Wednesday, April 21, 2010

ഡാം 999

തകര്‍ക്കാന്‍ പറ്റാത്ത ഡാം

from ബെര്‍ളിത്തരങ്ങള്‍ by Berly Thomas ബെര്‍ളി തോമസ്
അമ്മയും ഫെഫ്കയും വിചാരിച്ചാല്‍ മലയാളം സിനിമയല്ലാതെ മറ്റൊന്നും തുലയ്‍ക്കാന്‍ പറ്റില്ല എന്ന അമ്പരപ്പിക്കുന്ന സത്യം നമ്മുടെ ചലച്ചിത്ര പ്രവര്‍ത്തകരുടെ കണ്ണു തുറപ്പിക്കേണ്ടിയിരിക്കുന്നു. മലയാളം സിനിമ നിന്നു കഴിഞ്ഞാല്‍ പിന്നെ, ബി.ഉണ്ണികൃഷ്ണനും ഇന്നസെന്‍റും കൂടി ബോളിവുഡും ഹോളിവുഡും അടച്ചുപൂട്ടുമെന്ന വിശ്വാസത്തിനു ബലം നഷ്ടമാവുന്നു. സിനിമ എന്ന മാരകകലയില്‍ നിന്നു മലയാളത്തിനു മാത്രമേ മോചനം ലഭിക്കാന്‍ സാധ്യതയുള്ളൂ എന്നുഹിക്കാം.
ഫെഫ്ക പ്രവര്‍ത്തകരെല്ലാം കൂടി വിരട്ടി നാടുകടത്തിയ ഡാം 999 എന്ന സിനിമ മലയാളത്തില്‍ പെട്ടിക്കകത്തിരിക്കുന്ന അനേകം സിനിമകളിലൊന്നായി അനങ്ങാതിരിക്കുമെന്നു കരുതിയവര്‍ പ്രതികരിക്കുക- സോഹന്‍ റോയ് സിനിമയുടെ ചിത്രീകരണം വീണ്ടും ആരംഭിക്കുന്നു- ഇത്തവണ ദുഫായില്‍ ആണെന്നു മാത്രം. അനേകം കമ്പനികള്‍ ഉള്‍പ്പെടുന്ന ഒരു കണ്‍സോര്‍ഷ്യത്തിന്‍റെ തലവനായ സോഹന്‍ റോയ് ഗള്‍ഫില്‍ ഒരു സംഭവമാണ്. ഫെഫ്കയും അമ്മയും കൂടി മൂത്രമൊഴിച്ചാല്‍ നിയുന്നതല്ല ഡാം 999. എങ്കിലും മലയാളത്തിലെ ഫെഫ്ക പ്രവര്‍ത്തകര്‍ ജോലി ചെയ്യില്ല എന്നു പറഞ്ഞൊരു സിനിമ ലോകത്തെവിടെയങ്കിലും ഷൂട്ട് ചെയ്യുന്നത് തടയാന്‍ ഫെഫ്കയും അമ്മയും കൂടി വിചാരിച്ചാല്‍ നടക്കില്ലേ ? അപ്പോള്‍ സുകുമാര്‍ അഴീക്കോട് പറഞ്ഞതുപോലെ ഇവന്‍മാരൊക്കെ ശരിക്കും മന്ദബുദ്ധികളാണോ ??
ഒരു കോടി ഡോളര്‍ മുതല്‍മുടക്കുള്ള സിനിമയാണ് സോഹന്‍ റോയ് സംവിധാനം ചെയ്യുന്ന ഡാം 999. മലയാളിയായ സോഹന്‍ നാടിനോടുള്ള ഇഷ്ടം കൊണ്ട് പടം ഇവിടെ ചിത്രീകരിക്കാന്‍ ശ്രമിച്ചതാണ് അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്‍റെ ജീവിതത്തില്‍ ചെയ്ത ഏറ്റവും വലിയ അബദ്ധം. കേരളത്തിലെ സിനിമക്കാര്‍ നല്ല സിനിമ ഉണ്ടാക്കാനിരിക്കുന്നവരല്ല എന്ന് ലോകത്തെല്ലാവര്‍ക്കും അറിയാം. മലയാള സിനിമ എന്നു പറയുന്നത് ഒരു മാഫിയ പ്രസ്ഥാനമാണ്. നല്ല സിനിമകളെടുക്കാനാഗ്രഹിക്കുന്നവര്‍ ഇവിടെയില്ല.
തിലകനു കുറച്ച് കാശു കിട്ടി എന്നതൊഴിച്ചാല്‍ ഫെഫ്ക അംഗങ്ങളായ സാങ്കേതികപ്രവര്‍ത്തകര്‍ ആ സിനിമയില്‍ നിന്നൊഴിഞ്ഞു എന്നതാണ് സിനിമയെ സംബന്ധിച്ച് ഏറ്റവും ശുഭകരമായ കാര്യം. സിനിമയെ സിനിമയായി കാണുന്ന ടെക്നീഷന്‍മാരെ ഉപയോഗിച്ച് സോഹന്‍ റോയിക്ക് സിനിമ പൂര്‍ത്തിയാക്കാം. ദുബായിലും ഹോങ് കോങ്ങിലുമായാണ് ഡാം 999 പൂര്‍ത്തിയാക്കാനുദ്ദേശിക്കുന്നത്. ഇംഗ്ലിഷിലും ഗതികെട്ട മലയാളത്തിലും സോഹന്‍ സിനിമ റിലീസ് ചെയ്യും. ദുബായിലെ ഷെഡ്യൂള്‍ പൂര്‍ത്തിയാക്കിയ ശേഷം ഹോങ് കോങ്ങില്‍ ചിത്രീകരിക്കുന്ന ഡാം 999 ഏതാനും ഭാഗങ്ങള്‍ ചിത്രീകരിക്കാനായി പിന്നെയും കേരളത്തിലെത്തും. തുടര്‍ന്ന് ഹൈദരാബാദ് രാമോജി റാവു ഫിലിം സിറ്റിയില്‍ ചിത്രത്തിന്‍റെ ക്ലൈമാക്സ് ചിത്രീകരിച്ച് ഈ വര്‍ഷം തന്നെ റിലീസ് ചെയ്യുകയും ചെയ്യും.
ഫെഫ്ക അംഗങ്ങള്‍ വിചാരിച്ച പോലെ നടി തുലിപ് ജോഷി സഹകരിക്കാത്തതിനാലാണ് ആ സംഘടനയില്‍ അംഗങ്ങളായിട്ടുള്ളവര്‍ നടിക്കു വിലക്കേര്‍പ്പെടുത്തി സംവിധായകനെയും നിര്‍മാതാക്കളെയും വിലക്കാന്‍ നോക്കിയത്. അടുത്ത ഫ്ലൈറ്റില്‍ പടം രാജ്യം വിട്ടപ്പോഴും സ്വന്തം പണിപോയതിനെക്കാള്‍ വിപ്ളവകരമായി ഒരു സിനിമ മുടക്കാന്‍ കഴിഞ്ഞതിന്‍റെ നിര്‍വൃതിയില്‍ സുഖമായുറങ്ങിയ സാങ്കേതികവിദഗ്ധര്‍ക്ക് ഇനിയെങ്ങനെ ഉറങ്ങാന്‍ കഴിയും. കേരളത്തിനു പുറത്ത് സിനിമ ഉണ്ടെന്നതു തന്നെ അംഗീകരിക്കാന്‍ കഴിയുന്നില്ല, അപ്പോഴാണ് നമ്മള്‍ ചവുട്ടിപ്പുറത്താക്കിയ ഒരു സിനിമ പൂര്‍വാധികം മനോഹരമായ പ്രൊഫഷനല്‍ മികവോടെ പുറത്തിറങ്ങാന്‍ പോകുന്നത്.
രജത് കപൂര്‍, ആശിഷ് വിദ്യാര്‍ഥി, ലിന്‍ഡ അര്‍സാനിയോ, ജോഷ്വ ഫ്രെഡറിക് സ്മിത്, ജാല പിക്കറിങ്, മേഘ ബര്‍മന്‍, വിമലാ രാമന്‍, ജിനീത് രാത് തുടങ്ങിയ ശക്തമായ ഹോളിവുഡ്- ബോളിവുഡ് താരനിരയാണ് സിനിമയ്‍ക്കുള്ളത്.ഫെഫ്ക വേണ്ടെന്നു പറഞ്ഞ തുലിപ് ജോഷി എന്തായാലും ഇപ്പോള്‍ സിനിമയിലില്ല. ആ വേഷം ചെയ്യുന്നത് മേഘ ബര്‍മന്‍ ആണ്.ബംഗാളി മോഡലായ മേഘ ബ്രൂ, പെപ്സി, ടാറ്റ ഡോകോമോ, ഫാസ്റ്റ്ട്രാക്ക് വാച്ച്, സോണി സൈബര്‍ഷോട്ട് തുടങ്ങി അനേകം പരസ്യചിത്രങ്ങളില്‍ അഭിനയിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. 2003ല്‍ പാപ് എന്ന സിനിമയിലും (ഒരുതരം ബാലതാരം) 2008ല്‍ ആന്‍കിത്, പല്ലവി ആന്‍ഡ് ഫ്രണ്ട്സ് എന്ന സിനിമയിലും അഭിനയിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. ഡാം 999ല്‍ റസിയ എന്ന കഥാപാത്രത്തെയാണ് മേഘ അവതരിപ്പിക്കുന്നത്.
മലയാളത്തില്‍ നിന്നും ഇതില്‍ ഇടം നേടിയ തിലകനെയും ഫെഫ്ക പറഞ്ഞതനുസരിച്ച് സിനിമയില്‍ നിന്ന് ഒഴിവാക്കിയിരുന്നു. തിലകനെ പിന്നീട്, അമ്മ സംഘടനയില്‍ നിന്നു പുറത്താക്കുകയും ചെയ്തു. അതേ സമയം, ഫെഫ്ക പ്രസിഡന്‍റ് ഇറക്കിയ പ്രമാണി എന്ന സിനിമയുടെ പൊടി പോലുമില്ല കണ്ടുപിടിക്കാന്‍. അമ്മ പ്രസിഡന്‍റിന്‍റെ പുതിയ കോലത്തെ പാപ്പി അപ്പച്ചാ എന്ന സിനിമ കാണാന്‍ കയറുന്ന പ്രേക്ഷകര്‍ കൂവിത്തോല്‍പിച്ചുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നു.
അജയന്‍ വിന്‍സെന്‍റ്, ശ്രീകര്‍ പ്രസാദ്, തൊട്ട തരണി, ഔസേപ്പച്ചന്‍ തുടങ്ങിയവരും ഗായകരായ ചിത്ര, ജയചന്ദ്രന്‍ തുടങ്ങിയവരും വിലക്കൊന്നും കിട്ടാത്തതിനാല്‍ ഇപ്പോഴും സിനിമയുമായി സഹകരിക്കുന്നുണ്ട്. ഇന്നല്ലെങ്കില്‍ നാളെ, ഇവരെയും വിലക്കി മലയാള സിനിമയുടെ പാരമ്പര്യം ആരെങ്കിലുമൊക്കെ കാത്തുസൂക്ഷിക്കുമെന്നും പ്രത്യാശിക്കാം
പ്രിയ വായനക്കാരെ ,
കുറെ നാള്‍ ഇവിടെ ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നില്ല ,

Wednesday, November 18, 2009


Renowned Malayalam actor of yesteryear Adoor Bhavani, 82, who played memorable roles in a number of films, including Chemmeen, Mudiyanaya Puthran and Thulabharam, passed away at her residence in Adoor on Sunday afternoon.
Her only son Rajiv was with her when she breathed her last. She had been bedridden for the past one year following a bone injury.

Bhavani, who last acted in Sethu Ramayyar CBI in 2004 as a deaf housemaid, stopped acting after she fell ill.

Her final rites will be held at 2 p.m. on Monday on her house premises at Pannivizha, Adoor, with State honours.

Bhavani, who came to filmdom quite accidentally, had been an inevitable part of the Malayalam film industry for decades. She was well-accepted by the audience as a natural artist who immortalised a number of characters, including those of mother, sister, grandmother and mother-in-law, with rustic simplicity.
It was Bhavani who used to accompany her sister Adoor Pankajam to shooting locations. The late Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair, who sensed her acting potential, offered her a role in Shariyo Thetto, which marked her entry into the world of films at the age of 24. Since then she found a place for herself in the filmdom.

In 1969, Bhavani won the Kerala State Film Award for the second best actress for her performances in Kallichellamma and Kadalppaalam. Her best known role was in the national award-winning film Chemmeen, depicting the role of Chakki.
In 2008, the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy had honoured Bhavani and Pankajam for their overall contribution to theatre. Bhavani was also awarded the Chalachithra Saparya Lifetime Achievement Award by Mathrubhumi- Medimix in 2002.

Pankajam has also acted in a number of films. The sisters had their own drama troupe named Jaya Theatres at Adoor. However, later Bhavani formed her own troupe called Matha Theatres, which was closed within a short time due to financial problems.

Bhavani had also acted in many plays of the KPAC and the drama troupe of Kalanilayam Krishnan Nair.

She had also won accolades for her characters in plays like Thulabharam and Veluthambi Dalava. Bhavani and Pankajam had acted in as many as 350 films each.
Bhavani, who was married to the late Janardanan Pillai, is survived by son Rajeev Kumar, who is working as manger at the Peedikayil Devi temple.
Rajeev’s wife is Kavitha and the couple has a son, Unnikrishnan. The body of Bhavani will be placed at the Town Hall here at 11 a.m. for the public to pay tributes. Shops and other commercial establishments at Adoor will remain closed on Monday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. to mark respect to Bhavani. A condolence meeting will be organised at the KSRTC junction at 5 p.m. on Monday.

PROFILE
Adoor Bhavani was born in 1927 is only of the oldest actresses in malayalam film Industry. One of her most impressive screen appearances was in the national award winning film Chemmeen, directed by Ramu Kariat. She is also noted for her performances in Mudiyanaya Puthran and Thulabharam. She hails from Adoor in Pathanamthitta district of Kerala. Her sister Adoor Pankajam is also a Malayalam film actress.

In 1969, Bhavani won the Kerala state film award for the second best actress. She was awarded the Chalachithra Saparya Lifetime Achievement award by Mathrubhumi-Medimix in 2002.In 2008, Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy honoured Bhavani and Pankajam for their overall contributions to theatre and drama.

She started her acting career by doing roles in dramas.She had her own troop by name Matha Theatres.The troop run uccessfully for six years."Veluthambi Dhalava" was her first drama.She is not active in films recently due bad health.She is blessed with one son.

She died at her home in Pathanamthitta district and her only son Rajiv was at her side when she breathed her last. She stopped acting after she fell ill six years ago.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

CINEMA LABORATARIES
Big B Amitabh Bchan's Paa Coming Soon

Tuesday, November 3, 2009


The highly awaited ‘Pazhassi Raja’ has finally been released in 130 theaters in Kerala including 4 theaters in Trivandram with awesome response from the viewers. ‘Pazhassi Raja’ also has the credit of being the first world class Malayalam movie coming in four Indian languages, with a high budget of Rs. 27 crores. It comes with about 560 prints, meeting the mass audiences. Out of the 560 prints, 125 speak Malayalam, the original, 100 in Tamil, 100 are in Telugu, 110 speaks Hindi and 125 more in Hindi with English subtitles. The film is expected to be released in Tamil on October 30, and other versions are to be released later.

The film has a great hype and expectations among the audience, that the fans celebrated a 5 days welcome festival for the movie. People, who have seen the movie are seems to be satisfied with the movie, after a long waiting. They say that this is the best historical movie ever. Mammootty’s performance in the movie is sure to bring him another National award to his carrier. Mammootty and Sarathkumar are given an equally important character. This is another feather to Padmapriya’s crown for her performance. The filmmakers are very happy with the blasting response from the fans.

The film was produced by Gokulam Gopalan. The movie is made special, with the people involved in it. The six well-known, award-winning, biggest film industry stars are the main reason for such hype. They are Mammootty, 3 times National Award winner, playing the title role in the movie as Pazhassi Raja; directed by T.Hariharan, a National Award winner; written by M.T.Vasudevan Nair, Gyanpeeth award winner, music scored by IsaiGnani Ilayaraja, sound by the Oscar winner Resul Pookutty. R.Sarathkumar from Tamil has played an important role and moreover the movie is narrated in the voice of Megastar Mohanlal. The film is also made with a special narration at the beginning in each language while Kamal Haasan narrated for Tamil, Shahrukh Khan in hindi and Chiranjeevi in Telugu.

The cast crew also includes Suresh Krishna, Manoj K Jayan, Suman as villain, and Kaniha as the princess. Padmapriya plays a pivoted role in the movie ‘Neeli’, as a head of a tribal, who expects a brake through this. The movie is about a historic king of Kottayam, ‘Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja’, who started a revolution against British East India Company in 1797, which is claimed to be the first freedom movement in India, about sixty years before the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857, which is said to be the first one. Thus the movie is based upon an untold true story of the great king Pazhassi Raja, known as the Lion of Kerala, who lost his throne, palace, family, and his unborn child in the fight for the freedom. The King brought the people of Kurichiyar tribe together and led a guerilla war against British invasion.

The film has created a lot of expectations that it could win many awards and especially the fans expect that it would go for the Oscar awards. The release date of the film was postponed a number of times due to various reasons. The movie was first planned to release on October 2nd, Gandhi Jayanthi, but was then postponed. Anyway there was no drop or effect in the hype and expectation from the audience even after the delay. Now the film has got an excellent response upon its release. The film is also highly expected in the other languages.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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Friday, October 23, 2009


CINEMA LABORATARIES.......Oru pennum Randu anum
The critically acclaimed and world famous director Adoor Gopalakrishanan's Malayalam movie Oru Pennum Randu Aanum, which has bagged about five State awards will finally see the light of the day. The movie will release statewide today, July 31.

Praveena, Seema G Nair, Sukumari, Jagadeesh, Manoj K Jayan, Vijayaraghavan and others essay prominent roles in the movie. Oru Pennum Randu Aanum is in fact a sequel to his earlier movie Naalu Pennungal and like the prequel this is also based on Thakazhi Shivasankara Pillai’s short stories.


Adoor's movie was screened at the International Film Festival of
India, Dubai International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Fribourg International Film Festival and also the IFFI held at Goa, where it had received rave reviews. Now the Malayalee audiences would get a chance to enjoy the movie

Thursday, October 22, 2009


CINEMA review TITANIC 1997
United States, 1997
U.S. Release Date: 12/19/97 (wide)
Running Length: 3:14
MPAA Classification: PG-13 (Mayhem, nudity, sex, profanity, mild violence)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bill Paxton, Bernard Hill, David Warner
Director: James Cameron
Producers: James Cameron, Jon Landau
Screenplay: James Cameron
Cinematography: Russell Carpenter
Music: James Horner
U.S. Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic, you experience it -- from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie.

In each of his previous outings, Cameron has pushed the special effects envelope. In Aliens, he cloned H.R. Giger's creation dozens of times, fashioning an army of nightmarish monsters. In The Abyss, he took us deep under the sea to greet a band of benevolent space travelers. In T2, he introduced the morphing terminator (perfecting an effects process that was pioneered in The Abyss). And in True Lies, he used digital technology to choreograph an in-air battle. Now, in Titanic, Cameron's flawless re-creation of the legendary ship has blurred the line between reality and illusion to such a degree that we can't be sure what's real and what isn't. To make this movie, it's as if Cameron built an all-new Titanic, let it sail, then sunk it.

Of course, special effects alone don't make for a successful film, and Titanic would have been nothing more than an expensive piece of eye candy without a gripping story featuring interesting characters. In his previous outings, Cameron has always placed people above the technological marvels that surround them. Unlike film makers such as Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, Cameron has used visual effects to serve his plot, not the other way around. That hasn't changed with Titanic. The picture's spectacle is the ship's sinking, but its core is the affair between a pair of mismatched, star-crossed lovers.

Titanic is a romance, an adventure, and a thriller all rolled into one. It contains moments of exuberance, humor, pathos, and tragedy. In their own way, the characters are all larger-than- life, but they're human enough (with all of the attendant frailties) to capture our sympathy. Perhaps the most amazing thing about Titanic is that, even though Cameron carefully recreates the death of the ship in all of its terrible grandeur, the event never eclipses the protagonists. To the end, we never cease caring about Rose (Kate Winslet) and Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Titanic sank during the early morning hours of April 15, 1912 in the North Atlantic, killing 1500 of the 2200 on board. The movie does not begin in 1912, however -- instead, it opens in modern times, with a salvage expedition intent on recovering some of the ship's long-buried treasure. The expedition is led by Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton), a fortune hunter who is searching for the mythical "Heart of the Ocean", a majestic 56 karat diamond which reputedly went down with the ship. After seeing a TV report about the salvage mission, a 101-year old woman (Gloria Stuart) contacts Brock with information regarding the jewel. She identifies herself as Rose DeWitt Bukater, a survivor of the tragedy. Brock has her flown out to his ship. Once there, she tells him her version of the story of Titanic's ill-fated voyage.

The bulk of the film -- well over 80% of its running time -- is spent in flashbacks. We pick up the story on the day that Titanic leaves Southampton, with jubilant crowds cheering as it glides away from land. On board are the movie's three main characters: Rose, a young American debutante trapped in a loveless engagement because her mother is facing financial ruin; Cal Hockley (Billy Zane), her rich-but-cold-hearted fiancé; and Jack Dawson, a penniless artist who won his third-class ticket in a poker game. When Jack first sees Rose, it's from afar, but circumstances offer him the opportunity to become much closer to her. As the voyage continues, Jack and Rose grow more intimate, and she tries to summon up the courage to defy her mother (Frances Fisher) and break off her engagement. But, even with the aid of an outspoken rich women named Molly Brown (Kathy Bates), the barrier of class looms as a seemingly-insurmountable obstacle. Then, when circumstances in the Rose/Cal/Jack triangle are coming to a head, Titanic strikes an iceberg and the "unsinkable" ship (that term is a testament to man's hubris) begins to go down.

By keeping the focus firmly on Rose and Jack, Cameron avoids one frequent failing of epic disaster movies: too many characters in too many stories. When a film tries to chronicle the lives and struggles of a dozen or more individuals, it reduces them all to cardboard cut-outs. In Titanic, Rose and Jack are at the fore from beginning to end, and the supporting characters are just that -- supporting. The two protagonists (as well as Cal) are accorded enough screen time for Cameron to develop multifaceted personalities.

As important as the characters are, however, it's impossible to deny the power of the visual effects. Especially during the final hour, as Titanic undergoes its death throes, the film functions not only as a rousing adventure with harrowing escapes, but as a testimony to the power of computers to simulate reality in the modern motion picture. The scenes of Titanic going under are some of the most awe-inspiring in any recent film. This is the kind of movie that it's necessary to see more than once just to appreciate the level of detail.

One of the most unique aspects of Titanic is its use of genuine documentary images to set the stage for the flashback story. Not satisfied with the reels of currently-existing footage of the sunken ship, Cameron took a crew to the site of the wreck to do his own filming. As a result, some of the underwater shots in the framing sequences are of the actual liner lying on the ocean floor. Their importance and impact should not be underestimated, since they further heighten the production's sense of verisimilitude.

For the leading romantic roles of Jack and Rose, Cameron has chosen two of today's finest young actors. Leonardo DiCaprio (Romeo + Juliet), who has rarely done better work, has shed his cocky image. Instead, he's likable and energetic in this part -- two characteristics vital to establishing Jack as a hero. Meanwhile, Kate Winslet, whose impressive resume includes Sense and Sensibility, Hamlet, and Jude, dons a flawless American accent along with her 1912 garb, and essays an appealing, vulnerable Rose. Billy Zane comes across as the perfect villain -- callous, arrogant, yet displaying true affection for his prized fiancé. The supporting cast, which includes Kathy Bates, Bill Paxton, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill (as Titanic's captain), and David Warner (as Cal's no-nonsense manservant), is flawless.

While Titanic is easily the most subdued and dramatic of Cameron's films, fans of more frantic pictures like Aliens and The Abyss will not be disappointed. Titanichas all of the thrills and intensity that movie-goers have come to expect from the director. A dazzling mix of style and substance, of the sublime and the spectacular,Titanic represents Cameron's most accomplished work to date. It's important not to let the running time hold you back -- these three-plus hour pass very quickly. Although this telling of the Titanic story is far from the first, it is the most memorable, and is deserving of Oscar nominations not only in the technical categories, but in the more substantive ones of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress.

Friday, October 16, 2009


CINEMA LABORATARIES
The film is set in the pre-Independence orthodox 'Namboodiri' Brahmin community. Widowed at 17, only three months after being married to an old man, a young Brahmin girl has, therefore, to live a life secluded from the world, even though her marriage has not been consummated. An ambitious Kathakali artist seduces her, but out of cowardice, he finally refuses to recognize the baby born of their union. The young girl is 'excommunicated' from her community but helped by the progressive-minded son of her dead husband, she keeps the child, finds a job and drives out her seducer when he tries to make up with her

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