Nandalala - Dont miss it

My longing to see a good film in Tamil is been fulfilled by Mysskin’s Nandalala. At first a royal salute to Mysskin for not making a storyline based in Madurai zone which portrays a hero with unshaven face. Because most of the directors at present in Tamil cinema industry says they making a realistic script and does the above mentioned story.

A journey of two persons a kid and a grown up kid in searching of their respective mothers is the storyline. The situations and the persons they meet in the process of journey forms the crux of the film. I didn’t want to reveal the entire story because it may disrupt your interest while seeing the movie.

In a journey of life, we do several small journeys. Those journeys and the co-passengers of the journeys teach us a lot of lesson about the life. This is the thing Mysskin tries to deliver in the movie. The characterization of each person in the film is done by Mysskin with utmost care. Particularly I loved the characterization of the differentially able person the lead characters meet in the middle. Each end every scene of the film is crafted like writing a novel. I felt like reading a novel not felt as seeing a film. The director explains many sequences by the visualization not by lengthy dialogues.

Technically film has a lot to praise. Cinematography for the film is done by Mahesh Muthusamy. He deserves lot of praises, because his camera captured with the exact mood of the scenes, the colorization is perfect for each scene. Editing by Khakin deserves a special mention because for this kind of film the running length is the key factor and he made it around 135mins, which is a highly favorable thing to enjoy the movie.

The one person who carried the film in his shoulders with ease is our Mastero Illayaraja. I never experienced such a great quality BGM in any of the recent Tamil movies even not in Illayaraja scored films. Thanks to Mysskin for it. I am sure Illayaraja deserves a national award for Nandalala.

In performance everybody who acted in the movie did their job pretty well. As he is the captain of the ship, Mysskin blended himself to the character of psychologically affected person. The small boy Aswath ram and snigdha both did a commendable job.
Overall Nandalala is a cute novel in silver screen which portrays human emotions in relationships very neatly. A must see movie don’t miss it.






P.S: Nandalala is based on a Japanese film “Kikujiro” directed by Takeshi Kitano.

Persons who inspired me-3

In my last two posts, I had written about the personalities who inspired me, but here comes the person who not only inspired me but also influenced me. His music always made me to feel good. He started his journey as a music instruments lender and then a keyboard player, finally a world class musician. The person I am writing about here is A. S. Dileep Kumar aka Allah Rakha Rahman and shortly ARR by his fans.



His abilities is been showcased to the world by a Tamil movie “ROJA”, which won him a national award. Since then he is unstoppable and that journey is been going steady after two Oscar awards. Initially he is been criticized by some persons for using electronically generated sounds. Even Illayaraja had mentioned in an interview that he never considers those electronic wastes of Rahman. But the same Illayaraja had praised him in a function where ARR is congratulated by Tamil cinema’s musicians. Whatever the criticisms are he answers it by his works not by words. To me music should be pleasant and magical irrespective of what the instruments used to compose it.

From my childhood when it comes to music ARR songs dominated completely. I admired his arrangements and using of new talents in his songs. Particularly I admired his introduction of Chinmayi to render for a song in Kannathil Muthamittal is the best part. His introduction of new talents changed the musical face of Tamil cinema. According to me his masterpiece in composition are Aromale in VTV, Oru theivam thandha poove & Vellai pookal in Kannathil muthamittal and his Vande mataram.

In my life, whenever I was happy, Sad, felt depressed and in travel ARR’s music is my companion.

The things which I inspired from him are
- Calmness
- Spirituality and
- Passion towards his work

Persons who inspired me-2

The very next person after Sujatha who inspired me a lot is Dr. Kamal Hassan. From my childhood he is inspiring me a lot. But I didn’t recognize or understood the thoughts his movies carries, even I didn’t figure out he is a great actor. Even while seeing his famous movie “Thevarmagan” I didn’t realize about his performance. That might be due to the reason of his liveliness with the character. The movie which made me to turn my attention on him and made me to wonder about him is “AnbeSivam”. I think it is the first Tamil cinema which created a great impact on me. After seeing his performance and the thoughts he came around in that movie, I did a time travel by seeing all his previous classic movies.



The most things I hear about him in my surrounding is his movies and thoughts are advanced and that is the reason it is not understandable. I couldn’t understand this, because he never takes movies in any unknown language. For example if we know Indian history very well we can understand his Heyram easily. So I thought and also came to a conclusion that for our lack of knowledge we should not blame a genius. He entered the cinema industry as a choreographer, Balachander made him an assistant director to him and then to an actor.

I don’t know how he shaped his career as an actor, but I do aware about his script and dialogue writing skills. So when considering his scripts like Guna, Alavandhan, Anbesivam, Thevarmagan, Heyram, Dasavatharam all were in different genres. He handles every genre with ease which is not possible for many versatile scriptwriters in Tamil cinema. I don’t know how many of them are aware about Thevarmagan is an inspiration from Hollywood’s classic The Godfather. His “AnbeSivam” is a classic and masterpiece in Tamil cinema.

But I loved Dasavatharam more than anything from his other movies as a script writer. Because in it he interludes so many things like chaos theory, randomness theory, atheism, theism, international politics, science and finally history. To write a script with this much thing is really a difficult one, but he made it quite comfortably. More than script, the dialogues are so lively and great one in a Tamil movie after a long time. Particularly the initial dialogues of rangaraja nambi are awesome. Only this movie helped me to know about chaos theory and randomness theory.

But recently his new facet is revealed to me by Vijay TV. It is nothing other than his literature skills. I really took a long time to understand this and finally felt ashamed about myself for not understanding a poem on my mother tongue.

The things I got inspired from him are to learn a lot of things and use those knowledge u posses by learning to teach others. The important thing I learnt is, know about you more and love yourself a lot.

Persons who inspired me-1

I came across this person’s writings during my HSC. I don’t know really how many of my close ones aware about his writings. He is initially known to me only as a writer, but when days passed I realized that he is a writer (books, drama, dialogues and screenplay), engineer and scientist. The thing by which he inspired me is his way of narration and new form of Tamil writings. Some of you now might have realized who I am writing about, he is writer Sujatha aka Rangarajan.

Sujatha (May 3, 1935 - February 27, 2008) was the pseudonym of the Tamil writer S. Rangarajan, author of over 100 novels, 250 short stories, ten books on science, ten stage plays, and a slim volume of poems. He was one of the most popular writers in Tamil literature, and a regular contributor to topical columns in Tamil periodicals such as Ananda Vikatan, Kumudam and Kalki. He had a wide readership, and served for a brief period as the editor of Kumudam, and has also written screenplays and dialogues for several Tamil movies. (Courtesy: Wikipedia)



If you are interested to read books and not having any idea about the author to start with, then your choice should be sujatha. Because he is the only writer in tamil who I know, has written stories years beyond which suits the present trend. I started to read his writings from “En iniya iyandhira”, a story about a robo dog, which has Artificial Intelligence. I think he wrote the story during 1980s. And the next part to the same book too is released during the same period. These are the two books where our latest blockbuster movie “Endhiran” is inspired. He is not only talented in writing Sci-fi stories. His story on love “pirivom sandhipom” is a biggest hit in Ananda vikatan. When I assumed he is master story writer(i.e is lengthy stories), his short stories surprised me a lot.

But he is not only a story writer his columns are of great success in both Ananda vikatan and Kanayali. He had written several drama scripts and dialogues for famous movies like Iruvar, Kannathil Muthamittal, Aayitha Ezhuthu, Indian, Mudhalvan etc. when I thought he was versatile writer, I surprised by an information from my dad, because he is one of the inventor of our E-polling machine. He did his engineering in MIT, Chennai. He worked first in Civil Aviation Department of Government of India and later for Bharat Electronics Limited in Bangalore. He initiated the development of advanced word processing before the days of personal computers.

The things which I got inspired from him are he never stopped to learn things till his journey of life stopped. He is specialized in so many fields, many personalities had said that we can discuss any kind of topic with him. Its hard to be a genius like him, but its easy to follow his footsteps and learn things. Because our country needs more creators in whatever field we operate. I got inspired from his stories and columns, I hope this small piece of my writings about this great man will inspire you.