Laughs of 2006 in Australia

According to a report in The Age newspaper, a blogger by name Craig Platt provides a series of four videos that did the rounds on the internet and has been decided the best four laugh videos of 2006. Its a 4:02 file, so please be patient if you are on slow speed internet.

One thing that surprised me was that, the second video is of Rajinikant and a group of his cronies in “Maapillai” or “Ooorkavalan” (I am not sure). I am a big fan of Rajini, no doubt, but this is slightly too much – providing a clip of his movie back from the 80s and saying that it is one of the best laughs of 2006.

I guess Australia needs a good comedy movie, speaking of which, watch the Night at the Museum, if you haven’t. You are sure to have more laughs, guarenteed.

Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu

I was really expecting to watch this Kamal starrer, given the big fan I am of his and also I like the songs immensely.  So, when doing my usual bi weekly shopping at Quality Groceries, I chanced to glance at the new Tamil DVD section and there I found it, a copy of the movie.  I knew it was too early for a DVD release, so it should be a first print taken at a theatre.  I was dismayed to realise that what I thought was right.  With great expectations, I came home to insert the DVD in my player, only to find that the player was not reading the disc, luckily the laptop did read it.

First impression was that the song “Uyirile enathu” could have been picturised better, and the makeup for Kamal around the eyes and the whole face as well throughout the movie is not what one would expect of a Kamal starrer. Its like nobody paid attention to this factor – Kamal is getting old and this movie shows it.  It is a huge mistake to compare this with Kuruthipunal and the way Kamal looked in that one, of course, he was younger at that time.

The plot line of the movie is good and Daniel Balaji’s acting has improved a lot, from his Chithi days to this pyscho role.  Gautham does his Hitchcockish prescence in the movie in the background of a dance song.  The talent of Prakash raj has not  been properly utilised.  The story line has a real detective theme behind it, which is a welcome change in a movie of this nature.

Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu – can be seen once, for sure.