BESANT NAGAR BROKEN BRIDGE

A backward ward view of  besant nagar beach very famously known as BROKEN BRIDGE , it is located in besant nagar, adyar.

we could able to view a man fishing in the canal.  this is river named adyar river. this is the meeting point of the river and the sea.  actually the picture was shot by me…  i planned to poterate that man who is fishing as a direction compass . when you have a sudden look at this picture you might think in a way as i said.

When we speak about this spot located in besant nagar,Chennai.  This is a very famous well known shooting spot. most of the recent filims would have taken atleast a single shot in this spot this is a public spot.

so any one can visit the site. no restrictions.  this bridge has got its name as broken bridge because the bridge which ih

been constructed in this site is been broken. this bridge has been used for transportation before some 20 years back.

no government has taken steps to reconstruct it. and because of that only it had became as a famous shooting and tourist spot.

This bridge is located some few meters from besant nagar bridge, And this is a famous and nice hangout spot. the bridge is used to connect santhom and besant nagar. Since the bridge is broken we have to take a long travel of 4km to reach the santhom from besant nagar.

Besant nagar beach is it self a very famous hangout,tourist and shooting spot.  this besant nagar beach is located in few kilometer distance from EAST COAST ROAD very well known as ECR. The landmark of this place is VELANKANNI CHURCH . very famous tourist spot. Those who come to Chennai as tourist  should not miss this spot.

And the next landmark of this besant nagar is ASTALAKSHMI TEMPLE. This is an historical temple this temple comprises of all avathars of goddess  LAKSHMI. this temple is a very famous tourist spot in Chennai. when speaking about this temple we ill become more religious. so any one who has a chance to come to besant nagar please do not miss your chance to vist these spots nd hangout locations in besant nagar,Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

vaaranam ayiram

Director:GowthamMenon.

Cast:Surya Sivakumar,Simran,Sameera Reddy,Divya.

Music:Harris jayaraj.

Production:Aascar films.

I  AM A VERY GREAT FAN OF GOWTHAM MENON AND HARRIS JEYARAJ.If SURYA haven’t acted  in this film,I dont think that this  film would have become this much craze among youth.Vaaranam Aayiram is a typical Gautham Menon film which seems to be pretty close to his real life and has a message at an end.

The movie has a three hour long heavy sentiment drama, which has all the ingredients of Romance, love, comedy and at last advocates non- smoking heavily, as it gives a hard slap to all the smokers who can face the harsh consequence of Cancer.

The movie with its star cast package is complete. The story unfolds in the form of a biography of Surya (Surya). Surya traces back to his life history, narrating about how his father Krishnan (Surya in a father’s role) raised him and how much of motivation and support he offered him throughout his life. The various incidences in his life depict Krishnan as a picture perfect father- right from advising his son not to smoke and showing him to the path of independence. In different nuances, the movie jumps from one incident to another as Surya grows up, lives in a hostel, and witnesses his father’s struggle in life.

Surya is superb and Simran steals the show with her superb acting skills.Another important aspect are the songs. They are beautiful to listen, watch and admire. My favorite is “Nenjukul Peidhidum”. One small concern was about Sameera Reddy, who gets all the hit numbers and leaves Divya with “Analmela Panithuzhi”. Certainly, I did not expect this .

The best part in the movie for me was the train romance scene and the last scene where the father comes to his room and sends him off.

masilamani

Director:R N R Manohar

Cast:Nakul,sunaina,MS Bhaskar, Karunaas, Delhi Ganesh, Santhanam and Srinath…

Production:A G S Entertainment

Music:D.Imman

Banner:Sun pictures

Masi (Nakul) is an orphan living in a lower middle class colony. With a heart of gold, he is a popular guy who takes up local issues, fights for them and is considered as a rowdy by those who don’t know him. Enter the heroine Divya (Sunaina), a rich upper middle class girl who is a dance instructor and with whom Masi falls in love at the first sight. But Divya shows aversion to his rowdisam and gets offended with his proposal. Masi doesn’t loose heart and attempts to win Divya’s family by being a goody boy and dons another name, Mani. Except Divya, all are aware that both Mani and Masi is one person. Later when Divya finds out the truth, she gets into dilemma as whom she has to choose.

Although, there are certain loopholes in the racy-screenplay, it isn’t much blatant to your cognizance if you’ve merely planned to sit back and relax. The film has much funny movements that are quite enjoyable. MS Bhaskar enacting the role of various actors from Rajnikanth till ‘Ghajini’ Surya is hilarious. Santhanam-Srinath combo works the best alike in ‘Santhosh Subramaniam’. Nakul has improved a lot from his previous film and behaves much matured. Sunaina looks so contrastive from her debut flick as she has lots of rooms for performance, uttering dialogues and glamorous quotients.

Kulir100 review

Director:Anita Udeep

Cast:Sanjeev,Riya,Adithya,Thalaivasal Vijay….

Cinematographer:L.K.Vijay

Music:Bobo Sasi

Editor:Lenin

The film starts with Surya,Who beats up his teacher and suceeds in it.His father is a rogue and Surya and his mother live separately.Surya is sent to Lake view school in Ooty by his mother.Surya faces ragging by his seniors that is members of the students council.

Sanjeev looks very handsome in the movie and he emotes according to the situation.Riya’s acting is not up to the mark.Babloo’s character is the only character that everlasts and has an impact on us.

The scenes covered in school looks natural.

Lenin’s editing makes the story crisp.The music is already popular with the peo

ple.The film doesn’t use any commercial masala but it fails to entertain the audience though it delivers the messsage hard way.The film looks like a hint of hollywood.

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Ayan Review

Ayan is the blockbuster movie surya and tamanna acted in this film, which is directed by K.V.anana. Winning laurels with his tracks for ‘Vaaranam Aayiram’, Suriya is back to strike gold with his forthcoming film ‘Ayan’. K.V. Anand who won laurels for his debut directorial ‘Kana Kandein’ is back wielding the megaphone for this film produced by AVM Productions. A commercial entertainer, the auteur seems to have mixed exceptional plotlines. And here comes the most grandiloquent pair of Harris Jayaraj and Suriya who worked magic with ‘Kaakha Kaakha’, ‘Ghajini’ and the recent ‘Vaaranam Aayiram’.

Suriya recently developed his six packs which looks very awesome for him. He did at right time because in his next movie Ayan where the director K.V.Anand wanted him to be a very tuff guy.
Some of the fight scene is shot in realistic manner. One scene is where Suriya fights in a goods train as Rajinikant did in his movie “Murattu Kallai”.

Surya is right now in Malaysia shooting for the second schedule of his Ayan. In fact director KV Anand had left Chennai on May 12 and the Surya who was last seen at the Agaram Foundations “Herovaa Zerovaa” launch left Chennai the same night to Malaysia.

Said Anand: “ We are shooting some action scenes and a song. We wanted a North Indian guy to play the antagonist and the hot and handsome Akashdeep Saigal fitted the role to a T”

Akashdeep Saigal is a popular face in Ekta Kapoor soaps like ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’.

Says a charged Anand: “I shot a few scenes with Saigal in T Nagar and Mylapore and no one recognized him but when we shifted to Sowcarpet area where there is huge Gujarati and Marwadi population, he was mobbed”.

Anand also added that Saigal is going to be the perfect foil to Surya’s character and the team is sure going to rock. Ayan shooting will go on till June 3 in Malaysia

13B Review

Vikram K Kumar known for his award winning short film ‘Silent Scream’ is back with a bilingual horror flick title “13B”. Starring Madhavan and Neetu Chandra in the lead roles with Poonam Dhillon and Deepak Dobriyal in supporting roles, the movie promises to send a shiver down your spine. Have you ever had any paranormal experiences? If not, experience now…

Manohar (Mahadevan), a typical middle class urban male moves to a new apartment 13B on the 13th floor along with his family – wife Priya (Neetu Chandra), his mother (Poonam Dhillon), sister Divya, his elder brother Manoj and his sister-in-law along with their two kids. Just as usual they begin their day on a joyous note and their usual routine, nevertheless Manohar begins to experience some strange happenings. Like the milk getting curdled every day, the portraits of Gods can’t be hung on the impenetrable walls, the lift fails to work when Manohar is alone, his cell phone camera relentlessly distorts his face and the mysterious neighbor’s dog simply refuses to enter the flat with his master. If you feel this is not enough, Manohar soon chances upon on a daily soap that his family is glued to ever since they moved into the apartment named “Sab Khairiyat” that airs on channel 13 at 13.00 hours only at his home. To his shock he realizes that discovers that his life is actually unfolding on the lines of a TV serial. Manohar with the help of his friend Shiva (Murli Sharma) work hard to unravel several life threatening mysteries.

Usually Bollywood horror flicks revolve around an old house, evil possession – body-possessed-by-spirit, exorcism, a mixture of witch craft and voodoo which are low on story and crumble in climax. But with 13B, director Vikram Kumar blends in an easily identifiable urban setting unfolding the suspense with the help of contemporary gadgetries like mobile phone, television and the present global obsession – the endless number of soaps which seems to have completely taken over our lives, lifts, lights and many more. Whilst maintaining the spooky momentum, the unusual happenings and the paranoia is explained using law of physic and not with typical Bollywood clichés like voodoo, baba’s and long shambo bambo mantras.

13B does not completely rely on spooky background score or erratic camera angles for the fear quotient. It has a strong thrilling story with tension filled horrific elements brewing through the veins for most of its runtime with death lurking incidents at every twist at the right time. The contemporary plotline also makes it easy to connect with the characters and feel their confusion and vulnerability. The first half of the movie is spent in creating panic and fear – the supernatural effect induced through day to day activities. Whilst the flash back filled second half convincingly unveils the actual ambiguity and the suspense behind the weird experiences. The story is not fool proof with its own share of cinematic liberties but it keeps your adrenalin on the high side. Also, the runtime is a bit too long for a movie of this genre with unnecessary love songs that break the ongoing suspense. The dialogues are conventional and easily traceable with our day to day life. The cinematography is excellent and zippy that perfectly matches with the narrative. Editing by Sreekar Prasad is crisp. The climax is convincing and intelligent.

The complete spontaneity of the ensemble cast, ably led by Madhavan who is extremely endearing as a man torn between the supernatural and virtual life, adds to the score of the movie. Neetu Chandra is competent while Poonam Dhillon as the mother gets very little scope. Deepak Dobriyal impresses and so does Dhrtiman Chatterjee.

To sum up, 13B succeeds in sending a shiver down your spine. With an innovative approach, it could also be called horror redefined in Bollywood.

Billu Barber Movie Review

Movie Review: Billu Barber; Star Cast: Irrfan Khan, Lara Dutta and Shah Rukh Khan; Director: Priyadarshan; Rating: *** – Touches your heart. Billu is a story of a down to earth village barber, Billu (Irfaan Khan). A man of principles, he is not willing to give up his values come what may even if it means his children are thrown out of the school or his earnings taking a beating. While his wife (Lara) understands him and stands by him during his tough times, his children forever make fun of him. As Billu is struggling making two ends meet, a film unit visits his village to shoot a movie and with the unit comes superstar Sahir Khan (SRK) Billu’s childhood buddy. When the news comes out about Billu’s childhood connection with Sahir Khan, the villagers make a U-Turn in their behaviour towards Billu. He suddenly starts getting respect from one and all. But at the same time everyone starts coaxing him to meet the superstar, all for their own benefits. But then whenever Billu tries, he fails in his many attempts thanks to Sahir’s Z category security. With this the villagers start getting more restless and an already in trouble Billu has to face their additional wrath. What it all leads to forms rest of the film. Based on Malayalam super hit Katha Parayumbol starring Mammootty, Billu’s basic story premise is based on the legendary Krishna-Sudama friendship story. But full marks to Priyadarshan for adapting it well to a present day North Indian village setting. The maker who has always been more associated with mindless comedies shows he knows his job well when handling a serious subject as well. Priyan has handled his huge lot of characters very well and brought out humour from the most unexpected situations. He is technically brilliant as usual but where he scores the most, is in lending a soul to the film. There isn’t a single dry eye in the cinema hall during the climax scene between Irrfan and SRK and also during SRK’s public speech scene. Priyan has packed in the emotions extremely well. Where he falters is the pacing. A better editing was desperately needed. Though the second half is where the actual story unfolds, it appears very lengthy and the item songs added, end up testing your patience. Pritam’s music appears better on screen with songs being innovatively picturised, especially the SRK-Deepika’s Love Mera Hit number. Talking about the performances, Billu is more of an Irrfan Khan film than a King Khan one. He is simply superb and natural to the core. Shah Rukh is good as always but proves with the climax scene why he deserves to be called a superstar. Lara Dutta despite having a glam doll image has perfectly suited the part of a village woman with two kids. Apart from them, the film is full of Priyadarshan film regulars – Rajpal Yadav, Asrani, Manoj Joshi and Rasika Joshi and they don’t disappoint either. Om Puri as the greedy sweet talking money lender is fun to watch. Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone add glam quotient by featuring in three item songs of sorts. Don’t go in expecting a full on SRK flick and you won’t come out disappointed. Billu has a good story to tell and is the kind of a film that brings a tear in your eye and at the same time a smile on your lips as you come out of the hall.

Delhi-6

In an impatient age, Delhi 6 takes its time to warm up to its audience. Lacking any significant plot, we are treated to assorted vignettes of life in and around the bylanes of Chandni Chowk, and when the real story does kick in, it actually proves to be quite a (monkey) menace. Under every man lies a bandar, Darwin Mehra Saab repeatedly insists, even as the film runs asunder. We wonder and gape as he goes on and yawn about a silly Dilli ape.

Yet, there is something about Delhi 6 that still holds you even as it inevitably disappoints. Because even amidst all the chaos, as Roshan Mehra (Abhishek Bachchan- dependably solid and restrained, despite an annoying burgerchaap accent) says in one of the few lines in the film that are cheesier than anything at McDonald’s- ‘The people make it work.’

They’re all stock characters, mind you- but it is the actors inhabiting them that make them special and draw you in with their warmth- forgive this minor mention of a cast that deserves reams of raves- but Waheeda Rehman, Om Puri, Rishi Kapoor, Deepak Dobriyal, Divya Dutta, Vijay Raaz, Atul Kulkarni, Aditi Rao Hydari and anyone I may have missed in oversight (save for Cyrus Sahukar who sticks out like a Kaala Bandar) can take a huge bow. Wow. And Sonam Kapoor is endearingly vivacious and vulnerable- and as cute as a button. Even Benjamin will vouch for that.

There is some beautifully etched dialogue here, and while Rahman’s magical music is appallingly underutilized (the staging of the hypnotic Dil Gira Dafatan made my heart sink), each word written in this film- in lyric or prose- is straight from the heart. Binod Pradhan mesmerizes yet again after Rang De Basanti, and his beautifully lit and composed frames move fluidly and seamlessly, quite unlike the film itself.

Whether it’s the Monkey-man or Masakalli- metaphorical mayhem reins supreme, as Mehra and Kamlesh Pandey stretch simplistic symbolism way too far. The build up to the climax (which almost redefines ridiculousness) is way too underdeveloped, and the sudden burst of dreary and preachy drama leaves you as numb and cold as Dilli ki Sardi.

Still, I recommend you give Delhi 6 a dekko, but sans the great expectations. Like life, it isn’t perfect- and it’s the little things that make it special and worth experiencing.

Luck By Chance

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It is easy to fall in love with every performance in this intimate yet generic insider’s look at the workings of the entertainment industry. But the one that I carried home with me was Sheeba Chadha. A marvel of subtle writing, Sheeba plays a podgy, cunning but simple-hearted producer’s sister-in-law whose husband (Aly Khan) is carrying on with a struggling starlet right under her naïve eyes. One not-so-pleasant afternoon, Sheeba barges into her husband’s van and sees a red-nosed bleary-eyed Konkona Sen Sharma (who has just been told she doesn’t get a role she has been waiting all her career for). Sheeba senses what’s going on. But she quickly digresses her mind from her husband’s extra-marital affair. The industry is filled with such deliberately desensitised people who function within the fickle and frighteningly flamboyant film industry with gut-wrenching self-delusion. “Luck By Chance” — a truly out-of-the-box outstanding work of subtle, sly, satirical and whispering art — is filled with people whom you’re bound to have met in the fetid corridors of Bollywood or the Hindi film industry, as the star-mother Dimple Kapadia insists on calling it. Never before has the film industry been perceived with such intuitively internalised abundance. A subtle splendour galvanised by performances that range from the credible to the incredible takes the narrative to pinnacles of expressiveness. The performances help to ignite the characters into states of subtle yet vivid shades. The ambitious mother-daughter (Dimple-Isha Sharwani) pair, the strugglers, wannabes and losers…oh yes, every character in “Luck By Chance” possesses a luminously lived-in quality, bringing to the surface feelings, thoughts and images that are normally not brought out on screen. Every player — parodic, poignant and pitched perfectly — makes savage fun of the very foibles that they probably practice with masterful manipulative hands in real life. Zoya Akhtar gets into the star space without a moment’s aggression in her storytelling. The moments that define the relationships are built stealthily. This is a world that every person in the Mumbai film industry (for Dimple’s sake, let’s not call it Bollywood!) knows first-hand. The debutante director occupies that space with unostentatious spirit, nurturing interludes between characters (the two strugglers Farhan Akhtar-Konkona, producer-wife Rishi Kapoor-Juhi Chawla, ideologically separated co-actors Farhan-Arjun Mathur) with the cautious care of a mother who wants to bring up her child with the right values without drawing attention to her nurturing acumen. This is a work of tender, subtle care with moments whose immense value strikes you after the wonderfully conversational dialogues (Javed Akhtar at his expressive best) have had their say. At heart, “Luck By Chance” is a story of one man’s plunge into the morass of compromise as he heads towards his dreams. Farhan gets what can only called another chance to do the histrionic dance. As he goes from wide-eyed wannabe to a morally devalued creature, the narrative charts his course with savage humour. Farhan’s scenes with the nakedly adulatory star daughter(Isha playing dumb dead-on) are designed as a blend of satirical erotica and ideological annihilation. Farhan gets it right. This is a work that oozes outstanding acting talent from every nook and corner. Whether it’s Aly as a on-the-move producer or Arjun as a struggling actor who would rather struggle in theatre than compromise, every character plays a person you’ve met if you’ve ever been a part of the Mumbai film industry. Super stand-out performances by Rishi, Dimple, Sheeba, Hrithik Roshan(as a superstar on the skids) and of course, Konkona, whose best performance this is. On the deficit side, (yes even a film of such high order must face the music) the narrative with its inbuilt jokes and references is too much a Bollywood insider’s job, largely inaccessible to the common man who wouldn’t know the name of Ranbir Kapoor’s secretary and couldn’t care less. On most levels, “Luck By Chance” stands tall and luminous, portraying the world of arclights with a synthesis of style, sympathy and substance that is the opposite of the synthetic way the world of showbiz is generally portrayed in cinema. What stays with you are moments like the one where the struggling hero approaches the once glamorous star mother at a party and wins her over… a moment that builds up into a muffled explosion of ambitious scheming achieved at a place where the sound of broken hearts is inaudible.

Slumdog Millionaire movie downloads and reviews

Remember the hoopla surrounding the Who Wants to Be A Millionaire television series? Less than five years ago that game show became a phenomena not only in North America but around the world, making a bigger household name of Regis Philbin. Chances are good that this show will gain even more converts after viewing Slumdog Millionaire, a wildly engaging drama from Fox Searchlight Films now striking a sympathetic chord at the Fifth Avenue Cinemas.

Wins at film festivals have been common for this widely acclaimed film. All the action here centres on Jamal Malik, a young worker from a high tech company who somehow becomes a contestant on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Most contestants who appear on this or any other television game show know what pressure is all about. Here, however, the pressure reaches the outer limits as this fish out of water player has an unbelievable story to tell.

Director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) teams up with director Luveleen Tandan with support from Warner Brothers films to mount a truly impressive undertaking with masterful storytelling finesse. Danger surrounds the Indian version of the show with some coming to question just how a lowly Indian menial labourer could possibly know all the right answers on route to an unbelievably large jackpot, in the millions of rupees no less.

While the squeeze is put on Jamal we are inundated with flashbacks to his childhood to see how he came to his current predicament. As a child Jamal grew up with his brother Salim and mother in the slums of India and the boys underwent harsh treatment largely sometimes because of his faith. Unspeakable horrors confront both boys and those images and pent-up fears/hostilities have a clear impact on their teen years and adult lives. Love, romance and lust also enter into the equation as a young orphan named Latika seems to leave an indelible impression on the lads, and older grown ups as she ages.

Full of violence and tense moments Slumdog Millionaire comes up a winner, turning out to be one of the best movies of the year. Gorgeous cinematography of the Indian continent engulfs viewers. Chases through the slums of Calcutta add a more realistic feel to this movie that’s long on atmosphere and full of great performances that at times will make you weep or cringe. Various actors play the central characters through their lives but one must single out Dev Patel who lights up the screen as the sad-eyed Jamal, a man in love for years but not quite able to close the deal often through no fault of his own. And, in a stunning debut, Freida Pinto shines as Latika, the woman at the centre of much consternation in this story.

Remember also to stay for the credits as the filmmakers liven things up considerably after a two hour look into a very troubled family, some low-life criminals, and a game capable of turning us all on.

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