Spoofy Sivaji

Watched "Sivaji", 3rd day 3rd show in JB, Malaysia. The movie was fantabulous. Sivaji is a movie made for Rajini by Shankar. Shankar knew Rajini and his fans very well, and he made sure that Sivaji is enjoyed by all.

The thing that I like most about Sivaji is its spoofs. Making parody of Rajini's old movies, existing film dialogues and also calling himself in the names of yesteryear legends of Tamil cinema, was real fun. My film reviews are not like all other reviews, which just analyse the movie on the whole and give comments. My article here is a listing of parodies involved in the movie and analysing it individually.

1- The Title 'Sivaji'

Rajini's name in the movie itself is a parody. First of all his real name is Shivaji Rao Gaekwad. But he bears the title role of Sivaji also being a big fan of the legendary Actor Sivaji Ganeshan. The title first appears with a black and white label of 'Sivaji', and then it changes to 'Sivaji the boss'. In one scene when asked who he was, Rajini replies back "Parashakthi hero", referring to Sivaji Ganeshan. In the climax Rajini comes with a tonsured head and when asked whether if he was Sivaji, he replies back "No I am MGR", referring to the former Tamil Nadu chief minister and former super star of Tamil Nadu. But interestingly he bears the name M.G.Ravichandran, instead of M.G.Ramachandran to avoid criticism from MGR fanatical maniacs.



2- No 8.

A lot of news and predications were made about the importance of No 8, long before the movie was near completion. This is Shankar’s 8th movie to be directed in Tamil. 8th time AVM and Rajini are joining hands once again. Shankar’s lucky number is 8, born August 17, 1963, 8th time A.R.Rahman is composing music for a Shankar movie, and was predicted that the movie would be released on 8th of May. Seems that Shankar was aware of this conspiracy circulating in the media, and there was a reference to it in the movie when, Vivek informs the officer that the arranged prostitute is in room 35, and it’s no 8, a lucky number.



3-Refering to Famous Funny Dialogues and Scenes of other movies.

Rajini was in Shreya's house and asks her to dance for "raa raa" from chandramukhi. And he acts here again saying the jathi but Livingstone jumps in at the right moment and says "lakalakalakalaka". It’s hilarious to see Rajini is there in the movie but not speaking his own famous dialogue.

In the suicide scene Rajini tells Vivek "Enna vachu comedy keemedy ethuvum pannalaye?”
And Vivek responds back with the trademark "awwwhhh" of Vadivelu, although he is not in this movie.

In one scene Rajini says "Enna Kodumai Saravanan Ithu", which was originally used in chandramukhi, but later was popularised more by Chennai 600028 and was so hilarious in YouTube with Vijayakanth fight edited to it.

When everything is lost for Rajini Suman tells him, "I see that you have lost everything now, what are you going to do?? Are u going to milk cows (referring to annamalai), or drive auto (referring to Batsha), or become a bus conductor (referring to Rajini’s past life) ".

Lots of mimicry artists try to open Rajini's Laptop which is protected by Voice Recognition software. When asked to imitate like Sivaji and open the laptop, Sinni Jeyanth imitates Sivaji Ganeshan. Thamu gives the final shot when the laptop warns that if you make one final false attempt, it will self destruct itself. He dramatically says the final word "lakalakalakalaka", only too see the laptop getting self destructed. Was so funny.



4-Dressing up like other Actors

In the first night scene Rajini speaks of different varieties of doing it. He dresses up and dances like Sivaji Ganeshan, then MGR and then Kamalahasan. It’s so funny to see the super star acting like the yesteryear legends and his present competitor.

Spidy is Tamil

Spiderman 3, one of the most expected movies of this summer, opened up big all over the world. Good to see spidy having a big fan following and doing well. But thing that me fascinated more, on this 3rd installment of the spiderman series is that, it had a certain scenes which were like carbon-copied from tamil movies. Here goes the reseblences..

1) In tamil movies, when a character knows a secret, and he is so important that he cannot be killed off, and to tell the secret in the climax of the movie, they usually hit they person in question on the head. The injured guy will get ammnesia, meaning that he will forget the past for some time. The same thing happens to Harry Osbourne in the movie.

2) One of the most common thing in tamil movies is that the hero will be held captive, with his hands and legs tied up. The villain will run upto him carrying a sharp object, tryin to kill him. But suddenly a-good-guy, but must-be-killed-to-avoid-confusion character, will jump in between to save the hero. Same thing happens in S3 where osbourne jumps in between spidy and kills himself and therby saving spidy and the world. Like all the other tamil movies he leaves his last breath on his lovers lap. And as usual our hero, the spidy, breaks off the chain, and runs after the villain in anger!(no one knows why he couldnt break free when he was about to be killed).

3) Forgiveness is the trade mark signature of tamil movies, which has all those super, supreme, captain or ulitmate stars as the heroes. Here again "The sand man", alomost kills spidy, and spidy really dont have an idea on how to kill the sandy. But fortunately for him the sand man comes upto him and ask to be forgiven. Spidy might have thought that now as osbourne is dead and i dont know how to kill sandy, its better forgive him, than to make him a foe and lose his own life.

Spidy is an international franchise and its good to see, a movie which was aimed at all the international audience has all the elements to make a nice, good tamil film. It had romance, love break down, triangular love, mothers love, climax fight and etc. Songs were the only thing that lacked in spiderman 3.

Chennai 600028

Oh dont worry guys, this is not a complete movie review which usually acts as a spoiler and makes u yawn by the time u finish reading it. These are just my picks of chennai 600028.

1) The movie is about a bunch of guys in the area chennai 600028, and how they want to win a tennis ball cricket trophy. They beat their rivals in the semi-finals, so the all important final becomes the anit-climax of the movie, where they lose it to small kids comprehensively. It was a nice funny ending.

2) Like in all cricket movies, there is this one guy who cant catch the ball. And as usual he catches it in the semi-final, and was over the moon. But alas, the umpire says no ball. He cries and shouts and runs upto the bowler and tells, "i leave u alone because, only because u are my captain!!" Was another funny moment.

All in all the movie was actually quite intersting, considering the fact that the movie didnt have a good story to tell. Venkat prabu did a good job as a director. Mixed realism well with cinematic elements. This is a must watch movie for all tamilians.