Films of Mani Ratnam

[hattori_hanzo]

Vansh..adhuvum 1992! indha maadhiri posters namma Jaishankar kaalathulaye stop pannittom.

[Cinemarasigan]

Rogith settiAr pazhaya remake patthi ellAm kavalayE padAma, ippa remake paNNuvAr, adhuvum Ajay devagan-ai vachu...

[groucho070]

Here I am offering my head, get the guillotine ready Mani-fans. My blog post on Mani:

Mani Rathnam: Of Sexism and Homoeroticsm.


Tamil film industry is known for glorifying the mediocre, simply because there are very few greats. This holds true for directors especially after K. Balachander decided to stop being awesome and make a couple of films with Suhasini.

I mentioned Suhasini to do a “speaking of Suhasini” schtick simply because I wanted to talk about Mani Rathnam this time.

Why? Well, simply because he is touted as India’s greatest director by many and I wanted to convince myself, knowing well that nobody’s gonna agree, that he is not. Truth is, he had a shot to greatness but somewhere he fizzled. More importantly the future might actually remember him as sexist director with slight fascination with homoeroticms at the time when women broke the goddam glass ceiling, climbed up the iron ladder and knocked the male CEOs off their chair with wooden ladle.

Blatant accusation, you say? Hallo, this is a blog and usually that’s what it’s for. Plus no one would read this considering he has no release or health issue currently.




So, if you dare, go ahead, enrage yourself here

[Plum]

Lacks the punch, grouch. Fatherhood effects, eh? You wanted to know about the females in Dil Se. There are two of them. One of them has a hoary childhooda, abused by. soldiers and seething within. As if that was not enough, she has Shahrukh Khan doing his monkey tricks around her - you know the routine where he woos unsuspecting young women - and trying to convince her of his "immortal love" for her. The other one, unmindful of the said Khan's moroseness owing to lack of any signal from his love, gets engaged to him. Bubbly characterAmAm. And one of the ladies decides to cleanse the world of a "dancing, prancing, stammering, quivering general nuisance of a superstar". She achieves this by simultaneously performing the tricks of a) exploding a belt bomb - attached to her waist b) embracing the said nuisance superstar. Thus leaving the other lady a fiancee short. How does that sound?

[groucho070]

All the more convinced now. Thanks for honest criticism, plum, always valued. I guess Fatherhood it is (poor quality writingku ithellam oru excuse-adA grouch?).

[Plum]

Trivia that you are not interested in: yours truly travelled 4 floors down a lift (all alone) with Priety Zinta in Green Park, hyderabad during her visit to Hyd for Dil Se promotions. I could tell you of my 25 seconds with Priety Zinta...

[Cinefan]

Groucho,
Your take on Mani sounds so much like Raja Sen on rediff,meaning this neither as a compliment nor criticism.

Personally,didn't like your writing.

Plum,
Grouch might not be interested but I am in the trivia.Go ahead and put in words those 25 seconds.

[SoftSword]

25 seconds?
liftla ellaam chaina pudichu pullamudiyaadhaa?

[Cinemarasigan]

Trivia that you are not interested in: yours truly travelled 4 floors down a lift (all alone) with Priety Zinta in Green Park, hyderabad during her visit to Hyd for Dil Se promotions. I could tell you of my 25 seconds with Priety Zinta...

lift repair-lAm aagAma ponadhu unga unlucky..

[P_R]

Thought you were kidding and then you got serious in the end of the piece. So