Bhramaram Review

Al last, Malayalam movies are getting out of the rut. Am so glad. Bhramaram is yet another different movie that has hit the cinemas. It falls into different genres actually: thriller, sentimental, topical, cerebral and family movie, or all of these. The work of the entire team has brought out a mind blowing result:The camera (Ajayan Vincent who is Jayanan Vincent's brother and son of veteran Vincent), acting (Mohanlal, Suresh Menon, Muralikrishnan, in that order), apt sound (Mohan Sithara) and the suthradhar of it all, Blessy (bless him for thinking out of the box and working towards realisation of his visualisation) He says two cameramen declined when they saw the locales, rough terrain in the high ranges of Kerala. The city shots have novelty written all over them. Blessy has exploited up to 60 per cent of Mohanlal's talent. So far he has brought out hardly 45 per cent, I believe. Jayanan Vincent's camera makes you sit on the edge of your seat. Only at the end of the movie do you realise the meaning of the title. Flaws there are, but very very few. Year 2009 will be a landmark year for Malayalam cinema. Would that more and more directors think out of the formula.

Don't fear a check up

We had our medical check up today. Men think it's macho to say, 'I don't have the time for such things,' but I think they are plain scared and think it can be put off for fear of finding out that there IS something wrong with them. Just look at what happened to Lohitadas and closer home, to Vijayakumar, one of the finest desk hands in journalism, in India. So go for your check up: That's the moral of the story.

Rains and attitude

Going home in the rain, yesterday, I was cursing the puddles, getting angry with the car drivers who splashed water on my sari and generally irritated at the crowded buses. Halfway through, when I was walking along to board my next bus. I started enjoying it all, the water. the rain and the freedom to walk about as I pleased. I realised that once I started NOT worrying about whether my sari would be dirtied, whether my leather slipper would be wet and whether my bag would be mis-shapen, I was enjoying the rains, looking at the world in a different way and feeling relaxed. Why don't we enjoy the small mercies that come to us instead of placing gargantuan demands on poor God who is already overburdened with the likes of Sreeshanth's mother and the mothers and fathers of Idea star Singer contestants constantly fighting for His attentions?
It's attitude that matters.

Maiden blog

July 1, 2009
Wow, Great D-Day. Feels great to have created a blog all by myself. It's a kind of Eureka feeling, especially it's because a friend, Padma Jayaraj, wrote saying she wanted to create a blog but didn't know how. That set me thinking and here I am. More later, let me take in my joy first.