Happened to catch this movie purely by accident (in the greed of some free food at a friend’s place).
If I said the movie was good and had excellent music (Rahman …… of 2000), you would say “Duh ! 8 years late !”.
But which was the last movie that you could pause at any location and the scene would make you say “Beautiful !” ? It is one of those rare movies which are a cinematographer’s delight (credit : Ravi K. Chandran); I could literally count on my fingers the number of scenes that had a moving camera. That’s right ! Still camera, wide angles, great use of lighting, beautiful locales, all the way !
To sum up the movie, when a cinematographer makes a movie, obviously he is more in love with his camera than his script (Case Study : Santosh Sivan). But even if you don’t understand Tamil and the title only sounds like “Yendu kondu”, please give this a try. And translators are not hard to find in exchange of good free food.
A wonderful moive.The story is good and acting par excellence. The movie is a must see.
By: vaibhav on July 15, 2008
at 12:25 am
Saw the movie four times in the cause of almost eight years. It is one that will stick in my memory as an exceptional movie, The shots speak for itself, are poetic and real at the same time, the music is great and I could go on. I consider it to be a highlight of film making, I can’t wait for Dhun and I would very much like to see the documentary on Carnatic music, which regrettably is hard to come by in The Netherlands.
By: caroline on July 25, 2008
at 10:47 pm
Vaibhav : Story, I would not agree that it is par excellence.
Caroline : Cannot agree more about the shots, poetic and real, but again, I might not go ahead to consider it a highlight of film making, because film making involves the script.
What documentary are you referring to here ?
By: Deepak on July 25, 2008
at 10:59 pm