Pokkiri

Disclaimer: Spoilers and teasers below. Vijay fans, please STOP here and close the browser window, you might not want your feelings getting hurt!

If you are here reading this line, it means you've either skipped to read the disclaimer above or you are going to probably agree with whatever I'm about to say below. Lets see!

All through the movie, I had this burning question, what is it that is different in this movie from others? The answer is a big NOTHING. Yet another masala movie concocted from various other masala movies. If you want to see multiple movies at the cost of one, Pokkiri is your guy!The distributors could use this tag line, 'More movies for the price of one'!

I was told that this is Vijay's first movie as a police officer. I was hoping to see a different Vijay but I was disappointed, only in the last 5 minutes he is exposed (he is an undercover agent!) with the police uniform. Throughtout 98% of the movie, he is the same old Vijay, with the same old costumes, same old mannerisms and the same kind but a bit different PUNCH dialogues! I have a suggestions to the producers who produce such movies. Can't you guys, give an old vijay movie to some multimedia company, they could change the color of the costumes, locations, voice overs and the songs..and bang! You get a new movie without even worrying about the schedules and salaries of the artists? Think about this!

Then comes the 'Shooting skills' difference. I noticed that none of the villains knew how to shoot a target that is less than a feet away. The head of the villain gang, Prakash Raj, says at the end, pointing towards all his dead gang men, 'these are highly qualified criminals that I've nurtured, where will I get these kind of people again'? Wow, did he ever knew, that the so called 'skilled gun men' never knew how to shoot? Well, I guess, he didn't. The other side of the coin, our hero can shoot a target even if there is a visible 45° deviation between his gun's barrel and the target. Hmm..I guess, his gun was equipped with some kind of thermal signature seeking cartridges..but I would have appreciated the director, if he had told the audience about the hero's sci-fi weapons. After all, we are people who believe whatever is shown in a James Bond movie.

Of course, then there is the heroine – Asin. Well, I don't have anything against her. Poor babe, she chips in every now and then for a song or for a sentimental scene with a few drops of tears. In a man's show, heroines can't expect anything more than this. But I guess, she has tried to improvise her character by her acting talent..again, I stress the word. TRIED.

Vadivelu's comedy is fresh. Though it is not as humorous as his 'Winner', it is ok. But again, the movie is not about acting, comedy, heroine or the villains, its all about Vijay. If you are an ardent Vijay fan, i would not stop between you and the movie but if you are a neutral film buff, think again before stepping in to the theatres!

~Naveen

House Arrest!

Currently the temperature outside is -13C. It seems like there are virtually prison bars around in the form of piercing cold winds. Since the day I came back from vacation, I'm confined to my house and it is as if I'm placed under house arrest.

People here are busy with ice fishing. They make small tents over the frozen lake, pierce a hole and wait for a fish with their fishing rods. I think they are mad, instead of lazing before the TV with a packet of chips, they are freezing their asses off. Totally insensible! But if you ask them, they would probably call me a loser for not enjoying one of the most interesting winter sports. Who cares?!

The only noteworthy thing that I did today was to go to the Church.

And yes, I came across something that yet again proved the world to be very very small. How does it feel if you come to know that a friend you had thought was from the northern part of the country to be actually from the southern part, and that too just 60 km away from your native? Wow! I was excited and thrilled! Hope that person had the same feeling too!!

And with this, the weekend is coming to an end. Back to the drills tomorrow. There are meetings all through the day, GOK how I'm going to handle them!!

~Naveen