Putham Pudhu Kalai, Streaming on Amazon

An anthology of five shorts

The acting is consistently top notch across all the five stories.. M.S. Bhaskar is the first amongst equals. 

For me Avalum Nanaum, Gautham Vasudev Menon followed  by Coffee Anyone stood out.

M.S. Bhaskar kicks in so many of those small and subtle variations in his body language. It just an education watching him.

The only problem I had with Coffee Anyone was that the concept was tweaked  from Terrorist and hence the lack of originality.

Suhasini was terrific just a notch below M.S. Bhaskar.

There are whole lot of acting performances to rave about.

I just thought that there was a possible lack of depth in all these stories.

Sillu Karuppatti last year had greater depth and more affecting.

Over a period of time, Anthology's  will become popular. It should have a market share like the series

But thanks to Amazon, we have a reasonably good anthology to watch.

Which one did you like?

The Shining, streaming on Netflix.

The pleasures of brilliant story telling

Not a great fan of horror movies, it took me all these years to finally catch up with Shining.

The absolute simplicity and the absence of clutter made the movie so much more powerful.

The shots are beautiful. The camera is so graceful, I thought would have been ideal for a different genre.  The camera takes the viewer to the tour of the hotel, introducing characters one by one, first sowing the seeds of intrigue, mystery, a sense of trepidation, followed by unadulterated horror.

I allowed myself to be teased and tantalized.

The interactions between characters are special. The acting top notch and the casting even better. Jack Nicholson's wife's face egg shaped with eyes almost popping out. The hair styling of the lady added to her quizzical look. Jack Nicholson's son, an amalgam of innocence and intelligence. 

Stanley Kubrick, is certainly one of god's greatest gifts to cinema.

I was a bit disappointed with the climax though.

Jack NIcholson was terrific and for some reason I could not help reimagining The Shining with Sivaji Ganesan  ( in his prime) as the lead,. A similar thought occurred when I saw Robert De Niro in Once Upon a time in America. Just brings back the sadness of how one of the greatest actors never got the diverse roles he deserved.

If you have not watched it, make sure you do this weekend.

The # KKR Think Tank

Mavi and nagarkotti, were matters of faith.

KKR smashed Varun Chakravarthy for 25 runs in his first over that he ever bowled and King XI in the IPL 2019 edition and he did not bowl him after those 3 overs of that match..

To pick up the very man they smashed at half the price and recognize his talent. It requires very special eyes!!

That's  some interesting thinking, KKR. Well done!! All the best