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Yet another gem from Ilaiyaraja, from the movie Nenjathai Killadhe. The picturization involves Mohan and Suhasini jogging together, and the song plays in the background. What’s amazing is how much of the visualization has crept into the piece itself. For one thing, the singers (SPB and Janaki) sound like they’re shivering in the cold morning…
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Beautiful, beautiful song. Written by Kannadasan, composed by Ilaiyaraja and sung by K J Yesudas. One of the greatest songs of all time. To me, it’s one of the finest examples of pathos expressed in a song. Yesudas’ voice is perfectly suited to this sort of mood. However, what I didn’t realize until a friend…
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Another sub-genre of film songs that I am very fond of is – for want of a better term – the relay race song. These are songs where one singer falters somewhere in the middle for whatever reason, and someone else picks up from where he/she left off and completes it. Here’s my top three…
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I remember being absolutely blown away by Halle Berry’s performance in Monster’s Ball. And her victory at the Oscars, while expected, was also a sweet moment because it was part of a trifecta for African American actors – Denzel Washington won Best Actor for an amazing performance in Training Day, and Sidney Poitier won a…
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This is my I-told-you-so post, the one where I get to gloat about how accurate my predictions were. I’m discussing the filmfare awards, about which I had made my predictions at the end of last year. Permit me this moment of self-congratulation: rarely have I been this accurate. Here’s how I fared: Best Picture My…
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Salangai Oli was one of those movies that characterized the best of its era in South Indian cinema: individualistic, dramatic and comprising a clutch of bravura moments. It also happens to feature one of Kamal Hassan’s greatest performances, as a classical dancer whose love for his art, and for one woman, are pretty much the…
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Rocky Balboa is a curious movie. As the latest movie in a series that went steadily downhill after the first installment, the expectations were as low as they could ever get. But, like Rocky himself, it is a surprising triumph. Not a universal one, though – it is about an old boxer coming back to…
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The problem with Pokkiri, the new Vijay starrer, is simply this: it does too much. There’s the story of how a young, ruthless killer named Thamizh rises up the ranks of the Chennai underworld. There’s the love story between him and Asin, which gets interrupted, both literally and metaphorically, by bouts of violence. Then there’s…
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There’s a little verse in this Al Pacino movie called Sea of Love. It goes: I live alone within myself, like a house within the woods.I keep my heart high up upon a shelf, barren of other goods.I need another’s arms to reach for it, and place it where it belongs.I need another’s touch and…
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