Sunday, August 21, 2005

Change...RGV Style..

How long has it been since we had a song less film in Tamil? The last I remember was Kurudipunal. Indian cinema is still one full of songs and dance and it is as inevitable as Lallo to indian politics (read it as necessary evil). Yesterday me and my friends saw "My wife's Murder". The plan was to go to Madagascar, but unfortunately there were no tickets (Do so many people watch animation movies in chennai?)
It was a simple story of Ravi patwardhan (Anil Kapoor) who is married unhappily to a nagging Suchitra Krishnamurthy. She keeps suspecting that he is having an affair with his assistant Reena(Nandana Sen). She tortures and nags him so much that as an audience u yourself could have ended up murdering her.
In one fit of rage Ravi slaps her and it turns out to be a real killer blow (Literally).Fear as they say is a very dangerous ally and Ravi ends up dumping her somewhere. Now how he covers it up and what happens next forms the rest of the story.
Its been ages since i saw an Anil kapoor movie, let alone in theatre. He fits the bill perfectly as the common man on run. Nandana Sen looks good and doesn’t overdo her role. Boman Irani as the cop investigating the murder is a refreshing change from the over the top cops in the rest of the movies. He keeps eating in the movie and I wonder that that must have formed most of the production cost.
An RGV (ram Gopal Varma) product is always technically slick and this one is no different. The sound effects are good and the girl on our back seat kept screaming for the slightest THUD. The absence of heroism punch dialogues, songs and item numbers, overacting villains, crude comedy may make an average film goer feel uncomfortable.
If u r an audience who wants to just watch an unusual movie without masala, this could be your ticket. Overall...a laudable ok effort.

6 comments:

Neha said...

its jus too true about the songs, but i don blieve they r "necessary" evils, they r neither necessary nor evil ;)(atleast mos of the time). but truly a BORE. i guess its time the industry did away with these songs...romba arukkudhu...

Harish said...

Neha
If songs are nice then who the heck cares about them.Trouble is when they are S A Rajkumars la la la types.
Cant stand them any longer.

Peelamedu_bulls said...

Haaa ! What a crude and evil intention. Harish if there were no songs, no item numbers, tamil kudimagan would have missed the likes of Mumtaj, Namitha, Silkkuu.... Avanoda aasa thapangalukku oru vadigaal illama poyirukkum.
Fortunate you got a ticket. Weekdayslle kooda satyamlle night show ticket kidaika maatengudhu.

Harish said...

Nyaayamaana paechu thaan Maamu
Aanalum oru limit venaama??
Ivangale Heroine velai um seyyaranga..item song kkum varanga..appa adaye pozhappa edutukiravanga gadhi???
Namitha...ava pakkatula Hero kooda chinna paiyan maadhiri thaan irukkan...

Peelamedu_bulls said...

Harish, went for MWM sterday. Nice movie yaar. When will stop 'zimply zimply rotating the tree' love movies.
I'm not a good critic, but this is what I liked in the film
Lighting : Just perfect. Natural lighting especially the indoor scenes
Music : Scary and a little overdone sometimes.
Acting : Can't stop admiring each and every character.
Direction : First half goes on track. Second half meets a deadend without much improvement.

Harish said...

Bulls(or shall i call Prabhakar)
u r correct
It was different film from the rest of the run of the mill ones
The more we encourage such ones wee will get rid of the Vijays and Simbhus of our cinema