Easan-Review

Watched Sasikumar directed 'Easan' yesterday. First day first show. I admired Sasikumar's previous ventures Subramaniyapuram, Pasanga and Nadodigal. He impressed me in all the roles that he stepped in to... director, producer and actor. Even in subramaniyapuram, i liked his acting too. I have a great respect for Sasikumar and his team with full of talented persons like Samuthirakani, Kathir, James Vasanth and sure few more to follow behind the scenes. If you had watched recent award functions, you would have easily seen them coming in big group and taking away most number of awards. With all this background, surely Easan is one of the movie to get released with so much of expectation. But since higher expectations lead to higher disappointment, I made it a point to watch Easan with no expectation. Even though my inner feeling was that Sasikumar would surely live up to the expectation. But then did he? No, he disappoints this time.

What is the plot of the movie? A.L.Alagappan is a powerful minister and his son Vaibhav is a jolly-go person who goes on for partying all nights and spend time with his rich friends. Vaibhav uses his father political power to come out of the troubles that he and his friends had faced as a consequences of drinks and drugs. At this point, Vaibhav get impressed with a girl(new comer Abarna) and falls in love. After he saves her from an odd situation, as a rule in tamil cinema, she has no other option to love him. Opposition rises from both parents side. But Alagappan later gives green signal and also convince the girl's side to take advantage of her father's multi-million business and richness. At this very point, Vaibhav is kidnapped and his friend is also admitted to the hospital due to an accident. Police officer Samuthirakani comes in to investigate Vaibhav disappearance. When his investigation unfolds, we come to know that a boy named 'Easan' is behind the kidnap of Vaibhav. Easan is also the reason for the accident and death of Vaibhav's friend in hospital. Why is he doing all these? Flashback gives the answer that he wanted to take revenge of the persons who are behind her sister (Abinaya) and father's death. At the end, police officer Samuthirakani save Easan from minister and also take care of him. The end!

Very clearly, the basic plot of the movie is very old... a revenge story! We have to admit that no stories in the present day cinema is completely new.. most of the recent successful cinema also have got the same old story lines but the fresh presentation and kind of making is what made them to succeed (for example, Mynaa). But Sasikumar fails to do that in Easan. In very few portions, we can see the brilliance of Sasikumar especially the first 20 minutes of second half. But that is not enough to make the full movie work. The first half of the movie is tedious with artificialness clouding into each and every frames. First half lacks flow of perfect screenplay as there is no continuation in the scenes. A.L.Alagappan in the role of minister is complete disaster. I cannot tolerate his acting and particularly the body language. He is so artificial. His casting is one of the biggest letdown. Sasikumar has done a big mistake by casting him for that powerful role. Vaibhav, abinaya and small boy (abhinaya brother) have given a noteworthy performance. The person who comes as an assistant (comedy politician in Nadodigal) to Alagappan is also good. Cinematography of Kathir is good. Music by James vasanthan is ok and few songs are hummable. Re-recording is ordinary, nothing much to say.

In his attempt to showcase the urban life of chennai, Sasikumar missed out completely as he dealt the matter in a very lighter way which we are very familiar with in so many movies. He should have explored and projected the darker side of chennai to the core. He had the scope but missed to utilize on it fully.

To conclude, Easan doesnt fit into any format of cinema... neither commercial nor classic or serious kinda cinema. thats its major drawback. Sasikumar has failed to communicate effectively with the audience in what he really wanted to convey through this movie.

Verdict- Disappointing!

Supreme Court- A new hope?

First and foremost, I convey that I am very very new to politics, judiciary and even the day to day current affairs. In recent days, I somehow got myself attracted to the current affairs happening in our country... thanks to 2g scam. Before going into how this issue is related to my present topic, I would like to say few words. I really feel bad now when I think of my political knowledge in the past. I almost don't care about what was happening around me... ofcourse, movie and sports news are exceptions. Very rarely I go thorugh the political and current affairs news in the newspaper or magazines or television or whatsoever in the name of media. I do realize now that its very important for every citizen and particularly young india to have a good knowledge on whats happening in the political grounds of our India. I must also confess that in past too, I looked into the current affairs in media but only when something big makes the news like 26/11 mumbai terror attack or tamilians war in srilanka. Then with the time, my interest falls gradually. But this time, I feel myself different. I have realized the vital importance of the awareness of current affairs and politics even though when we are not directly involved in it. I believe that in all the coming days, my new found interest in knowing the facts happening around me in all aspects remain intact.

As I said in the beginning, 2G scam is onething which I am following right from the CAG report claiming loss of Rs.1,76,000 crores for the country (if you have asked me what is CAG or JPC before one month, I might have wondered wht is that... only that much minimal is my knowledge outside movies before). Within this one month or so, following this scam, there is so much to learn from the kind of attitude our politicians have, political games they play, tricks n words they do and speak for their justification... and the list goes on and on. To make it simple, i learnt so much on our political system even in this short term. Not to mention, my learning continues day by day.... As many of us, I am very much frustated with the ruling government adamant stand on refusing the acceptance of JPC demand. I don't want to discuss the dirty role of ruling party in the complete washout of winter session of parliament. Frustation apart, I see a good point to feel happy and secured in this so-called huge 2g scam.

What I am refering as good factor to see for in this 2g issue is our Supreme Court. Again as a beginner, I don't have any idea on how supreme court worked earlier and how it handled the major crisis issues in the past. But from the time I am following the present 2g issue, I am very happy to see the way supreme court act despite the fact that the present issue is against the ruling party. Great to see the reputed organizations like CBI and even big persons (political position wise) like PM and others being questioned by supreme court for their inefficient actions and irresponsible approach. In my view, supreme court statements played a key role in urging the CBI to make investigations on A.Raja and his team who were major part of the issue. Even though it is widely said that raids carried on A.Raja is only for eye wash, I do strongly believe that the hard hitting statements on CBI slow and inadequate actions by supreme court is a prime reason. Thanks to the judges panel who are probing into this. It gives immense courage to common people like us that some justice can be drawn in front of the law. Having said that, I am very eager to know how supreme court judge panel going to handle this issue further. As millions of citizens, I am waiting for the right action and right justice.

Note: The reason for the question mark (supreme court- a new hope?) in the topic of this post is mainly because I am unaware of the past history. I am not aware whether supreme court acted genuinely and gave right justice on big issues like 2g. If I am wrong, I will be happy to be corrected. Please share your comments. Being a beginner in both writing and politics, your comments will be of great help to share my thoughts effectively in coming days. Thank you for sparing your time :-)

SPR starts blogging

hi all... happy to begin my blog experience!