YMC vs VTV

Yesterday, when Sundar asked me to come for VTV (vinnaithandi varuvaayaa) tamil version of YMC (ye maya chesave), I was a little apprehensive since I already saw YMC four times and might end up comparing each frame of it. But, I know that I cannot say NO to this invitation as there are lot things that are dragging me to experience this film again, be it the music, the performances, the technical brilliance, the picturization of the songs that I am crazy these days plus the different climax which people are claiming is different from YMC. All put together I ended up in the PVR at 9 pm show yesterday to watch the movie for the fifth time. Sundar for the third time.

As film set to take off, the first thing that strike me was the English subtitles for a regional film, a good idea to improve the market for regional films. It is the first time I am seeing Simbu on big screen and I hardly seen any of his previous films earlier. But, whatever I had heard about him, they say that he has the torturous acting skills that anyone can dare to possess and there comes Trisha and the first impression is not great as I have already seen YMC four times and Samantha is one main reason for watching it so many times or may be the baggage Trisha has will not give you that impression. The first two songs of the films 'Hossana' and 'Omana pennae' are shot beautifully in different locations from what you see in YMC. The film has the same shot making in most of the scenes, though there are couple of scenes which I observed was great taking wise in YMC, one is the scene where Jessie proposes Karthik for the first time right after the marriage broke up(watch for camera work here in YMC) and another scene where Jessie asks Karthik to leave telling its all over. These two scenes are captured brilliantly in YMC and great example in terms of shot making and the actors performed brilliantly. Having said that, I must confess that in some of the scenes in the first half the VTV pair showed their experience and excelled with great ease. It's unfair to compare the acting and the pair between both the versions as both the pairs has dominated each other in some scenes. The bottom line is that both pairs did fantastic job and this Karthik and Jessie characters will remain among the best in their careers. Though, I personally love to see Chaitanya and Samantha than VTV pair as the young pair is lovely to watch on screen and Samantha here will score all the marks with her grace.

The only thing at the end that sets apart between both the films is the climax. Director Gautam really showed his cinematic brilliance at the end of the film when the couple who will give you an impression that they are together and got married are actually going to set apart and is not known till the final scene and ends with Mannippaya lyrics with beautiful Shreya ghoshal voice which perfectly suited the moment. It took some time for me to digest and understand what he has done in the VTV climax as the happy ending in YMC got sink ed into me. When thought of it as a film, I must confess that VTV has a realistic ending that stays with you.

When I go through my memory lane to check when was the last time I came to the theatre to see a film 5 times and I can recollect only one film Shiva which got released in 1989. I was a small kid at that time and I still remember going to theatre more than 20 times to see that film. I must be 7 yrs old when Shiva got released and when I think of it now and question myself what made me to see Shiva so many times at that age when one hardly know anything about films, it leaves me answer-less and the only reason why I must have seen it so many times is because I wanted to cherish the experience of that film again and again and again..and the same thing happening with YMC/VTV now. The language might be different, but the feel remains the same. It's really MAGICAL.

Ye Maya Chesave

If you are a Telugu cinema fan, how many times you would have come out of the theater commenting that this scene is good, this song is bad etc., and most of the times these days when we are seeing all kind of crap so called formula based films with no basics, wherein me as a normal movie goer felt many times that where is the Industry heading towards. If these are the kind of movies that we will be seeing frequently, then I seriously think that we need to grow up and say that I didn't liked it. But, we are programmed by many of the film makers so much that if someone does something correct, we say its not good just because its not like a certain type of cinema that they are expecting it to be. The correct here in my opinion has to be the proper story line with good technical values. The pity is that we are programmed exactly the opposite.

Ye Maya Chesave did not do any maya (magic) in terms of it story and screenplay. But, the magic is created by the director by just following the basics and following his heart but nothing else. The technical values are top notch and is on par with any other film you would have seen in this genre in India in the last five years (may be more than that). It has the shades of Maniratham kinda film making sometimes, but I'm not complanining on this factor as it is always good to copy a creator than a disciple. The colors the you see in the film are so good that it is a feast to your eyes. The lead pair (chaitanya and samantha) displayed amazing chemistry on screen . This film don't have dialogues rather have conversations that anyone who is in love would have gone through or felt atleast once in their relationship. The film is complimented with amazing A R Rahman music and BG score which just takes the film to another level of its own. It's a feel that no one should miss and must be enjoyed by every movie goer. It's the cutest love story that I have seen for some time now and for all those who are not in love will feel like falling in it once the movie is over. Don't miss it.

CONSCIENCE - PAVAN JAKKA

Watch my new short film "CONSCIENCE" at you tube and let me know your comments...

CONSCIENCE

My second attempt as a film maker.

Not sure if I can call myself as a "film maker" to be honest. However, I also believe anyone who makes film of his own idea, irrespective of its size monetarily, technically, whose there in it etc., can call themselves as film maker just for the fact that they have made it...

Everyone of us have our own sense of right and wrong... and what happens when your inner self conflicts with real world and can't able to deal with it. CONSCIENCE is the mind state of an individual who is in the midst of this conflict. Lot of questions always ponder over his mind where one part of it tells him to do something and the other always questions why? what should he do ? either to live like others and participate in this impotent human race and live like a dead living being or to fight for a life in this world that he wanted to see... He's aware of the fact that he needs to face a plenty of difficulties to live a life that he wanted to and he's ready to face it ...but he can't do it for many reasons. What would you do?

CONSCIENCE is the amalgamation of all these random thoughts which is the the genesis of this script.

If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts us - Friedrich Nietzsche

Man's life is always been a conflict between 'want to' and 'have to' . I'm sure most of us must have been in this mind state at some point or the other in our lives. However, the degree of conflicts might vary....and we moved on in our lives after some time. But, it is the one who goes one step ahead, acts as a destroyer breaks all the so called values into pieces and create new road for himself is called as a creator.

Am posting a picture of a mind set created for the film. I tried to demonstrate through this picture how you will be in your mind. All the sides which you see are the different statements/thoughts in your mind.





Also, find the trailer and the script of the movie




THE SCRIPT

Voice over –

It’s ME
AND
Am just another fucker in this fucking world.

[TITLE – CONSCIENCE]

Since childhood I was taught something and bought up to live one way to be in this world. As I grew up, I slowly realised that one way did not function and the world is something else. Suddenly, I feel like cheated. Cheated by this world. Most importantly, by myself.

All the hammerings about the so-called truth, honesty, ethics has taken a beating by my conscience when I started dealing with the real world.

The world is beautiful, but it always has a disease called man.

After all, what is this world? It consists of disease beings like me & You who run for something all the time for many reasons !

But, why does everyone run?
Why should I care why everyone run, may be because I am also one among this everyone,
But, why do I run? Just because everyone run !
May be yes. But, does everyone run just because the others are running OR they run because they want to?
Does everyone think like me?
Why should I even care about what others think?
OH GOD, Why should I think like this?

Why can’t I just get on in my life and live the life that I want to live?
Wait, wait, wait, wait, ………..
Can I do that? Can I live a life that I want to? Well, to live a life that I want to, I guess I need to win this impotent human race first to do anything?
But, Why should I least bother about winning it when I think it is impotent?

What if I don’t run?
Obviously, I might look like a LOSER in the world’s eyes. They laugh at me and think that I am an asshole who doesn’t know how to live in this world.
But, there’s always a satisfaction to my inner self, which says “ I did what I want to do !”

BUT,

Is this really a WIN?
Am I not foolish?
Am I intelligent?
Am I unique to the rest? Am I a genius?
OR
Am I incapable of dealing with the reality?

Many thoughts always ponder over my mind where one part of it tells me to do it while the other always questions why? AND I don’t have answers for them. Don’t think so if someone can help me to come out of this vicious circle.
[PAUSE]
There’s this one question for which I cannot escape without finding an answer.
WHAT SHOULD I DO NOW?
I guess I don’t have much of choices available.

Either I need to kill myself
OR
I HAVE to live.

The decision to kill myself was not taken in a hurry. It is a very thoughtful and a vary painful decision.. But, I decided to live after a serious thought...

I decided to enjoy the life struggle with no guarantee of winning it. But, I have to do this to get what I want to?

Whatever happens from now on, One thing is for sure,
I’m NOT going to LIVE my life as just another fucker in this fucking world.


...Pavan

AVATAR GOD

After coming out of the theater watching Avatar Yesterday, I feel like so dumb these many days who used to call many other films that I have seen as great ones. Avatar has created a whole new benchmark for the other film makers should target to achieve or at least try to in their life time.

Clearly Avatar is such a kind of cinematic experience that one has to experience at least once in their life time. Many may still argue the story is not great, the emotional quotient of the film is not felt as it is with something like Titanic. But, it just the kind of experience that you have never experienced it till now which makes this film a great one. The kind of imagination/vison James cameron has and able to sustain it over a decade plus years plus you need some thousands of people working on your vision for such a long time and to make sure you and your team are on the same line and don't loose control on your vision over a DECADE is something that tells me the work that has put in in for us to see the film the way it is on the screen now.

I always felt that it is very difficult to project what is there on your mind. But, to show something which our brains can never ever dare to imagine that something like pandora can even exist. This will definitely make other film makers feel like morons in front of him. Each and minute part of pandora is so exotic that I bet your two eyes are not enough to experience it. Be it the different creatures or the deep valleys or the floating mountains or the na'vi people and gracefully beautiful Neytiri who is my personal favorite.

We all are taught since childhood to pray to certain god's and we have god for literally everything. I always used to wonder who created these god's and why should I pray for something which I always see on photographs or in rock statues? While this confusion still remain in my head, I definitely have seen a new god in the name of James cameron who created AVATAR and I will be proud of praying him for this.

--Pavan