So [that four letter word]ing BAD!
(deeply disturbed, bad enough to write a proper blog after ages!)
THAT FOUR LETTER WORD is a film I have been following the fortunes of, right from its conception i guess. I vividly remember the blog that Sudhish Kamath used to have on this brainchild of his, and also remember we used to use it as a sort of inspiration for the online publicity of our own child Man-gal-Y-a.m (btw, the movie did see light of day, not the online publicity though..).
No wonder when i saw it being listed here in Fun Cinemas Andheri, no second thoughts!! Booked an online ticket for myself, all alone, after i found no takers to come with me.
But little did i know that the "no takers" part was more than just a mere case of my mumbai mates being obviously offline on Gandhi Jayanthi holi-day.
I turned up at the counter and first reaction from the tickets guy was "Sir show mostly cancelled, you are the only one to ask for a ticket so far..".
What the????
Determined to hang in there, I did, till 6 others chose this god forsaken cinema hall to live out their after-dark fantasies, and thus ensured that i did get in armed with my 70-rupee popcorn, albeit having to brook the incessant moans and groans emanating from the couple-cushions :)
There I was, popcorn in hand, valiantly fighting against all odds in the vain hope that Sudhish had done serious work in the 7 years (as he claims in the end credits) that he spent thinking this one up.
And then it started to roll.
and[THAT {that four letter word}ing FOUR LETTER WORD]!
What a MESS. Atrociously immature. Grossly unreal. Cheap, in more than one sense of the word.
I found new hope, though.
Ance Sitco's efforts thus far are not too bad after all. We might not have the studios, the cameras and all that jazz, but our grey cells are definitely in place.
If Sudhish earned a living reviewing and critiquing films, he most definitely runs a serious risk of losing his job, no joke!
I could see the youthful energy to create in front of oneself a dream well laid out in the mind. You know... the "Yeah, my name comes on the screen, my dialogues get spoken by those characters, look at the color correction dude, and there is a BACKGROUND SCORE in my movie man!" euphoria that a first time filmmaker goes through...
What disappointed though was the fact that a film critique was so eaten by his dream that he failed to see the plain mediocrity of his script, the looseness of it all, the NEEDLESS visual effects-cum-color correction, that was clearly like redefining the dosage of overdose.
The film - he says - is based on real people. Just my hunch that he might have ended up making a much better film had he made the story as it happened in real life. Good old tamil dialogues. Good old NORMAL people. the odd lifting song, written in TAMIL words.
Out of the 7 of us, 4 people walked out in the interval, and the other 2 were the couple who were more than delighted to see more and more people walking out. The words for them ranged from the monosyllabic to the longer lettered words and artistic phrases too ;)
For one, the english dialogues were a farce. Totally pseudo and mostly unreal, dialogues i guess are the weakest link in the film. Story being the next. Sudhish Kamath, in short.
Sindhu Rajaram had done a decent job on the sound design, though she didn't have any decent music to work with, save for a couple of short scores in the first scene in the second half and the chase sequence. Blaaze's song was a joke.
Madhavan carried of pseud very well. Totally wasted though, he must have been deeply indebted in some way to Sudhish, for I see no point in Maddy getting involved.
A wasted evening.
But one that made one thing very clear.
That Satyam Cinemas shall one day play my film.
Hello, World.
THAT FOUR LETTER WORD is a film I have been following the fortunes of, right from its conception i guess. I vividly remember the blog that Sudhish Kamath used to have on this brainchild of his, and also remember we used to use it as a sort of inspiration for the online publicity of our own child Man-gal-Y-a.m (btw, the movie did see light of day, not the online publicity though..).
No wonder when i saw it being listed here in Fun Cinemas Andheri, no second thoughts!! Booked an online ticket for myself, all alone, after i found no takers to come with me.
But little did i know that the "no takers" part was more than just a mere case of my mumbai mates being obviously offline on Gandhi Jayanthi holi-day.
I turned up at the counter and first reaction from the tickets guy was "Sir show mostly cancelled, you are the only one to ask for a ticket so far..".
What the
Determined to hang in there, I did, till 6 others chose this god forsaken cinema hall to live out their after-dark fantasies, and thus ensured that i did get in armed with my 70-rupee popcorn, albeit having to brook the incessant moans and groans emanating from the couple-cushions :)
There I was, popcorn in hand, valiantly fighting against all odds in the vain hope that Sudhish had done serious work in the 7 years (as he claims in the end credits) that he spent thinking this one up.
And then it started to roll.
and
What a MESS. Atrociously immature. Grossly unreal. Cheap, in more than one sense of the word.
I found new hope, though.
Ance Sitco's efforts thus far are not too bad after all. We might not have the studios, the cameras and all that jazz, but our grey cells are definitely in place.
If Sudhish earned a living reviewing and critiquing films, he most definitely runs a serious risk of losing his job, no joke!
I could see the youthful energy to create in front of oneself a dream well laid out in the mind. You know... the "Yeah, my name comes on the screen, my dialogues get spoken by those characters, look at the color correction dude, and there is a BACKGROUND SCORE in my movie man!" euphoria that a first time filmmaker goes through...
What disappointed though was the fact that a film critique was so eaten by his dream that he failed to see the plain mediocrity of his script, the looseness of it all, the NEEDLESS visual effects-cum-color correction, that was clearly like redefining the dosage of overdose.
The film - he says - is based on real people. Just my hunch that he might have ended up making a much better film had he made the story as it happened in real life. Good old tamil dialogues. Good old NORMAL people. the odd lifting song, written in TAMIL words.
Out of the 7 of us, 4 people walked out in the interval, and the other 2 were the couple who were more than delighted to see more and more people walking out. The words for them ranged from the monosyllabic to the longer lettered words and artistic phrases too ;)
For one, the english dialogues were a farce. Totally pseudo and mostly unreal, dialogues i guess are the weakest link in the film. Story being the next. Sudhish Kamath, in short.
Sindhu Rajaram had done a decent job on the sound design, though she didn't have any decent music to work with, save for a couple of short scores in the first scene in the second half and the chase sequence. Blaaze's song was a joke.
Madhavan carried of pseud very well. Totally wasted though, he must have been deeply indebted in some way to Sudhish, for I see no point in Maddy getting involved.
A wasted evening.
But one that made one thing very clear.
That Satyam Cinemas shall one day play my film.
Hello, World.
posted by Girish at 7:59 AM
4 Comments:
Now, What do I say? The devil's manifestation is complete.
Yeah. And the "Duuuudddddee" thing sucked! Only good thing was Blazee.. Of late, his reviews are sucking. The Hindu will do better without Suhish. :|
Candid as it can get!
I like this one, G. I particularly like the fact that you used "color" in your spellings :P
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