Perhaps pavithra is trying to grab attention by writing such reviews. The movie is relevant for those who can connect themselves to the events that unfold in the silver screen. Unfortunately Pavithra does not fall into that category. This is not for those who relate love stories to Romeo and Juliet. I personally rate NEP better than VTV as the perodoramce of the lead artists were far better tham that of VTV. Pavithra, jsut try to interact with students and you will come to know how relevant the film is.
Re: Loss of Connect.
by aravind gopalakrishnan on Dec 18, 2012 05:40 PM
Well said this review is absolutely wrong. The movie has been taken very well not just concentrating on love but with a message that career is also very important. Only the climax & few songs in 2nd half are bit repetitive. Otherwise it is a decent movie worth watching once with Ilayaraja's music glittering as gold in both songs & BGM.Neat movie meant for the elite people.
Came out of the movie wondering how does gautam manage to capture the minute details of life/ relationship & present it such an entertaining way.Starting with puppy love where adamant kid doesn't want to speak with friend over a silly fight to school infatuation where possessiveness dominates to college love where differences arise when objectives in life start diverging - aspirational guy vs a girl still living in the moment (scenes where they split are bit of drag,agree) Emotions potrayed are unadulterated and presented with an artistic touch. Final break up and climax are realisticcaly crafted - where both are right in their totally different perspectives and neither is unable to appreciate others'-Classic(Not many would agree). Both and Jeeva carry off their roles to perfection - particularly scenes where they are unable to express their feelings to full, get restless and start expressing feelings they actually don't mean. Equal credit to the director for their acting(Well,no mention required about the director who controlled simbu's overacting in vtv). BGM and songs are icing on the cake and in parts the cake itself. Santhanam is as hilarious as always. every second he is on screen is fun riot. NEPV is slow in parts but u r too immersed to care. Not a fan of romantic movies (not cliched)but wouldn't mind watching the movie once more. Surprised to see a 2.5 rating. definitely deserves atleast a 3.5 Gautam reinforces his place as the best contemporary tamil director
Re: Take on NEPV - beautiful movie
by abc_xyz abc_xyz on Dec 15, 2012 11:26 PM
You just read my mind. This movie is good (though not a great classic) and can be seen in a theatre comfortably.
Re: Take on NEPV - beautiful movie
by shankar mani on Dec 15, 2012 11:35 PM
Gautham watches more hollywood movies to copy some of the romantic scenes.I don't know why he uses more English Dialogues in his movies...
Re: Take on NEPV - beautiful movie
by Ramesh bharat on Dec 16, 2012 08:06 AM
Gautham being the best contemproary director in itself tells us our films have gone back to stone age..of course for our audience , who are used to to c crude, crass movies of simbu,perarasu, vijay, shankar,ajith etc , Gautham looks special... but to be honest guatham is the bare minimum expected standards of a film maker..
Re: Re: Take on NEPV - beautiful movie
by abc_xyz abc_xyz on Dec 17, 2012 11:17 AM
ROFL ...You put perarasu and shankar in the same league ??????? Now, I guess I am wasting time talking to a moron like you.
Re: Re: Re: Take on NEPV - beautiful movie
by Guest on Dec 18, 2012 07:43 AM
Both of us are fans of tamil cinema.. wanting it to improve.. so thats ok if we are into and healthy argument.. Perosnally feel Shankar is an expensive crass..his prefernce for lews humor, relying on too much glamour from heroine, repeating the same themes over and over. is not to my liking..
Just saw the movie. It is not disappointing as said in the review. Typical Gautam menon movie. Pavithra should watch movies more than once before writing a review.
Re: Pavithra is biased
by obama on Dec 15, 2012 03:57 PM
gautam menon interest is to impress the audiance that he is an intelligent director. so he spends time in youtubee all the time for romantic scenes
Re: Pavithra is biased
by Ramachandran KA on Dec 17, 2012 12:54 AM
Pavithra's review is 100% correct... worst movie.....Gautham Menon killed the beautiful album from Ilayaraja...nothing is there in this movie.....total waste...
I have been reading all your posts here and your point that Tamil cinema isn't upto Bollywood can only be laughed at. Lets not talk about NEPV ..I haven't seen it and it might be an avg one.
But overall quality of Tamil films have skyrocketed. I am saying this with utmost modesty. What are the Hindi equivalents for the following class Tamil movies 1. Chennai 28 (2007) 2. Peraanmai (2009) 3. Pasanga (2009) 4. Aadukalam (2011) - THE BEST MOVIE 5. Eeram (2010) 6. Polladhavan (2008) 7. Paruthiveeran (2007) 8. Kalavani (2010) 9. Subramaniapuram (2008) 10. Naan (2012) 11. Madrasapatnam (2011) 12. Aranya Kandam(2011) and Mass big budget movies 13. Enthiran (2010) 14. Dasavatharam (2008) 15. Ko (2011) 16. Maatran (2012) 17. Thupaakki (2012) etc.. (can't remember all) The more rooted your film is to your culture, the more global it becomes. I can show all the above movies to a Global audience and they’ll be able to accept it. That’s the beauty of Tamil cinema. How many of the so-called National Bollywood movies can claim to represent the true North Indian culture? Anurag Kashyap has openely stated that, it was because of tamil cinema, he was able to make good sound movies and relish success.
Re: To Ramesh Bharat and all tamil movie bashers
by obama on Dec 15, 2012 03:55 PM
boss, do not mislead the people saying tamil movies are great, first watch bollywood movies. to me, one Rockstar is enuf. what a movie. and if you want more, see jodha akbar etc.
Re: Re: To Ramesh Bharat and all tamil movie bashers
by ONEBHK on Dec 15, 2012 10:02 PM
Rockstar ? are you serious...shows your taste...wow...that was the worst movie ever made...that fellow can't describe his action...a tree would act better than him...shame on you
Re: Re: To Ramesh Bharat and all tamil movie bashers
by abc_xyz abc_xyz on Dec 15, 2012 11:24 PM
I suggest, you watch any of the above movies I suggested, and then talk.
Re: Re: To Ramesh Bharat and all tamil movie bashers
by shankar mani on Dec 15, 2012 11:26 PM
Did u read his full comment? Where is he misleading??? Infact he has given full list of movies which are great and hit, so come up with sensible reply or else watch so called hollywood copied movies like barfi...even rockstar style movies are released in Hollywood in way back 70s.
Re: Re: To Ramesh Bharat and all tamil movie bashers
by prem kumar on Dec 17, 2012 12:14 AM
jodha akbar n all those so called gr8 bollywood movies hav budgets more than 50 crores,tell me one recent good bolly movie which is made in less than 10 crores ,paruthiveeran 1.4 cr,subraminiapuram 3 cr, kalavani 1.5 cr kaaka kaaka 3cr
Re: To Ramesh Bharat and all tamil movie bashers
by shankar mani on Dec 15, 2012 11:31 PM
Gud one man, can't be more gud than this...people like Obama thinks bollywood is only their world and trust me they even say Hollywood copy their so called copied Bollywood movies (recently even one actor said this fact).
Re: To Ramesh Bharat and all tamil movie bashers
by Ramesh bharat on Dec 16, 2012 07:47 AM
among the films u mentioned only aranya kandan,paruthiveeran are good movies.. rest are really poor..especially dasavatharam, enthiran were pretty immature attempts at film making..and Matran, thuppaki?.. u cant be serious..
Re: Re: To Ramesh Bharat and all tamil movie bashers
by abc_xyz abc_xyz on Dec 16, 2012 02:32 PM
didn't you read line 'Mass big budget movie' in my comment ? Now Iam confused as to what special attributes aranaya kandam and paruthiveeran had and other movies I listed lacked, that made you say were 'really poor'. Are these movies 'really poor' or your knowledge?
Re: To Ramesh Bharat and all tamil movie bashers
by srinivasan krishnan on Dec 28, 2012 12:33 PM
your statement is 100% correct...but cant digest to see Maatran and thuppaki in this list...they are ok kind of movies only..
One same Movie in Two Languages... Two different reviews....and Each review has different ratings... Now this is what we call us VALIDITY and RELIABILITY in Clinical Research
Re: One Movie in Two Languages... Two different ratings....
by bbc on Dec 15, 2012 04:53 PM
i also wonder how this can be possible when scene by scene and the backdrop everything is same and we get 2 different reviews...
Re: One Movie in Two Languages... Two different ratings....
by ONEBHK on Dec 15, 2012 10:03 PM
you also have to take into account the person doing the experiment...so in this case it was two different people...error is in-built even with same person doing the same experiment at different times so two different persons..it is expected
there was time , when we made fun of bollywood movies.. that was say 15- 20 years back.. now the fact is bollywood and gone much ahead of us and during this period weve gone backwards.. many creative ideas, offbeat movies do come out of bollywood, while we still churn out boy loves girl, good wins over evil, kuthu songs kind of crass commercial entertainers..
Re: Tamil cinema
by aravind gopalakrishnan on Dec 15, 2012 07:01 AM
Have you ever seen a glimpse of Naan Kadavul & Nandhalala ? Bollywood can only import movies with ideas from Hollywood & deny easily it is not though.Don't make assessment with 1 or 2 films from Tamil.Watch the right movies & then comment please.
Re: Re: Re: Tamil cinema
by Ramesh bharat on Dec 15, 2012 08:24 AM
Aravind.. i am afterall a fan of tamil cinema.. but weve got to accept the truth.. bollywood seems to be improving becos they are able to cater to a wider range of audience.. whereas tamil cinema is still confined within a state, that still idolizes film stars..give them all sorts of titles, build temples, fan clubs.. the i.q of an average tamil fan is pretty low and naturally our films are also pretty low.. no that i.q of bollywood fan is high.. but as i said becos of the bigger market they are able to reach out a wider range of audience
Re: Re: Re: Re: Tamil cinema
by Ramesh bharat on Dec 15, 2012 08:35 AM
if we compare the average run-of the mill tamil/bollwood cinemas, we will realize an akshay kumar, salman , sharukh film is much superior to the ones of vijay, ajith, simbu..
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Tamil cinema
by aravind gopalakrishnan on Dec 15, 2012 04:38 PM
U could be one out of a crore all across India saying Bollywood is superior to Tamil cinema.A legend like Amitabh ji told Hindi film industry has to learn a lot from actors & technicians from TamilNadu. I think Amitabh ji knows little more about cinemas than u or me or anyone else.If you say Nandhalala is a copy, what about Munnabai,3 idiots - ? I saw kikujiro which is in no way related to Nandhalala.. please get well.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Tamil cinema
by sudharsan on Dec 15, 2012 08:42 AM
Businesswise, Bollywood is much bigger than Kollywood..But that doesnt mean they r great in all aspects.. In qualitywise, Kollywood can compete with bollywood, no other words..I think, tamil cinema currently balanced with commercial and critics movies..check out the so called 100 crore box office movies, Except 3 idiots all other movies are craps..s that mean i.q of north indians is low?..The same average tamil fan, who encourages the films like Paruthiveeran,Poo,subramaniyapuram etc..Today Bollywood is a place for earn money,fame etc not a creativity.. But still some r tryin to giv a good movie..
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Tamil cinema
by Surya prakhash on Dec 15, 2012 11:24 AM
Gud movies in Tamil 2012 - NANBAN,NAAN, NAAN E, Sundarapandian, Pizza, NKPK, THUPPAKKI
Usually when I criticize any Gautham Menon,Selvaraghavan or Kamal Hasan movies...The pseudo intllectual fans jump at my throat telling me "You have no knowledge in cinema","You must be a vijay fan" etc etc....
BTW,I hate Vijay's mass movies...The general public are now in a mindset that being a Gautham's fan is cool and urban...But all he does is have a good cinematography and inject lot of English dialogues....
His dialogues in VA and VTV were so artificial,like a child reciting in a school play....and just because Simbu cuts his hyperacting doesnt mean it is masterful acting....
Just like Big FM Balaji says,watch the movies for the money you give and dont start judging people and pointing others just because they like or dont like the movie which is of your taste...
Every movie has its own critics,if someone criticize the movie...Look at its face value,if you feel its not right,just leave it...Dont start accusing others
Re: How come there is no backlash from Gautham's pseudo intellect
by shoukath khan on Dec 14, 2012 10:58 PM
True. I belived he is good when I saw Kakka Kakka. Wasnt impressed with his other movies. I like VA though
Re: Re: How come there is no backlash from Gautham's pseudo intel
by Ramesh bharat on Dec 15, 2012 06:38 AM
very true.. our illiterates still have a complex.. they hink english is cooool..GM is just an average film maker.. better than perarasus, k.s ravikumars etc
