sakarakkati vs sakARakkati First the Sakarakkati audio launch and now the special preview. Went to Four Frames last night with the wife and kid and whilst we were waiting outside chatting with Blaaze and his wife, spotted a hummer pull up right next to me and out came a young couple. Blaaze and me both got excited and started inspecting the hummer from all sides. And then once the young gentleman had gone in, I asked Blaaze who he was. Udayanidhi Stalin - a future leader in a very very futuristic car indeed. Must cost a couple of crores ? Do let me know.
Kala Prabhu's debut vehicle is driven single handedly by one driver, A R Rahman. The credits come on to some amazing guitar riffs and mellow sounds which is completely spoilt by the next ten minutes of the movie showing the hero's childhood pranks with his friends. Cheap, uncalled for and without relevance but maybe the director wanted to fit in a song - 'Yelle' tracks the progress of the hero and his friends from childhood to youth. The story is a oft repeated and done to death boy sees girl - falls in love at first sight - girl does not reciprocate but later is convinced - another girl loves the boy - misunderstanding between the boy and the original girl - patch up - second misunderstanding - original girl pretending to sacrifice her love and asking the boy and second girl to be together - boy mouthing some cliched ' love cannot be measured in percentages ' dialogues and finally boy and original girl walk into the sunset. That's the story in 2 lines. You still want to go and sit in a theatre for 2 hours ? Maybe yes... And that's because the driver is cruising full speed and completely in control. No need to wear seatbelts. You are in safe hands. Each song barring (and this is a personal opinion) the Meenaxi re-hashes are an absolute delight to listen to in Dolby. Pump up the volume !! What's more, there are almost 3 english tracks as part of the BGM. Two tracks play upto the end of the 1st stanza while the 3rd only plays 4 lines. R & B, Hip Hop genres :):) Ya ! you may not close your eyes and end up seeing the song picturisations and compare it to the difference in quality between an asterix / tintin comic book to a chacha chaudhary. LOL. The young director seems to have got his hands on some special effects package and has gone overboard using them. Or he had plenty of moolah still left over. A lot of them though are again oft repeated - like the graphics in 'Marudhani' may remind you of the film 'The day after tommorow'. 'Chinamma' may remind you of some of Shankar's works though this looks pale in comparision. ' Taxi Taxi' comes on twice, the second one being towards the end as I guess they reshot the song as an afterthought. I was very happy to see my friend Blaaze on screen in the song. I personally think he has a lot of potential which still remains un(w)rapped -:) Sakarakkati is strictly for the dozen Shantnoo fans, the dozen what's her name heroine fans and the millions of A R R fans. - Vijay Iyer
