2 states - Chetan Bagat

Its again a magic masala from Chetan Bagat. He realized, what is expected out of him after his poor performance in The 3 mistakes of my life.

Story Line - Its evident from the back cover of the book or even from the title itself - "The story of my marriage".

Inspite of being evident, i have to tell it now. IIM-A guy(Krish) and IIM-A girl(ananya) fall in love. They belong to two different states. They want to get their parents acceptance and get married. Will they make it ? They will. How ? Like this....




Story :

College life:

Chetan Bagat mentioned it as his own life taken the shape of this book. Krish, the hero from punjab, and Ananya from TamilNadu love each other and decided to carry on further with marriage. Their college days, colorful romance, live-in relation for two years, sexy nights, naughty talks and lot more stuff in Chetan Bagat style are seen in this part of the book.

Chennai Life :

Krish moves to Chennai after getting a job to convince Ananya's parents to accept him. Since ananya is from some ultimately traditional family, it takes nerve out of Krish to convince them. His encounters with Ananya's father, Ananya's mother, brother and even a guy who comes to arrane marriage Ananya at some time. Krish faces all these issues along with his Bank works and fellow Chennai people. This can be called as the funniest part of the book.

Delhi life :

Since Krish convinced Ananya's Parents, its her time to do it back. So, Krish gets transferred and they go to Delhi. Ananya tries to please Krish's mom, but nothing worked out. After some filmy Female heroine role in a marriage, Ananya becomes Krish mom's favorite.

Family Fights :

When both family meets, they end up in fight and Ananya backs out from the entire love marriage plan. Krish suffers a mental Trauma and after a long struggle, his dad comes into picture after three books. Krish's Dad convinces Ananya's Family and the marriage is back.

Final part :

Its again a masala marriage session at Chennai. All relatives of Krish from Punjab comes to Chennai and teases each and every practice of Tamil Marriage, that reminds of some good old book that was shot as a serial.


+ Points :

* Connecting Five Point Someone here and there.
* Ridiculing Chennai and south India
* Chennai days
* Dad's (Malhotra) intervention and problem solving
* Sooper cool attitude of Ananya, unexpected from a Tamil Gal.


- Points :

* Mirchi masala
* Love failure and beard part
* Final part, too filmy


Rating :

8/10 - I love masala... i enjoyed the book and ratings reflect just that. Its definitely Biased :)

Thirai Alasal - UPO

Director : Chakri Toleti

Producers : Kamal Hasan and Ronnie Screwvala

Music : Shruthi Hasan (Debutant)

Star Cast :

Kamal Hasan, Mohan Lal, Lakshmi, Ganesh Venkatram, Anuja Iyer another cop and few others...

Story Line :

Remake of 'A Wednesday' movie from Hindi. Deeply hurt Indian protagonist, neatly planning and executing the murder of four international terrorists.

Story :

With lot of expectation we entered the theater and we came out as somewhat satisfied. Kamal just starts the movie with a simple call to the commissioner of Chennai City (Mohan Lal). He explains about his work on planting bomb at different spots in the city. So the department is on high alert. As home Secretary, Lakshmi appears and she performed really well. Since she gives power to take all actions in the issue to Mohan Lal.

After that, Kamal Hasan demands the release of four terrorists who involved in major bombing activities in India. Since he placed bomb in major places in the city, Mohan Lal abides to his demand. Then comes the two cops, who are the favorites of Mohan Lal. They are appointed to escort the terrorists to a safe place as mentioned by Kamal Hasan. In the mean time, Kamal leaks this news to press so that he can watch the police activities through them. There comes the smoking reported Natasha (Anuja Iyer). The two cops, Aarif and Sethu escorts the terrorists to the place mentioned by kamal and to their surprise, kamal designed a death bed for the terrorists. so the guy who threatened the government is not a terrorist and he is just a Common man who is deeply hurt by the terrorist activities. As a result of this operation, Mohan Lal gets suspended and the story ends as it was in Hindi.


Comments :

*Kamal missed a lot in this movie. He didnt stand upto Naseerudin shah.
*There could have been some little changes here and there which more people would have expected.
*If Kamal is not doing simple changes in a remake film, how can we expect it from some third grade actors.
* Music by shruthi Hasan is really different. People would guess, a hot, fast, thrilling scene is gona come, with the music itself. Here she played mild music and travelled along with the movie and didnt guide audience. It is really good on her part.

+ Points :

* Mohan Lal with casual acting and powerful dialogues
* Lakshmi countering Mohan Lal stood apart
* Aarif Khan , a cop with extra smartness and bright face and acting
* Kamal Hasan at his best in the Story telling. Explaining Mohan Lal about a horrible incident
* IIT drop out guy, who comes for tracing the call

- Points :

* People hate photo copy movies
* Kamal underplayed

Rating :

6/10