Apur Sansar

An all time classic in Indian cinema, this movie corners out the amazing touches of the two prequels. Satyajit Ray proves himself as a legend in the Indian cinema with his charismatic, simple and straight way of story telling.

Plus Points:

1) Ray: The storyline is of a common man and relevant in today's world across all the geographies - Ambition, disappointments, halluncination, negligence and awakening are beautifully captured in this classic. Ray has picturised the acclaimed Bhusan's novel with a good screenplay and enchanting music.

2) Soumitro: One of his earliest films, but Soumitro, like in every other Ray movie gives an outstanding performance with his charming face. Be it with his friends, or wife, or in laws and finally his son, Soumitro enlivens the Apu character at ease.

This is a winner and can easily outsmart any other movie that has the ambitions of being classified as the best Indian movie for years to come.

Jurassic Park

Steven Spielberg and Micheal Crichton team up together to give life to the Jurassic dinosaurs and make them walk on this earth after billions of years. Spielberg has come out of the ordinary commercial cinema to showcase science in a technology filled drama.

Plus Points:

1) Fantastic storyline: The story revolves around a scientific discussion on the attempts of genetic re engineering and cloning for commercial purposes. The usual fight between a scientist and a businessman has been captured brilliantly and the commercialisation of the technology has been questioned in a shrewd and emphatic way.

2) Well adapted script: Normally it takes a lot to visualise and deliver a movie which matches the brilliance of a widely acclaimed novel. Spielberg and Crichton have done it at quite ease taking it closer to a common man who is not a science savvy. The thrilling moments of the movie keeping the viewer spellbound for more than 2 hours make the movie exciting and likable.

3) Graphics: Amazing graphics and animatronics lab work show the strength of Hollywood to be used in a controlled and brilliant manner

Minus Points:

1) Genre change: I am disappointed at the science portions being cornered. For example, in the original novel, the chaos theory is explained in a very beautiful manner but I understand that it has to take a beating here since the audiences are not exactly same between novel and the movie.

This is a must watch movie for all the cinema lovers. In effect, this will go down as one of the greatest and evergreen movies of the 90's.

எந்திரன்

After 3 years of long wait, Rajni and Shankar have delivered an entertainer in a very different way. This is Shankar's spectacular attempt to introduce a science laden robot to a common man.

Let me talk about the plus points of the movie:

1) Original script by Shankar: The storyline is tremendous and is very new to Indian cinema. Shankar has put in a lot of thoughts on the script and delivered his "Dream Project" commercially. His diligence to make it scientific as much as possible -- examples "Peripheral Troubleshooting", "Robosapiens" and "Memory 1 GB" kinda dialogues - is laudable. The plot is very constructive unlike the ones in his previous movies Anniyan and Indian. This reminds me of his other movies Gentleman and Mudhalvan where the Hero constructively perspires for the welfare of the society within his limits.

2) Superstar Rajnikant: Superstar at the age of 60, has done wonderfully well and deserves equal credit to the success along with Shankar. His patience and willingness to different roles proves his humbleness and hunger for success.

3) Animation: Amazing graphics work, which is again new to Indian cinema. We can realise the diligence of Shankar in taking Indian cinema to great heights.

Minus Points:

1) Loose script: It's the only but the biggest minus of the movie. Some of the unwanted scenes spoil the trail of the storyline. Train scene in the first half is one example. It could have been avoided giving those 15 minutes to the villain chitti. The villain chitti suffocates and makes the audiences boring. The second half could have been better with more delicious substance and plot.

Rajni has been a great superstar in Indian cinema and the movie is yet another evidence in a different way - No punch dialogues and unusual style and so is lovable for that. It's an overall nice experience to watch it once. Hope Shankar reassembles the chitti to take us through some amazing magic in a sequel.