2.0: In Double Jeopardy!

A family of fans returned disappointed; I brood on the why.

As a family, we have been fans of Rajni, Shankar, Rahman from forever. Forget about their earlier movies, we have lost count of the number of times we have repeat enjoyed Robot, in Tamil & Hindi. So much so, we fondly call our silver grey, electric car, Reva – Chitti.

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Chekka Chivantha Vaanam: Red Hot!

A fanboy’s defence of this very different Mani Ratnam movie.

Prologue

As a Tamil boy who grew up in Delhi, my first experience of Mani Ratnam was Nayagan in 1987, which I saw in Bangalore while doing engineering (caught up with Mouna Ragam later). If that hadn’t blown me away enough, the next year at a cousin’s place in Madras, he played me the ‘Raja’ song from Agni Natchatiram on his home theatre & we couldn’t repeat watch it enough! I remember being delighted when that song blared from the rooms of North Indian hostel mates; the movie itself went on to become the cult ‘youth Tamil film’ of that time.

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