Ko - My Customer Feedback

Ko: A Customer Feedback.


(Not a Review. I Paid 120 buck to watch it in the theatre!)


Overall I loved all the 'story' moments and attention to detail given b the writers and we see K V Anand using his past as a photgrapher to full effect. Gladdenitg to see technology being used very well in a Tamil film.... including laying down a tripod for a still camera shoot at night becasue the ISO was vey very high! Superb to see such nucances honestly captured.


Too many bad songs interrupting a fairly riveting screenplay. Piaa's character is typical of the Kollywood 'Pupply' girl. Kollywood manages to get it in its trademark style: Vulgar, Crass and Never in Lip ynch!!!! Jeeva is endearing and hats off for a good role selection. Plus points for the zeitgesit connect in terms of vote for cash, Naxals (Euphemism for LTTE?) and political reality/aspiration of the people....Karthika neither looks good nor acts.


Very disheartening to see the scene where the young boy is shown ogling Pia - why cant such scenes be handled with finesse, if at all required? Or does it show the perversion fo the 'mass' audience in TN - becasue the whole 'mass' segment of the theatre erupted in applause. If applause justifies scenes, why not go the whole way and lets all switch to record dancing as a State Sponsored Entertainment?


Was interesting to see Udanidhi Stalin grabbing this film also - so many scenes shown in the movie were directly against the DMK!!!! A case of 'Even if the people want to throw slippers at us its ok - we will start a Slipper Bisiness and make money that way!!!!!" ????? Or a more charitable thought - times they are a changin????


The Kollywood version of the Om Shanti Om song - where some celebs paraded in - And we have Editor Anthony cutting so fast away from them that we can hardly register their faces.... sometimes blindly cutting away can actually result in a new plugin for AVID/FCP which will eventually replace the editor!!!


Ko - Konjam Kollywood Komaalithanam Korachirukalamaa - Aaaana appidi Korachaaa Kovai Naaama Naalu bear paathu FB la review panniruppom - and the 'niche' and so called 'A Class' audience would have watched it on Torrent or Lve Stream or Pirated DVD and given KV Anand FB tributes.


In that light, Ko is a very very appreciation worthy effort - to change the course of the mainstream Tamil Cinema a- like Politics - by getting into the Gutter and no matter how many stinking parts it retains, the good parts stand out !!! And thats CHANGE!!!

A Bit of Love

{
In this digital world
Its always a Yes or No
Go, No Go
There cannot be a gradation
Even a point cannot just be
It can be zoomed in
Broken into and Lo,
Step by jagged step,
Another point found.

Between the Zeros and Ones of this
Pulse wave,
Exists my love for you

And since you resolve it
With but a digital heart
My pulsing gets filtered out
And all you get is what you can see

Yet I try, my love
For one day
Just like MB replaced KB
And TB replaced all else
Your mind shall open
And gradation shall flood in!

Ah, what a lovely day that will be
I will be visible to you,
In all my colourful splendor
Of one color smoothly transforming into another
And as your digital fingers
Seek in vain to find the creases
The point where one point becomes another
I shall laugh my analogue laugh
At your digital ineptitude

And feel your binary hands
Upon my infinite body


Love you, my digital Princess
Waiting for Moore
To make you see me one day,
Until then,
Print
Return
}

Lines

For people who I see thrice in a year
For Gods that people have not seen even once
For causes I do not identify with
I have sacrificed myself
At the altar of society

The lamb and the butcher, both me
Khe knife I fashoined out of my will
The public audience called in by me
By my acceptance of their values, their yard stick

But it was easy for me to die
Their eyes never meant anythign to me
my Life had already been taken away

My wife and I could not wed, said they
Because lines crossed a certain way
In the parchment as old as us
The parchments were born a little later than us
Yet becasue they did not match
Their elders could not marry

So much for tradition
The parchment won

Now the two parchments lay waste
To live untouched, unmarried
And throbbing with life
Far longer than the people
Whose fates they ended

I said it first!

For the record, I am hereby posting the following line so I can prove I said it first:

"Moviemaking in all shapes and Sizes"

Thats the tag line of Eklavya Productions

"Cinema in all shapes and Sizes"

Thats the tagline of the future!

Anniversary

When words stop, music begins
Where the world stops, she begins

I walk through crowded roads
Selling my wares to make a nickel
I rest in an empty home
The Nickel beside me,
While she walks
Through crowded roads
Earning her nickel

Words stop where music begins
This poem started where I missed her,
Its been a year since we've been engaged
Seems like a blink of an eye

Mine not hers,
Her eyes are for more
Worthy metaphors than the ones
Her Husband peddles!

Beat this

You never pay attention to me,
Heavy with emotion, She panted
In gushes, blood oozed from her

Never once you acknowledged me
You don't need me, nor do you care for me

As She said this,
Blood poured out from her rhythmically

No amount of tears she shed
That day,
Could stop the flow of blood

"I am guilty," said he
"Of leaving you in the dark,
About what you are to me."

"I can die to show how much you mean to me,
But for me to die, you have to die first,
And that will pain me to death,
Apart from of course, killing me."

Putting a stop to this
Confusing train of thought,
She paused a second and held her breath

The Man started choking,
Just when he fainted and fell to the ground,
She started breathing again

And, not miraculously, he came to life

"Fool," the man said, regaining life,
"Now are you happy I need you?
I shall die if you cease to be
And maybe the reason I don't see you often,
Is that you are within me always."

She gushed, and started pumping blood again,
Satisfied that her man needed her
After all even cold blooded men
With cold cold hearts
Need to show they have their hearts
In the right place

She, if you haven't guessed till now
Was his four chambered, warm blooded heart.

Hurt Shocker

Ok so I make plans. Hunt for TV sets near me with Star World connection. (I dont have a TV u see). Make advance reservations in the front seat. Line up backup TV set-equipped-homes, just in case. Then I plan the schedule for my whole day around the time slot. Then I hear someone say "Avatar didn't win." I walk up to him and ask - he was having lunch - "Are the results out?" Quizzially he chokes on his food, getting out the words - "Yes - of course... didnt you watch Star World? - At 8 am?"

8 . AM.

Hmmm. Not PM.

Slight mistake.