Rah-mania again...!!

How can I not write a post after what has happened today...!! afterall, this is wat i was waitin for since almost a month... many of my predictions turned out to b correct.. n more importantly Rahman... he did it...!! i've been tellin that somethin made me feel he'll win the Oscar.. n well-deservingly, he won 2 of them.. wat more can i expect...!!! so humble even after winnin 2 Oscars.. its this nature of his.. bein down-to-earth.. that has made him reach such great heights.. so great... yet so simple.. its probably this nature of many people that make them successful in their life.. n more importantly "happy"...!! that was very clearly visible on his face.. thankin his singers.. his musicians.. his mom.. n more importantly the Almighty..!! Ellam pughazhum Iraivanukke...!!!

Comin to Slumdog Millionaire.. was very happy to see the child actors there.. i mean.. leave all the talk about mumbai bein shown in a bad light.. not-such-a-good-movie talks.. celebrities slammin the movie etc.. it was about the happiness in the faces of cast n the crew all thru the show.. it was very amazin to see Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Kate Winslet cheer the child actors wen they were gettin onto the dais wen Best Picture Oscar was awarded.. the young Jamals, Salims and Latikas probably didnt even knew who these great actresses were.. n the whole audience givin a standin ovation was such a wonderful sight that doesnt happen all the time... truly the children were the heart n soul of the movie... they truly deserved every clap n applause at the Kodak theatre.. 

As for the other awards.. Slumdog Millionaire very honestly deserved the awards in the technical categories like Sound Mixing.. Editing.. Cinematography as i had already mentioned in my previous posts.. Penelope Cruz's fainting thing.. n her spanish words.. Kate's emotions.. Heath Ledger for Supportin Actor.. were all truly deservin.. n a bit moving... 

One thing i'm afraid of now is if Rahman will be lost to Hollywood.. n probably lesser movies in Tamil n Hindi.. that wud b a very sad thing on one side.. but will b good to see an Indian talent bein recognised world-wide.. watever happens, happens for good.. lets hope for the best...!!!

Oscars - My Predictions

Jus 2 days to go.. n still in doubt about the Best Picture award... 

Best Picture - Slumdog Millionaire/Benjamin Button

Directing - Danny Boyle

Actor - Sean Penn

Actress - Meryl Streep

Actor in Supporting Role - Heath Ledger

Actress in Supporting Role - Penelope Cruz

Writing (Adapted Screenplay) - Slumdog Millionaire

Writing (Original) - Wall-E

Animated Feature Film - Wall-E

Music (Score) - Slumdog/Wall-E

Music Song - Jai Ho (SM)

Art Direction - Benjamin Button

Cinemematography - Slumdog Millionaire/Benjamin Button

Costume Design - Benjamin Button

Film Editing - Slumdog Millionaire/Benjamin Button

Makeup - Benjamin Button

Sound Editing - Slumdog Millionaire/Wall-E

Sound Mixing - Slumdog Millionaire/Wall-E

Visual Effects - Benjamin Button

Lets see how good r my predictions...!!

Bollywood movies premiers in US/UK

Why...?? wats the whole point in doing this...??

Last year, it was Om Shanti Om to have its premier in London.. n more recently, CC2C premiered in New York.. 2 weeks back, it was Billu which premiered in London.. n now.. Delhi 6 premieres in NY again.. 

Alright.. accepted that these movies have huge markets in the 2 countries.. but wats the point.. the hardcore fans r here in India.. this is where they get a huge chunk of profits from... these guys wanna lure the Hollywood production houses...?? if so, wat happened with CC2C... Warner Bros endin up losing their money/reputation.. the same happened with Walt Disney for Roadside Romeo.. Sony for Saawariya.. Warner again for some movie which i dont remember... probably there r few more to come..

Its time for these production houses to give importance to the content/story rather than jus bein happy about deals with the Bollywood bigwigs...

psst: let me kno if i'm missin somethin here.. age old Hollywood producers cant be so dumb.. can they...??

Was I stunned or.. was I stunned...!!??

Yes.. i was really stunned after watchin this sci-fi movie The Man From Earth and i'm still under the cast that this movie has spell on me.. i'm doin nothin but think about this movie.. its not even been 24 hours since i saw the movie for the first time, n i've already seen it thrice till now.. n i dunno how many more times i'm gonna watch it... this was the first time i ever saw a movie twice continuously without a break.. there have been movies which almost convinced me of watchin it again like The Last Samurai, Shawshank Redemption, The Truman Show etc.. but i never did... (i've seen them at a later time though...) i mean.. there r these protagonist characters in some movies which we feel we wanna b in our real life.. these r all some of them... n this character John Oldman in this movie is (the best) wat i would like to be if it is possible at all...

The film is about a guy who claims to be 14,000 years old and how he manages to convince his colleagues/friends (or maybe not.. watch the movie.. :P) that he really is.. n all his experiences in his lifetime.. (14,000 years is quite a lifetime.. aint it...??) the movie relies entirely on the conversation that this group of people has and that too in a house.. infact, in jus a hall.. highly intellectual i must say.. its a movie that kinda surpasses time n space.. it jus gets u goin frm the beginnin... with some thunderbolt kinda shocks in the middle.. one such at almost an hour into the movie... "Wat the...!!??" is wat u'll feel.. i guarantee...

The movie definitely rises a lot discussions.. very high level discussions indeed..  but u jus keep sittin there n watch it without anythin u can say until its over... one thing i felt durin the course of movie is that some devout christians might not like the movie jus coz the topics/discussions that arise.. but, at the end, the more u think about it, the more it'll make u feel that anything is possible.. the more it'll start to make sense to u... ofcourse, there r quite a few logical questions that u mite ask a guy who claims to be 14,000 years old.. like drivin license, social security number (this movie bein American) and other such stuff.. but this will mean u believe wat he says.. the more significant claim that he's that old.. the screenplay perfectly jus doesnt have that.. really need to appreciate the writer here.. n afterall, its jus a moooovie u kno... there's obviously no logic in a lot of high budget sci-fi movies.. n its not fair if u ask me if this one has any.. also, i wanted the movie to be more lengthier.. atleast 30 more minutes of absolute trance i wud say...

I am really very happy to have seen this movie.. a sci-fi movie made at modest budget of jus $200,000.. with no CG or SFX n no flyin superheroes or gadgets or satellites.. nothing...!!! its a movie that is thought provoking.. highly intellect.. with a lot of interestin history facts.. all this in jus a conversation between a group of teachers/professors.. wat more can u expect...!!??

This movie is highly recommended to all those who believe sci-fi movies can be made at low budgets.. or for those who'll atleast start to believe the same once they watch this movie.. :P

The best way to watch this movie is to download it from the internet (torrents n stuff..) as a matter of fact, the producers themselves have thanked BitTorrent for havin made this movie available on the internet (illegally ofcourse) and obviously for the free marketing.. a lot of ppl have downloaded frm the internet.. so go ahead.. download this movie.. (the producers will be more than happy...) my friend Praveen is one such guy.. n i've no words to thank him for this gem.. 

I have no problem in promotin a movie like this.. do visit this site once.. http://www.manfromearth.com/index.html

psst:   

1. the guy who plays the lead character John Oldman looks a lot like Robert DeNiro... 

2. more importantly, it wud have been nice if u read this post after watchin the movie... ;)

What a PATHANic match...!!

Ohh man.. wat a match it was... 

I started watchin the match (at my friend's place) only after 5 overs of the Srilankan innings.. score was 53 for no loss then.. was a very good score indeed.. n with the form that Dilshan and Jayasuriya were in, they could easily set a target of somewhere aroung 180-190... that too with Pathan having dropped a sitter in the very first over and with some great decisions by the dumb umpires...

Then came a real stunner from Ishant.. a stunnin single handed catch to dismiss Jayasuriya.. (but the NeoCricket a**holes werent even showin the replay of the catch, an ad turned up within 2 seconds of the catch bein taken..) but the bad part was.. even as the wickets kept fallin, the runs were bein scored constantly.. thanks to the great decisions by the umpires and also the not-so-good fielding by the Indians... 

Srilankans were on somethin around 150 in 16 point somethin overs when i stopped watchin the match.. had to go for dinner and then rush home... but unfortunately didnt get to watch the innings completely.. then again after sometime, jus got to see that Indians were on 59/2 in 6 overs after havin lost the openers jus 2 overs into the innings... stopped watchin there as i had some work... 

This mornin, the first thing i did was to watch the highlights on the tv.. i had no idea who won the match n i didnt even wanna know the same frm the newspaper or news channels.. jus wanted to watch the highlights... i wasnt expectin wat i saw.. 5 wickets fell for jus 34 runs.. Yuvi, Raina, Dhoni, Rohit and Jadeja..!!! all of them for jus 34 runs.. i never really thought there were any chances left for India to win the match.. havin required to score 62 frm some 34 balls wen the Pathan brothers were on the crease, i thought India would end up somewhere around 150-160.. 

But the Pathan brothers were just amazing.. brilliant.. watever.. 17 runs frm Bandara's over made me think there were still some chances left for us... runs kept comin quite easily after that.. with Fernando givin away extras n juicy deliveries, there was no stoppin Yusuf n Irfan.. the last winnin six was the best and stylish way to win the match... it was jus the brothers' day indeed... n afterall, we r the world champs..!!