21 June 2010

My Movie – Vedam

This is Manohar Babu Barla.

I really appreciate Idle brain website for many reasons of sharing good film news, reviews. I would also like to mention here about "My Movie" column, which I like most. Its the one which really differentiates Idle brain and other Film Websites.

Looking at this column, I also thought of sharing some of my thoughts on Vedam movie and I would like this article to publish under your "My Movie" column in your site. Looking forward to publish more and more good articles like this.

Here are my thoughts. Thanks in advance for providing a platform for writing such views from viewers. Hope to see more innovative ideas.

VEDAM is a story revolving around things namely
V - - Values
E - - Emotions
D - - Destination
A - - Aims
M - - Money

It shows the day to day struggle of a common man and his thoughts of a better tomorrow. I had seen this movie(not to be called as a movie) couple of days back and couldn't come out of the movie till now. It doesn't have actors/actresses, but it has characters. Kudos to Mr.Krish for getting 150% out of each character. The film has given an experience of watching a Hollywood film with gripping screenplay and five different stories that run simultaneously.

What's it about:
A cable operator, who lives in a slum in Hyderabad, aspires to lead rich life by marrying his rich girl friend.
A sex worker runs away from her brothel house in Amala Puram to lead her own life in Hyderabad.
A poor weaver in Sirisilla comes to Hyderabad along with his daughter-in-law to sell off her Kidney to clear the debts, in a way to fulfill his daughter-in-laws dream of sending her son to school.
Having humiliated by a police cop and losing his twins, a Muslim guy plans to head for Dubai.
Due to various circumstances, they all land up in a Hospital. What happens next is rest of the story.

I am pretty sure that these are all very common characters we come across in our daily lives. Each and every character in the movie makes an impact.

Director is the one who should be able to make his/her characters speak. He is the one behind the scenes and has to convey the message through characters. Krish has succeeded a lot in making his characters speak. We don’t see actors, but Cable Raju and Vivek Chakravarthy. We see an old helpless weaver from Sirsilla but not Nagayya. Likewise, we don’t see Manoj Bajpai but a muslim who feels vulnerable at every juncture.

All the characters in the film have equal importance.

I would like to make a special note of some ultimate dialogues written by Krish here.

Ramulu's dialogue: "Illu katte vani daggara illu untunda, cheppulu kutte vani daggara cheppulu untaya... maa bathukulu inthe saaru"
Saroja's dialogue to a police: "memu battalu ippi vyaparam chestam.... meeru uniform vesu koni vyaparam chestunnaru"..... are some of my favorite dialogues.
Scene in which cable Raju repents himself and give away the stolen money from Ramulu is the best scene I like...

This is the change that we are looking for in our films, and its a welcome change. I would congratulate Krish for giving us a wonderful movie and hope to see this movie as a beginning of new trend in films. He is an intelligent filmmaker who does sensible, intelligent movies rather than following other intelligent filmmakers who doesn't do justice to their intelligence uncovincingly due to some reasons.

Last but not least, I would like to congratulate whole team of VEDAM who involved in the movie and gave us a Master Piece... Vedam is a very good movie. Pls watch it and encourage these kind of heart touching and meaningful movies.

Manohar Babu Barla
manu.barla at gmail dot com

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Boss - Anand
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Stalin - Bala
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LRMB - Shravan
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