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It was a long week at uni and I was exhausted by Friday night. Couldn't focus on work so decided to catch up on backlog of movies, just nice Devara came out on Netflix yesterday so decided to watch it. Build up to Jr NTR's entry and Ayudha Poojai song was good. Then came one of the longest and boring fight sequences I have ever seen. The fight lasted till the next morning and it felt like I have also been watching for that long. I couldn't stay awake any longer and just decided to go to sleep. Went to sleep for 12 hours, longest Ive slept this entire year. Thank you Devara for giving me the best night's sleep in a long time. Looking forward to finishing this movie tonight, maybe even tmr if I cant stay awake through the whole movie again.

This is a civil criticism unlike what the title implies. Watched Vettaiyan last night and came across some huge blunders in the plot. It's either plot holes or we just have too many dumb characters in the film to make it even coherent. I agree that the investigation part and such were written very well, but I disagree that the plot faltered only after Rana entered the scene. The plot had to make lots of contrivances to even make it work. Usually one can forgive these kinds of plot holes and logic mistakes in usual commercial movies, but not in this movie, I will let y'all know why.

First of all, the way Athiyan didn't realise he was basically being used as a glorified hitman. A police officer and an encounter specialist, who is very adept in noticing even minor things go wrong and reading the body language and thought process of the people he encounters can't be this dumb. Especially when he sees firsthand about how policemen were bought by criminals to let them be scot free and such right in his previous encounter. It's okay if we were allowed to just assume he knows things like this before, but they even tell us how the police officer in his own team was bought and everything. Why didn't he even think of reading the report the previous IPS officer made about Guna once? Like I can understand that every movie has a plot hole, but here they make it a point to show that Athiyan doesn't enjoy doing encounters and doesn't take it as a way to indulge himself in killing, and it is something he doesn't do casually. Infact, the fact that he killed an innocent man does disturb him alot. Paan paraak packet vechi unmaiyaana criminal ah pudika mudinja thalaivaraala avarukku therinja ponnae avar encounter panna pora aala previous ah false case la irundhu jaamin la eduthaa nu check pannirukka mudinjirukkaadha enna?

Seri ivarudhaa ipadinu paatha, Dushara Vijayan characterum andha Guna oda friend um seriyaana maakanungala irukaanga. Vaaya ozhunga tharandhurundha indha padame 30 mins la mudinjirukkum. This woman is taking it upon herself and is going on an entire crusade against a huge edutech company all by herself, and has personally seen how much it has affected the people closest to her, like Guna and his sister. She has done an entire protest against the company, and has also bailed out Guna before. Athiyan saar veetuku poi lunch saaptu dost aah irukka therinja ivalukku, ivlo periya vishayatha share pannirukkanum nu oru tharam kooda thonirukkaadha? I am actually baffled that Athiyan doesnt know Guna already, given how close Guna's family is with Saranya. She must've talked about him atleast once.

Ivadhaa ipdinu paatha, Guna oda friendu adhukkum mela, he sees that Athiyan isn't just randomly motivated to kill his friend and close the case, but has the mental maturity and understanding to not judge people from downtrodden backgrounds and also sees that Athiyan is an upstanding police officer and gets impressed himself. So the question of not trusting Athiyan is thrown right out the window. He says that he has been very close friends with Guna to the extent of playing cricket with him since childhood. How come he doesnt know that Guna was in an interview on the same day this brutal incident happened? I am sure he knew. If he knew, why wouldn't he divulge a fact as important as this to protect his friend???? After going those lengths...

These two blunders literally break the movie's narrative and plot completely.

Hi guys

I have been a movie buff and watched a lot of movies(in many languages).

Mani ratnam's early years as a film maker he never had any gradeur in his story but had grandeur in terms of drama in screenplay and making and many would say he is a realistic film maker but I would say he is a dramatic film maker and that worked very well for those times where we haven't seen such films and was different.

Coming to his much recent projects he has retained the same drama and making but things have changed for the tamil cinema audience as we have been exposed to other language and other country films and hence his recent projects didn't work for me since they are not showing anything new to us.

Take for instance ccv the story was simple a fight for the throne among brothers and it had good screenplay and good cinematography and some good fight scenes but that alone wasn't enough because it was an action movie but had a lot of drama and the story also felt flat.If at all the story had some great twists and ups and downs it would have been damn good

With ponniyin selvan the story and even his screenplay and making was flat and the worst mani rathinam movie ever

My expectation about thug life.Hope mani learns from his mistakes and concentrates on the story and makes the story rich and doesn't let us down with the screenplay and also making wise instead of giving the same old also gives us something new technically and I would say for a movie touted to be an action thriller please lower the drama that mani usually does(It worked for me in ravanan but not in ccv) and increase the thrill and redefines himself.

Thug life Story screenplay la enga andavarum work pani irukaru so I have high hopes that this would be the next big thing.Thalaiva vikram lam neraya per unnoda come back nu solranga but I am a fan of the actor kamal hassan and avaru standards ku vikram eh kami than make the come back that real kamal fans are expecting out of you

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My friend has worked as AD to various directors and was part of Vels production house and here are some of his experiences.

Mari Selvaraj and Pa Ranjith are extremely casteist, and openly say "enga aalunga" in the set.

Vetrimaran overworks his AD and doesn't treat them well.

Mani Ratnam yells at his ADs at times but never uses cuss words like others, he is chill at times, and some time during shoot extremely focused.

GVM is the chillest director, he treats his ADs very well, talks with them in a friendly manner.

Aishwarya Rajesh has a huge attitude and doesn't respect ADs, my friend apparently was heavily scolded by her during scene narration

Pradeep Ranganathan apparently used to visit Vels production house for years to get a chance and finally he landed Comali, but Jayam Ravi suggested tons of changes, eventually though it worked.

He is an AD trying to become a director but he often says the industry is ruthless, and they pay peanuts to AD. The timings are odd, the circumstances are toxic, only the desperate and ambitious can survive.

PS: These are his personal experiences and obviously could be biased.

Simple.

Many of us grew up in that era watching these films and developing mixed feelings for it.

Is this right? Is this wrong? Is this how opposite genders interact? Is this what a true male / female should be like? Is this what each craves internally, but are inhibited only due to some artificial man made rules?

So many questions, that just remained unanswered and we just moved on. But keeping this unresolved can bubble up into skewed personalities that put a lot of things at risk.

Someone has to take the initiative and go back and call these problematic triggers that created traumatic memories, and start resolving it. This helps that generation to shape themselves better at least for the rest of their life.

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The members of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) on Thursday staged a protest outside the office of actor and producer Kamal Haasan’s Raaj Kamal Films International, which produced the film Amaran, starring Sivakarthikeyan, for allegedly portraying Muslims in a bad light.

According to The Hindu, K Kareem, State secretary of the SDPI, said: “ Amaran is thrusting anti-minority sentiments among the people, and it is not a complete biopic. On the contrary, the film was made to sow hatred against Muslims. So, we strongly condemn it.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/sdpi-protests-bad-portrayal-of-muslims-in-amaran/article68841537.ece

The teaser came out recently and many of you are hyped. I don’t blame you. But just remember all the hell this movie went through. All the cast members leaving the film halfway during pre and during production. In fact Simbus character was added halfway. He’s not even part of the original script. Guntur Karaam is a great example of shit like this happening and in the end giving us a shit film.

DEVARA, Lays+Pepsi = 70 + 30rs delivery fee

I enjoy watching telugu mass masala commercial films like Pushpa, Salaar, Ala Vaikundapuramloo, and even Guntur Kaaram to a degree. So today I thought lets watch Devara on Netflix. Instamarted lays and pepsi and started watching the film and it is so ass. Like it is the most predictable plot told in the most boring way possible. Watched 30mins and and couldn't continue anymore.