OK, we’ve met all four of them now.
Yes, the fake currency printer, business tycoon, cook and firefighter.
Just got past the Rum Bum Bum rock-n-roll song.
No limit to the incongruities (whatever does this word mean) in Tamil movies.
Funny to see the rock-n-roll dance on a busy commercial street in Tamil Nadu.
By the way, the song reminded us of that old Elvis classic Jailhouse Rock.
Mama Mia, that girl Khushboo was P L U M P, even those days.
Must have been all that beef Indian Muslims eat (Khushboo was a Muslim then, right?).
Wonder why years of beef never added to our weight!
Can’t help but wonder if the song Rum Bum Bum was a homage to Khushboo’s huge bums.
Positively monstrous, we tell ya. You can screen a 70-mm movie on Khushboo’s bums with space left over on both sides for ads.
No kidding, folks.
Just look at that derriere one more time.
Like all her peers, Khushboo too is a horrible dancer. A graceless elephant tromping up and down.
Right now, we’re in the kitchen at a wedding function watching the Iyer Kamal Kameswaran and Tripurasundari (Urvashi) make eyes at each other.
Mallu kutty Tripurasundari oops Urvashi is a sizzler, guys. Real hot. 😉
Eureka, we just realized Urvashi is divorced/separated.
Sweet, na?
So far, the movie is alright. Nothing extraordinary though.
We’ll update this post after finishing the movie.
Update
Overall, we’d say that Michael Madana Kama Rajan is mildly amusing, in a few bits here and there.
Otherwise, this is the same old Kollywood trash machine at work.
Even for a comedy where logic takes a backseat, the Michael Madana Kama Rajan story is asinine to the n+1th degree – the story of four brothers separated at birth and growing up with different families and in different economic circumstances.
As almost everyone knows by now, all four brothers are played by Kamal Haasan.
The last hour of the movie was balderbash, intolerably bad.
Kamal Haasan – Mediocre
Of the four roles, Kamal Haasan is very mediocre in three – the foreign-returned Madan, counterfeiting thug Michael and firefighter Raju.
And to think that this guy is hailed as the greatest actor in Tamil Nadu. Shows how low the film industry has fallen.
Kamal comes to life only in the character of the Palghat cook Kameswaran.
The notion of acting is a completely alien idea for Khushboo. Not that it bothers Tamils, who have built a temple for her.
Urvashi shows some signs of acting talent. Unfortunately, she has too small a role to showcase her abilities.
Rum Bum Bum, Sundhari Neeyum Sundhara and Suba Rathiri were decent songs but the picturization of the first and the third were below par.
Overall, we’d say that given all the praise heaped on this movie, we were let down by Michael Madana Kama Rajan.
It’s nowhere in the league of Kamal Haasan movies like Salangai Oli or Anbe Sivam.
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It is one of my favorite movies…u r watching the movie for the first time? no, seriously?
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Most likely, for the first time.
But Bhim Boy, Bhim Boy sounds familiar.
Maybe, we’ve heard friends here talk about it.
Offtopic:
hi guess what today is very important day
india takes on archrivals pukistan(pakistan) in the champions trophy hope every one in SI wishes for india’s victory. please pray for Mahendra singh dhoni’s Men in blue to crush that sadistic pakistani team
if possible start a topic for post match analysis as we’re up against our archrivals for the first time since the dastardly attacks in mumbai
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write: please pray for Mahendra singh dhoni’s Men in blue
Pray, Eat & Love?
The better team will win.
Yes, the movie is just ok,but climax was too silly.
Even this sort of low standard climax was copied in a hindi movie(WELCOME). Better try to see kamal’s “HEYRAAM”.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Yes, the climax of MMKR was total trash.
We remember seeing that nonsense of an ending in Welcome too.
Here’s an excerpt from our review of Welcome:
How lucky I am?
While SI suffer watching all the trash and end up screaming at the top of voice, I get to see some better films these days..!!
Guess what the mail man had brought me today? It is “Vertigo” [HitchCock] from BigFlix..!! Certainly a good watch..!
But, I was not so glad as I had been, while watching “Dial M for Murder”.. That was fresh for me.. This one is also very good, considering the time, 1950s..!!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
We’re still recovering from the MMKR rubbish.
So many people have sung paeans to MMKR that perhaps we expected too much.
Khushboo acts and dances like a pisachi (ogress) in the movie. Eeks.
We may have Vertigo in our collection. Will watch soon.
Has been on our list for a while.
We recommend an Ingrid Bergman movie. The woman is beautiful, in the classical, timeless sense. We suggest Casablanca or For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Ha ha ha ha, I couldn’t help reading this line, “As almost everyone knows by now, all four brothers are played by Kamal Haasan.”
Did you quote Naseeruddin Shah or did he quote you?
when somebody asked him about Kamal playing Shah’s role in the remake of “A Wednesday”, N.Shah is reported to have said, “MY role? He should be playing all the roles” 😀
I can’t help laughing! Poor Kamal, I hope that he does manage to read what people think of him someday!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write: N.Shah is reported to have said, “MY role? He should be playing all the roles”
Wonder if all roles include the police dogs too. 😉
SI wrote:
> The notion of acting is a completely alien idea for
> Khushboo. Not that it bothers Tamils, who have built
> a temple for her.
Now seriously, you don’t believe that the temple was to celebrate her acting skills, do you!? Kushboo(b) is worshiped for her Dolly Partonesque traits & no more. Not that it absolves those who worship her, but then, Tamils have done worse 🙂
As for MMKR, other than playing the earnest fool in Kameswaran (and his scenes), Kamal does not score with this movie. IMO, most of the Kamal/Crazy Mohan comedies were lackluster farces.
Sathi Leelavathi was the one comedic performance of his that truly worked for me from start to finish (Others such as Panchatantiram, Thenali, Pammal Sambandam, Mumbai Xpress were unmitigated disasters IMO, although the box office data for these might tell a different story).
Slightly Off Topic: Found these clips of a very old Kamal-Rajini-Sripriya starrer. While the movie belonged to Sripriya and Rajini, and was also noted for its in-your-face dialogues, note the accent-less English from Kamal 3 decades back. The movie was Aval Appadithaan and was critically acclaimed, though it was a B.O dud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPmiYeNhOcM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXMqK2WKt0M&feature=related
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. Nice excerpts. We watched the following two episodes (i.e 3 & 4) as well.
Just wondering what if they had done the movie without ever showing the girl.
Would have been a classic like that sui generis movie 12 Angry Men. If our recollection is accurate, the entire discussion is post-facto, and post mortem obviously (given the story) without any of the ridiculous flashbacks.
2. Thenali, Pammal Sambandam and Mumbai Xpress were utter garbage.
3. You write: Kushboo(b) is worshiped for her Dolly Partonesque traits & no more.
True considering the next star honored with a temple was Namitha.
SI wrote:
> Just wondering what if they had done the movie
> without ever showing the girl.
Given the lack of clips with Sripriya (just 1), that seems like a serendipitous and interesting idea. But, that would have also been a loss, because very rarely do women get weighty roles in Tamil movies and Sripriya, who was otherwise just a glam girl, grabbed the opportunity in this one and delivered with panache.
Also, Kamal nicely underplayed the role of an idealist.
And here is a song of his from the same movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFwxXug_5VQ
Btw, this movie was directed not by K.Balachander, who was known for his women-centric movies, but by a less known director C.Rudraiya, who went on to make just one other movie “Graamaththu Adhyaayam”. Can’t find any clips on that one, other than this nice rustic song by Malaysia Vasudevan & Janaki. Watch the very funny “dance moves” (or whatever the heck they called them those days) by the heroine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv-KRI-PvNU
SearchIndia.com Responds:
We agree with a few of the sentiments expressed by Rajinikanth, in some of the earlier links on women, politicians et al.
Just finished watching “Seven Samurai” japanese film, with english subtitles, from BigFlix. Nice movie. A 3 hour movie, hailed as one of the most influential film, is directed by Akira Khurosawa.
Why most influential? I did not see any unusual thing in this movie. But, they were first incorporated in this movie by Director Khurosawa, and subsequentially they were stolen by many “woods” directors, so they became unusual thing for us.
Its influence can be seen at large in West, so that it went on to remake the film with the name “The magnificent Seven” with a cowboy (or something like that) look and feel.
Many characters, scenes, etc, were incorporated later in a lot of movies we watched. [Read: “Legacy” subheading in wiki for this film]
Another thing I noticed, is that no one looks like they are ever acting [which would be obvious in cases of our MGR / Shivaji times movies, and we’d be doubtful if they ever act when they just speak with expressionless face]. This movie characters just live in front of us.
As far as, Kamal’s discussion here is concerned, I suggest you watch Sathi Leelavathi [directed by Balu Mahendra].
SearchIndia.com Responds:
After watching a link posted by Gandhiji the other day, we’re desperate to see Sathi Leelavathi.
We’ll get to Kurosawa too eventually.
Off the topic:
Watch this stunt [one of the most forwarded video in mails, Balakrishna a.k.a Balayya telugu hero, stunt..!][Hope you understand little telugu]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHWbfJojnjk&feature=related
Wow, what a man..!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Instead of pointing the finger forward as Balakrishna does in the clip, we’d have lifted our middle finger upward.
Horrible.
Hey, but who can beat our man Vijayakanth.. This is one is astonishing..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEgiRzylHuM&feature=related
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Height of nonsense. Really.
This shit must have been a sooper-dooper hit in TN??
a Big “NO”..
Not a hit. Film went down the drain.
But people felt amused by these kind of fights… 😀
In another film, “Narasimma”, Vijayakanth ‘d be tied and connected to a live transformer, for high volts shock treatment purpose by villains.
Guess what, the transformer blasts..! [Now let’s stop laughing a** out]..
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Yes, we saw that Narasimma clip. Hilarious.
One of the SI readers posted a link to a YouTube clip a few months back.
Did you realise that every 10 minutes someone just has to get knocked on the head?????????
Over the weekend, out of sheer boredom and nothing to do, caught Aegan on TV and I was so shocked Ajith would say yes to such a role!
I have a few questions that i believe will never be answered even by the geniuses
Couldn’t he lose some weight to at least play the student role properly, it so unsightly to see his tummy bulging out while he’donning all these ultra cool outfits
He stares at the villain who’s about to stab him and the villain is paralysed with fear and next thing you know the villain is hung on a stake..seriously this guy beats even Superman
He does not look at Nayantara but just says in his mind do i need to thank you for this and she gets it….to all those married for 40 years does this happens in your married life…. seriously??
How does Nayantara get away with those sexy sarees and dancing in the rain as a schoolteacher? Damn! And she’s on a permanent PMS….angry, moody, yelling and she looks constipated the whole time. Btw, is it true she married Prabhudeva?
How is it that Ajith knows how and where to look for the bad guys? First you see him running on foot chasing a van and next thing he’s bashing them on some remote hilltop. He’s singing a song in school and hei presto he magically appears out of nowhere in some abandoned lot beating the crap out the baddies, brings the kid home only to discover that the kid’s his long lost brother.
Anyway, i gotta admit the sheer stupidity of the movie did keep me entertained for the 2 and a half hours
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. Even by the standards of bad-ass Tamil movies, Aegan was a shocker . A pukeworthy piece of trash.
2. You write: Btw, is it true she married Prabhudeva?
No idea.
Irrespective of whether she marries Prabhudeva, Krishnadeva, Suryadeva, Mahadeva or some other Deva, we hope she quits Kollywood and settles down into matrimonial bliss a la Jyothika and spares us further torment.
Never has a more horrid actress disgraced Kollywood.
Hei
I got another funny one for you, my colleague just watched this movie Newtonin 3am Vidhi. And she gave away the ending to me cuz it was just HILARIOUS!!
Get this ok…in this DNA age
So the lame hero is SJ Suryah. Towards the ending, the hero’s hands are beaten to a pulp and therefore he’s unable to use his hands. He tries to hold a gun but due to the severe injuries sustained, he’s not able to grip his gun either.
Determined to vanquish the villain, he sits near the fire with bullets places in between his fingers and he gets the bullets flamed up (irrespective of the fact it could burn his hands)
And once the bullets are heated….he starts shooting the villain with his HANDS! As the villain takes the shot from our hero and eventually succumbs to death, SJ Suryah blows the flame off his fingers and smiles as justice is served
Can anyone top this ridiculous ending?
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Unfu**ing believable.
Shooting with the hands? Wonder what the NRA (a powerful pro-gun lobbyist group in the U.S.) will have to say about this.
What a shame that Newtonin 3am Vidhi didn’t make it to the U.S.
Our favorite SJ Surya video.
what exactly do u expect from movies,gals?
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Entertainment. Quality. Non-plagiarized stuff. Acting. Originality. Decent music.
Entertainment. Quality. Non-plagiarized stuff. Acting. Originality. Decent music
Guys you do know that this is asking too much from our Indian directors right 😛
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write: you do know that this is asking too much from our Indian directors
Hope lies eternal in the human….
SI says “Of the four roles, Kamal Haasan is very mediocre in three – the foreign-returned Madan, counterfeiting thug Michael and firefighter Raju.”
You seem to know ins and outs of acting. Why don’t you start acting? Sure you’ll put Kate Winslet and other Oscar girls to shame.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Duh.
There are many indelible scars left by seeing movies in the past (while we were ignorant) to name a few, like Beeli Hendthi, Aadhi Manava ( Kannada) Ganga (Tamil Western) Seetha Geetha ( Telugu) and a few Mallu & Bollywood movies and even a few Pakistani movies as well. Until now, I managed to stay away from Arabic films for fear of bearing another scar. But who can beat destiny ?
When we got about five days leave during last week, three days holidays for Ramadan, combined with a two days weekend, we took off for a sort vacation to Egypt to see the Pyramids and to relax at the beach resort at Sharm Al Shaikh there.
I had no alternative but to see three Arabic films, two in flight and one in a bus. Two were general,while one was a comedy with a moronic detective as the protagonist. In all the three movies, there were NO songs & dance, NO stunts, NO flash backs, NO special effects, NO grand sets……just plain and simple narrative…as the story moves on.
Hey, Interestingly, there is someone there in Arabic cinema too! like our Kamal, who plays multiple roles. In one of the films I saw, he did three identical brothers role (triplets according to the story). How does the make-up man differentiate between the three characters’ you ask? Simple, first one with a rimless glass ( a timid IT guy), second one with a black frame glass ( a villainous guy) & third one with a red frame & red glasses ( a football fan).
The movie is all about triplets playing pranks on unsuspecting people around them in college, neighborhood etc, with their looks being identical. All three date the same heroine, two other guys pretending to her, to be the IT guy (whom she loves) by wearing his type of glasses. Oh ! man, they even bring a whore to their house and take turns to lay her, but pay her once ( she thinks it is the same guy going to the loo & returning back with renewed virility).
Absurdity at its best! The scars left by these movies is going to stay on for quite a while.
I am not sure if they are recent movies. If they are… then….Arabic cinema has a long….long way to go. In movie making …we can say, they are at present, half a century behind all our Indian woods.
BTW, SI, Did you have any “Dosham†(bad luck) to have seen an Arabic or Pakistani Movie so far ?
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. You write: There are many indelible scars left by seeing movies in the past (while we were ignorant) to name a few, like Beeli Hendthi
Ever since we first listened to this Hilarious Piece of Nonsense from Beeli Hendthi (White Wife) a few decades ago, we’ve never been the same. 😉
Excerpt from the banshee’s wail:
Ha ha ha ha ha ha….
Must watch funny Banshee Wail, folks.
(BTW, Athae= mother-in-law)
2. You write: All three date the same heroine, two other guys pretending to her, to be the IT guy (whom she loves) by wearing his type of glasses. Oh ! man, they even bring a whore to their house and take turns to lay her, but pay her once ( she thinks it is the same guy going to the loo & returning back with renewed virility)
Funny, 3 for 1.
Or is it 1 by 3?
3. No, we have not blessed enough to see an Arabic or Pakistani Movie so far.
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@ mogambo: “Kushboo(b) is worshiped for her Dolly Partonesque traits & no more.”
I wonder why Jayamalini, Anuradha, Silk Smitha (who, IMO, was truly one smokin’ hot woman), and the rest of the starlets in Tamil cinema don’t have a temple 🙂
@mogambo: “note the accent-less English from Kamal 3 decades back”
That because the movie happened prior to his graduation from “Kodambakkam American Accent Institute.”
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write: I wonder why Jayamalini, Anuradha, Silk Smitha (who, IMO, was truly one smokin’ hot woman), and the rest of the starlets in Tamil cinema don’t have a temple
All udders are equal but some udders are more udductive than others.
Thank you, Orwell. 😉
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StrYngLad74 wrote: I wonder why Jayamalini, Anuradha, Silk Smitha (who, IMO, was truly one smokin’ hot woman), and the rest of the starlets in Tamil cinema don’t have a temple 🙂
Jayamalini, Anuradha, Silk Smitha and Disco Shanthi were all hired to play the role of vamps/item girls in their movies. You build a temple for any of these dancers and you would be accused of outright debauchery.
Kushboo, on the other hand, was this plump Punjabi “sweetheart” who stole the hearts of many a Tamil in the early 90s with her syrupy roles as a heroine in Chinna Thambi, Singaravelan etc. You build a temple for her and any allusions to moral depravity can be plausibly denied. The only accusation you face then is that you are a movie maniac/weirdo.
See, Tamils aren’t stupid 🙂
SearchIndia.com Responds:
According to Wiki, the woman even has an Idli named after her.
Given her size, very appropriate.
I loved crazy mohan’s dialogues at most places..
Delhi Ganesh’s natural performance..
Urvashi’s grandma especially in the scene Kameshwaran catches her..
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Except for the stray funny moments, MMKR was junk.
hi
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Hello uncle/auntie/beta/beti
What can we do for you?
hello
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You are back again.
Now what.
watched this movie when it first came out in 1991.. or was it 1990.. can’t remember..
anyway, why is it when it comes to twins, they must be separated? always watch this kind of nonsense in tamil movies.. latest being Vel..
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write: why is it when it comes to twins, they must be separated? always watch this kind of nonsense in tamil movies.. latest being Vel..
We think this nonsense of the twins/brothers being separated at birth/in childhood started with Hindi films.
The most famous examples are Yadoon Ki Barat, Amar Akbar Antony and Seeta Aur Geeta. At least, those Hindi movies had nice music.
Vel was plain rubbish.
Are you kidding?…Do you understand tamil well?…..Da movie is hilarious from start to end….
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. You write: Do you understand tamil well?
One more clown questioning our Tamil credentials.
You are trying to suppress and oppress and depress the view of the Tamilian. 😉
Ha ha ha ha.
2. You write: Da movie is hilarious from start to end….
Sure, for the baboons.
Is MMKR a a movie? No, we don’t want any answers to that rhetorical question.
SI : coming friday Aadhavan is releasing in Overseas and in India it is releasing in 17th . So watch it on 16th itself and review it , ur review will save someone from watching that movie [ :d ]
Trailer and the songs sucks . 🙁
SearchIndia.com Responds:
K.S.Ravikumar’s last two films Varalaru and Dasavatharam were total garbage.
So we are not pinning high hopes on Aadhavan.
Well if as you claim you understand tamil well….there is no accounting for tastes…but i think you are in the minority…
“1 .One more clown questioning our Tamil credentials.
How clever…what grade did you learn that…
“You are trying to suppress and oppress and depress the view of the Tamilian. ”
Gross Over interpretation…I asked a simple question….
“2. You write: Da movie is hilarious from start to end….
Sure, for the baboons.”
How do you actually know this?..you live with them in a zoo right…
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. You write: Gross Over interpretation…I asked a simple question….
You can pick your simpleton questions but allow us our sensible responses. 😉
2. You write: ..you live with them in a zoo right…
Yeah, in an online zoo with the likes of you.
Now scoot.
3. You write: i think you are in the minority
You are very right.
Look around, the idiots are invariably in the majority.
Vandatangapa Comedy Pasanga (here come the clowns).
Okay..Last post….
“3. You write: i think you are in the minority
You are very right.
Look around, the idiots are invariably in the majority.”
I don’t know if you are a clown…but your logic sure is funny..
Let us see an example…a minority of people are terrorists, so all non-terrorists are idiots is it…
ada enna laasic idhu..sahi kalai
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Aha, so by your distorted logic the exception proves the rule, eh?
To use your lingo, ada enna laasic idhu..sahi kalai.
will be waiting for ur review on 16th for aadhavan movie .
Ur review will save many in India ..
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Now, don’t be funny.
No i am not funny , [:d]
I passed ur UPO review link to many of my friends and they passed it to their circles and all thanked a lot for that review.
they didn’t watch the movie .
So for aadhavan also i am waiting for ur fast review so that i can pass the link to most of them .[:p]
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write: I passed ur UPO review link to many of my friends and they passed it to their circles and all thanked a lot for that review.
You’ll kill us with your flattery. 😉
Have you watched aboorva sagodharargal one of the best commercial movies i have seen.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Will watch soon. We’ve have seen bits and pieces.