I AM BACK !!!

As I promised, " I AM BACK!!!" (in Arnie style). With BITSian life and encouraging net speeds taking it's toll on me, i am able 2 revive this blog only after a time frame associated with the gap between 2 Rajni movies.

Well, at least this post has arrived, unlike S.I.V.A.J.I- The Boss , which last heard was postponed (yet again) to June 15th. This doesn't augur well for Rajni fans or for Shankar and AVM, which has invested almost Rs.50 crores in the film. I don't know, but I've go a bad feeling about the biggest movie of 2007.

First the songs ,though very good, aren't exactly vintage Rahman. If one takes all the movies of Shankar-Rahman combo, this would surely rank the lowest in terms of music quality. The city audience would surely lap it up as the songs play to the latest trends in Tamil film music of including nonsensical verses from languages spoken in Saturn and having jarring background beats with no scope to understand the lyrics of the song which is a futile exercise in itself as they don't have much meaning anyway. Personally, after listening to the songs for hundreds of times, I like it. But I have huge doubts whether a guy from a place like Gobicchettipalayam would appreciate it.

Plus, all the fancy wigs that Rajni sports in the film posters are too comical and make him look silly. What was the director thinking? Maybe it will gel with the song "Oru Koodai Sunlight" on which these weird hairdos are reportedly picturised on.

The reasons given for the regular delay in release is "Technical diffuclties" which should be translated as "Big problems in Shankar's over ambitious inclusion of graphics which in the end as usual have not turned out well." Shankar when asked whether he felt Anniyan could be improved in any one area, promptly replied that he was disappointed with the graphics and felt that it could've been way better. Maybe, he wants to make sure that the same doesn't happen with Sivaji.

All said and done, I hope that the film does well, as I am a big fan of Shankar and and also like Rajni to some extent though he wouldnt come near Kamal Hassan's leg dust (Kamal Kaal Dhoosikku Kitta Vara Mattannu solren... :) ). But surely even if the film does turn out to be a big hit, it would've grossed a lot more had it released on the scheduled date of April 14th as that was one of the main reasons why Chandramukhi ran better than Anniyan.