April 19, 2009 marked the last of my birthday in my 20's. I was pretty sure Mr.V would make it special as always. I am incredibly bad when it comes to my surprises - I try hard and get to know it before hand disappointing the planner to the core possible. So far my success rate has been 100%. This time also I tried to play some usual stunts to get to know Mr.V's plans but he didn't budge. Probably he had learnt a lot from his earlier mistakes!!!
We had a get together planned on the eve of my birthday at a friend's place to catch up on some good food and fun. Both of our friends did thorough justice to keep us entertained and they made up for the rest of my family I always miss during such eventful occasions. As any traditional get together in the US, we also chose to wind up the day with a movie. According to Mr.V the movie was one of my birthday gifts!!
The choice was Thodarum Sambhavam - An Oscar hopeful movie, a thriller that makes people clinging on the edges of the seats, a great cast/crew making the movie undoubtedly a success, a sure shot blockbuster and talk of the town - this was how the male strength at the gathering hyped up the movie "Thodarum Sambhavam" before I took my comfortable position in one of the recliners at my friend's basement in front of the high definition Home theater. I went down well prepared with a can of coke and home baked popcorn as am obssessed with thrillers and wanted to enjoy with my snack and drink!!
The so-called suspenseful story began with a song. Thriller and a song - clear oxymorons - though one part of my occasionally working brain cautioned me that something is not right, I still decided to hold on expecting a twist after the song. The song had a pretty lady dancing on a greenery backdrop. The focus was so much on the green landscape that one could hardly notice her. In the Charanam of the song (for people who are technically challenged in music - Charanam is the 3rd paragraph of the song) we got a good close up of the heroine - to one's awe the lip movement of the heroine and the lyric of the song were clearly out of synch!!
When I was wondering what this mess is all about, my friend comes up with the bombshell - "This is a Malayalam Dub"!!! From the mallu production unit it is fair to expect a low budget movie with beautiful landscape, pretty backwaters with the dangling boats, pump sets, beautiful girls in Mundu, some real good melodious songs, namboodhri's who will fall totally out of place in a movie but thumb rule is every mallu movie has to feature at least one namboodhri opening his eyes wide giving astrological abstracts like have a pumpkin colored green in the East corner of the bathroom for your household to flourish, huge villa type houses built with an aesthetic sense turning to be a good visual treat. But if we expect a high end thriller it’s our absurdity.
Thodarum Sambavam is no exception. It’s a great product mix - mallu original, comical thriller/horror plot, psychotic housemaid, coconut oiled wife, imaginary ex-wife, fool of a husband and the ever obliging father-in-law! We were at the basement watching a movie for 3 hrs but unfortunately am unable to give the story line - not because I don’t want to reveal the plot but simply because I don’t know the actual tale! We ended up watching a completely different movie with friends throwing their expert comments coupled with an incredible sense of humor for each and every frame of the movie - rolled down with laughter, got a mild stomach ache, tears flowing down the cheeks and an ultimate exercise to my face/cheek bones and muscles.
A great evening to cherish and a beautiful start as I stepped into my landmark year!!
Friday, May 29, 2009
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now i know ur age :p
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