Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Watched Mozhi. Don't remember a tamil movie that I enjoyed so much in the last few years (with family, esp., with my 7 year old).
Kudos to Prakash Raj and director Radha Mohan for making such a clean and light hearted movie, esp., when the tamil film industry is reeling under the aruva sentement and loud "Aieeeys" with blood shot eyes and nerve throbing shots.
All actors have given a calm and near natural performance, each character is well built and nicely played out. For a music theme (or the lack of music in the case of Jyothika's cha) based movie, the back ground score could have been better. Raja would have done wonders here. Although Vidyasshar has done his best through meaningful silences. Also could have reduced two songs!
Hopefully success of this movie will go a long way in encouraging more cleaner entertainers from kollywood (hate this word!). It is good to see that Tamil industry is going thru a lot of experimentation with movies like Veyil, Paruthiveeran, Mozhi, 23 Pulikezhi, etc.

Monday, April 09, 2007

Life:

An album,
Frame after frame
And like those old frames
It fades ever so slowly.
The older it gets,
Sweeter it becomes.

A garland of memories
So carefully collected
And delicately strung
It dries, it withers
All that remains is the fragrance
that lingers behind.

A shore full of foot prints
left behind for time to erase,
wave after wave.
The shore is long,
Footfalls are many
But Time is tireless.


Relationship:
A word, a look, a frown, a second
The wound - till I die.

A word, a look, a smile, a second
I flower - till I die

Oh Enemy!

Oh Enemy! - Varavara Rao. A page from my 1991 Diary