Posts Tagged ‘Pithamagan’

  • Is Bala “The One” of Tamil Cinema ?
    iView Author: Skanda Narayanan (City, Country) Email: skandarks@gmail.com Is Bala “The One” of Tamil Cinema ? Well, not yet. Sethu was a definite case of Bala’s holy arrival. Nandha discovered the actor in Surya, and Pithamagan saw Bala’s proteges (Vikram and Surya) coming together. With Naan Kadavul, Bala takes up the ultimate statement of...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 23rd, 2009 at 09:03 pm
  • 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
  • Surya- Underrated and Brilliant
     When  i saw his initial  movies, my  opinion  was just another star kid  trying  his luck in Tamil movies.  Nandha made me notice him for the first time as a good actor,  Kaakha Kaakha  increased my admiration for him,  and the way he managed to hold his own against Vikram’s  fiery  brilliance in Pithamagan made me like him even more.  Movies  like...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at December 29th, 2008 at 12:12 am
  • Four years and recounting – Pithamagan
    It was October 2003 when audiences in Thamizhnadu (Tamil Nadu for uninitiated) were swept away by cinematic brilliance of Pithamagan. Personally it was one movie that made me realize that movies need not be all beginnings, middle and endings, not to say that this movie broke any rules of cinematic grammar. There is more to a movie than scripts and lightings. There is more...
    by V.P. Jaiganesh at June 18th, 2008 at 07:06 pm