Thursday, April 28, 2005

Chandramukhi


I shall start my treatise with one of the basic questions that has plagued mankind.

Why did the chicken cross the road?
No idea. But certainly not to see Chandramukhi.

Why did Rajni make this movie?
No idea. But I certainly hope that he didn't plan to see it as well.You know if he had some sense he could have taken his fat paycheck and saved himself some of the pain of watching the poor thing.

Why did I see the movie?
Because I am a graduate student.

Prelimnaries done I shall gone on to the story. It's about this house haunted by this dancer case who was killed by her king eons ago because she was sleeping with someone else. This is not to mention that the king was sleeping with her on the side in the first case.So there you have it a haunted joint. Now, cut to today.
(An aside, if only ppl didn't sleep with each other- imagine the amount of trauma the world will be saved off. Hitler probably went on to rend the world apart simply because he was short and ugly and had totally lost out on the competition in the soporific game. Ok, I am meandering too much, back to the rant.)
Rajni sar and Prabhu sar and their (actually Prabhu's) wife Jyotika decide to move in for kicks. Once they move in, strange things start happenening- stuff like Rajni flying 25mts to grab someone else's cup of coffee ( he alleges it was poisoned, he alleges), and fishtanks flying and trying to kill people (it probably got sick of the movie and wanted out too, just that someone was in the way). So finally, accusations fly thick and fast through the air. Who is the culprit? The ghost? Well, then you have a problem with getting the ghost to appear before court. And, how would you have a fight scene with a Ghost? Rajni would just crash straight through it/him/her. Well, it wasn't it was a frustrated maidservant who wasn't being well treated by the paati.
Moral of the story: Treat your maidservants with respect.
(Just kidding, the ending isn't that bad, it's worse.)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Finally an Entry

Hmm. The review rocks.. I like the part about why did I watch it .. grad student !

Anyway .. dear Ramani you need some experience with Rajni movies before seeing them. Watching Rajni movies is like listening to Carnatic Music. Unless you have the IQ and the knowledge you will not be able to appreciate their intracacies.

And Hitler got plenty of action on the side when he became the Fuhrer of germany. So your hypothesis fails there !

Good to see you back in action !

KP said...

finally. the movie is sitting on my comp and i still haven't seen it. maybe i should act like a 'grad student'. Read what Outlook
had to say abt ChandraMukhi, Mumbai express and more