Season

Recently saw "Season" by P Padmarajan.

This movie has a very engaging plot but at the same time Pappettan has blended in various emotions into the movie fabric making it richer and much more fulsome.Just the plot can give the CBI movies a run for the money.

Set in the background of drug trading in Kovalam beach , the protagonist(Lal) helps two unemployeds with a shady deal with a foreigner.The lure for money gets the mean foreigner to kill both of them.Lal is arrested.The plot that Lal weaves is not an immature emotional one / a shallow revenge thirst.For Lal , the primary interest is rightly directed to the families of the lost accomplices.Lal, who was arrested for the two murders promises to help the foreigner escape(He has landed in the same jail) in return for money.This money is later used to help the families.

There is lot of meat in the movie for the viewer.This is a clear case where screenplay plays much much more of a role than direction.

3 Idiots

Quite a few good reviews had been heard about the movie before I watched this and hence I was slightly disappointed.This is a pretty simple straight forward movie mostly.Of course , the script has many interesting incidents.

But what was striking and a let-down was how a pregnancy is done using a vacuum cleaner powered with Car batteries.This ended with the baby not crying immediately on birth and kicking it's leg once people say "All is well".This piece was definitely very very hard to digest.

However , the message of the movie does hold water and is very much in line with what most would like to hear.The statement reads "Pursue excellence,not success and success would follow through".That is a bold statement where success and the pursuit of it is such a huge market

It had felt very right yesterday when I had watched and still feels good today as I write about it.It gives me some input in my professional front too where I have been thinking about closing all my technical pitfalls.However,I have to agree that this is more so that my career would stand up straight , so that I would know as much as a competitor would and not driven by a genuine curiosity for the subject.I can easily see that genuine curiosity would not only be much more effective but also feels so much more right and takes out so much of pressure and bother from you.

Another consideration is the pursuit of photography/movies.While I am not very sure about my skill with movies, I am good at photography.And I can do movies as well.And I can do some good programming as well.Well ,most of us are like that.It is not like if you are a programmer , you don't know anything else.And it is not like if you are a banker , you can't be good at anything else.

It is hardly intense enough for Aamir to reappear.Does not compare with Ghajini in terms of the impact.But yes , it is fresh , it is simple.I don't see this as being a huge commercial success.It is a very friendly movie.It will touch many hearts , inspire many young minds and is good in intent but could have taken a little more thought in execution.