Another late night/early morning repeat movie. This time Baasha. Stylish and totally Rajnikanth-esque. One of my favourite scenes is the 'Unmaiya sonnen' - 'I told the truth' - dialogue, when the lecherous medical college owner takes back the indecent proposal he offers Rajni's sister, on coming to know that the auto-driver Manickam was the underworld don Baasha a few years before. The movie is littered with dialogues and snippets of populist messages. Not too bad an idea though, considering people whistled their happiness through more than a 100 days when the movie was released.
A few points. Of course the movie is silly and no point indicating isolated bloopers. But some tickle whatever makes you smile the wry one on lean days. The auto-driving population has to be humoured but parading a pregnant lady to convey a dubious message in the first song did not make much sense. Also noticed that old mothers in Tamil movie have to mouth the 'Nalla pasanga pa' dialogue, with an affectionate smile, at her breed of youngsters, atleast once a movie or we know the father made a wrong choice in his second bride. Near the climax, the Inspector calls for the control room to trace a call after the line gets cut (Purists will say the receiver is left dangling off the hook and so a trace is possible but whatever). The funny thing here is the attempt to be perfectly logical. And then of course the brother knows just whose records to look up after seeing Rajni pointing his index finger up against henchman Janakaraj's objections. The hand-kissing part in the Baasha scenes are awesome and what is with humble heroes bearing unjust blows with broad smiles? And the windshield-shattering-with-a-log idea to stop a car is surely borrowed from movies with more equestrian participation! One final note: Isn't 'Nee pesum Thamizh azhagu' - 'The tamil you speak is beautiful' - going way too overboard?
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Hey.. Thalaivar always rules. Dare you bash baasha. Who told you that you can expect some "logic" in a tam movie.
Anyway, it is so unlike you. Stop seeing tam movies and start seeing some shakespeare stuff!
hey i didnt expect any logic in the movie and the fact that i saw the movie a 3rd time meant i liked it for what it was worth.. and how on earth do u know it is unlike me? i bet i have seen more tam movies and more times each one than you have.. btw, who are you? if u reveal urself, we could have a long discussion on our movie tastes (or maybe on shakespeare) ;-)
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