Where's my Murukuzzz and cookiezzz people?!! No invitation to Deepavali/ Hari Raya this year T_T.
But I'll settle with some good Indian movies! Hah!
Watched Chandhramukhi yesterday! I actually watched the MV- Raa Raa from the movie before this. So I'm actually looking forward to watch this movie.
I just wikied this movie and found out that it had grossed over 1.5 million in Malaysia alone! O_O I didn't know it was that famous over here!
Here's the brief summary from wikipedia:
The movie opens with Saravanan (Rajnikanth) returning from the U.S.A. after studying to become a psychiatrist. He meets up with his friend, Senthilnathan (Prabhu), and his wife, Ganga (Jyothika). He learns that they have bought the Vettayapuram Palace, even after the fear of the elders and dissuading them. Saravanan moves in with them, as well as his entire family. When they go to a temple, a priest reveals why everyone is so scared:
When King Vettayan lived in that palace, he took a trip to Andhra Pradesh and met the dancer Chandramukhi and instantly fell in love with her beauty. However, she would not give any back, because her heart was already set on the dancer Gunasekaran. But Vettayan kidnapped her and brought her back to his palace. Chandramukhi, without letting the king know, had Gunasekaran stay in a nearby house for her pleasure. When the king found out, he killed Gunasekaran on 'Durgashtami' and burned Chandramukhi alive. Chandramukhi, having an unjustifiable and unfair death, lived in that palace as a spirit to take revenge on the king. Legend has it that her soul is locked up in the southern room and a king cobra is there too.
When Ganga finds out about this story, she wants to go up to Chandramukhi's room. She gets the key and opens the door. After she does, strange things start happening in the household. A ghost is scaring the people in the house, things strangely are breaking, and Ganga's sari catches on fire. The suspicion of everyone turns towards Durga (Nayantara), the gardener's granddaughter. Senthil calls Saravanan to have him figure out what's going on in the house. As someone tries to kill Senthil and a mysterious voice sings and dances in the middle of the night, Saravanan tries to figure out what's happening...and fast.
Despite the over-potraying of Dr. Saravanan machoness in the fighting scenes in the beginning of the movie, the rest of the movie is quite good! lol xP
I was having problem keeping track with the plot at first. It only gets more complicated towards the end of the show because there were so many female characters introduced in the movie and I was confused with who is who, they look somewhat the same to me :P. But, it makes sense after a while once I knew who is who in the movie. The movie is kinda slow moving in the front part though. Aiyo.. Indian movie ma.. oops..
Anyhow, I love the storyline and the twist in the movie. The story builds to its climax when Dr. Saravanan revealed the truth.
I love the dancing and the songs in the movie too! Dancing is always good to watch in Indian movies, it's inseparable from an Indian movie. Indians are great at dancing and singing. I love the way a huge group of people dance in unison in the movie. It looks so grand!
Besides, Jyothika should be credited as well. Jyothika is the one who starred as Gangga and Candramukhi in the movie. She portrayed the two contradicting characters very well. Her histrionic expressions as Candramukhi owns! She made the character looks scary and she really looked like she's possesed. Even though she was possesed, she still can dance very well (in a mad state).
Ok, so here's Raa Raa sung by Gangga possesed by Candramukhi along with Viswanathan who was thought as Gunasekaran by Chandramukhi who was in the body of Gangga. Haha.. just my attempt to confuse you.. It's my favourite part from the show! Warning: grusome scene in the end where Gunasekaran was beheaded :S..
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My neighbour just sent over some rendangz and lemangz!! Aaahh~ such darlings! The rendang tastes great!
So anyway:
Selamat Hari Raya kepada semua kekawan Muslim saya!!
I'm gonna watch Sepet tomorrow on Raya!!
