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Hot and controversial
The controversial Tamil film Mirugam, featuring Padmapriya in a never-seen-before role as a village girl married to an animal-like man with raw instincts, played by newcomer Aadhi, has been cleared by the censors with an ‘A’ certificate. The film released last week. Director Samy’s earlier film “Uyir” had also its share of controversies. In “Mirugam”, Samy says he has a message to convey to the people — those with AIDS should not be shunned and that the public should be more aware as to how the virus spreads. The posters have made the film hot in the market.
The survivor
Will Smith plays a scientist who cannot contain a terrible virus that was incurable and man-made in his new film “I Am Legend”, released worldwide, including Chennai with a Tamil version titled “Naran”, last week. He plays the last human survivor in what is left of New York City full of mutant victims of the plague, waiting for him to make a fatal mistake as he finds a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. Warner is betting big on this movie which has hardly any dialogue but awesome special effects of the deserted streets of New York full of debris, abandoned cars and wild animals!
Wedding video
Sooraj Barjatiya portrayed the Marwari style weddings ostentatiously in Hindi films. Karan Johar reworked the Bollywood formula and made the glitzy Punjabi style weddings more appealing for NRI audiences. Now in Kollywood, Karu Palaniappan’s “Pirivom Sandhipom” has a song featuring the wedding rituals of Nattukottai Chettiars. Picturised on Sneha and Cheran, the melodious song “Iru Vizhiyo…” is composed by Vidyasagar. Palatial houses, the Chettiar ‘Thali’ and jewellery and the cast dressed like the aachis and thathas lend it a rich look. ‘Abirami’ Ramanathan after seeing the song remarked: “I grew nostalgic as the song reminded me of my wedding which took place many years ago. I wore a mayil (peacock) pendant just as Cheran is wearing in the film. The director Karu Palaniappan’s eye for detail stands out.”
Satire on stardom
Mammootty plays superstar Ashok Raj in his Christmas release “Katha Parayumbol”, written by Sreenivasan and directed by his brother-in-law M. Mohan, for producer-actor Mukesh. When Sreenivasan last wrote a satire on Malayalam tinsel town about the travails of a script-writer, played brilliantly by Mohanlal, the film “Udayananu Tharam” became a blockbuster. In “Katha Parayumbol”, he celebrates the friendship between a superstar and a barber who studied together! The film also stars Mukesh, Jagadish and Meena and is a light-hearted satire on stardom.
SREEDHAR PILLAI
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