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		<title>The Hurt Locker: Heart didn&#8217;t lock</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pramod Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow]]></category>
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Women are more stronger than men. Their emotional level is some what pretty high. Women film makers around the world are very bold. They deal with uncommon themes. They have got the nerve to question almost everything. Now a days more and more women are attracted towards films. This is a good sign since film [...]]]></description>
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Women are more stronger than men. Their emotional level is some what pretty high. Women film makers around the world are very bold. They deal with uncommon themes. They have got the nerve to question almost everything. Now a days more and more women are attracted towards films. This is a good sign since film is a universal medium. For the first time in history a lady got Oscar award too. Kathryn Bigelow showed the women film makers around the world that nothing is impossible.<br />
Oscar is not a criteria to determine the quality of a movie. But because of the popularity It is indeed an attention puller. Rarely good films get Oscars. Last year also the Oscar winning movie was not a good one. Slumdog Millionaire was not a great movie. It&#8217;s was an imitation of old Bollywood movies. Yet it swapped the Oscars. At last it concludes on the same old line “everything is written”. Danny Boyle is a good director, his craft is well accomplished. But  Slumdog Millionaire was not his best movie. There is a belief that Oscars will be given to movies which favors the US. The Hurt Locker proves that this belief is true in a sense.<br />
In one line one can easily say that the movie The Hurt Locker didn&#8217;t lock your heart. There are no scenes in that movie which is good enough to go straight into your mind. More than a movie it is a documentary. The mine blasting scenes are the only ones which have got any specialty. In one scene the soldiers give water to the captures. So many such scenes are fabricated in the movie to please the US audience. As all the people around the world know the politics behind Iraq war, the movies do not touch it. So it can be of human sufferings, grief, relations. But nothing is shown well there. Sometimes tries, but ends up in big failure.<br />
The Hurt Locker is written by Mark Boal. The selection of the theme is good. Apart from that no credentials can be claimed. The screen play is like a news story with out any human touch. (Only close up shots do not give human touch to a movie). The Hurt locker is a movie made to win only awards not the hearts of the people. It is a peripheral documentary. But not a good one. My heart didn&#8217;t lock!. Once again it is proved that Oscars usually gives to movies which please US audience audience as a whole.</p>
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		<title>3 Idiots and five point someone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pramod Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[3 idiots]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[aamir khan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have seen 3 idiots. It is a decent movie. But have got something against it. It reminds me Tare Zameen par and Munnabhai MBBS. I am against superstars. I love cinema not it's superstars. I believe superstars do more to themselves than to cinema. In that sense they are ruining cinema. When superstars become part of off beat pictures I admire them.]]></description>
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<p><!-- 		@page { margin: 0.79in } 		P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } -->I have seen 3 idiots. It is a decent movie. But have got something against it.  It reminds me Tare Zameen par and Munnabhai MBBS. I am against superstars. I love cinema not it&#8217;s superstars. I believe superstars do more to themselves than to cinema. In that sense they are ruining cinema. When superstars become part of off beat pictures I admire them. Bollywood movies in past 5 years undergone some changes. Earlier  Bollywood movies were pure imitations. Now with the entry of new creators Bollywood cinema is now in it&#8217;s changing phase. Even the small budget movies also doing well in the box office. They have found their space in the traffic of cinema in this country. India is the major creator of movies in the whole world. It&#8217;s our responsibility to serve movies well but this rarely happens in India.</p>
<p>3 idiots has similarites with Chetan Bhagat&#8217;s best selling novel five point some one. It has similarities with Tare Zameen par and Munnabhai MBBS. Aamir khan didn&#8217;t stop preaching in this movie too. This time he is against the education system. Rajkumar Hirani once again proved that he is a good director. He has got the necessary vision also. 3 idiots is a humerous movie. The speech sequence and the climax are the trademarks.</p>
<p>Till half time the movie shares similarities with five point someone. Even some dialogues are taken from that. In the second half the movie says the story after five point someone. In the book the future is left with our Imagination but in the movie we can see the real imagination. In the second half 3 idiots has got similarities with Munnabhai MBBS. The rich hospital scenes reminds me of Munnabhai itself. Rancho, character played by Ammir, is a fraud. He gave his certificates to someone else. He fooled everone. But finally he becomes a world famous scientist. Is it possible to be invisible at least in this world. This development was only to fool the audience. We have to be idiots, as it is said in the caption to be convinced about this great development of Rancho. Sometimes the one man show of Amir Khan is insufferable.</p>
<p>The humorous story telling pattern is very good. Except the localization of the language, which makes non-hindiates difficult to understand. Baman Irani has done a wonderful job in this movie. Except all these odds 3 idiots is a decent movie. As we all know and believe that there are somethings missing in our education system. 3 idiots address the issue in a remarkable manner. Sometimes they made the audience fool but it&#8217;s ok the makers asked us to become idiots. The delivery scene, whatever be it&#8217;s ethics should not be pictures and it is the major negative point of this movie is that sense. There are restrictions for the husband too in the lab our room, can we film it-it is a question needs proper discussion. Hirani should get over from his hospital mania at least in his coming movies.</p>
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		<title>How Malayalam movies are spoiled by it’s own stars</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pramod Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[malayalam cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mammootty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mohanlal]]></category>
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Earlier it was the synonym for good cinema in the country. It had bagged almost all the awards given to movies and persons associated with it for many years, competitors were far behind. It had given birth to so many world famous writers, actors and renowned film personalities. It got matured when all others in [...]]]></description>
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<p>Earlier it was the synonym for good cinema in the country. It had bagged almost all the awards given to movies and persons associated with it for many years, competitors were far behind. It had given birth to so many world famous writers, actors and renowned film personalities. It got matured when all others in the country were in their infant stage. Thanks to those visionaries, who had fashioned it in such a way so that everybody started analyzing it and began learning lessons from it. I am talking about the Malayalam movie industry. But time had passed. Film making had become a profitable business in these years. The film viewing population showed an upward trend. At the beginning film viewing was in apartheid like communism in the state of kerala but with out much delay films had become a popular media.<br />
But the film industry in kerala is going through difficult situations in these days. India in common and south India in particular had a mania called star worshipping. It’s like a disease in almost all the southern parts of the country. We had seen silver screen stars became chief ministers of Andhra and Tamilnadu, there the star worshipping had reached it’s peak that the fans are ready to give up even their lives for their favorite heroes. Stars exploited the man power behind them and used it for their political gains. Kerala, which was the Mecca of good films in the past was away from this practice of metamorphasizing it’s movie stars into politicians, since the state was politically literate.<br />
If we analyze the mania of star worshipping with a magnifying lens we will be able to notice that education is going to do nothing with this disease. The anthropology of Indians are now associated with movies and cricket.<br />
But is the star worshipping good for movies?. In kerala scenario things are something more sophisticated. Kerala don’t had the practice of star worshipping at the early stage. Now the Malayalam movie stars themselves are purposefully injecting the habit into the movie watchers at their expense. There may be political dreams behind it but the immediate effect they want is stopping others to come to the limelight of the movie industry. There is a star and technicians cocas, which is determining the whereabouts of a movie.<br />
The two big names in the Malayalam movie industry are Mohanlal and  Mammootty. They are leading the dictatorship in the film industry of this film loving state. Some one and half years before there was a crisis in the Malayalam movie industry. This was actually a crisis arised out of lack of good movies. (But the industry somehow managed to overcome the crisis, the industry owes the credit to shakkeela, maria and reshma jodi and their half porn movies.). Then came the real crisis of Malayalam cinema. Raajamanikyam said to be the biggest hit in Mammootty’s career graph. This was made possible because of the high voltage promotion of the movie through fans associations. Mammooty just made a step forward in promoting himself he published a magazine called mammooty times. (He started his blog on the very first day of this year, where he writes articles about so called serious topics, trying to establish himself as a successful blogger from the film arena after Big B Amitabh Bachchan).<br />
Mohanlal on the other hand has earlier proved that he is a specimen for business. He has launched Mohanlal’s taste buds earlier and then started a dubbing studio. Now he is the brand ambassador and promoter of Hedge equities. A broking company formed when the markets touched it’s recent lows. Through the ads of the company he says knowledge is important for successful investment. The sad thing is that once they were prophets of good movies and were part of them but now they are not promoting such kinds of movies. In fact they are ready to do movies with award winning directors!. They even not promoting the newcomers as well. Amma and Macta are the prominent unions of Malayalam movie artists. recently film director Vinayam alleged that Mammootty of removing members of a particular union from sets just because they are members. The caucus is  so strong that they can even remove such a senior artist Thilakan from acting in movies. Now he is acting in sidelined movies. Mammootty and Moahanlal are like trees in a giant forest where they will not allow other trees to grow.</p>
<p>Why kerala is so much interested in movies it is not because some brilliant directors were born here. Apart from that they tried to impart film education among the people not only in the urban area but also in the rural area. In early 70s film society movement started in kerala which had got tremendous support from the people. Then came the films from Adoor Gopalakrishnan (not now a days export quality ones but real classic ones). Aravindan and Padmarajan made cinemas out of passion. John Abraham the realistic director made cinema with the money from people. These efforts altogether promoted good cinemas in the coconut land. In 80s, the period identified as the romantic period of Malayalam movies, many promising personalities came into the lime light. Later they became pillars of the industry. Modernization of the industry happened after the first half of 90s.<br />
The star mania came in the industry only in late 90s and it became powerful after 2000. Devaasuram, a feudal story directed by I.V Sasi starring Mohanlal was the landmark movie which laid the foundation of star dictatorship in the industry. (Devaasuram introduced a new alcohol drinking style also).Then came the same stretch movies by Shaji Kailas, who successfully established Hindu icons in movies and it became popular. On the other hand Mammootty tried to became versatile he danced and sang but all proved to be burden over him. But he somehow managed to maintain the post of superstar along with Mohanlal. Then they began ruling the film industry.<br />
If an aspiring director approaches these stars. They will fix all the technicians and even actors according to their taste. They will rewrite the script and will change the concept of the movie. They even fix the budget and the locations (where they can easily reach in their own vehicle). If the newcomer do not agree with it the project skips. If they have any disagreement they will fire the respective actor out. Finally good films never happen only Superstar show offs will happen. In this situation you cannot see a film like Paruthiveeran or Subrahmanniyapuram from kerala. You will be forced to watch below average films with your expense!. The superstars are spoiling Malayalam films in all sense.</p>
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