SUCH Film Club

PseudoIntellectual wrote:Friends,

By popular demand we are starting SUCH film club. Every Wednesday I will post a film by next Tuesday we can watch and discuss it. I will be picking films from all over the world. I want to start with with a Telugu film(for obvious reasons ).

This week's film is a Telugu film called "Vanaja". This film was directed by Rajnesh Domalapalli. This film has won many awards.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0832971/

Links are down below:

http://movies.rangu.com/watch-vanaja-telugu-movie-online

charvaka wrote:It's a good movie -- well worth watching.

charvaka wrote:Who is jeevi?

Richard Hed wrote:

charvaka wrote:Who is jeevi?

This guy: http://idlebrain.com/

Tracy Whitney wrote:

PseudoIntellectual wrote:Friends,

By popular demand we are starting SUCH film club. Every Wednesday I will post a film by next Tuesday we can watch and discuss it. I will be picking films from all over the world. I want to start with with a Telugu film(for obvious reasons ).

This week's film is a Telugu film called "Vanaja". This film was directed by Rajnesh Domalapalli. This film has won many awards.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0832971/

Links are down below:

http://movies.rangu.com/watch-vanaja-telugu-movie-online

For husband and kids, the sudden sound of a madrassi song, or some CM wasn't enough, now that they will see me watch a telugu film, I think they will suspect something is seriously seriously wrong with me.

But will watch this over the weekend. Used to watch the random regional movies on tv before, even w/o the subtitles, and would still watch the WHOLE movie... so this gotta be better than that.

PseudoIntellectual wrote:

Tracy Whitney wrote:

PseudoIntellectual wrote:Friends,

By popular demand we are starting SUCH film club. Every Wednesday I will post a film by next Tuesday we can watch and discuss it. I will be picking films from all over the world. I want to start with with a Telugu film(for obvious reasons ).

This week's film is a Telugu film called "Vanaja". This film was directed by Rajnesh Domalapalli. This film has won many awards.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0832971/

Links are down below:

http://movies.rangu.com/watch-vanaja-telugu-movie-online

For husband and kids, the sudden sound of a madrassi song, or some CM wasn't enough, now that they will see me watch a telugu film, I think they will suspect something is seriously seriously wrong with me.

But will watch this over the weekend. Used to watch the random regional movies on tv before, even w/o the subtitles, and would still watch the WHOLE movie... so this gotta be better than that.

What do you mean by Madrassi song? A song only people from Madras know(not even Tamils who are not Madras dont know)?

You dont have to watch the film, if you dont want to.

Also, As I said I will be posting films from all over the world. I am only starting with a Telugu film.

PseudoIntellectual wrote:

Richard Hed wrote:

charvaka wrote:Who is jeevi?

This guy: http://idlebrain.com/

A jIvi Jeevi is unintentionally funny. He badly needs an editor.

PseudoIntellectual wrote:Friends,

By popular demand we are starting SUCH film club. Every Wednesday I will post a film by next Tuesday we can watch and discuss it. I will be picking films from all over the world. I want to start with with a Telugu film(for obvious reasons ).

This week's film is a Telugu film called "Vanaja". This film was directed by Rajnesh Domalapalli. This film has won many awards.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0832971/

Links are down below:

http://movies.rangu.com/watch-vanaja-telugu-movie-online

kinnera wrote:Nooo. Watched this movie sometime ago with great expectations. Was disappointed. Can't watch it again to write my negative feedback abt it. I don't think it was even released in india. All the awards it won were from the westerners. They love to give awards to books or movies which depict india's class, caste, racial differences. Arvind adiga's book, white tiger is another starking example (yuck!). Far from reality. What the westerners see in those movies and what they read in such books is what they think how india is and they love it.



I'm disappointed with this choice, pi. 'Grahanam' would've been a better choice. It won many awards too and received critical acclaim, indian of course, not by some westerners with some half-baked ideas abt india. A very well made movie.

blabberwock wrote:I intend to bash this movie too.

kinnera wrote:

blabberwock wrote:I intend to bash this movie too.

Thanks for the support, bw

PseudoIntellectual wrote:Friends,

By popular demand we are starting SUCH film club. Every Wednesday I will post a film by next Tuesday we can watch and discuss it. I will be picking films from all over the world. I want to start with with a Telugu film(for obvious reasons ).

This week's film is a Telugu film called "Vanaja". This film was directed by Rajnesh Domalapalli. This film has won many awards.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0832971/

Links are down below:

http://movies.rangu.com/watch-vanaja-telugu-movie-online

kinnera wrote:

blabberwock wrote:

naa meeda adhara padavachu eppudaina.

blabberwock wrote:

kinnera wrote:

blabberwock wrote:

naa meeda adhara padavachu eppudaina.

What you said there in Telugu can convey two very different meanings. It all depends on the swaram and sthaayi behind the sentence when vocalized:-

One meaning is ------------ you can always depend on my support

Another meaning is -------- you can depend on me once in a while

blabberwock wrote:[

indophile wrote:
If you have "always" in mind, then "meeru naa meeda ellappudoo adhaarapadapacchu" leaves no doubt.

However, if the intent is to be mischevous, then "meeru naa meeda eppudaina aadhaara padavacchu" works fine.

blabberwock wrote:

indophile wrote:
If you have "always" in mind, then "meeru naa meeda ellappudoo adhaarapadapacchu" leaves no doubt.

However, if the intent is to be mischevous, then "meeru naa meeda eppudaina aadhaara padavacchu" works fine.

Indo,

Nannu evaroi nerajANa annaru - ante artham emiti?

BW

indophile wrote:

blabberwock wrote:

indophile wrote:
If you have "always" in mind, then "meeru naa meeda ellappudoo adhaarapadapacchu" leaves no doubt.

However, if the intent is to be mischevous, then "meeru naa meeda eppudaina aadhaara padavacchu" works fine.

Indo,

Nannu evaroi nerajANa annaru - ante artham emiti?

BW

nerajANa is nera+jANa. "nera" (variation is neravu) means full(ly), great, pleasing (you may have heard of "neravu" in carnatic music where a performer picks a line in the song and expands on it showing various shades of the raga, i.e., "fully" developing the music in the line or phrase; I think they call it "nervaal" in Tamil). Also in the sahityam of many carnatic compositions you come across "nera-nammiti" (I fully believe in you). Also, "nera" with the "pleasing" meaning is used in compound words "nemmOmu" (nera+mOmu = beautiful face with fullnes of expression), "nemmOvi" (nera+mOvi = beautiful full lips), nennaDumu (nera+naDumu = nice waist, here "nera" takes on the "slender" meaning because for a waist slender is pleasing).

As for "jANa" it means - clever, smart, suavely flirting, quick retorting, quick rejoinder delivering woman - basically one who floors you in a pleasing way with her smarts.

Thus "nerajANa" means one who is a fully developed jANa. Watchout!

This is the best I could do:

blabberwock wrote:

indophile wrote:

blabberwock wrote:

indophile wrote:
If you have "always" in mind, then "meeru naa meeda ellappudoo adhaarapadapacchu" leaves no doubt.

However, if the intent is to be mischevous, then "meeru naa meeda eppudaina aadhaara padavacchu" works fine.

Indo,

Nannu evaroi nerajANa annaru - ante artham emiti?

BW

nerajANa is nera+jANa. "nera" (variation is neravu) means full(ly), great, pleasing (you may have heard of "neravu" in carnatic music where a performer picks a line in the song and expands on it showing various shades of the raga, i.e., "fully" developing the music in the line or phrase; I think they call it "nervaal" in Tamil). Also in the sahityam of many carnatic compositions you come across "nera-nammiti" (I fully believe in you). Also, "nera" with the "pleasing" meaning is used in compound words "nemmOmu" (nera+mOmu = beautiful face with fullnes of expression), "nemmOvi" (nera+mOvi = beautiful full lips), nennaDumu (nera+naDumu = nice waist, here "nera" takes on the "slender" meaning because for a waist slender is pleasing).

As for "jANa" it means - clever, smart, suavely flirting, quick retorting, quick rejoinder delivering woman - basically one who floors you in a pleasing way with her smarts.

Thus "nerajANa" means one who is a fully developed jANa. Watchout!

This is the best I could do:

Wow! it means all that? Truly a power packed word, I must say. Thanks.

...and PI, you told me it meant "camphor"? Err?

indophile wrote:

blabberwock wrote:

indophile wrote:
If you have "always" in mind, then "meeru naa meeda ellappudoo adhaarapadapacchu" leaves no doubt.

However, if the intent is to be mischevous, then "meeru naa meeda eppudaina aadhaara padavacchu" works fine.

Indo,

Nannu evaroi nerajANa annaru - ante artham emiti?

BW

nerajANa is nera+jANa. "nera" (variation is neravu) means full(ly), great, pleasing (you may have heard of "neravu" in carnatic music where a performer picks a line in the song and expands on it showing various shades of the raga, i.e., "fully" developing the music in the line or phrase; I think they call it "nervaal" in Tamil). Also in the sahityam of many carnatic compositions you come across "nera-nammiti" (I fully believe in you). Also, "nera" with the "pleasing" meaning is used in compound words "nemmOmu" (nera+mOmu = beautiful face with fullnes of expression), "nemmOvi" (nera+mOvi = beautiful full lips), nennaDumu (nera+naDumu = nice waist, here "nera" takes on the "slender" meaning because for a waist slender is pleasing).

As for "jANa" it means - clever, smart, suavely flirting, quick retorting, quick rejoinder delivering woman - basically one who floors you in a pleasing way with her smarts.

Thus "nerajANa" means one who is a fully developed jANa. Watchout!

This is the best I could do:

indophile wrote:

blabberwock wrote:

indophile wrote:
If you have "always" in mind, then "meeru naa meeda ellappudoo adhaarapadapacchu" leaves no doubt.

However, if the intent is to be mischevous, then "meeru naa meeda eppudaina aadhaara padavacchu" works fine.

Indo,

Nannu evaroi nerajANa annaru - ante artham emiti?

BW

nerajANa is nera+jANa. "nera" (variation is neravu) means full(ly), great, pleasing (you may have heard of "neravu" in carnatic music where a performer picks a line in the song and expands on it showing various shades of the raga, i.e., "fully" developing the music in the line or phrase; I think they call it "nervaal" in Tamil). Also in the sahityam of many carnatic compositions you come across "nera-nammiti" (I fully believe in you). Also, "nera" with the "pleasing" meaning is used in compound words "nemmOmu" (nera+mOmu = beautiful face with fullnes of expression), "nemmOvi" (nera+mOvi = beautiful full lips), nennaDumu (nera+naDumu = nice waist, here "nera" takes on the "slender" meaning because for a waist slender is pleasing).

As for "jANa" it means - clever, smart, suavely flirting, quick retorting, quick rejoinder delivering woman - basically one who floors you in a pleasing way with her smarts.

Thus "nerajANa" means one who is a fully developed jANa. Watchout!

This is the best I could do:

truthbetold wrote:

indophile wrote:

blabberwock wrote:

indophile wrote:
If you have "always" in mind, then "meeru naa meeda ellappudoo adhaarapadapacchu" leaves no doubt.

However, if the intent is to be mischevous, then "meeru naa meeda eppudaina aadhaara padavacchu" works fine.

Indo,

Nannu evaroi nerajANa annaru - ante artham emiti?

BW

nerajANa is nera+jANa. "nera" (variation is neravu) means full(ly), great, pleasing (you may have heard of "neravu" in carnatic music where a performer picks a line in the song and expands on it showing various shades of the raga, i.e., "fully" developing the music in the line or phrase; I think they call it "nervaal" in Tamil). Also in the sahityam of many carnatic compositions you come across "nera-nammiti" (I fully believe in you). Also, "nera" with the "pleasing" meaning is used in compound words "nemmOmu" (nera+mOmu = beautiful face with fullnes of expression), "nemmOvi" (nera+mOvi = beautiful full lips), nennaDumu (nera+naDumu = nice waist, here "nera" takes on the "slender" meaning because for a waist slender is pleasing).

As for "jANa" it means - clever, smart, suavely flirting, quick retorting, quick rejoinder delivering woman - basically one who floors you in a pleasing way with her smarts.

Thus "nerajANa" means one who is a fully developed jANa. Watchout!

This is the best I could do:

In common usage "nerajana" means an arrogant show off. Correct me if it is wrong.

blabberwock wrote:In common usage "nerajana" means an arrogant show off. Correct me if it is wrong.

indophile wrote:The only negative meaning I am aware of is - flirtatious clever foxy woman. Generally in idiomatic usage they say - Nellore nerajana. For some reason, they pick on Nellore girls for being foxy and flirtatious, and smart in woman-man interactions.

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

indophile wrote:The only negative meaning I am aware of is - flirtatious clever foxy woman. Generally in idiomatic usage they say - Nellore nerajana. For some reason, they pick on Nellore girls for being foxy and flirtatious, and smart in woman-man interactions.

Yeah, this sounds more like what the speaker had in mind.

charvaka wrote:This film was a good effort by a novice director, who made it to fulfill his film school thesis requirement. I have seen a few film school movies made by MFA students; this one is way better than any of them. The girl who played the lead role as Vanaja did a fantastic job. The movie could have been a lot tighter, and there were a few places where the story didn't quite gel. They didn't quite figure out what they were portraying the mother of the guy as. There was a certain pithiness to the mahishAsuramardini scene that is rare to see on screen, and kudos to the actress and director for getting that.

indophile wrote: The only negative meaning I am aware of is - flirtatious clever foxy woman.