Posts Tagged ‘Ilayaraja’

  • 34
    Pazhassi Raja – worthless lives, priceless freedom
    Pre-empting a scriptwriter like MT Vasudevan Nair is futile, as he wanders the creative landscape like an un-reined white horse. Committing that error, I walked into Audi 05 of PVR cinemas for the initial show, with ‘Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha’ and its memories still fresh as a blooming lotus petal in the mind. What showed in the screen was entirely opposed to...
    by Ram V at October 17th, 2009 at 08:10 am
  • 14
    Avatharam and my passion for cinema
    Recently there was a discussion. I wouldn’t say it was pleasant. I was at the receiving end for most part of it. It centred on what credentials or knowledge I possess to write articles in an esteemed forum like PFC? Sure I was no struggling AD in the streets of mumbai or chennai trying to make movies, not now – probably I never will be. Sure I was not a guy...
    by V.P. Jaiganesh at June 21st, 2009 at 11:06 am
  • 6
    Kalapani
    An excellent take on the Indian freedom fighter’s stuggle in the Celluar Jail of Port Blair and one of the best movies directed by Priyan. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255289/
    by Sethumadhavan at May 2nd, 2009 at 12:05 pm
  • 40
    Priyadarshan- The Run Machine of Indian Cinema
    So far this year we have seen the frenzy generated by SDM and the success of movies like Dev D and Raaz- the Mystery Continues. And of late we have been hearing a lot about the ongoing strike in Bollywood. But there was also one landmark that occured in the 1st Qr of 2009, something which did not really get so much of attention. This landmark was achieved on 13th February...
    by Sethumadhavan at April 24th, 2009 at 03:04 am
  • 19
    Swati Muthyam and purity of the Soul
    Swati  Mutyam-  The  white  pearl  that comes out from the oyster, totally untainted  and  pure of  any  impurities. The  Swati  Mutyam  that  director  K.Viswanath  refers to here is  Sivayya( Kamal  Hassan),  a  kid  trapped  in a man’s body.   Viswanath  and Kamal  had  earlier  collaborated  in  Sagara  Sangamam(  Salaingai  Oli), ...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at March 26th, 2009 at 09:03 am
  • 51
    Thalapathy- Tale of a modern day Karna
    /*  Spoiler  Alerts The  Mahabharat  has  always  been  one  of my  favorite  books.  It  is  like an  ocean  for me,  the more  you  know of it ,  the  lesser  you  still  know  about  it.   And  one  of  the  most  fascinating  characters  in  the  Mahabharata  for me  has  been  Karna.   I guess maybe  due  to the  fact, ...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at March 2nd, 2009 at 05:03 am
  • 9
    Emotions and Pain : Maestro Composed
    iView Author: SRIDHAR MAYUR (Hyderabad, India) Email: With held Emotions and Pain : Maestro Composed There may be many articles written in PFC on “Ilayaraja-The Maestro”, but I have picked a special and most-liked theme of guys who like music(any form). That’s ‘emotion and pain’. You badly need those songs, it’s more like a hurt-medication...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at February 18th, 2009 at 03:02 pm
  • 25
    Naan Kadavul: Oh My God!
    iView Author: R. Gayathridevi (Chennai/India) Email: gaya3ram83@gmail.com Naan Kadavul: Oh My God! Reams have been written about Arya’s beefed-up body, his whirlwind one-month yoga training to stand on his head, the supposed begging task given to Pooja before succeeding Meenakshi and Bhavana as the final heroine of the movie, how Ilayaraja developed goosebumps...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at February 11th, 2009 at 02:02 pm
  • 24
    Naan Kadavul – music for the soul!
    The music for Bala’s much awaited Naan Kadavul came out three weeks back, a full week before the audio of Mysskin’s Nandalala. I have been hearing these songs for this entire period of time and yet could collect my thoughts only now to write a post on them. Unlike Nandhalaala these songs are not immediately likeable. These songs have so much of gravity behind...
    by V.P. Jaiganesh at January 26th, 2009 at 10:01 am
  • 12
    Nandhalaala – songs of a flute
    When a thamizh film poster puts the name of the music director ahead of the director and says that the movie is a ‘journey with ILaiyaraja’ you dont generally take much of a not about it. However if the director is Mysskin who made the fabulous ‘Anjaadhe’ last year and the movie is inspired by the japanese classic ‘Kikujiro’ –...
    by V.P. Jaiganesh at January 16th, 2009 at 03:01 pm
  • 25
    The last scene of Kalyug is still unsolved for me…
    While I was growing up with rotis and films as my staple diet, three brilliant films etched themselves in my mind. They are kalyug, Ardh satya, and Shankarabharanam . They were, are and will remain masterpieces. During our college days,my friends and I would engage in a lot of discussions and intellectual talks about every film we saw and specially these three films....
    by Satish Kasetty at November 25th, 2008 at 11:11 am
  • 19
    Ilayaraja + SPB = Pure Magic!!!
    When two great people meet each other something extraordinary bound to happen here are some instances from past Md Rafi + SD Burman, Kishore Kumar + RD Burman, Lata Mangeshkar + SD Burman, Asha Bhosle + RD Burman and some thing similar happend in south Ilayaraja + SPB . I have been planning to write about this great duo for while, I wasn’t finding enough time or...
    by Varun at June 20th, 2008 at 07:06 am
Page 1 of 11