NANBAN---Review

Thanks dear Preethi and Sofea for telling more about malaysia.

I will note down all the points u have told.

 

My Friends Reviews:

Nanban is a very good movie, but dont ever compare it to 3 Idiots. The only person who has excelled the original is Jeeva, who outskills Sharman Joshi. Though the movie is a scene to scene copy from the original, the movie guarantees you to laugh. A must watch if you have not seen 3 Idiots. Vijay has acted well. Satyaraj is irritating and it is Boman Irani who wins hands down.

 

out-skills*

 

Those directors are not held in glory that is acclaimed to Shankar right?

Why not? This is his next movie after Shivaji(2007) and such a long gap only to make a scene-by-scene remake.

But it is desirable, that one has his/her own. Art is to indulge the audience in it, not to do a mechanical translation.

I agree. It is the 'team' that wins.


When you are held in high esteem as one of South India's leading film maker, and when you are said to work hard to get a script(taking years), and after all these acclaim, when you come up with a remake of a hit movie just to fill the coffers of a production house, you are bound to be targeted with lack of creativity.

PS: Wife has booked the movie ticket. Nemesis will play the good boy and watch it with her, laughing when she laughs while grumbling inside. :rant

 

Nemesis,

Lets not postmortem or do a Anatomy of a movie. Why cant we just watch Movie just for our Fun/happiness ??Remakes are also not an Easy Joke, if it had been so every remake taken by Tom Dick and harry would have become a Super Duper hit. If you still feel Remake is not a Great Man's task let us take this way... ,May be Shankar wanted to put down his Thinking Cap for sometime

 

Ah, so an acclaimed director shouldn't indulge in a remake, lest he loses his glory? Interesting...now what would this make of K Balachander who remade Eranki Sharma's Chilakkama Cheppindi into his Nizhal Nijamagirathu? Or Balu Mahendra who remade Mahesh Bhatt's Arth into Marupadiyum and Misery into Julie Ganapathy?

Hope you didn't conveniently miss out Enthiran (2010) ;-) After two years of toiling for Enthiran, it's understandable if Shankar wants to make a quick, light comedy in the form of Nanban. Seriously, I don't see what's wrong with it.

Direction is not about telling just a new story. It's about how well you tell a story regardless of the same being new or old. There are many who have fresh stories but lack the proper direction skills to tell it in a convincing manner. OTOH, there are also people who can tell the most cliched stories in the most innovative way. Shankar falls in the second category. Most of his storylines are based on the cliched topics nevertheless he has the talent to present it in a wonderful and fresh manner. I believe that even if he doesn't surpass the magic in 3Idiots, still there is no way he will do damage to the same either.

Hope you enjoy the show even if you feel like ranting inside ;-)

 

hehe. Remake is authorised(and sometimes otherwise) piracy, also called as inspiration by some conservatives.

Same is the way of remix songs. Riding on the back of listener's nostalgia.

And ILites, i digress not anymore.

Well. I will be wondering why Shankar did not name the movie '3 muttalgal'. Mayby it is obvious considering the lead role played by none other than........., lol.

PS: Fans of Ilayathalapathy, if any, kindly dont revert back to this gag.