Twenty 20 First Box-Office Report

The "all stars in one screen" film is out, and as expected opening is fantastic. what which was not that expexted was the praise it is getting from all corners. Everybody seems to like the film. There are reports about a 3 day boycotting of the film by Mohanlal fans to protest against the alleged side-lining of the star in the film's promos. In the film Mohanlal gets his introduction just before interval, but he still seems to have good screen presence. This boycotting might mean stable collections even after 3 days. Anyways, hats off to Joshy and Uday-Sibi for pulling off the seemingly impossible. The reviews are yet to appear in websites, for unknown reasons.

This is for the first time in the history of cinema that all major actors in a film industry came together to make a film. This is another feather on the hat of Malayalam cinema.

Here's a short :

Positives - :

1. Introduction of Suresh gopi

2. Introduction of Mammooty

3. Pre- Interval scenes between Mohan lal & Mamooty

4. Fight scene between lal & mammooty

5 . Comedy scenes of dileep

6. Climax scene

Negetives - :

1. First few comedy scenes

2. Most of the songs

The Manorama News Opening day report (in Malayalam):

http://www.manoramanews.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/mmtvContentView.do?contentType=EDITORIAL&contentId=4720494&tabId=14&BV_ID=

Diwali 2008

Diwali is the biggest season for Tamil films. But this diwali had only 2 major releases: Ajith starrer Aegan and Bahrath starrer Seval. As usual the Ajith film made a bumber opening, but the reports are mixed. The film which is a rip-off from Farah Khan's Main hoon naa, also has Nayan and her chiffon saris to boast of. Seval got even poor response, and the film is a flop.
All this after the short but great run by Katalil Vizhunthen, which is Sun Pictures' 1st venture and the all-round performance by Venkat Prabhu's Saroja.

Now after the poor Diwali peformance, for which the heavy rains can also be attributed, a few films are getting ready for realease. The biggie among them is Gautham's Surya starrer Varanam Ayiram. The trailer looks promising, and the theme seems to be fresh. So, there's a lot of hope on it. And this time gautham decided to flash his 'malayalittam' all over posters by spreading his full name 'gautham vasudeva menon' on thme! Way to go, man! The second major release will be feel-good director radha mohan's Abhiyum naanum starring Thrisha and Prakash Raj as her father. Madhavan statter action film Guru en aalu may also make a mark in the pre-christmas season.

2008 - A good start!

2008 is up and how! Most of the films are doing good business and the year is alive and kicking!At the topspot in BO is Srini's Katha Parayumbol. The film took a good opening thanks to mammoos and the film later consolidated thanks to terrific narration of a heartwarming simple cute story! Mammu does look lik a star in it. But he tends to overact at the climax, a rare thing from mammoos!Kangaroo surprised me with its good show. The film is netting good collections in Kochi. Prithvi is in. He's the one!Romeoo still manages avg collection.In the downside there are flash and of the people. Flash is a colossal failure and I think it is high time for Lal to read the scripts b4 signing a film. Of the people got a good start, but the film has nothing new to offer and collections are likely to fall.

TZP started well in Kochi, but not too well for an Aamir film. Nevertheless, the film manages avg collection till this week.

Billa is going great guns in Kerala, Thala ajith raising a competition for Vijay. Kerala is considered to be a Vijay area than Ajith's despite the latter's Kerala links. Billa is Ajith's biggest hit in Kerala, and may also be his biggest ever hit! Not to forget Nayan's role is the film's good run. She looks goddamn hot!

Some of the films up for release soon are Rajkumar Santhoshi-Ajay Devgun-Vidya Balan film Halla Bol, Suresh Gopi- Shaji Kailas' Sound of Boots, East Coast Vijayan-Jayaram's Novel, Blessy-Dileep-Meera's Kolkata News, Renji Panicker-Mammu's Roudram and Mohanlal-Thulasidas-Vimala's College Kumaran. And yes Kollywood is getting ready for Pongal!