Comments on: Between Reviews: A Bloody Good Show

By: satheeshleela

satheeshleela — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:51:24 +0000

this film is very nice.all people like the movie.i like and love jai.

By: DPac

DPac — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:02:59 +0000

nice to c u on the roof as well rangan saaab
http://passionforcinema.com/reco-of-the-month-subramaniyapuram-2008/

By: RamaRama

RamaRama — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:58:29 +0000

Mr.Bharadwaj,

This raises the question of integrity in journalism. I am not talking about your review, which is correct of course and an exception. Why do most journalists continue to be just mouthpieces for PR agencies and agents of big stars. What we are witnessing in Tamil movie industry with the likes of Bala, Ameer, Sasi Kumar, Balaji Sakthivel etc is the birth of a new stream of semi-masala movies that are extremely well executed and most importantly they are made by people with a local flavour. The other key factor is how they use relatively new actors to great effect or someone whom you never realised could be used so well. Samudra Kani had he been an American would most prob. pick up an Oscar of some sort – What an effortless and mind-blowing performance he has given in Subramaniapuram. But the English language press reviews, mostly written by females with Sanskritised names don’t even understand the nuances in this movie.

It’s funny to watch this movie running non-stop at Sathyam cinemas, while another actor’s movie that’s not really doing well is being propped up with huge posters and fake publicity information.

People admire your deft prose, but you could be also be known as the critic with integrity if you write more reviews like this.

Thanks & Best Wishes
RamaRama

By: prabhakar

prabhakar — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:05:35 +0000

As someone who has grown up on those streets, it is very difficult to view this film objectively. It cuts too close to the bone. The air in those streets crackles with violence and a fight is always round the corner. I have seen a coconut vendor hacked to death because he did not return a measly 20 paise. Honour killings and revenge killings are the norm there. In some ways it is a very negative film, with no redeeming human values. The characters are two-dimensional. But I suppose we need to support such films which do not flinch from real life.

By: brangan

brangan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:58:22 +0000

Ravishankar/ Chenthil/ swati (?): Thank you. Chenthil, someone pointed to me that diss, and that’s fine, because it’s your opinion, but then these pieces are simply mine. I guess that’s the problem with “who’s better than whom” arguments in art — there are no objective evaluation criteria.

By: Chenthil

Chenthil — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:57:38 +0000

That was a good review BR. Been a long time reader. I dissed you in an open forum for your article on Sujatha, so when I praise your article it has to be in public too.

P.S. Now that my comment is after the heroine’s (?) comment, I dont think it will get noticed .

By: swati

swati — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:16:50 +0000

Hi there, this is probably the best possible review I’ve read for my film.Will pass the link around in the unit.Thanks for the nice things said and no I aint sridevi’s fan, especially not from that era
I am told the reviewer is a task master,makes it even more special that one such review has come from him.

By: Ravishankar

Ravishankar — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:24:14 +0000

Great review.Loved the film.It was there with me even after 4/5 hours of watching.Your attention to detail is incredible.

By: Rajasundararajan

Rajasundararajan — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:29:37 +0000

Dear BR,
Sorry, my tamil review on ‘Subramaniyapuram’ is not online. ‘Tamizhilni’ is a serious little magazine that has published it. It had published my reviews for ‘dasaavathaaram’, ‘Anjaathee’ ‘Taare zameen par’ too.

You don’t have to learn Malayalam to see Malayalam movies, if you know Tamil. In Chennai, you can get Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi DVDs at ‘Saina Videos’, Saidapettai Road, opp. Vadapalani Murugan Kovil.
- Rajasundararajan

By: brangan

brangan — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:52:07 +0000

Vijay: I did write up some notes long ago, when my ed. asked me to write something about Mozhi – but that piece got cancelled, and I never did anything with those notes. Let me see if they’re around, somewhere, and maybe I can finally vent all my angst about that film

BTW: “As far as I am concerned, to make Jyothika look less annoying on screen than she normally is, by itself deserves at least a slight pat for the director ” – LOL.