Santosh Subramaniam

Santosh subramaniam starring Jayam Ravi, Genelia D'Souza and Prakash in the lead roles with support from Geetha as Prakash Raj's wife is a wonderful. Or say a wonderful remake of the original Bommarillu, which i havent seen but have heard a lot about. The role of Jayam Ravi as santosh may find many takers as the son frustrated by the over caring nature of the. The story goes like this- Santosh is a guy frustrated with his father Subramaniam (Prakash Raj) for giving more than asked for. He decides dresses, hair style, career (work in his construction company) and not unexpectedly the girl he should marry. Santosh never shows his frustration at home and to his father. He tells his frens that he will decide two things in his life that is his Career and the Gal he will marry. But he gets engaged to a girl decided by his father and this girl is having a life much similar to his. But then he meets Hasini(Genelia) a simple, fun loving, talkative, kiddish middle class girl, staying with her widowed father-a loving father. Hasini and Santosh meet each other again and become frens and then lovers in frequent meetings which constitute of the films much funnier parts.

Sumbramaniam gets to know about this and thus Santosh asks his dad to allow Hasini to stay at their home for 1 week and find any reason why he shouldnt marry her. Subramaniam allows this. Santosh brings Hasini to home; too loud for Santosh's family. And in the course of one week Santosh's secrets like plans to start own business, hitting goons, drinking in the night and scolding his dad gets known to all. And inthe process Haasini leaves home saying she doesnt wnat to marry Santosh because of his different nature in house and outside house. Gradually over a heated discussion between Son-father , The ice between the son and dad breaks in the climax. And Santosh opening up his views and frustration to his dad. Thus ends the movie with santosh's family going to Haasini's home to bring her back and Santosh going to his engaged gal's house and breaking the same with support from the gal.

The movie ends with santosh staying at Haasini's house waiting for one reason why he shouldn not marry her from Haasini's father.

Performances are Ultimate from Prakash Raja (as always) and Jayam Ravi. And Genelia is excellent as the fun loving gal though there is scope for improvement while emoting. Geetha does complete justice to her role with an excellent Outburst in the climax of the movie. The humor throughout the movie doesn't look separated as in many Tamil movies. Music is good though some of them sounds familiar.

Somehow Jayam Ravi Seems the right choice for remakes, with almost all his remakes doing good in Tamil.

A good watch for the family.

Can I Make A Difference

Hmmmm.. Thinking of how to beat the scorching heat of summer i am writing my OCCASIONAL blogs. The summer has been much warmer and humid than last time here in Bangalore otherwise known for its AC Climate. Must be because of the 1000s of vehicles coming on the roads daily and the numerous buildings being built over the graveyard of trees. But hey I am not complaining because "What have i done about it?" - NOTHING. I haven't planted one tree. I am just the normal guy trying to do nothing that the Other don't do. I am what R.K.Laxman calls COMMON MAN. Only i am not wearing that checked tweed suit.

Common Man- a name i use to call myself for all my Timidness and for not doing something that i could have done for someone else than me or for the surrounding like helping some guy meeting with accident or moving off a rock in the road that may cause accidents, stopping my bike in the Traffic Red light alone even when i am the only one standing there and others are just honking at me for not signals Jumping and many small things like this.

Sometimes I do feel that I should do something that may make a difference; at least to me, when i look back some years later. I feel Today is my lucky day-because there is a divider that had been hit by some vehicle and has been tilted thus becoming very dangerous for the people coming in Vehicles and new to the place. The may hit and depending on the situation the accident's severity would be decided. Can I do it? When the kid in Times Of India's Lead India Campaign can move a tree then why not me? :-)


Yes You Can Do it... and my request to all of you too to start by doing such small things.