Friendship never ends! - And This one's for you buddy

Dear friends ,
Whoever knew Nivas, would know what a person he was and what he meant to me... I just wanted to share this note which I have been writing every year to you. Hope you guys still remember him. And please spare a couple of minutes today to think about those precious moments you spent with him as its his 21st birth anniversary today (15-12-2011)

R. Srinivas (15-12-1990 to 05-04-2005)


Never Would I have ever thought I would end up remembering someone on his birth anniversary almost 7 years after his death. We were neither born to the same parents nor did we have any relationship apart from living in the same town before we met.

The moment I saw you I never knew that you would have a great influence on my life, I thought you were a weirdo and once you had told me that you had thought I had loads of attitude. We never really had much in common, until one day . I remember you and I being sent out of the class for something we didn't do, and ever since we did every single thing together. Yes Nivas, I am talking about you.

I remember the packs of Lays we ate together and the half bottle of left over Pepsi we shared...!! We started everything together, good or bad we stood  by each other. Never did I imagine you would leave me by myself and disappear to the heavens above all of a sudden. Maybe you wanted me to learn life the hard way and be independent. This very day you would have been you would have been 21 years old had you seen through that horrible morning which took you away from me and you would have been a exactly a year, a month and a day older to me! People say its weird that we never took a picture together but I think that its just destiny as it turns out to be your engraved in my heart which is im-materialistic and can never be destroyed.

Maybe you did not want to say goodbye and thats why your final SMS was to me and it read "Flowers say touch me not and I say forget me not"
 I know that you take care of me like a guardian angel as I know every time I look towards the skies above before every race, match and test you smile at me and I come out triumphant.

You will live forever in my heart and I will meet you some day up there in the heaven . finally a very happy birthday buddy.! I love you.. <3  


Yours lovingly forever,
Adhi

The Dreamer

Mayakkam Enna-A Blissful Blessing!!!

Well am up with my 2nd review. And again its a very positive one. Mayakkam Enna!

Mayakkam Enna is purely a very different movie but with SELVARAGHAVAN stamped all over it. Karthik Swaminathan (Dhanush) is called "Genius" by his friends. But he isnt the only genius in it. Full marks to the Captain of Geniuses Selvaraghavan.


Cast & Crew :

Dhanush (Karthik Swaminathan) - As usual a brilliant performance.

Richa Gangopadhayay (Yamini) - Every man's dream. And every director's dream actress. Again a briliant performance.

G.V Prakash (Music Director)  - Haunting, soulful music . BGM is brilliant.

Ramji          (Cinematographer) - Brilliant visuals. Brings the entire movie to life.

Selvaraghavan  (Director)         - Genius.

At first the gorgeous Bong beauty making her debut in Tamil , Richa Gangapadhayay comes across as a beauty with brains and a few a add-ons like great acting skills, dialogue delivery, expressions. Yamini comes across like slut in the begining but towards the end you would start worshipping and respecting women as every man would want a wife like her.


Next is the maestro in the making, GVP. His music is haunting as ever. Especially the BGM sinks in you and takes you into the story. No comments about the songs as they are already chartbusters.


 The man through whose eyes we travelled into the journey, Ramji. I think he is being under-credited by the audience and critics. He brought life and the mood to the film. Sheer Brilliance. The Tone, Frames, Angles, lighting etc was simply amazing.


The national Award winner! He reconfirms that he thoroughly deserves it. I never saw the actor Dhanush in it. I saw just Karthik Swaminathan and no one else.


The REAL GENIUS -Selvaraghavan! Amazing, mind blowing, awesome Screenplay and direction . I felt the same kind of feeling as I get while watching a Manirathnam film. Usually with such a talented team , a project might lose its  sheen midway due to overdose of it. But Selva's handling of everyone is clearly visible in this near perfect magic.

Last but not the least the support cast and crew. Sunder played the character very naturally . And Padmini (Pooja balu) a special mention as I knew her during our Tamilnadu rowing days. She has not acted in it. But played herself as a cute, bubbly, chirpy hyper active girl. If she conitnues her acting sojourn she is sure to make hearts swoon just as she did to the boys in the national rowing circuit. Apart from them you can see all the hard work of the cast and crew as a team together


The film as a whole is a bliss . A brilliant teamwork with a talented team and a Maverick Genius Selvaraghavan.

Oh! Almost forgot. A special thanks to Gitanjali Selvaraghavan .Because I think thats made his heart very light and Selva has found true love in her and thats reason for the happy ending.
And If I had a chance I would like to ask Selva "Athu yen eppoluthum unga padathula hero Konjam crackve irukaru?"

Verdict : 4/5 . Watch it if you are a fan of GOOD cinema and bored of the commercial potboilers. Come out of the theatre and you will feel like waking up from a beautiful dream. A brilliant film, entertaining as well with a social message. "Follow your heart"!








The Dreamer