It tastes less sweet but sounds too familiar

I saw the promos of the Amitabh-Tabu starrer film "Chinni Kum".The first thing that caught my attention was the title song. Its inspired, no sorry, directly lifted from Mani Rathnam directed Tamil movie Mouna Ragam that was made in 1986.The original song being "Mandram vandha thendraluku, manjam vara nenjam....". Listen it. I was quite angry and looked closely at the promos again, expecting Anu Malik to be the Music Director, but surprisingly found it to be Illayaraja, the maestro who also did the original score. May be the Rahman bug, of reusing his Tamil song tunes for Hindi films and vice versa, has bitten him too. Thank God!!, Software Engineers are not the only lot to be blamed for the "Ctrl C + Ctrl V" phenomenon.

Somehow the feel of the movie also looks very familiar to me. I don’t know why, but I feel the movie could be inspired by "Tortilla Soup". May be the fact that the protagonist is a chef who is in love with a younger girl is the reason. Waiting for the release of the movie.

Friend's enemy,My enemy!!!

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Unspoken Words ...

This is the second time in as many weeks, I have been asked by a friend to accompany for the movie "Mozhi". I have already seen the film twice, so I had to decline both the offers. This is one movie, which every Tamil speaking person would like to watch. Its very rare that you get to see a neat, decent movie with an undercurrent message but at the same time, is non preachy. In short a complete entertainer.

There was only a fleeting moment in the almost flawless film, when I felt that "this could have been done without". It is a movie that sensitizes about the handicapped people and urging us to understand them and accept them as they are. It instills a sense of self-respect and dignity among the handicapped people. With such lofty ideals as its base, expectations from the film, at least in the handling of emotions of the handicapped people, are quite high.

Jo, who acts, as a deaf and dumb girl gets angry with Prithviraj because he imaginatively tries to give a voice to her .He wonders if Jo had a voice how would it sound and every time she communicates through sign language, he mentally gives it a voice. The very fact that she is not being accepted as she is angers her and severs her friendship with Prithviraj. Prithviraj tries hard to make Jo forgive him, but Jo is quite adamant. Jo finally breaks into a smile when Prithvi acts like a mentally challenged and makes all sort of funny face. According to Jo's characterization, I personally feel she should have got more angry but on the contrary it triggers her to laugh and forgive Prithviraj. Something I cannot accept.

Well, you can call me a cynic or incorrigible faultfinder but all I expect is a uniformly good, sensitive movie.