Gionee Vijay TV Film Awards 2014 - Complete Winners List

Best Costume Cesigner : Poornima Ramaswamy (Paradesi)
Best Stunt Director: Anal Arasu (Pandiyanaadu)
Makeup: Dasarathan (Paradesi)
Art Director: Ilayaraja (Vishwaroopam)
Editor: Antony (Pandiyanaadu)
Cinematographer: Rajiv menon (Kadal)
Lyricist: Na. Muthukumar - Dheivangal Ellaam (Kedi Billa Killadi Ranga)
Background score: Santhosh Narayanan (Soodhukavvum)
Debut Actress: Nazriya (Raja Rani)
Debut Actor: Gautam karthick (Kadal)
Song of the year: Ethirneechal
Choreographer: Brindha - Adiyae (Kadal)
Supporting Actress: Dhansikaa (Paradesi)
Villain: Arjun (Kadal)

Contribution to Tamil cinema: Balu Mahendra

Playback Singer (Female): Shakthisree Gopalan - Nenjukullae (Kadal)
Playback Singer (Male): YUVAN SHANKAR RAJA - Komban Sura (Mariyaan)

Comedian: Santhanam (Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru)
Screenplay: Nalan kumaraswamy (Soodhukavvum)
DialogueS : Naveen (Moodar Koodam)
Debut Director: Atlee (Raja Rani)
Director: Bala (Paradesi)
Special Jury Award: Vijay Sethupathy & Soodhukavvum
BEST FILM: Thangameengal
Sivaji Ganesan Award: Director shankar
Best Actor: Kamal Haasan (Vishwaroopam)
Favourite Hero: Vijay(Thalaivaa)
Entertainer of Indian Cinema: Shahrukh khan
Entertainer of the year: Siva Karthikeyan
Best Actress & Favourite Heroine : Nayanthara (Raja Rani)
Favourite film: Aarambam
Best Crew: Ethirneechal
Best Music Director: A R Rahman (Kadal, Mariyaan)
FAVORITE SONG: OODHA COLOR RIBBON (Varuthapedatha Valibar Sangham)

Kaththi First Look Posters HD - Vijay, Samantha, AR Murugadoss, Anirudh

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Thala 55 - Shooting Spot Stills - Ajith, Anushka, Gautham Menon

Maan Karate is a Decent Entertainer - Tamil Movie Review

Few IT employees on their weekend getaway gets a newspaper of a future date from a saint as per their wish. From that they get to know that they are going to make 'Peter' from Rayapuram winner of a Boxing competition and walk away with the prize of 2 crore. At the same time, as per the news paper their IT company shutsdown. When few more events said in the paper becomes true, they decide to give it a shot. Peter is your regular Tamil mass film hero, jobless, roaming around with friends, dancing to intro song, 'sight' seeing girls. And as usual he meets Yazhini and fall head over heels. That's when the 5 meet him and Peter Okays to Box only if his conditions are met, one among them being tricks to woo Yazhini. Everything seems to go fine for peter till a Pro-Boxer named 'Peter' enters the scene. What happens next forms the rest of the story.

Story, which is being credited to AR Murugadoss, is nothing new, but its the scripting, especially in the first half that makes the film work. The film has also got plenty of humor, thanks to Siva & Satish. Satish infact has tons of one liners. The films has been shot beautifully, like a Bollywood rom-com. The costumes were trendy and cool and the art-set work were very good. The first half is totally entertaining with plenty of humor even though the proceedings are predictable.

The film has overall a silly feel to it. In the last 30 mins the film moves to a cliche mode and drags big time. The Boxing sequences remembers us of 'M Kumaran', in fact has the shades of 'Gilli' 'Ethirneecha' 'Badri' etc. The film should have been atleast shorter by 20 mins. Anirudh's songs and BG were kinda disappointing considering his past accomplishments.

Siva Karthikeyan once again rocked for most of the parts (except few scenes in the climax portions) with his humor timing. This time his dancing have improved by leaps and bounds. Was also looking smart in the new harido and smart costumes. Hansika has lost oodles of weight & was looking stunning, but her character was the usual filmi heroine, still she tried to do a better job and make an imapct. The 5 friends also did commendable job, especially Satish, who brought the house down every time he opened his mouth. Soori, Vamshi doesn't make much of an impact in cameo length roles.

Direction was okay, with a better script he will do wonders. Cinematography was good. Editing could have been crispier, especially boxing portions. Even though music was average, they were picturised and choreographed beautifully.

In all Maan Karate is a time pass entertainer

Rating 2.75/5

Verdict: above Average



Final word: Time Pass Summer Flick

Maan Karate - Kerala Release Paper AD with Theater List

Goli Soda - Tamil Movie Review from Kerala

Crew 

 Directed by     Vijay Milton
Produced by     Bharath Seeni
Written by     Vijay Milton (Story), Pandiraj (Dialogues)
Music by     S. N. Arunagiri, A. Seelin (BGM)
Cinematography     Vijay Milton
Editing by     Anthony
Studio     Rough Note
Distributed by     Thirrupathi Brothers
Release dates     January 24, 2014
Country     India
Language     Tamil

Cast

    Santhosh Kishore as Pulli
    Sree Raam as Settu
    Pandi as Sithappa
    Murugesh as Kuttimani
    Seetha as Vanmathi (ATM)
    Chandhini as Yaamini
    Imman Annachi as Manthiravadhi
    Sujatha Sivakumar as Aachi
    R. K. Vijai Murugan as Mayilu
    Madhusudhan as Naidu
    A. Manoharan

'Goli Soda' tells the story of the life, friendship and adventures of 4 orphan boys. Pulli, Settu, Sithappa & Kuttimani works as lifters in Koyembedu Market (Chennai), which is one of Asia's largest goods market. Aachi, who owns a shop in the market is their only relationship in the world. With the help of Aachi, one day, they open a restaurant to earn propoer living and have some dignity in the society, on the godown given by a local politician/dada. Things soon goes out of control and the kids are pushed into a fight for their lives and livelihood. What happens next forms the rest of the story.

The dialogues are written by Pandiraj, who directed Pasanga (the 4 boys were there in Pasanga as well). So it can be called 'Pasanga 2' even though it deals with serious matters than the former.

GS is one of the refreshing attempts to come from Kollywood in a long time. It is entertaining, emotional and thrilling as well. The film also shows lights into the lives of of such kids that we see in our surroundings in our day to day life.

The first half is filled with humor for most of its parts. The camaraderie has been shown beautifully on screen. Towards interval the film takes a very serious turn. The dark mode continues in to the second half, which is also thrilling, making the audience also feel for the characters. The fight scene with kids was conceived and shot outstandingly, looked cent % real. Even though the climax was kinda unconvincing was suited for a movie like this. Also there are 1/2 'cinematic' sequences in the 2nd half.

The biggest plus about the movie is most definitely the kids who play the lead roles (including the 2 girls). Felt like they were living there roles. Rest of the cast also did a great job. To write dialogues for kids movies is a risky job and Pandiraj has once again come out with flying colors. Vijay Milton's dialogues were also good. Cinematography was great, capturing the raw, rustic market in the 1st half and the 'dark' scenes in the 2nd.

Music was okay, BG was good. Editing was good as well.

In all its a different kind of Kids movie, something which people from all class of life and age group can enjoy.

Rating: 3.5/5

Verdict: Good+

Last Word: Must Watch adult themed movie with Kids as main protagonists

The movie which got released on Jan 24th, 2014 in Tamil Nadu, released in Kerala Today (21/02/2014) only. The film is a super hit in TN, hope it gets the same reception here too.

Idhu Kathirvelan Kadhal - Tamil Movie Review

Idhu Kathirvelan Kadhal - Movie Review

Crew

Directed by     S. R. Prabhakaran
Produced by     Udhayanidhi Stalin
Screenplay by     S. R. Prabhakaran
Story by     S. R. Prabhakaran
Music by     Harris Jayaraj
Cinematography     Balasubramaniem
Studio     Red Giant Movies
Release dates     February 14, 2014

Running time     156 mins
Country     India
Language     Tamil

Cast

    Udhayanidhi Stalin as Kathirvelan
    Nayantara as Pavithra
    Santhanam as Mayilvaganam
    Chaya Singh
    Saranya Ponvannan
    Sunder Ramu as Gautham
    Vanitha Krishnachandran
    Aadukalam Naren
    Mayilsamy

 Kathirvelan is a big devotee of Lord Hanuman and want's to be an eternal bachelor, that's until he meets Pavithra. It was love at first sight and his mission in life changed to marrying Pavithra. But Pavithra has feelings for Gautham, who sees her as a use and throw. Even though Kathir reveals Gautham's true nature to Pavithra she doesn't think of his childhood friend in that way. So what will happen to the love story, how the families get tangled up in all these forms the rest of the story.

 IKK is the 2nd venture for both director S. R. Prabhakaran and Male lead Udhay Stalin. Its some what in the lines of 'Oru Kal Oru Kannadi', but different from Sundarapandian. Promoted as Romantic Comedy the film has a more drama in it than romance or comedy. Santhanam once again comes to the rescue and prevents the movie from falling to a disappointing affair. Infact Udhay had better chemistry with Santhanam than the heroines in the 2 films that he did so far.

The initial half is quite watchable with enough fun and frolics and small dosage of romance. But the plots and sub plots and unnecessary deviations make it tiresome in the later half, eventhough the supporting actors appearing in those sequences gave the film's notable performances.

Udhay has improved a lot compared to his mediocre debut in OKOK, but still has a long way to go if he takes acting career seriously. Nayanthara, as always was looking great, but the role was a cake walk for her. Santhanam playing for the umpteenth time as hero's side kick [who actually ends up making the movie watchable, entertaining & a box office success] was good as always.

Prabhakaran had an average outing this time with IKK. Music by Harris Jayaraj was average, could have done with lesser song count. Background score was good though. The film drags at places and feels lengthy, editing could have been better. Cinematography was good, especially in songs, thanks to the locales. 

So in all IKK is another time pass rom-com that is woth watching thanks to, one again, Santhanam.

Rating 2.5./5

Verdict: Average

Last Word: Watch it if you have nothing else to do this Valentines day weekend

'Punch Dialogue' song from 'Aaha Kalyanam' becomes viral

 A Music/promotional video of a movie going viral will help a great deal towards the opening of the film. The latest movie video to go viral is the unique 'Punch' song from Tamil-Telugu bilingual 'Aaha Kalyanam'. The lyrics comprises of popular punch dialogues from Tamil & Telugu. The Tamil version has dialogues from Billa, Chandramukhi, Padayappa, Pokkiri, Singam etc. which has caught on with fans. The music also is quite peppy , which has been shot beautifully, like a typical Bollywood dance number.

Aaha Kalyanam is the official remake of 'Band Baaja Baraat' produced by Yashraj Films itself. [Siddarth, Samantha *er 'Jabardasth' was the plagiarized version of BBB]. The film has Nani [Eega] & Vaani Kapoor [Shudh Desi Romance] playing the lead roles. Will hit the screens on 21st February 2014

 Tamil Lyrics of Punch Song

Naan thala da, nanbenda
naan thani aalu,
all is well.
Malada annamalada
kooti kalichi paaru kanakku sariyavarum

Ongi naan adicha ondra ton weightu da
nee adichaa peesu naan adichaa maasu
adambula kai irukkum kaalirukkum
mookkirukkum muliyirukkum
aana uyir irukkaadhu.

Vada en machi valakka bajji
naandhaanda gilli adipenda solli
my name is billa suduvenda nalla
chutti the robo muttaadha po po (2)

nakka nakkka nakka nakk..
Venaaam...
naan eppo varuven
eppadi varuven yaarukkum theriyadhu

Sollama varradhu..
sollitu varadhu veerasamy
lateah vandhaalum latesta varuven
ketadhayum tharuven ketkadhayum varuven
mudhala yaaru first varraanganu mukkiyamla
kadasiyila yaaru first varraaganuthan mukkiyam

Vada en machi valakka bajji
naandhaanda gilli adipenda solli
my name is billa suduvenda nalla
chutti the robo muttaadha po po (2) 

En vazhkayila ovvoru nimishamum .
ovvoru nodiyum naan sedhukkunadhu.
naanum konja naala
nalla.. nadikkuradhu
neenga nallavaraa illa kettavaraa.
naan thanimaram illa thoppu.
idhu seththa kootamilla
anbaala serndha koottam.
Vada en machi valakka bajji
naandhaanda gilli adipenda solli
my name is billa suduvenda nalla
chutti the robo muttaadha po po (2)
Naan thala da, nanbenda
naan thani aalu,
all is well.
Malada annamalada.
kooti kalichi paaru kanakku sariyavarum.
Ongi naan adicha ondra ton weightu da.
nee adichaa peesu naan adichaa maasu.
adambula kai irukkum kaalirukkum
mookkirukkum muliyirukkum
aana uyir irukkaadhu.
Kanna panninga koottama varum
singam singlea thaan varum.
naan oruthadava sonna nooru
thadava sonnamadhiri.

Song: The Punch Song (Telugu)
Singers: M.M.Manasi & Nivas
Lyrics: Krishna Chaitanya
Music: Dharan Kumar

Song: The Punch Song (Tamil)
Singers: M.M.Manasi & Nivas
Lyrics: Madhan Karky
Music: Dharan Kumar

The Punch Song Video (TAMIL)

 

The Punch Song Video (TELUGU)

Aaha Kalyanam - Tamil - Audio Jukebox

   

 

Aaha Kalyanam - Audio Jukebox - TELUGU 

 

List of Most Awaited Tamil Movies of 2014

My  List of Most Awaited Malayalam Movies of 2014

Two of the most hyped projects of 2014 have already hit the screens, Jilla & Veeram. Lets look at few of the other interesting  Kollywood prospects in 2014 - List not in any particular order

Kaviya Thalaivan

 

Vasantha Balan-Prithviraj-Siddharth-Vedhika team up for what is looking like an interesting project.

Vishwaroopam 2

The sequel to controversial yet successful Kamal Haasan film of 2013. Even though the prequel couldn't match up the hype it created this one definitely looks like a better prospect


Vijay - ARM Project

 

Vijay, AR Murugadoss unites after the mega succesfful 'Thuppakki'. Looks like a Diwali release. Will be a Anirudh Musical

Anegan



KV Anand is back after the dud 'Maattrraan' with national award winning actor Dhanush. Actor Karthik also makes a comeback via Anegan.

Anjaan

 

Suriya Linguswamy Samatha Project. Camera by Santosh Sivan. A Yuvan Shankar Raja Musical. Sonakshi Sinha doing a cameo.


I / Ai

 

Shankar's mega budget thriller starring Vikram, Suresh Gopi, Amy Jackson etc tells the story of an Athlete.

Kaali




Karthi - Aatakathi Ranjith project.

Vaaya Moodi Pesavum



Balaji Mohan's next after bilingual (Tamil-Telugu) succes 'Kathalil Sothapuvathu Eppadi'. Son of Mega Star Mammootty, Dulquer Salmaan makes his Kollywood debut in the film which also marks the return of Madhu Bala to silver screen after a small gap. Will be a Tamil-Malayalam Bilingual

Jigarthanda
 

Director Karthik Subbaraj returns after the path breaking horror thriller 'Pizza'. Teams up with Siddarth & Lakshmi Menon

Ceylon
 

Santosh Sivan's ambitious project, the much anticipated film on civil war in Sri Lanka.

Sattendru Maaruthu Vaanilai

Simbu, Gautham Menon reunites after the sort of cult classic 'Vinnaithaandi Varuvaya' in 'SMV'. This is also said to be a romantic-drama like GVM's past few films. Produced by GVM hismelf with AR Rahman handling the music departmen
.

Ajith-GVM, Suriya-VP projects are said to be releasing in 2015 only, so not featured in the list

In case of any mistakes in the titles or details regarding project or if you think the list missed any movies or do you have a totally different list, comment below or tweet @ BreakingViews4U

Veeram - Movie Review

 

Veeram - Exclusive Movie Review

Directed by     Siva
Produced by     Bharathi Reddy
Written by     Bharathan (dialogues)
Story by     Bhoopati Raja
Music by     Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography     Vetri
Editing by     Kasi Viswanathan
Studio     Vijaya Productions
Release dates   January 10, 2014
Running time     161 minutes
Country     India
Language     Tamil

   

Cast

    Ajith Kumar as Vinayagam
    Tamannaah as Kopperundevi
    Vidharth as Shanmugam
    Bala
    Munish as Siva
    Suhail Chandhok as Kumaran
    Nassar
    Pradeep Rawat
    Santhanam as Pichai Muniyandi
    Ramesh Khanna
    Avinash
    Appukutty
    Thambi Ramaiya
    Abhinaya
    Manochitra
    Vidyullekha Raman
    Suza Kumar
    Ilavarasu
    Mayilsamy
    Devadarshini
    R. N. R. Manohar
    Paruthiveeran Sujatha
    Amit Kumar Tiwari
    Kalairani

Ajith in a 'Vetti Chattai' doing a village based mass role after a long time was the main USP of Veeram and Siva delivered a perfect entertainer meeting the expectations.

Veeram is the story of Vinayagam, a one man army with heart of gold, darling of masses, his brothers and his love interest Goppurendevi (Gopu). The first half deals with the brothers with the help of Santhanam trying to make Gopu & Vinayagan fall in love, so that they themselves can introduce their love interests before their brother and marry them. While the second half story shifts to Gopu's house and native village where Vinayagan not only has to earn the love & respect of her family members but also deal with another enemy who is trying to eliminate Gopu's family

Story is nothing new or unique but its the Presence of Thala as the towering personality and Siva's smart packaging that makes it work. Its an out an out Ajith show, he oozes charisma even while simply standing. The screen presence he had in Veeram is impeccable which was sort of missing in his last 2 films.

Siva packaged an average script with perfection. The dialogues were very powerful and had punch, especially the one liners mouthed by Ajith. Camera, Editing jobs are well done. The locations are apt and beautiful and even @ 160+ mins it doesn't drag much. Santhanam's comedy in 1st half worked out very well.
The Interval action bloack in train was good, but nothing like it was hyped thanks to shoddy VFX. BG was terrific.

The biggest negative is the age old script and uneven script. The 1st & 2nd half are like 2 different movies. Tamannaah got a comparatively meatier role, but a holy mess of it, especially in emotional scenes. Her chemistry with Ajith didn't work out and their romantic duet songs were plain bad. Even though DSP scored in BG score the songs were average, so was its choreography. Action choreography apart from interval block was average. Santhanam's character got lost some where in the second half. The 4 brothers apart from Vidarth did average job only.The movie also lacks a powerful villain.

Siva using the image of Thala Ajith perfectly, mixing all the right ingredients in the perfect combination has given a good entertainer. Even though its no where near to being perfect, watch it for Thala, if for nothing else.

Rating: 3/5

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Jilla - Exclusive Movie Review

 

 

Jilla - Exclusive Movie Review by Sree Prasad Nair from UAE (AUX)

  Directed by     R.T.Neason
Produced by     R. B. Choudary
Written by     R.T.Neason
Music by     D. Imman
Cinematography     Ganesh Rajavelu
Editing by     Don Max
Studio     Super Good Films
Release dates January 10, 2014

   

Cast 

    Mohanlal as Shiva
    Vijay as Shakthi
    Kajal Aggarwal
    Mahat Raghavendra
    Niveda Thomas as Mahalakshmi
    Soori
    Sampath Raj
    Pradeep Rawat

    Brahmanandam
    R. K
    Thambi Ramaiah
    Poornima Bhagyaraj
    Vidyullekha Raman
    Ravi Mariya
    Gautam Kurup
    Jangiri Madhumitha
    Vinodhini
    Jiiva(Special appearance)

    Prakash Raj(Guest appearance)    

Scarlett Mellish Wilson (Special appearance)

'Jilla' the much hyped film has finally hit the screens. The film deals with the story of Shiva & Shakthi the father son duo who rules Madurai city. What the characters go through and the changes that it bring about in the relationships is what Jilla is all about.

The movie starts of with Mohanlal and he dominates single handedly till Vijay's intro. From there on its an out an out Mohanlal-Vijay show. The intro song was a treat to watch in theaters with good dance moves. The first half was super entertaining with eual amount of songs, action, dialogues, humor etc., it also ends with a twist. 1st half there is  Equal screen space for both Mohanlal and Vijay! It was Great to see Mohanlal acting in role of his own comfort zone after a long time.

Vijay leads the proceedings in the 2nd half, with Kajal also getting little screen time other than songs. The romantic-comedy portions worked out well between them. There is a bit of suspense maintained through out. And all of this leads to a satisfying climax.

Positives = Mohanlal + Vijay combo, funny one liners from Siri, terrific songs & BG score, above all smart direction by Nesan.

Negatives - not much scope for Kajal Agarwal. Few unwanted songs in the 2nd half. Vijay presence less in 1st half & Mohanlal in 2nd half.

Overall Jilla is a Perfect mass masala movie wth great acting from The Complete Actor Mohanlal & Ilayathalapathy Vijay.

SURE SHOT WINNER

Rating= 3.25/5

"Sivanum Sakthiyum Sernidal MASS-IVE BLOCKBUSTER THAANADA!"


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