Music
One of the advantages of music programs like Idea Star Singer is that it brings back to our attention some songs we knew, but had forgotten. Two recent episodes percolated two such songs to our attention. Each of those songs bring joy to the listener. It also tells us that we are blessed to have [...]
Continue reading about Memorable Songs from the Past – Episode 1
There has been a recent war of words between music director M Jayachandran and playback singer Gayathri. Gayathri recently asked why music directors are giving so much prominence to singers from outside the state. It seems she did not name any names, but as the news got transferred from one magazine to another, the name [...]
(This post is written by Raj Menon, who is a journalist with Indian Express. ) THE first thing that struck me about Santosh Sivan’s Urumi is its simplicity. Okay, so it reportedly cost around Rs 20 crore to make. Sure,the frames are rich, the sets lavish and the canvas grand. But Urumi is ,at its [...]
Continue reading about Thoughts on Urumi (The Curling Blade)
For those of us used to seeing so called “Entertainers” like Twenty-Twenty or various mindless comedy movies, Urumi is a welcome change. It is a bold move from the producers to think of a big canvas movie, get a pan-Indian cast and film it as professionally as possible. The movie falls into a new category [...]
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When it comes to period films, you have to be careful about the music. You cannot transport heavily orchestrated music from the 21st century into the 15th. It is anachronistic. When you look at Santosh Sivan’s Asoka, it had absoutely terrible music from this point of view. It also had the usual Mahive-Soniye dance steps [...]
Joshiy and his team have reworked their ‘Twenty-20’ template to make a half baked thriller called ‘Christian Brothers’. There are foreign location songs, superstar Mohanlal in a larger than life role, father-son sentiments, Dileep’s comic acts, twists which come in every thirty minutes, Suraj Venjaramooodu’s bufoonery, an interval punch similar to what we saw in [...]
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