Biased Opinion and a turnaround - Rhythm (Movie)
Do you need an example of a Biased opinion? It was circa 2001 and me my gang (proudly called the_decagon) were out in a hot summer saturday for a movie called "Rhythm". It was like 6 months after Mudhalvan had released and byfar Mudhalvan is one of the biggest blockbuster movies I have ever seen, especially so since I had seen it with my college gang with lot of shouting/screaming in the theatre. Rhythm released in this hype with Arjun and Jyothika (the then dream girl after Kushi) in the lead roles. A R Rahman had scored the music and it is one of the rare albums that get themed. There are five songs in the movie that talk about the five forces of the universe, viz. Sky, Water, Land, Fire and Air. Combine this theme with the amazing songs, put in AR Rahman, Arjun, Jyothika and Vasanth and nothing less than a mega blockbuster was going to satisfy us.
We saw this at Cauvery Theatre in Trichy, which meant that it was no straight-forward bus route, so we had to travel around 90 minutes in two buses. By the time we reached the movie hall we were soaking in sweat and the person in the ticket counter promptly closed the shutter after selling 4 tickets as a formality. This being the first day most tickets got sold in the black market. So we were left with only one choice.
Determination, can lead you to so many things. Pradeep, one of my great friends and myself had loads and loads of this. We convinced the remaining gang that we had to watch the movie on that day itself (Pradeep is better than me at this) and pulled out whatever money we had. The movie ticket was priced at an astounding Rs. 150/- (Ok, this is not PVR but Trichy, Cauvery Theatre and we were students with no income in 2001). We had to pull out every single note from our pocket and we finally made some Rs. 1300 and told him "We are Rs. 50 short". The ticket seller, grabbed the bunch of notes, gave the tickets and sped away. We thought we could have bargained but this was no time, because the show would have started.
The first five minutes was routine tamil movie stuff. A very nice introduction song for Arjun and great picturisation. Then came the bad news. Hero is a journalist (in advertising sector, so no bashing up of politicians) a widower and heroine is a bank employee a widow. Both go in mumbai electric trains to their office. Now how dull can a story get? This was too big a disappointment for poor college kids like us who wanted to shout their throats out seeing item songs, fights and punch dialogues.
What followed from us was extremely biased ridiculing of this movie and I went on to say this was the worst movie of my life in a theatre (FYI Dilip, Raghavan we went to movies like Kuberan, James bond, Cheenu after that) But in my life, this was my most biased opinion. I told my parents that it was the worst movie I have ever seen. My parents took me seriously and did not watch it. About 2 months later, my Dad happened to see the movie in a bus or something and told me that "It was not bad after all". This was the first time, my opinion differed from my father. I then asked my relatives who had seen this movie and they said it was "not bad" types.
Ok why am I going back to 2001 now? I saw this movie Rhythm yesterday (26 Aug 2008) and let me be honest, it was "not a bad movie after all". It touched my heart at places and had some (ok, many) bad patches but overall it was not a movie to be branded "as the worst movie in my theater life".
Sorry Mr. Vasanth. You were the victim of my himalayan expectations and to be fair the movie was atleast "above average", if you go in without expectations.
PS: I am not a big fan of love movies :)
Some day I will write about my adventures in a theatre when I was like 4 years old while watching the movie "Mouna Raagam". The movie I (and many of my friends) rate as the best tamil movie in the romance genre.
We saw this at Cauvery Theatre in Trichy, which meant that it was no straight-forward bus route, so we had to travel around 90 minutes in two buses. By the time we reached the movie hall we were soaking in sweat and the person in the ticket counter promptly closed the shutter after selling 4 tickets as a formality. This being the first day most tickets got sold in the black market. So we were left with only one choice.
Determination, can lead you to so many things. Pradeep, one of my great friends and myself had loads and loads of this. We convinced the remaining gang that we had to watch the movie on that day itself (Pradeep is better than me at this) and pulled out whatever money we had. The movie ticket was priced at an astounding Rs. 150/- (Ok, this is not PVR but Trichy, Cauvery Theatre and we were students with no income in 2001). We had to pull out every single note from our pocket and we finally made some Rs. 1300 and told him "We are Rs. 50 short". The ticket seller, grabbed the bunch of notes, gave the tickets and sped away. We thought we could have bargained but this was no time, because the show would have started.
The first five minutes was routine tamil movie stuff. A very nice introduction song for Arjun and great picturisation. Then came the bad news. Hero is a journalist (in advertising sector, so no bashing up of politicians) a widower and heroine is a bank employee a widow. Both go in mumbai electric trains to their office. Now how dull can a story get? This was too big a disappointment for poor college kids like us who wanted to shout their throats out seeing item songs, fights and punch dialogues.
What followed from us was extremely biased ridiculing of this movie and I went on to say this was the worst movie of my life in a theatre (FYI Dilip, Raghavan we went to movies like Kuberan, James bond, Cheenu after that) But in my life, this was my most biased opinion. I told my parents that it was the worst movie I have ever seen. My parents took me seriously and did not watch it. About 2 months later, my Dad happened to see the movie in a bus or something and told me that "It was not bad after all". This was the first time, my opinion differed from my father. I then asked my relatives who had seen this movie and they said it was "not bad" types.
Ok why am I going back to 2001 now? I saw this movie Rhythm yesterday (26 Aug 2008) and let me be honest, it was "not a bad movie after all". It touched my heart at places and had some (ok, many) bad patches but overall it was not a movie to be branded "as the worst movie in my theater life".
Sorry Mr. Vasanth. You were the victim of my himalayan expectations and to be fair the movie was atleast "above average", if you go in without expectations.
PS: I am not a big fan of love movies :)
Some day I will write about my adventures in a theatre when I was like 4 years old while watching the movie "Mouna Raagam". The movie I (and many of my friends) rate as the best tamil movie in the romance genre.
