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Before watching this majestic movie called MAGADHEERA directed by S. S. Rajamouli, I had few Hindi films in mind made on the reincarnation plot relating both the present and ancient times with an eternal love story. But honestly speaking I never expected that it would turn out to be one of the most entertaining and exceptionally made films on the same subject raising the standard of our Indian Cinema to many greater heights. In fact MAGADHEERA is an outstanding cinematic achievement in our 100 years of Cinema, which can be proudly presented as an Indian Film in front of the world audience when it comes to using Computer Graphics and Art Direction in a motion picture.
Particularly for all the viewers of Hindi Films (made in this new millennium with some hugely big budgets), it will be an ‘Eye Opener’ as we haven’t seen many similar projects in the last few decades showcasing such dazzling and intelligent work in almost all the departments of film-making. For instance, as per my viewing history, it’s the best Indian film till date which extensively uses Computer Graphics in its narration in a terrific manner which is at par with the International standards undoubtedly.
To be precise, it doesn’t have any path breaking subject but some highly superior and never seen before kind of work to be enjoyed in its Art Direction, Script Continuity (in two different eras), Performances and Creative Visualization which will force you to jump from your seat in a joyful excitement, many a times during its 165 minutes of duration. The film is simply made to enthrall and entertain its viewers, which it successfully does with a tremendous repeat value and elegance. It has got all the usual songs and item numbers (one sung by Daler Mehndi too), few comic moments, the loudly screaming villains, the breath taking action and all those brutal killings as always seen in our movies. Yet it superbly manages to score much more because of its visionary direction, camerawork, background score, editing and execution which forces you to rate it higher than any previous film made on the subject in the Indian Cinema.
So, if you are a real movie buff then do watch it at the earliest for all the reasons mentioned above to entertain yourself. Especially watch it to see how maestro S. S. Rajamouli takes you into his own fantasy world with a skillful conviction and visualizes the 400 years old world on the screen in an unbelievable colourful mode like a beautiful painting. Watch it to notice the way he connects the ‘Counting’ heard in its opening credits with the later part of the movie and the manner he ends it in a filmy mode which wins over the viewer completely. Personally I really loved the 100 killing sequence and the style in which he uses the old song plus footage of Chiranjeevi’s dance in the scenes with his son Ram Charan Teja, which was indeed an intelligent masterstroke by the director.
In few words, if you haven’t seen any regional movie yet due to the language problem then start watching them with MAGADHEERA only, through the subtitle option and be ready to widen your individual perspective towards our own Indian Cinema. The film will make you realise that we indeed make a lot of good & entertaining movies other than the usual Hindi films in our own country. So along with watching or praising the Western or World Movies, we do need to watch the masterpieces made in the other parts of India too, irrespective of any regional or language differences as our duty.
With 3 Cheers to the inventive director S. S. Rajamouli, his creative team and the producers for their out of this world vision, superbly executed on the screen, I would love to see this movie re-made in Hindi to reach a wider audience. But to be honest, if it happens, it has to be done by the director S. S. Rajamouli himself as it seems impossible for another person to execute it with the same perfection and excellence.
So if the above write-up excites you then do yourself a favour and watch the royal magnum opus MAGADHEERA at the earliest.
Directed By S. S. Rajamouli
Starring : Ram Charan Teja, Kajal Agarwal, Dev Gill and more.
Music : M. M. Keeravani
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In today’s materialistic world moving at a jet speed towards an unknown destination, I wonder if there is any person in existence, who has not thought of running away from everything around one fine morning, with no information about his whereabouts given to anyone. We all must have had this escapist kind of thought in our minds at least once in our past, but it indeed needs a great amount of courage to put it into practice leaving everything behind just for nothing.
In an unbelievable manner, Christopher McCandless actually did this in real life after graduating from Emory University being a top student and an athlete. As he stepped into the commercial world post his degree, he abandoned all his possessions one fine day, gave his entire savings of more than 20 thousand dollars to charity and took a ride to Alaska to live in the wilds. The film is made on this real life incident which sadly had a tragic ending, but has got many valuable lessons of life for the viewers.
It’s a beautifully directed film by the veteran actor Sean Penn, giving us a glimpse of what Christopher might have felt living alone in those wilds with only the nature playing around with him both as a friend as well as an enemy at its own will. His self chosen exile makes us meet many interesting and enlightening characters on the path who add a different dimension to his tale which needs to be seen at the earliest if you love to see movies which take you beyond the usual.
INTO THE WILD also deserves to be watched for his elegant cinematography transforming the viewer into a different world altogether close to the nature. Especially it’s a treat to watch the way the director and his DOP compare the city’s high rise buildings with the tall natural mountains superbly. The film has many such sequences which make you feel tensed, make you move and can even make you cry seeing the hardships Christopher faces in his soul’s journey unknowingly stepping into a dark end.
Having said that it may also tend to be an unusual kind of movie for many friends, moving away from their routine kind of weekend expectations. It might come out to be pretty slow, uninteresting and lengthy, heading towards nothing. And that’s because its exactly like a poetic expression which is bound to have different meanings for different people watching it from their own individual perspectives. However if the above description really seems to be interesting then do watch it as a must since you are sure going to come back enriched with a new insight about life after seeing INTO THE WILD.
In fact the truth is that the present world we are living in is not hugely different from a life lived in the wild by Christopher alone……!
Directed By Sean Penn
Starring : Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn and Catherine Keener.
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Considered as one of the finest films made in the world of cinema, this unique masterpiece can easily be quoted as something which simply goes beyond the normal cinematic imagination of a viewer. In simple words whatever comes to one’s mind looking at the title and genre of this film, it surpasses that vision by miles and comes out as an entirely different out of the box experience, beyond comparison.
The reason being, 2001 is not just a story but it’s a director’s vision of evolution in the past as well as in the future. It basically revolves around a monolith (a single massive stone or rock) which is mysteriously found in the early age, then on the moon and later in the coming era too. The film is an unbelievable kind of documentation by the master film-maker Stanley Kubrick which also won numerous awards including an Oscar for its Visual Special Effects. But being an extraordinary film, its watching process also needs to be conditioned first and one essentially has to keep in mind the following exclusive points before going for it.
The very first amazing fact related with this film is that it was made in 1967-68 talking about moon and the next century when mankind had not even kept their first step on the moon. And the historic event happened only in the next year i.e. 1969. Considering this fact, 2001 becomes an even greater achievement by the director as it was his vision alone with which he executed all the fabulous space and moon sequences in his film with such conviction.
The film has no dialogue at all both in its first and last 23 (appx.) minutes on the screen. And in between it has several scenes without any music or dialogue depicting the space……Why…because there is obviously no sound in space technically! So with more than one hour of silence, for many it may be a strange and unexplainable kind of film which even starts with a complete black screen for few minutes before showing the light.
In other words, 2001 is more like a poetic or artistic expression on the silver screen wherein the poet or the painter is in love with the space and its divinely silent ambience. But along with its regular silent phases it brilliantly uses few Classical music pieces as its Soundtrack which actually result in a great long lasting memorable impact on its selected viewers. Bundled with such unusual features, as a film “2001” might be ‘Just Nothing’ for the viewers looking for a certain storyline, characters or the usual kind of entertainment. Perhaps this was the reason why it was not well accepted by many critics in its premier (as mentioned in its IMDB page), wherein a few even left the show saying, “Will someone tell me what the hell this is about?” A few negative and unfavorable reviews even said, “Somewhere between hypnotic and immensely boring", “A monumentally unimaginative movie", "Space Odyssey fails most gloriously" and “Superb photography major asset to confusing, long-unfolding plot."
The movie was reportedly not a financial success during the first weeks of its release. But later young adults were seen coming to the theater in increasing number, who felt excited to watch its ‘Out of the world kind of space sequences” under the influence of psychotropic drugs. Probably because it does give you few meditative kind of enigmatic minutes spent in the wide, black, silent space like in a trance. This youth craze actually helped “2001” to become a success in the end, despite of all the negative reviews it received in the beginning.
As a conclusion, do watch this classic only if you are interested in watching “A Modern Art Painting on the Silver Screen Canvas” painted magnificently by a visionary. Watch it, if you are really interested in knowing what the creative people really had in mind about the 21st century when they wrote or thought about it in the 1960s. And watch it only if you are ready to witness “An Experiment on Screen” which was and which still remains a one of its kind of great attempt in the history of cinema till date. It’s strictly not a normal movie from any angle and frankly needs a huge amount of PATIENCE in a person to watch it in one sitting of more than 2 hours. But once you have watched it, the film gives you enough to think about how BIG is the universe we are living in and how SMALL is our individual identity in front of those big celestial components.
To give you an idea, the film did enlighten me about, what could have been the first ever weapon in the hands of primitive man or manly-monkeys to kill another, different from big stones and tree-trunks. It had to be the strong big bones of the dead animals as shown in the film. Moreover I really loved watching a particular (few seconds long) innovative scene featuring the transformation of mankind from a bone tossed in the air to a shuttle travelling in the space. A single jump cut of few seconds taking you millions of years back to the beginning and then to the present or future.
An essential watch indeed, particularly for the students of the medium.
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Written by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke
Starring : Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood and William Sylvester.
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The title may seem to be confusing and its promotional poster may also look like ‘an unclear one’ to many. But skipping all the introductory lines here, I would simply like to suggest that just ignore these few outer hiccups related to this project and watch DISTRICT 9 as a must in the next few days in order to satisfy your inner urge to witness something extraordinary in the world of modern cinema.
To prove the urgency required to see this movie, I would like to give you three reasons why it needs to be watched at the earliest.
One - If you love & enjoy technology based Sci-Fi films, talking about aliens and the Other World, then you are sure going to add this in your Top 10 Sci-Fi films, the moment you finish watching it. And in case you don’t like seeing a CGI based Alien’s movie then you should more essentially watch it as it would drastically change your complete perception about such projects in just a few minutes.
Two - This is a perfect example of a film based on a brilliantly thought plot which maintains a very fine and rare balance between a novel storyline, computer graphics and human psychology through its great performances and an intelligent direction style of a mockumentary. Giving you a small glimpse of its basic plot, Can you even imagine thinking of a SLUM where aliens are living poorly, fighting for their own existence on Earth as they have no means to go back from where they actually came?
Three - A textbook example on how to incorporate graphics in a film as and when required by its original script. Normally Sci-fi films are very flashy ones with almost everything coming through the CGI channel on the screen, including the costumes and looks of its characters. But DISTRICT 9 uses the graphics component in the film so subtly that one actually starts wondering about its graphics excellence achieved after it is all over. In short, the CGI department never tends to come right at your face and it keeps supporting the basic concept of the film like a good friend. And the best part is that despite of using graphics in such a cool way DISTRICT 9 still remains one of the best Sci-Fi films ever made till date all over the world.
So if any of the above mentioned points really excites you, then do watch DISTRICT 9 as a must and have a real good time. Its one of the finest films made in the recent times using a hugely appreciative amalgamation of cinematic expressions and modern technology. Highly recommended for all.
Directed By Neill Blomkamp
Written by Neill Blompkamp and Terri Tatchell
Starring : Sharlto Copley, David James and Jason Cope.
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