Saturday, August 2, 2008

Kuselan...

Well, turns out I was wrong about the movies bit. Kuselan released here, too, so watched it yesterday. Superstar rocks, but the movie per se is nothing to write home about. P Vasu is a mediocre director who will never be forgiven for giving us (mallus, if you please) the mangled remains of the classic Manichitrathazhu. Bah. Well, he has stopped well short of ruining Katha Parayumbol with this one, but that he dreams of making Chandrumukhi-II (such an avoidable sequence in Kuselan!) gives me the jitters.
However, the cinematography by Arvind Krishna is fantastic. And there is something about that photo of Rajini of the '80s, (it's a movie still I guess, but don't know from which film it is) which is shown hanging on the wall of a room in Balakrishnan's (Pasupathy) house, which leaves you in no doubt of the sheer charisma and star power of the man.

PS: Soumya Bhattacharya is the new RE of HT, Mumbai.

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