My very first blog post was Kadal. Back then there was some kind of anguish in me, like a mother has on her child. Like even though she knows her child is at fault, she would never let the child loose face in front of others but will always have the nagging feeling inside her as why did the child do such a blunder! With this anguish Kadal was penned down and thus this blog series called Masala Box started. Even though there were two successive flop movies, the moment Ok Kanmani got released, I was looking for first day show! Did not happen, next day Karnataka bandh :( Finally when me and my friend were looking for a show all the theaters had only the front row left out! Well anything for Mani Ratnam sir, and hence we sat on the corner seat of the front row and craned our necks to watch the movie.
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Ganapathy, Bhavani and Adi |
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OK Kanmani |
The performances of all the actors were just awesome. Though the first half was little artificial with the leads trying to be like cool dudes; the second half was more like Mani sir must have just kept the camera rolling and shot some real life happenings. That was how much the characters had gotten into the movie.. Leela Samson, oh my! What a class and what an acting. She just rocked her role as an Alzheimer patient and the humor around her role is just awesome. And so does Prakash Raj, gives a neat performance. The handsome Dulquer and peppy Nithya Menon have worked their roles with much ease. Mani Ratnam has a way of beautifully weaving romance between his leads and so does the chemistry between the lead pair sparkles. Songs are mostly chucked in here and there and some of it passes through like background score. Needless to talk about cinematography. There are legends involved in the making of the movie and it is obvious that only good stuff comes out of them.
Coming as such to the movie, it actually has no great story line. It takes the present age conformism of live in relationship and portrays it with subtle every day humor here and there. He does not want to argue the pros and cons of it. He does not want to argue if it is right or wrong to have pre marital sex. He does not explore, what happens if she turns pregnant, what happens if they break up, will they go ahead and start living with someone else, what if they did not feel connection after their first make out, nothing as such like that. He just tells; there is a guy, there is a girl and they are in a live in relationship. You definitely do not have the eagerness to know if they will get married. And you neither feel anxious if they will break up and go in their ways. You just watch, at the distant boat sailing away deep into the calm sea not creating any ripples, not disturbing you. Those who are in love and those who are in live in relationship would have felt a cool breeze along with it, reminiscing their courtship days and the fights over silly things. It does have a beautiful message with it,
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Adi and Tara |
"Whether it is arrange marriage, love marriage or live in experiment marriage, the ultimate thing is to get married to the right person so that you love, compromise, live happily and hence cleaning you baby's shit will no longer be yuck :D"
Me: Heyyy
Friend: Hmmm?
Me: What de they did matter so quickly!
Friend: Whaat? That is what is happening nowadays na.
Me: Everybody sleeping with everybody? :(
Friend: You and me are like Prakash Raj! That is why we are like this! And they are like that..
Me: What de, everything in life is justifiable is it?
Friend: Mani Ratnam is in his late 50s and has taken this gen movie. You are still stuck with Mouna Raagam which came in 85 when you were born! Grow up!
Me: I don't want to grow up.. I am confused.. There are things I liked in the movie and there are things I don't like. I like or no like?! What do you think..
Friend: Keep blabbering!
Me: There is lot of love, we can watch it for that..
Friend: Yeah yeah, go write your review..
Me: But should I say, "it is awesome go watch it" or say, "can watch once?"
Friend: It is Mani Ratnam movie, nobody cares about your review, they will watch it!True that! Ok Kanmani - Ok Ok
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Another flop movie from Mani Ratnam/AR Rahman. Concept is good, acting is good, cinematography is good……Overall the movie is not great. Neither worth the time and money spent.
mani has sspoiled the future of mammoty son.he was doing well in malayalam..