Bus conductor

Well, I didnt see the movie. But I planned to. Decided not to waste two and a half hours after reading this.

If even the multiplex which shows the movie says "only Mammootty’s fans can enjoy the film..", why should I waste my time ?

I have been seeing too many bad movies these days. Need to see one good movie for a change.

These guys are honest, I guess. :)

Tiger

Language:MALAYALAM :: Director:Shaji Kailas :: Cast: Suresh Gopi,Rajan P Dev, Murali, Saikumar, Siddique, Suresh Unnithan,Gopika:: Cinematography: Shyam Dutt

This one breaks the concepts of a movie.

Conventionally, you buy a ticket-get in the theatre-movie starts- you watch-movie ends-you come out., right ?

But in the case of The Tiger, a better option would be

Instead of fixing show timings, they should run this movie from 10 in the morning to 10 in the night. If you buy a ticket you will be let in, and you can watch it for 2 and a half hours.

Does not make much difference either way.

This movie is like a festival. You can walk in anytime of the festival, you get to see the people, the music, and the elephants.

Same is the case about this movie. You can walk in any time, you see the fight, the dialogues and the Suresh Gopi. Dont bother about the story or other aspects of the movie. There ain't any.

The movie is the usual stuff you will expect from Shaji Kailas and Suresh Gopi. As expected, the story is made up from the newspapers. All the recent incidents mentioned, including smart city and peedanam.

Suresh Gopi is a know-it-all police officer, who can even guess your hotmail passwords within seconds. He is fat, and his fight scenes add to the comic value of the movie.

It is funny when the directors who claim to use the latest technical gadgets portray one in their movies. Have you ever seen Hotmail.com saying “WRONG PASSWORD” or PASSWORD ACCEPTED in Arial bold, 20 points, red color?

Have you seen a guy reading abstract, screensaver like images while doing a polygraph test? He reads the images and gives a ‘thumbs up’ if the subject is saying the truth!

See for yourselves how a polygraph test is done.

There is a suspense in the movie too. You know, as usual, from start of the movie, they show you a guy in negative shade and another in an extremely positive manner. You don’t need much brain to know who will be good and who will be bad at the end of the movie.

I feel that, of late, Shaji Kailas came to see some movies made by Quentin Tarantino. And he set out to make a movie with the over enthusiastic Suresh Gopi.

I am bored of seeing the fight scenes which if played in slow motion looks like synchronized acrobatics. We have been seeing this from the B&W movies. Then the whole fight was in a single shot, now we have multiple shots. But the fight is the same !

And whatever guns and weapons you have, it isn’t over till the Hero thrashes the villain with his bare hands.

Caution:
When Suresh Gopi is traveling through a Highway in a Jeep, shut your ears. Then comes the BG/ song of this movie. Believe me, when I say it’s Horrible. I mean HORRIBLE! Later don’t tell me that I didn’t warn you!

What is new about tiger is that they used on-the-spot editing. They shot the scenes, and edited it then and there. I don’t think anyone, or they themselves will try this again. Thanks to the messy editing interspersed with the close up shots. (trademark scenes of the director)

I suspect the Cameraman was drunk most of the time, you almost feel dizzy watching the unsteady shots. A vain attempt to make you feel that the movie is moving fast. Really the movie has a fierce pace, with shots cut pretty fast, so that you can’t blink your eye. But don’t strain yourself, its not worth it.

In everyone there is rebel who wants to break loose. Such movies feed to that sensation of yours. Nothing more.

The so called film makers of Kerala or any other place, for that matter, should know that the audience is not the same anymore. They get to see the latest techniques used in the Hollywood movies. Selling the stuff that Tiger is made up of, to them is hard. The little boy who sat next to me in the theatre couldn’t control his laughter in some scenes and that’s not because the scenes involved anything funny. If you don’t want the new generation to laugh at you, do your home work, please.

Trivia
Did you know that Suresh Gopi tried to be the next James Bond?

He sent the DVDs of Commissioner and some other movies in which he acted to the Braccoli group. I am not joking, He really did.
I hear that they have kept the DVDs safely in the comedy section.

You can walk in any time, see the fight, hear the dialogues and worship the Suresh Gopi. Story ? what is that ?