Ambigapathy Review

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Ambigapathy is originally a hindi film titled Raanjhanaa. Ambigapathy directed by Anand L. Rai and the original story and screenplay by Himanshu Sharma. Ambigapathy’s lead characters played by Dhanush as Kunthan Shankar, Sonam Kapoor as Zoya Haider, Abhay Deol as Jasjeet Singh Shergill or Akram Zaidi, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub as Murari,  Swara Bhaskar as Bindiya,  Shilpi Marwaha as Rashmi and many more. This film also as Dhanush’s Bollywood debut and has received huge response from the audiences as well. Ambigapathy produced by Krishika Lulla under Eros International. Mozart of Madras, AR Rahman has composed songs and background scores for Ambigapathy and the album contains total of 9 tracks.

Ambigapathy is about an innocent guy’s feel of love towards a girl at the age of very beginning until teenage. Kunthan (Dhanush) who is a Hindu priest’s son and strongly believed is God Shiva has fallen in love to Zoya (Sona Kapoor) who is a Muslim girl. Zoya parents compelled her to go Delhi for her further studies to separate Zoya from Kunthan. After 8 years, Zoya back to Kaasi and she looks more beautiful than before at her teenage age but she has forgotten everything about Kunthan and love between them. Kunthan still remains his love for Zoya after 8 years and he get sad when Zoya not recognized him. After that, Kunthan successfully recognized himself to Zoya but will accept Kunthan as a friend and help guy only. Kunthan with his childhood friend Murari will do everything for Zoya including stopped her engagement arranged by her parents. At the same time, Kunthan’s another childhood friend Bindiya has crushed on Kunthan. Bindiya has proposed Kunthan to marry her many times but Kunthan reject her just for Zoya. At a time, Kunthan become heart feeling and get angry when Zoya informed Kunthan that she is already felt in love someone at her college. That heart feeling will make Kunthan to take some aggressive decision; making arrangements for his wedding with Bindiya on the same day of Zoya’s wedding. On the day, Kunthan and Murari know that Zoya’s lover Akram Zaidi is one that Muslim but Hindu and his original name is Jasjeet Singh Shergill. Kunthan rushed to Zoya’s house; informed the matter to Zoya in front of crowd. Zoya’s wedding has stopped due to this cast issue. Zoya’s relatives hit Jasjeet Singh terribly and make him admitted at hospital in serious condition. Due to thus controversial, Kunthan has forgotten his own wedding with Bindhiya. After that, Jasjeet Singh has passed away due to the serious injury. Zoya felt she has lost his life and joined with her college friends to enroll their political party AICP which was Jasjeet Singh’s dream to make a better politics at Delhi. After that, Kunthan also has joined with them as a tea guy and this was hated by Zoya. What is the story after that; at last how Kunthan’s life has transformed; Are  Kunthan and Zoya will get together at last, that is the story about. 

Ambigapathy has reveals a beautiful love in the screenplay but it was very painful love. Kunthan has sacrificed his own life for his love which happened at very beginning of age.  This type of love is very rare to happen at current time rather than not logic. The female audiences have denied the storyline because it shows only guys remembers the past and stay strong in love. Kunthan never explored his life outer than Kaasi so this makes him to not forget Zoya but Zoya has explored her life to Delhi which can make her to change and think different. Another different in the story is the character of Jasjeet Singh, normally the character of Jasjeet Singh will be shown as villain or evil characteristic but Himanshu Sharma has also revealed that character as a good hearted. The man Kunthan met near Ganga river who gave an simple but very meaningful clarification about life and peoples sins is like an miracle on Kunthan's life. That particular man has changed Kunthan's direction like an guru and this shows spiritual believe of the writer and director. Some more, Oliyaage Vanthaai  song really suits for that particular part. Director Anand L. Rai has showed the life of Kaasi very beautiful with many colorful locations and characteristic with the colourful sense cameraman Natarajan Subramaniam. All the cast has performed amazingly. Dhanush has given a wonderful debut to Bollywood. Same goes to Sonam Kapoor, also given good debut to Tamil industry seems this film has dubbed in Tamil. Hemal Kothari has edited without give up the feel of the film and also every particular scene. John Mahendran's dialogues really reflects every scenes emotion very well especially Kunthan's heart feeling. Lyrics penned by Vairamuthu, added more beauty for the songs with lovely words.  Ambigapthy and Raanjhanaa are suitable title for this film because both are epic lovable couple seems this type of love very rare to happen in current time. 

Another ultimate support for the film is AR Rahman’s musicals. Most of the songs are top of the chart and help to move the story more smoothly with add on more feels like the salt in a cooking. Each of the songs brought unique feeling, Paarkathey Oru Maathiri (Aise Na Dekho) brings a blues feel which really suitable for that particular scene. Also Oliyaage Vanthaai (Piya Milenge), is very lovely energetic.

Ambigapathy is distributed by Eros International. The total budget of the film is US$6.0 million and the film able to collect the cost on the first week of release.

Epic Review

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Epic is an animated feature film directed by Chris Wedge based on William Joyce's children's book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs.  Epic is one of the biggest animated films in the year 2013 which took huge amount of time since 2006. This film was produced by Blue Sky Studios and it is noticeable that Chris Wedge is the co-founder of Blue Sky Studios and he directed this film for Fox Animation. Epic’s screenplay by William Joyce who originally narrated it as a children story. Epic included outstanding 3D animations and also contents eco-friendly lessons which can be an entertainment film for all type of people from children to matured people. 

Epic is basically is about tiny people living in forest like soldiers to protect the forest from being destroy by the baddies. Professor Bomba is the one researching about the tiny people for many years to get solid evidence about the tiny people. Professor Bomba has a daughter, Mary Katherine. MK came back to her father Professor Bomba after so long to ask her father to stop all his researches because MK initially won’t believe Professor’s Bomba ideology that tiny people are living in the forest.  The whole story starts to begin when the Queen of the forest, Tara begin to shrink the pod. Joyce William brought out eco-friendly lessons via this story; the important of protecting the forest seems forests are being destroyed due to development crisis at current time. The leader of Boggans, Mandrake representing the irresponsible people in real world who willing to kill the mother nature to get wealthier life. Bufo the bullfrog symbolizing the selfish investors in the business world and they willing to anything to keep on standing in the market. Another impressive thought brought by Joyce William when the Nod tells the leafman name Professor Bomba as Stomper to MK, that bring a realization to the audiences that they must conscious about tiny livings when they doing an activity like walking or running to make sure do not hurt the tiny livings which usually never bothered in the real life.

         The casts are impressively done their jobs, most importantly their voice for dub.  The casts are Colin Farrell as Ronin, Josh Hutcherson as Nod, Amanda Seyfried as Mary Katherine, Christoph Waltz as Mandrake, Aziz Ansari as Mub, Chris O'Dowd as Grub, Pitbull as Bufo, Jason Sudeikis as Professor Bomba, Steven Tyler as Nim Galuu, Beyoncé Knowles as Queen Tara, Blake Anderson as Dagda and many more. Danny Elfman has scored this film. His impressive sounds and effects make the audiences to go more the story especially for the battle scenes between Leafmans and Boggans. 

      Renato Falcão as the cinematographer of Epic has brought in wonderful movements throughout the story. Blue Sky Studios has done a great job by providing such a wonderful 3D animation characters which looks very fresh for the audiences including the colors and effects.  Epic distributed by 20^th Century Fox and whole budget of the film $93 million. Epic is running successfully in box office since the film released on 24^th May 2013.

Vishwaroopam Review

Vishwaroopam is Kamal sir’s latest flick. Vishwaroopam was written and directed by Kamal sir. The film cast by Kamal Haasan as Viswanath and Kashmiri, Pooja Kumar as Dr. Nirupama, Rahul Bose as Omar, Andrea  Jeremiah as Ashmita, Shekar Kapur as Indian Officer and uncle and many others. Vishwaroopam is a story about Indian Army officer who initially get into al – Qaeda terrorist group at Afghanistan as detector to reveal their activities and plans; later on settled down in New York to prevent the city from major bomb blast planned by terrorist. How they going to prevent New York and that’s the story is about.

 Kamal sir penned this story after his research to get the fact especially about the al – Qaeda training and their environment at Afganistan and also about the chemical such as cesium which related to bomb designing. Kamal sir also really concern about Muslim religion in this film that the script should not bring negative thoughts about the religion to the audience. The screenplay is really interesting and fast without any draggy; this adds points to the film by make sure the audience never feel boring. As usual, very less direct lessons in the film but Kamal sir has explored many indirect lessons to audiences like value of a life and also about dreams of children who living with terrorist. Vishwaroopam story line is designed very well without any splits or out of topic sequence; from beginning to end the story moves on same track and that’s a big advantage to impress the audiences.

           Sanu John Varghese makes his debut as Director of Photography in this film. The visuals of Vishwaroopam are really impressive and impactful. Especially the Afghanistan sequences which shows the warriors fight with American force and fill with gun shots and rocket and bomb blasts. For sure the John Varghese has put more effort to make such visuals. All the fight sequences has captured amazingly with detailed movement. Other than that, car chasing sequences at climax also gets great applause from the audiences. John Vargese really gave a very good opening to the Tamil cinema via Vishwaroopam.

              Mahesh  Narayanan as editor of this film, amazingly created such a wonderful compact. The audiences never feel bored at any scene or sequence and of course this credit goes to the editor. The stunt sequences are showed to the audience very detailed. Some more the flash back scenes were handled very well by Mahesh Narayanan to make sure the audiences never feel confused at any point.

              Another major part in Vishwaroopam is the location sets which refer to the Art Director of the film Ilayaraja.  Ilayaraja has done a great job in Vishwaroopam as Art Director. Great credits go to his terrorist environment sets which gave a dessert feeling which comes with sand and dust. It’s really unbelievable that the environment is specially designed for the film because its looks very realistic and original like Afghanistan. All the other sets in film look very firm and suitable to the film; such as Unnai Kandathum Naan song set and the meat factory fight set are really impressive.

         Shankar Ehsaan Loy handled songs and background scores for Vishwaroopam. It’s noted that Kamal sir’s previous big release Aalavanthan also scored music by Shankar Ehsaan Loy. All the tracks are nice and suitable for the subject. All the tracks come along with screenplay and Unnai Kandathum Naan song visualized with choreography. Vishwaroopam song comes Viswanath intro song really add credits to the film. The background scores and sound FX are wonderful especially for the fight sequences. Anu Vidaitha Boomiyile song is very truly; even the song not used fully in the film but still the song gave the heart fully feeling when listening it with the film especially with the warriors death sequences and never the less, the song contains very deep lessons.

            All the characters are played well by the casts. Rahul Bose really performed well as villain in Vishwaroopam. He handled his character very realistic and it’s noticeable that the character is heavy with some disability and Rahul Bose brought that well. Pooja Kumar makes her debut in Indian cinema via Vishwaroopam as Dr. Nirupama and she successfully gave what ever the character needs. Shekar Kapur, Andrea Jeremiah and all others really gave life to their characters and this credits also goes to Kamal sir as the director of the film and this review is not qualified enough write about Kamal sir’s performance, just can say it’s simply awesome as usual. It’s noticeable that Hollywood Stunt Director Lee Whittaker has roped I for this film.

             Vishwaroopam produced by Raaj Kamal Films International and Chandra Haasan been as producer for Vishwaroopam. PVP Films as distributer for this film. Vishwaroopam is a milestone for Indian cinema and should appreciate Kamal’s sir effort and his creativity for this film. Whatever struggles comes against Vishwaroopam, still the film is a great success.