KANNAMOOCHI YENNADA: (PLEASE DOWNLOAD MEGA UPLOAD TOOLBAR)
Director :Priya .V
Producer:U TV, Radaan, Pyramid
Music:Yuvan Shankar Raja
Cast:Satyaraj, Radhika, Pritviraj, Sandhya .
Priya.V, the director who made that sweet and sensible Kanda Naal Muthal, has come out with her new film Kannamoochi Yenada, a Kollywood take on the Hollywood film Meet The Parents. It falls way short of its basic inspiration, and is all cardboard cut-out characters, with no story to tell!
In Malaysia, Harish (Pritviraj) meets Deva (Sandhya) and it is love-at-first-sight for the young man. He lost his parents at an early age and is brought up by his uncle (Radha Ravi) a businessman. Soon Deva reciprocates his love and they come to India to meet her parents Aarumugham (Satyaraj) Chennai city police commissioner and his docile wife Damayanthi (Radhika). Aarumugham does not like Harish and is suspicious about his intentions. A cat and mouse game follows. But slowly the story shifts to the older couple who drifts apart. Now it is turn of Harish to bring the parents together, as Damayanthi and her daughter goes away to Ooty to be with Aarumugham’s twin sister Seetha (Sripriya).
Anyone game for 145 minutes of how to win a girl and her parents, as the story moves at snail pace from Malaysia to Chennai and from there to Ootty, and back to Chennai, and ends in marriage hall, via the Villipuram flyover? The trouble with Priya's script is that the first half candyfloss romance between Pritviraj and Sandhya shifts focus in the second half to the mature, kiss and make-up story of Sathyaraj and Radhika. Post interval the film starts dragging, and Sripriya, who plays the estranged twin sister of Sathyaraj, is screechy and hysterical and makes the proceedings unbearable.
And at the end, if you do have a smile it is only due to Sathyaraj. He is the only sparkling spot in this slow coach of a movie. He is hyper and adds spice, especially the scene where he meets Pritviraj for the first time and the drive back from the airport in a police jeep where he shouts instruction on the wireless, making Pritvi scared! Radhika as his loving wife fits the bill. Pritvitraj as Harish is a tailor-made role for him though he has to take care of not being typecast in similar ‘good guy’ roles. The Mozhi hang-over is too evident and he should do something about his heavy Malayalee accent when he speaks in Tamil. Sandhya has done her role with ease but her dubbing is too jarring and stands out like a sore thumb.
All credit to Preeta, the cinematographer, who has done a good job. However the same cannot be said of Yuvan Shankar Raja’s music and Priya’s song placement. The only hummable number is the first song Megham Megham…, and the picturisation of all the songs are nowhere near Priya’s first film. On the whole, the first half wins you over with its simple charm, its immensely likeable characters, and the intrinsic humour in the writing. But the latter half is too long, contrived and predictable to the extent of being seriously boring. In the final analysis, however, these are a few wrong turns in an otherwise entertaining film that'll bring a smile to your face.
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You question the Police and they will Kill you...
http://newstodaynet.com/newsindex.php?id=3048%20&%20section=7
Tea shop owner Syed Ali (48) who died on Wednesday under mysterious circumstances after being taken for interrogation by the personnel of the R8 Vadapalani Police station, ‘was a victim of police brutality and being a genial personality he never sold lottery tickets,’ according to locals and small traders.
Angry locals and traders gathered near the tea shop on 100 Feet Road on Wednesday after the news of custodial death began to spread fast.
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They were agitated and expressed harsh words over the death of Ali, a native of Mallapuram district of Kerala who was running the shop here for over 20 years.
Here is a collated account (from various sources) of the incident that led to the eventual death of Syed Ali: ‘In the wee hours of Wednesday (around 5 am), three constables had tea in his shop and when he asked for money, they abused him and went away.
The three constables returned in a jeep with a sub-inspector at 7 am and the four policemen dragged Ali and tea-maker Anthony Master into the vehicle. They pocketed the Rs 1,050 found in the cash counter before taking the shop-owner in the jeep,’ said one witness.
‘The cops rained blows on both of them. I intervened to ask them the reason for the unprovoked assault on the shop owner and his staff. But they slapped and threatened me to mind my business,’ said R Kumar, driver at Harini Ceramics, a showroom opposite the tea shop.
Within twenty minutes after the duo were taken for interrogation, a telephone call to Shamseed, one of his three sons, informed that Syed Ali had died at the police station. His other son Ashraff is living with them at Azhagiri Nagar. Ali’s wife and elder son Thamseen are living in Kerala.
Vehemently denying that Ali was taken to the police station for selling lottery tickets, Kumar and other locals, mostly roadside traders, were of the view that it was a case of police excesses leading to the death of an innocent man.
Only a few days ago, Ali had returned from Mallapuram and he did not need to sell lottery tickets to earn money for his tea shop was doing good business, said the agitated traders. After he swooned at the police station, Master Anthony took him to Royapettah Government Hospital and the police did not take the injured Ali to the hospital, according to T Ananthan, secretary, Tea Shop Owners Association on 100 Feet Road.
He said the tell-tale marks of swollen eyes, body scars and blood patches on Ali’s shirt were clinching pointers that death was caused solely by an attack on him.
The traders and friends of Ali along with few members of Confederation of Tamilnadu Malayalees group led by its secretary Suresh Babu met Police Commissioner Nanchil Kumaran on Wednesday afternoon and briefed him on thel death of the tea-shop owner.
Perhaps forced by the picketing by traders and the public at the R8 station, Master Anthony under lock-up was released by the police late in the night on Wednesday.
City Police Commissioner on Thursday told media persons that impartial action would be taken into the alleged custodial death of Syed Ali.
Police defend action
A case of unnatural death under CrPC 174 has been registered and an RDO enquiry ordered in the matter. However, T Nagar DCP S Lakshmi said Syed Ali, the shop owner, was taken to the police station only for questioning as he continued to sell lottery tickets despite strict warning to him in the past.
‘There is no question of arrest or torture. We took him for routine enquiry. But he was suffering from health problems after the surgery he had undergone recently and this might have led to his death. Anyway, we are waiting for the report of the RDO enquiry,’ said Lakshmi.
She was camping along with Assistant Commissioners R Natarajan (Guindy) and A Soundarajan (Ashok Nagar) on the 100 Feet Road last night to prevent untoward incidents as large number of traders and locals had gathered near the tea shop which affected the movement of traffic for sometime.