This one has wonderful sound mixing, and sound editing. Not to mention an awesome lead child artiste. Last time I saw an awesome child at work was the boy from Taare Zameen Pe.
And try to forget the war between Kerala whizs vs. Bengal whizs.
some famous physcologist(dunno his name) commented that if one can see all adoors movies and understand it, then he w'd be thorough with all fine points of physcology.
adoor is one filmaker who never compromises his vision of a movie. and his movie have the best blend of cinematography and music for a patient non psuedo intellectual viewer. nizhalkuthu was a master class, especially the scene where the sheperd boy was playing the flute. mezmerizing background and BGM(illayaraja who else).
all his movies multilayered. one of his least appreciated movies like 'anatharam' can blow any true lover away.
sad that we have very few directors who can take adoors, aravindans, rays legacy forward. the only notable one is murali nair! the rest all are not in that class
People are beating trumpets on Pookutty's winning of Oscar. I have no problem with that!! Guys, don't forget that it was Satyajit Ray who had shown the path long long ago when Pookutty and the present day crowd were in diapers. And yes, Ray was the first Indian to get Oscar for lifetime achievement - that too the Academy had to send none other than Audrey Hepburn to Calcutta to personally deliver it to to ailing Ray in his hospital bed in 1994. Go see his masterpieces like Pather Panchali, Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne and numerous other titles to know and learn what "sound mixing" means and what overall cinematography is! He didn't have to carry a plane-load of slum to LA to claim his worth!!!
Re: Adoor, Pookutty et al
by Savio J on Mar 03, 2009 10:20 PM
For those folks blaming Danny Boyle for selling Indian poverty to a Western audience, they ought to understand that Satyajit Ray pioneered that with "Pather Panchali"! Yup our very own Ray marketed PP at film festivals all over the world and western audiences understood India to be a famine stricken, poverty ridden, land of imperialists! Why isn;t anyone bringing that out in the Slumdog argument?
Also Mr Majumdar and your reasoning that Ray was the first Indian to get a lifetime Oscar - true as it is, it also is a non-competing category usually reserved for artists with one foot in the grave. Jerry Lewis was given it this year, if that explains the way these honorary awards are handed out. Resul and Rehman (and Bhanu Athaiyya before that who happens to be the first Indian to ever receive an Oscar) happened to receive this in a competing category so that to me is above Mr Ray's achievement. That's not to belittle Mr Ray as a filmmaker and his contribution to the medium. I just think the basis of your comparison is flawed and bings out more prejudices than reason :)
Re: Adoor, Pookutty et al
by A KB on Mar 02, 2009 11:43 PM
whoa, "planeload of slum"...Why, are they sub human? That's the most condescending attitude ever! Satyajit Ray was good, but that doesn't mean no one else is! C'mon, get grounded. No room for supremacists here!
Re: Adoor, Pookutty et al
by ekhwan kamil on Mar 02, 2009 09:12 PM
so does that mean that only satyajit ray has the monopoly over sound mixing ?!!.... idiot!!!..get a lyf
Re: Adoor, Pookutty et al
by Subrata Mukherjee on Mar 06, 2009 09:20 PM
c'mon Mr Majumdar. Pl come out of typical Bengalee's type of reaction! people laugh at this type of "our culture is the best" these days. When someone is praising Adoor (or for that matter Yesudas/SPB or Illayaraja), that does not mean that they are belittling the greatness of Ray, Kishorda or RD Burman. I have seen both Pather Pachali and Kodiyettan. Now I can imagine how much creative thinking and labour has gone for just sound scoring and sound mixing in these movies (in the 50s and 70s). I am a bengalee and I have noticed that we bring Ray, Tageore and Sen unnecessarily in many discussions, especially when it comes to appreciating non-bengalee's contribution in other creative field / social science. Sorry if my comment hurt your Bengalee Ego. But I just thought of spelling it out.
Re: Adoor, Pookutty et al
by SUBRAMANIAN RAMAKRISHNAN on Mar 02, 2009 08:49 PM
Parochialism induced rambling from bigoted Bhadralok is indeed, "bhery bhery bhad"! Indian intellectualism does not bhegin and end in Bengal even though Bengal has, undeniably, made sterling contributions.
Re: Pope says St.Thomas never came to South India
by Santosh Raghavan on Mar 02, 2009 09:04 PM
is that mr pope also under the heat of recession like you???
Else We don't expect such an insane statement from him
Re: Pope says St.Thomas never came to South India
by Dravid on Mar 02, 2009 05:58 PM
java programers are begging for work. since they dont have any work, they have started writing anything crap.
Re: Pope says St.Thomas never came to South India
by sarcastic hypocrite on Mar 02, 2009 05:45 PM
Advani was born in erstwhile western India, ie Syria and Thogadia was born in erstwhile western India, ie Persia. Eastern India was Japan & Korea accorsing to Hamsa.org - Keep reading the Trash.
