{"id":6482,"date":"2010-04-24T10:29:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T02:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=6482"},"modified":"2010-04-24T10:29:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T02:29:09","slug":"paiya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/movies\/2010\/04\/24\/paiya\/","title":{"rendered":"Paiya"},"content":{"rendered":"

WARNING: spoilers ahead!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Watched Paiya yesterday. Was a draggy movie with ridiculous fight scenes. I wonder if the quality of pipes in India is that bad because getting whacked few times with metal pipes also still can fight strongly. And what’s with twisting people’s neck all the time? Linguswamy need to come up with better stuff.<\/p>\n

Karthi is trying hard to act. All his actions reminds us of Surya, Barath, or even Vijay. Worse still it just brings back memories of Paruthi Veeran or Ayirathil Oruvan. Just the setting is different.<\/p>\n

Tamannah had to look pretty, and she did \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The story is about I guy Shiva (Karthi) who is jobless because he botches the interviews one way or another. His friends try to help him get a job. Along the way to an interview, he sees Charulatha (Tamannah) – love at first sight. \u00a0Oh yeah, this happens in Bangalore.<\/p>\n

By coincidence, he ends up becoming driver for Charu and her uncle who are heading to Madras. Along the way, Charu asks Shiva to ditch the uncle, and escapes in the car with Shiva. The rest of the story is about Shiva, Charu, and the Mitsubishi Lancer. Sigh!<\/p>\n

You get the typical story – girl is being forced to marry someone, so she flees to her grandma’s place; guy secretly in love with the girl he is helping out, guy has some previous problem with gangsters.<\/p>\n

To cut the story short, Shiva manages to bring Charu to Bombay where her relatives live. Unfortunately, she is not so welcomed there. she leaves the house and meets (again) with Shiva. Both sets of bad guys (remember, some bad guys are looking to settle score with our hero, while the girl’s side are still searching for her) converge and Shiva has the simple job of bashing up about 40 people.<\/p>\n

Story ends when Shiva’s friends spill the beans on his secret love, and Charu\u00a0reciprocates.<\/p>\n

Direction: Standard story with some nice scenery settings. Director dragged the movie, could have saved about 10-20 minutes. <\/p>\n

Story: Predictable, drags around. Typical boy loves girl-with-a-problem story. <\/p>\n

Acting: Tamannah acted well (but I still like her in Kaloori). Karthi seriously need to improve on his acting. Everyone else did OK.<\/p>\n

Songs: This is where to movie tops. Super songs by Yuvan Shankar Raja – Thuli Thuli Mazhaiyaai, Poongatre Poongatre, Adada Mazhaida, Suthuthe Suthuthe Bhoomi, and my favorite: En Kadhal Solla.<\/p>\n

Conclusion: Watch this for Tamannah or for the songs.<\/p>\n

Cast: Karthi Sivakumar, Tamannah Bhatia, Milind Soman, etc.<\/p>\n

Genre: Romance, Action.<\/p>\n

Acting : 5\/10<\/p>\n

Story : 5\/10<\/p>\n

Special Effects: 6\/10<\/p>\n

Cinematography: 6\/10<\/p>\n

Overall Oomphness: 5\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WARNING: spoilers ahead! Watched Paiya yesterday. Was a draggy movie with ridiculous fight scenes. I wonder if the quality of pipes in India is that bad because getting whacked few times with metal pipes also still can fight strongly. And what’s with twisting people’s neck all the time? Linguswamy need to come up with better […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}