Demonte Colony

Demonte Colony

தமிழ் சினிமா அப்டேட்ஸ் களை உடனுக்குடன் தெரிந்து கொள்ள Filmi Street App - ஐ டவுன்லோட் செய்யுங்கள்

Cast & Crew

Starring – Arulnithi
Written and Directed by – R.Ajay Gnanamuthu
Cinematography – Aravinnd Singh
Music Composer – Keba Jeremiah
Editing – Bhuvan Srinivasan
Art Director – T.Santhanam
Lyrics – Na.Muthukumar & Arunraja Kamaraj
Banner – Sri Thenandal Films and Mohana Movies

 

Movie Review:

Spooky thrillers have been making every Friday more celebratory in theatres and especially the summer vacations have been getting the best toast of its course. Following the grand success of ‘Kanchana 2’, here comes ‘Demonte Colony’, a film that is reported to be based on some real life incidents laced with fiction and the eerie elements.

Before 16 years, Hollywood spearheaded with one such unusual horror genre titled ‘The Blair Witch Project’ directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez. The film actually started off the trend, where the friends in group are attacked at haunted places. Demonte Colony brings forth such an instance, where four friends embark on their journey into this haunted house and rest is about the horripilating fate haunting them.

Four friends – Srinivasan aka Srini (Arulnithi), Raghavan, Vimal and Sajith are happy go lucky youngsters, who have this devil may care attitude. Over a night, where the entire Chennai is merged with midnight silence, they make their way into a haunted place called ‘De Monte Colony’, which is said to be haunted for centuries. When one among them carries the mysterious chain present there, rest is what they didn’t expect.

Horror movies irrespective of how engaging it is or should be manage to grab the audience’s attention if it has the best technicians on board.  The background score and cinematography if exerted with the best appeal, then it would bring you the most chilling experience with visuals. Over here, cinematographer Aravind Singh and guitarist-music director Keba Jeremiah offer the best efforts to nurture this eerie thriller. These two are the greatest pillars of this film.  Although, two songs in the first half are enjoyable, they seems to be deliberately included for the sake of commercial aspects.

The first half rarely has some catchy moments, which would let your popcorn’s juggled up over the seats. Very less thrills and chills during the first hour and the actual horror-drama strikes as we move to the second half, with some commendable moments. Not to miss the scene, where the protagonist himself has his own terror. But Arulnithi could have emphasized few more efforts to give the best performance. He looks little doubtful in many places of what he is doing. Raghavan manages to bring forth some of his laudable energy and his performance is completely close to the skin of his characterization. Ramesh Thilak is always known for giving the realistic acting and over here does the same. In fact, his presence adds up some additional intensity. The one essaying the role of De Monte is extraordinary and his makeover is extraordinarily done.

If you want to know which scene really excites you with shuddering effects, then it’s none other than the intermission point followed by the immediate start of second half and not to miss the penultimate sequences that will push you up with fun and Goosebumps.

While Tamil Cinema has been following the prototyped horror stories in the technical and narrative aspects, Ajay Gnanamuthu has clearly struck a different stroke following the pattern of James Wan’s Conjuring and Insidious.

 

Verdict: A sleek horror-thriller worth watching.  

Purampokku

Purampokku

தமிழ் சினிமா அப்டேட்ஸ் களை உடனுக்குடன் தெரிந்து கொள்ள Filmi Street App - ஐ டவுன்லோட் செய்யுங்கள்

The official trailer of ‘Purampokku’ Starring Arya, Vijay Sethupathi, Shaam and Karthika Nair in lead.

Movie – Purampokku
Starring – Arya, Vijay Sethupathi, Shaam, Karthika Nair
Music – Varshan
Director – S.P. Jhananathan
Editing – N.Ganeshkumar
Cinematography – N.K.Ekambaram
Producer – Siddharth Roy Kapur
Banner – UTV Motion Pictures, Binary Pictures
Music Label – Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt. Ltd.

Review :

A drama that turns our hearts fragile throws the lumps in throats and let u turn speechless during the final moments. SP Jhananathan brings forth an amalgamated essence of these emotional aspects in his latest outing ‘Purampokku Engira Podhuvudamai’. Produced by SP Jhananathan under his home banner in collaboration with UTV Motion Pictures, the film stars top-charting actors like Arya, Shaam, Vijay Sethupathi and Karthika Nair in lead roles….

Incorrigible international criminal is the word and 3 time death sentence is the penalty for Balu (Arya) for committing attack attempts on Indian army. The Supreme Court passes the judgment of hanging him at Chennai Central Prison and Maucalam (Shaam), a daring IPS officer has been assigned to handle this and a proficient hangman named Yamalingam (Vijay Sethupathi) is the one hired for execution.

An incredible spell from almost everyone in the team. It’s so simple to analyse and credit the equal dose of praises to this entire crew. To start off with, Vijay Sethupathi is the magnanimous showstopper with an irresistible energy to prove that he has touched the next step of his ladder towards success. This could be the best of his performance graph till the date although he has back-to-back four blockbusters to credit up. Couple of scenes that empowers his prowess performance leaves us completely astonished. The scene, where he remains depressed in desolation over his past experiences of hanging the criminal and the climax act is unbeatably extraordinary. Arya gets a meaty lead role to perform after a very long time and Shaam is brilliantly tremendous.

Arya is simple great and stands out best on his part. He remains completely silent in many sequences and his interaction with Shaam during the final episode is mind blowing.

Background score by Srikanth Deva emblazons the film with more magnitude, particularly during the second half…. The orchestral instruments mix up the emotions leaving a huge impact in our hearts. Cinematography by Ekambaram is masterful of visuals and art director is sure to win the National awards.

Regardless of some negative points that include portions of Karthika and her crew to hatch up escape plans for Arya, they are little disappointing. Certain sequences could have been trimmed and couple of songs or even three deleted would have made it more engaging.

Overall, ‘Purampokku’ is a masterpiece one could give the verdicts and SP Jhananathan deserves tons of appreciations for showcasing something that Indian cinema hadn’t tried to evolve upon. It’s not just about a jail drama or thriller, but moves deep into the planes of delineating the each and every element of reality in prison life.

 

Verdict: Mind-blowing, Excellently carved with reality factors

36 Vayadhinile ( 36 Vayathinile)

36 Vayadhinile ( 36 Vayathinile)

தமிழ் சினிமா அப்டேட்ஸ் களை உடனுக்குடன் தெரிந்து கொள்ள Filmi Street App - ஐ டவுன்லோட் செய்யுங்கள்

Cast & Crew

Movie : 36 Vayadhinile (aka) 36 Vayathinile
cast: Jyotika, Rahman
Director: Rosshan Andrrews
Cinematography: R.Diwakaran
Editing: Mahesh Narayanan
Art Director: Cyril Kuruvila
Composer: Santhosh Narayanan
Dialogues: Viji
Lyrics: Vivek
Designs: 24AM
PRO: Johnson
Producer: Suriya
Banner: 2D Entertainment
Label: Think Music

 

Summary :

36 Vayadhinile” directed by Rosshan Andrrews is an remake of 2014 Malayalam movie How Old Are You? written by Bobby Sanjay. The film stars Jyothika in the lead role, which marks her comeback after 8 years in Tamil since Manikanda in 2007. The film is produced her husband Actor Suriya under his home banner 2D Entertainment. Music composed by Santhosh Narayanan.

 

Movie Review:

Sophistication and enhancements in luxurious lives become the top priority of husband and daughter. A woman as homemaker and employee struggles to be the best in playing her role efficiently, but is always cornered mercilessly for being a dumb. It’s an intriguing scenario that we see every day in our own lives, where our mothers, spouse and sisters hold back their dreams for the sake of family.

Vasanthi (Jyotika) is one among them who doesn’t get her due respect from her husband (Rahman) who dreams bigger in foreign life and so is her daughter. They both leave her behind in Chennai and fly for Ireland. She now discovers the real purpose of her life and embarks on her dream journey turning the spotlights on her.

The much hackneyed terms like ‘Comeback’, ‘Spectacular performance from Jyotika’ could be boredom.  A crisp or incisive statement – As Vasanthi she conveys the best of emotions of every women we come across in our lives. The scenes where she struggles between her innocence and buried dreams for the sake of her family and yet being cornered for all problems. The scene where Rahman converses in harsh words on the lanes of Triplicane and she politely walks beside him saying, “I never knew you had so much of expectations over me before 13 years itself.” When her daughter tries to open up the question she had asked President and her reply “No, I don’t need it” is remarkably excellent. The single shot and dialogue takes the entire first half to a greater level.

The second half slightly drops down the momentum as it becomes a normal concept of organic farming doesn’t impress us. The adulteration of fruits and vegetables is something the society is used to more than three years of time and this concept doesn’t hold us intact during the second hour.

Technically, Santosh Narayanan’s background score brings more emotions and intensity to even the normal scenes. He has done a colossal task with this and in fact, his BGM along with Jyotika’s performance makes the film outperform the original version. Rosshan Andrews has evidently taken scrutinizing efforts over nurturing this remake project with more clarity. 36 vayadhinile doesn’t resemble ‘How old are you’ in any places, even for the ones who have already seen it.

The characters involving Rahman, Delhi Ganesh, Jayaprakash, Nasser, Prem etc have contributed their maximum energy into the film…

While Tamil cinema has been exploring new and different genres of cinema, hats off to 2D Entertainment and Jyotika for reviving the genre of ‘Feminism’, which was so much absent in Tamil cinema for many years.

 

Verdict: A beautiful drama one can dedicate to their women in life.

 

 

Innimey Ippadithaan

Innimey Ippadithaan

தமிழ் சினிமா அப்டேட்ஸ் களை உடனுக்குடன் தெரிந்து கொள்ள Filmi Street App - ஐ டவுன்லோட் செய்யுங்கள்

Santhanam delivered a promising debut in lead role with the film ‘Vallavanukku Pullum Aayudham’ and with the grand success has proceeded ahead with ‘Inimey Ippadithaan’ that stars the same heroine Ashna Zaveri in female lead role along with Akhila Kishore of Kathai Thiraikathai Vasanam Iyakkam. Santosh Dayanidhi makes his debut as music director and the film is directed by debutants Anand and Murugan named together as ‘Muruganand’.

 

1. Athana Azhagayum

Singers: Varun Parandhaman and Sopia Ashraf

 

The album starts off with a feel good romantic number, which is good on hearing with mild intonations and rhythmic accompaniments. Santosh deserves special mention for getting these singers Varun Parandhaman and Sopia Ashraf who brim up the song with some decorous elements.

 

2. Athula Oru Kaal

Singers: Mahalingam, Thalapathi and Sapta

 

Something chirpy and fun-filled! This could be the abrupt experience we gain through the song. And again, the singers make it more compelling to offer the best they could afford, but the visuals would decide the result of this song. The lyrical lines sound funny in places with unique words.

 

3. Azhagana Aanazahaga

Vocals: Harini

 

Harini is another synonym to the most mellisonant words in the musical genre. She has carried forth a beautiful effect to the song. This should be the cherry pick of this album.

 

4. Inimey Ippadithaan

Vocals: Karthik & Aishwarya

 

A cool romantic track that has some essence of emotions conveyed through the voices of Karthik and Aishwarya… Perhaps, the visuals again with colourful emblazonment would add up more celebration on the screens. Karthik sounds pretty the same and there is no modulation, but Aishwarya has her best appeal in intonation.

 

5. Thedi Odunaen

Singers: Santosh Kumar Dhayanidhi and Aalaap Raju

 

Aalaap Raju can blindly and effortlessly add the best impact to any melodies and such is his magical touch. This song becomes ample evidence to this and music director Santosh Kumar Dhayanidhi creates a best musical ambience.

 

6. Paatha Oru Lookula

Singer: Gaana Bala

Gaana Bala sounds ordinary and we are over familiar with his voice and this one could be a good one if it gets the best visuals.

 

On the whole, ‘Inimey Ippadithaan’ is an average affair that has some lively music from debutant Santosh and if the visuals are done with best visuals, then some songs would have a good result aftermath release.

 

Verdict: Moderate start by Santosh

 

 

India Pakistan

India Pakistan

தமிழ் சினிமா அப்டேட்ஸ் களை உடனுக்குடன் தெரிந்து கொள்ள Filmi Street App - ஐ டவுன்லோட் செய்யுங்கள்

Cast and Crew

Cast : Vijay Antony, Sushma Raj, Pasupathy, M.S.Bhaskar, Jegan, Manobala­
Cinematography : N.Om
Editing :M.Thiyagarajan
Music : Deena Devarajan
Direction : N.Anand
Production : Vijay Antony Film Corporation
Release: Sri Green Productions Release

 

If edge-on-seat thrillers, spine-shuddering horror flicks, adult themed romance, etc might have bored you for a while, India Pakistan might get you some relief, though not to a greater extent. Written and directed by Anand, the film features Vijay Antony and Sushma Raj in lead roles with an ensemble star-cast of Pasupathy, MS Bhaskar, Manobala and many others in important characters.

India Pakistan has a simple onionskin plot of hero-heroine Vijay Antony and Sushma Raj falling in love at first sight as they come upon each other while picking Vijay’s ‘Kadhalukku Mariyadhai’ DVDs (Courtesy to the same film where Vijay and Shalini pick ‘Love and Love only’ book). But there seems to be evidence behind a fake encounter placed inside the same DVD copies they have bought. Meanwhile, there happens to be a funny drama of hilarious encounters of ego clashes between the lead pair as they fall in love.

Nothing to blame about the basic concept or plot picked by Anand as it resembles that late 80s Fazil flicks of comedy placed inside the box of thriller. That’s a good way to entertain the audiences and he deserves the best applause for this, but on the contrary part, it’s the screenplay that has a drop and rise and drop graph scattering away our attention. We are not commenting the ‘Film is lengthy’, but how you keep the audiences engaged is what really matters. If Anand had employed more efforts into keep the screenplay effectively engrossing with humour and thriller, then this would have been a film like ‘Arangetra Velai’.

On the performance, Vijay Antony takes a risky step of trying humour, which works out only to a certain extent, but he is not the BEST as in his previous films. He fits perfectly in the genre of thriller and serious bound scripts. There has a long way for him to get accustomed to humour. Sushma Raj is good looking and her performance is appreciable. Well, if she can get her elbows greased up, she could become an elite performer. Pasupathy is outstanding, but doesn’t a meaty role and so is MS Bhaskar. Manobala with minimal role is okay.

Vijay Antony and Music are closest synonyms, but the chain is missing here and there isn’t much to appraise here. Technically, the film is okay in parts, with cinematography having his best spell in Pollachi locations of misty filled hill rocks.

The minus of this film is the fallible screenplay with some uninteresting sequences, which should have been properly lined up.

India Pakistan on the whole might be an apt treat to the audiences across the south towns and villages, but not the one for the multiplex audiences.

Verdict: Hilariously okay, but gets stuck in the middle

Rating: 2.75/5

 

Masss

Masss

தமிழ் சினிமா அப்டேட்ஸ் களை உடனுக்குடன் தெரிந்து கொள்ள Filmi Street App - ஐ டவுன்லோட் செய்யுங்கள்

It’s a day that every Venkat Prabhu fan expected and so were the dazzling Suriya fans. With this unusual combination teaming up with Yuvan Shankar Raja, the words turn speechless and here Cine Coffee brings you the exclusive music review of this album. ‘Masss’ stars Suriya, Nayantara and Pranitha in lead roles with K.E. Gnanavel Raja of Studio Green funding the project.

 

1. Therikudhu Masss

Vocals: Shankar Mahadevan, Ranjith and Yuvan Shankar Raja

Lyrics: Madhan Karky

 

The title song as the film name ‘Masss’ suggests, Yuvan Shankar Raja has composed as ‘Masss’ number that turns the sizzling excitements for Suriya fans. The song speaks about the freewheeling hero, who seems to be enjoying the moment of dwindling a huge money. Shankar Mahadevan, Ranjith and Yuvan Shankar Raja offer the best spell and it looks like the catholic song portion heard during the interlude is the introduction of Nayantara.

 

2. Piravi

Vocal: Vaikom Vijayalakshmi

Lyrics:

Whenever Vaikom Vijayalakshmi comes on the track, we can expect a soulful song that pierces through our hearts and there would be so much of spirit in it. This is one number that speaks about the pathos of few innocent souls and it sounds to be a song that has the turning point. The lyrical lines enhance the emotional impact. The orchestral strings in the backdrops add more intensity to the song.

 

3.Poochandi

Singers: Yuvan Shankar Raja, Pooja

Lyrics: Gangai Amaren

Every Venkat Prabhu album has a song written by his father-music director Gangai Amaran and this one ‘Poochandi’ is here.  The song happens to based on colourful fantasy, which involves lots of characters in ghost makeover. Yuvan Shankar Raja has rendered the song in his usual style, but becomes more captivating here is the interlude in distorted guitars and other instrumentals. Pooja on her part does her vocalisms with perfection.

 

4.Naan Aval Illai

Singers: Karthik, Chinmayi

Lyrics: Madhan Karky

Both these singers are young iconic emblematic musical stars who give the best irrespect give of what genre the song is. Naan Aval Illai is completely in contrast to rest of the songs and some of the lines written by Madhan Karky are sweetly ecstatic. Especially, Chinmayi gives the best on her part that would be more apt for the heroine who is getting on the screens.

 

5.Con Man Theme Music

Venkat Prabhu and Yuvan Shankar Raja having delivered a powerful theme music in Mankatha have couple of signature score. Con Man Theme obviously denotes the crazy mindset laced with some heroism and smartness of Suriya and his heist acts. This BGM really evokes the best peppy mood and would be having its best toast together with visuals.

 

6.Masss Theme Music.

No words! Of course, Yuvan Shankar Raja has the best signature music delivered in the past one decade and most of them are still everybody’s favourite and used as their ringtone. Now we have this new inclusion, where the slight silent guitars with percussion’s add the massive appeal.

 

7.Therikkudhu Masss Gasa Gasa Remix

Premgi Amaran

Venkat Prabhu and Yuvan Shankar Raja never miss to offer Premgi Amaran have his potentials and prowess exhibited in their albums. Apparently, the album ends with Premji’s Gasa Gasa remix. Nevertheless, with the original track itself sounding to be a remix mode, this one sounds more noisy in few places. Maybe, it could be used for some bloopers during the final credits of the movie.

 

Overall, ‘Masss’ has some good numbers, but again this is not the best from the combination of Yuvan Shankar Raja and Venkat Prabhu who have already delivered some massive celebratory albums like ‘Chennai 600028’, ‘Saroja’, ‘Goa’ and ‘Mankatha’ that had the right mix of various artists and genres. ‘Masss’ is just above average and maybe, the songs might have its enhancement with visuals.

 

Verdict: Not as ‘MASSSIVE’ hit, but above average

Rating: 3/5

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