GRAMAPHONE
Topic started by WC (@ 202.88.234.75) on Mon Jun 2 12:26:08 .
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Saw the long-and-eagerly-awaited Gramaphone yesterday. Its indeed a pity that the movie turns out to be a big BORE, with everything abt it - story, script, direction - going haywire. I couldnt for the life of me understand how such a YAWN of a story could be made into a movie by a director like Kamal. Barring a not-so-cliched climax, everything about the movie is pathetic, and even the performances seemed lacklustre. Post interval, the film is such a drag that u need oxygen masks to survive the mess. The combination scenes between Meera and Navya, after the interval, when Navya's tragic fate has been revealed, are intended to be intensely emotional. However they produce just the opposite effect - they are hilarious, on account of their inanity. Dileep has nothing much to do, except look helpless throughout, Meera jasmine is wasted as the girl who gets "shipped" to Israel (and sports a terrible hairdo), and Navya Nair would be embarassed about her role in the movie now that she is a State Award winning actress. Her's is the worst role, that defies logic, and lacks both sense and sensibility. Loosly etched out chracterisations like that of Bindu Panicker or Revathy only add pain to the already burning ass.
On the whole, PATHETIC! :-((
Responses:
- From: WC (@ 202.88.234.75)
on: Mon Jun 2 12:27:57 EDT 2003
Read somewhere else that Gramaphone might be a YAWN coz it doesnt have the usual Dileep antics. Which is not the case. Gramaphone is Boring since it is weak in every department of filmmaking. Period.
- From: jibi (@ dialup-67.31.30.116.dial1.newyork1.level3.net)
on: Mon Jun 2 15:28:04 EDT 2003
hello wc ee threadl thudangam alleyo
hello wc pettiyil irikkunnathinekkalum nallathu oddi kittunna kashu medikatte sargam kabber ..vinayante kude nadanne vayiaddaramayathalle onnu pacha pidichu sargam speed audios reopen cheyyatte..
nammal enna movie kandappol eventhough the story was usual kamal and the scripter succeded in keeping a good mood through the film with newcomers ..i thought kamal might come back with his usual style ..but wc from ur opinions it totally disappoints . gramaphone supposed to release last onam but stayed in the cans due to short of cash. atleast sargam kabber could handle the financiers with the release
- From: sr (@ 203.124.146.170)
on: Tue Jun 3 02:56:26 EDT 2003
WC, tks for the post. Heard that the "not-so-cliched climax" will disappear from tomorrow. I am not surprised a bit abt "Gramaphone" coz i was shocked to see an atrocious "Nammal" from Kamal.
- From: WC (@ 202.88.234.209)
on: Tue Jun 3 08:10:56 EDT 2003
Hi Sr & Jib. I never felt like seeing Nammal, since a few of my pals had warned me against it. U know something... read Kamal's inetrview somewhere that this is one movie into which has gone a "lot of thinking". Thats real funny, since " a lot of thinking" has led to a "senseless" film. Goodness! I hope what u have heard is untrue sr., since the climax is the only part which is palpable to the common man. Now if they dare to make a compromise there, and try to make a comedy, it wud produce just that - a comic effect. But then, neither this climax nor that is going to salvage the movie - its a sinking ship, with lotsa HUGE holes all under. :-)
- From: WC (@ 202.88.234.209)
on: Tue Jun 3 08:38:12 EDT 2003
Here is the Weblokam review. Avideyum ivideyum onnum thottittilla ee review-il. Paranju paranju Meghanalharine oru aadhunika Classic aakkiya maalor ini Gramaphonine mattoru kalaalbhutham aakkillennaaru kandu!!
http://www.weblokam.com/cinema/criticism/0306/02/1030602079_1.htm
- From: WC (@ 202.88.234.209)
on: Tue Jun 3 08:39:04 EDT 2003
Here is the Weblokam review. Avideyum ivideyum onnum thottittilla ee review-il. Paranju paranju Meghamalharine oru aadhunika Classic aakkiya maalor ini Gramaphonine mattoru kalaalbhutham aakkillennaaru kandu!!
http://www.weblokam.com/cinema/criticism/0306/02/1030602079_1.htm
- From: Navyafan (@ tkym2191023859.gemini.broba.cc)
on: Tue Jun 3 08:52:56 EDT 2003
Hello WC,
Thanks for your unbiased review. I can not watch latest malayalam movies from this part of the world...So its really nice to read such a review as a thread in here. Keep it up my dear fellow.
Thanks and regards
Navyafan.
- From: WC (@ 202.88.234.209)
on: Tue Jun 3 10:49:00 EDT 2003
Hey NF...
If u truly live up to ur nick, u wud be pretty much disappointed with Gramaphone. Know why? Coz Navya's character is the one that's most illogical in the entire movie - any extra artiste cud have donned that role without any difference being made to the end product. I wonder what made Kamal cast someone like Navya in that itsy-bitsy role that lacks a beginning, continuity or end. She should be pretty much disappointed with the way her role runed out. Talking of roles, the "supposed" heroine Meera has nothing to do either, as Jennifer. She hams in the first half, and looks disinterested in the happenings in the second. And for that matter Dileep's Sachi is absolutely HOLLOW, and even his occasional one-liners that are amusing at times, cant save him from the filth that he finds himself in. True, the songs are hummable, but the picturisation is so humdrum (except for Vilichathenthinu Veendum) that oe badly needs push back seats to rest one's head in peace!!
- From: jibi (@ dialup-67.31.38.134.dial1.newyork1.level3.net)
on: Tue Jun 3 12:43:00 EDT 2003
hello wc also sify has put a review and its an average movie ..i saw the song vilichathenthinu ya its nicely shooted ..and abt climax in asianet they said the change of climax is bec of reaction from the viewers . the viewers says its very sad ending
- From: WC (@ 202.88.234.209)
on: Tue Jun 3 23:57:50 EDT 2003
Jibzz..its not just the ending thats SAD.. the whole movie is pretty much depressing, especially when one takes into consideration the ticket fare these days! LOL!! :-;
- From: jibi (@ dialup-67.31.29.16.dial1.newyork1.level3.net)
on: Wed Jun 4 00:36:12 EDT 2003
i didn't watch the movie yet .. collection is very bad isn't it . 3 movies playing at the same time
- From: WC (@ 202.88.234.209)
on: Wed Jun 4 09:12:59 EDT 2003
Jibzz.. collections are bound to be dismal. I saw the film on the day of the release, and had expected a full house. However, only the Balcony seats were occupied, and I could see several front rows lying vacant. Since word-of-mouth publicity is not going to be great for the film, its quite unlikely that it wud make a profit for Sargam at the box-office.
- From: r (@ 204-17-234-186.gen.twtelecom.net)
on: Wed Jun 4 18:58:57 EDT 2003
The movie is getting a better repsonse now ..
- From: WC (@ 202.88.233.57)
on: Thu Jun 5 12:52:24 EDT 2003
Hey Guyzz
Anyone has any idea as to what the new "reformed" climax is??
:-)
- From: jibi (@ dialup-67.31.30.115.dial1.newyork1.level3.net)
on: Thu Jun 5 17:06:38 EDT 2003
i think the reverse of whts happened .. the guy from israel tells sachi to marry jenni
- From: Akhil (@ ppp-89-13.bng.vsnl.net.in)
on: Fri Jun 27 07:10:39
i cannot agree with some of the comments about gramaphone. the one thing i feel bad about gramaphone is the commercial element used in the film. especially the character of sachi. some comments i read in the thread is that the film is dragging. i cannot understand how one can give a comment like this. in cinema 'drag' and 'slow' have different meanings. when the director chooses a fast track of telling the story and at some places in the cimnema he was not able to keep that speed . then it is dragging. but if a director chooses a slow track of telling the story , we cannot say the film is dragging. we cannot expect a speed of narasimham or meesa madhavan in gramaphone. and about the character of pooja, she is a character created by the director ( not even screenplay writer ) to support jennifer. the director in gramaphone is telling the story from jennifer. so even an average director cannot give so many importance to pooja even if it is presented by navya nair or aiswarya rai. i feel very bad about the commercial elements used in gramaphone i cannot support that fact. in one interview the director of gramaphone had given an hint about this. i want comments about the lighting pattern the director has used in gramaphone, especially in shots - revathi in the first song (angle & lights).
- From: Arun (@ 61.1.228.176)
on: Sun Jun 29 14:11:54 EDT 2003
Thilakkam only by the publicity of Swargachitra.Kalyanraman- average.sadanante samayam & gramaphone were flops.Dileeps film seems like a cartoon.His comedy is riding bike & car without dress.walking without mundu.comments plzz
- From: ram (@ 61.11.82.64)
on: Fri Jul 4 01:56:26 EDT 2003
karumbi penne song was excellent
- From: Sangeetha (@ 61.1.226.213)
on: Fri Jul 18 14:18:34 EDT 2003
Anyone please help me ! I need the name of the song, which got an award (kerala state) from Ormaykai(1981) directed by Bharathan and music given by Johnson .
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