Chilligavva

A song from one of my favourite directors. Lovely film, great music with some excellent cinematography. if you haven’t seen this movie, do see it. Preferably on a 70mm screen.

Just read that the Hindi movie Sunday starring Ajay Devgun is a hash of my favourite telugu movie called “Anukokunda Oka Roju“. 

I happened to absolutely love Sashank [what an actor!  He is a natural!] and Jagapati Babu’s sauve funny style.  But imagining Arshad in Sashank’s role and Ajay in JB’s is SCARY!  Especially when most north indian flicks are pathetic in treatment.  Not to mention that the cult angle is being replaced by a serial killer angle.  OUCH!  Bubbly heroine Charmi’s role is being executed by Ayesha Takia! Oh Oh yeah!

SRC: Screen dump from full hyderabad

In my internet trolling, i noticed that Sashank(above poster clip) does not have any web presence.  Being young and of this generation, he ought to get one!

Src: Screen Capture from thelinguists.com

Did you know that half the languages in the world are dying? Two linguists have set about documenting the same in film, for the Sundance film festival. Being a linguist myself (MA in Applied Linguistics, (more…)

Take a well known legend such as Excalibur, travel backwards in time instead of forward, throw in some human elements such as A dedicated General [Colin Firth], an assassin like lady warrior [Aishwarya Rai], A Wizard preceptor [Ben Kingsley] a little boy as the protagonist, and mix it up in a story blanket of a quest and voila, you have the Last Legion.

I first saw the trailer on television a couple of days back. It was a 30 sec spot, and I suddenly noticed Aishwarya Rai’s face. (On an aside, her cousin Rashmi Rai had taught briefly in my undergraduation college, in Mangalore. She happens to be a little shorter than Ash herself, but the resemblance is striking.) What still makes me think twice about seeing the movie is Ash’s lack of acting skills.. [Is she wooden or what?] But the pull is Ben and Colin of course..

Now I happen to be totally glamour stuck and movie mad, so I was intrigued. I quickly looked up the movie site http://www.lastlegion-movie.com/ and played the trailer. It was interesting, and informative. I shall review the movie after I see it.

What pissed me off though was… click on any link [Colin Firth OR Ben Kingsley OR Aishwarya Rai ] and it goes to the same link aka -> Play Trailer. When will the web masters get it right or is it a ploy? Looks like the movie has quite some economical production values…

I saw a lot of echoes of earlier movies in the trailer…

• Sound used for turning of the navigation wheels [Master and Commander, Pirates of the Carribbean?]
• Lord of the rings, Star Wars [Child Protagonists, and Wizard like advisors (The Maha Gurus)]
• War scenes [300, Lord Of the Rings-Return Of the King ?]

P.S. If you want to know about the movie right now go to canada.com and read a detailed review.