an untitled blog about film

Well... today...just wanted to let loose and chill so...caught up wid two movies ...
for starters i watched navagraha and then continued with slum bala...

Strange things went through my mind as i was watchin both the films...
For starters abt navagraha... 'heist' cinema is a whole genre of filmmaking in hollywood and they have mastered the art of writing screenplay for those kinda movies...
There is obviously the element of robbery and frustration of the low class robbers out there to treat money and luxury as that poison that is so addictive they wana drink it and die.
The point is ..the filmmakers play around with such wonderful characters who have a lot more to say about life than what they do for a living...
I remeber DAVID MAMET'S HEIST in which there is this question that the film starts wid..
One guy asks the other guy as to what makes the world go round? One guy says money..the other says love. The first guy says 'exactly...love for money' The pattern for the whole film was set there. TALK ABOUT PULP FICTION WHICH TOO HAD A SMALL HEIST ELEMENT IN IT. TALK ABOUT USUAL SUSPECTS... TALK ABOUT RESERVOIR DOGS...these are films about robbery or heist but ...they are films about a lot more. These are films that have given us great content and characters...the dialogue and screenplay..the editing ..the style everything was invented for a genre of exclusive filmmaking. SODERBERGH'S OCEAN'S ELEVEN too is to be remembered. The silence of the brooding planner..the execution and the logic of the robbery ...all worked out so neatly.
KAANTE in hindi though a ripoff of a couple films from the above list... was a great example for style and screenplay and some wonderful characterisation and dialogue...
Nothing more to write about NAVAGRAHA..! Waitng for a path breaking heist movie in Kannada ...the only one film about robbers and their life and such wonderful emotions was made a long coupla decades ago by a master craftsman called SHANKAR NAG. We miss him..

Now abt slum bala... well..... I dont have words to explain the happiness i experienced while watching the thoroughly professional ...thoroughly fantastic film. BRILLIANT! is what I felt.
I dunno if the masses will like it but VIJI has done a great job..not to forget achyuta...shashi kumar ..and my dear 'boss'...B.SURESHA.
Again...in the genre of SLUMBALA i think..there were so many..so many films that moved me.. from SCARFACE...to GOODFELLAS...to CITY OF GOD to.... our own SATYA...
BUT..at an international level...along wid these films..I think SLUMBALA can proudly stand up and say... 'HELLO LOOK AT ME'.
GREAT WORK AGNI SRIDHAR AND TEAM