Karthik Nataraaj

Movie Review: Pursuit of Happiness

I heard about the movie “Pursuit of Happiness”   from a friend last week and he highly recommended it. I just watched it and its simply brilliant. I saw the trailer last week and was impressed with it. In my town here, as far as Hollywood fims, only the commercial blockbusters are screened in the theatres. As this movie doesn’t seem to be one, downloading from bittorrent is the only option I had and I did it. Although the version I downloaded is a DVD Rip, quality of the video is not that bad. Only the audio lacks the crystal clear sound and it’s acceptable for this movie.

The plot of the movie is about a man who goes for his dream at all cost. Chris Gardner(Will smith) is a sales person of a medical scanner and he finds it difficult to sell the equipment. His dream is to become a stock broker and his wife hates the idea and leaves him because of his inability. Will smith joins the stock broker training program at the time when he couldn’t pay the home rental and forced to get out of his home. Homelessly he suffers to find a place to stay everyday but manages to attend the training program and becomes a successful stock broker. Finally he goes on to become a millionaire.

The movie is very emotional and Will Smith is the man who lived as Chris and holds it up in his shoulder. In the scene when he spends a night in a public bathroom, his son was sleeping and the door was knocked by someone. There were no conversation in the scene but it tells thousand words.

All the characters in the movie have done their part brilliantly and the small boy too was brilliant and shown some very natural expressions. In the climax the stock brokerage firm manager tells Will smith that he had done an excellent job in the examination and he could start working as a broker in the firm from the next morning. In that scene, the way Will smith expresses the joy and relief, no words to say, absolutely brilliant man.

Don’t miss to watch this movie.

Add comment April 29th, 2007

Rajinikanth’s Sivaji movie songs samples out

The much awaited Rajinikanth’s Sivaji movie audio samples are out in the cyberspace as usual even before the audio is officially released. With Shankar and A.R.Rahman combo, all are expecting another chartbuster; Can Sivaji music live up to it? While the hype about the movie in the media is touching the sky this songs have come out.

I only get to hear three songs of the album named ‘Sunlight, Waji waji and Sahara’. Here are my views after first hearing.

You can listen to the sample songs at http://www.imayam.org/songs/radio

Sunlight
When I start to listen to this track, I doubt whether I’m listening to Sivaji movie song. Because it sounds more like an english pop song. "Who let the dogs out.. who.. who.." kind of song which praises about the styles of the superstar and I assume it must be a introductory/background track. It hardly impresses anyone at the first hearing.

Waji waji
This song too starts like the first song and thankfully, it transforms to a much better listenable song after 30 seconds. It sounds like a catchy number, who knows it may become the anthem for next 3 months.

Sahara
It starts off slowly and sounds really smooth which gives a big relief to our ears after hearing those two noisy songs. I especially liked the bgm of the song with tabla sounds blended perfectly. As far as me this song is the pick of the three.

I’ve only heard the songs twice and for me the three songs are not exactly what I expected. But I think the song will grow in me. May be my opinion will change after repeated hearings.

Awaiting the official audio CD to hear rest of the songs in good quality.

1 comment March 22nd, 2007