an impossible mission, the director has made it believable.
       Vidyut Jamwal, the villain has done a superb job. One of the major advantage of the movie is that the villain is as brainy as the hero.
        According to me one of the unforgettable scenes in the movie is when Vijay single handedly takes on 12 sleeper cells. The stunts were really realistic. The climax fight scene is bit messy and little uconvincing as he confronts the villain for the first time. Kajal Aggarwal looks hot and her saucy scenes with Vijay were refreshing. The comedy scenes are hilarious. Sathyan is casted as the friend of vijay while Jayaram as the senior officer in his army.
       Frankly most of the songs weren't well placed. Choreography didn't keep up the level. Thumbs up for harris jayaraj for 'Google Google' and background music.
    All in all Thuppakki is a perfect Diwali entertainer and a must watch.


BOXOFFICE :

            Reports says that Thuppakki made an earth shattering opening not only in tamil nadu but also in international market. Most of the theatres had 100% occupancy.
Below is the daily collection updates....
First day collection is estimated to be 11.03 Cr.....First day collection is third highest ever behind Enthiran and Nanban.
Day 2 Box Office Collection: 13.65 Cr
Day 3 Box Office Collection: 11.05 Cr
Day 4 Box Office Collection: 9.54 Cr
Day 5 Box Office Collection: 9.10 Cr
Day 6 Box Office Collection: 9.35 Cr
Day 7 Box Office Collection: 9.35 Cr
Day 8 Box Office Collection: 8.03 Cr
Day 9 Box Office Collection: 7.49 Cr
Day 10 Box Office Collection: 7.35
Day 11 Box Office Collection: 7.10
Day 12 Box Office Collection: 7.26 Crores
13 Box Office Collection: 8.12 Crores
14 Box Office Collection: 7.42 Crores
15 Box Office Collection: 6.96 Crores
16 Box Office Collection: 6.30 Crores
17 Box Office Collection: 5.65 Crores
18 Box Office Collection: 5.02 Crores
19 Box Office Collection: 5.11 Crores
20 Box Office Collection: 4.52 Crores
21 Box Office Collection: 3.05 Crores
22 Box Office Collection: 2.27 Crores
23 Box Office Collection: 2.21 Crores
24 Box Office Collection: 1.90 Crores
25 Box Office Collection: 1.63 crores
26 Box Office Collection: 1.35 crores
27 Box Office Collection: 1.30 Crores
28 Box Office Collection: 1.20 Crores
29 Box Office Collection:0.95 Crores
30 Box Office Collection: 0.90 Crores
31 Box Office Collection:0.84 Crores
32 Box Office Collections:0.76 Crores

Total Box Office Collections: 177.36 Cr approx

Thuppakki is the biggest blockbuster in tamil industry in 2012.

Nov 8, 2012

DDLJ - Longest running movie in theatres completed 17 years

‘Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge’ is the longest running indian movie in the history of cinema and the film has already completed long 17 years.
       The epic love story movie, 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge' started its successful run on 20th Oct 1995 at the theater Maratha Mandir in Mumbai. The movie was produced by Yash Chopra under the banner of Yash Raj Films. It was directed by Mr Aditya Chopra and starred by King Khan Sharukh and Kajol. The music of DDLJ was composed by Jatin Lalit and lyrics were pennef by Anannd Baksshi. DDLJ was Aditya Chopra’s first film as director and it was for the first time SRK appeared on screen in a total romantic role.
   Upon its release, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge became the biggest blockbuster of the year, also the movie won several awards including 10 Filmfare Awards and a National Award. DDLJ was also enlisted in "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", the only indian film included in the list along with the film Mother India. DDLJ is one among Robert Pattinson's and Kristen Stewart's favourite five movie list.
    DDLJ became the longest film running ever by beating Sholay(1975). Sholay ran five years completely at Minerva Theater which is very close to Maratha Mandir where DDLJ is continuing it's successful run. Mughal-e-Azam(1960) of Dilip Kumar ran for three years, but the above mentioned years and mass response towards DDLJ is incomparable.
NOTE :
- The film runs at house full shows in Mumbai’s Maratha Mandir theatre even at 17th year, and 874th week. Surprisingly, the tickets for the morning show at 11.30 am are almost always sold out at an earlier stage itslef!
- on the 17th Anniversary of the nation’s favourite film, King Khan’s loyal fans have made #DDLJ a trending topic on the social networking site.
- Aditya chopra planned to make DDLJ in english & he wanted to cast Tom cruise opposite an indian girl.He wanted to portray a love story between a london boy & indian girl.

Nov 4, 2012

Ayalum Njanum thammil Malayalam Movie Review and Boxoffice Collection Report

REVIEW :
After Spanish Masala and Diamond Necklace, ANT is Lal Jose's third venture which shows what a terrific director he is. Another notable point is that this is a comeback project for young actor prithvi after many failures. Prithviraj is spectacular as Ravi Tharakan and can be stated as his best performance of the year.
    The screenplay by Bobby and Sanjay connects incidents and occurrences in a way that does not let the viewer relax or find a comfort zone. Cutting back and forth, it unfolds the story of Ravi Tharakan. The film is conveyed in a non-linear manner same as that of the narration done in Traffic. Jomon T John's cinematography leaves us spell bound yet again, Each frame suited the emotions, colors, and the feel of the characters.
      Impressively directed and well acted, Ayalum Njanum Thammil is yet another must watch film from director Lal Jose.

BOXOFFICE :

3 days - 1.74 crores. Has a got a good opening considering the challenge from JOV
13 days - 5.30 crores. Overtook JOV in collection and declared as a safe venture.
ANT was hardly hit by theatre strike. It is estimated that ANT would have lost more than 1cr due to the strike. The current collection update is that it grossed 5.96 crores.
Ayalum Njanum Thammil has made the year right for Prithviraj. ANT has collected a total of 6.28 Crores in it's lifetime run.