VV @ Totem Lake

When my friend Gowtham graciously asked me whether I’d be interested in joining him for Vettaiyadu Vilayadu, I replied him in affirmative with no second thought. US la vanthu Tamilzh padam and also Kamal(ini) starer:)… pakkama irukka mudiyuma. So Tickets were booked for September 9th 3:30 show at Totem Lake Cinemas (Its near Bellevue). I reached theatre around 3:20, joined Gowtham who was waiting there only to realize the person who is having the ticket is not in yet. And at last Gowtham’s friend came and out of no choice we occupied the leftover seats in the first row of the cinema hall. I can only call it a hall to theatre as it was too small and was not even the size of mini udhayam.

Coming to the movie… VV being a consecutive cop based movie by Director Gowtham, It invariably makes people to compare VV against Kakka Kakka though the story of these two movies stays far apart. KK is about encounters and stuff while VV is a thriller, Surya did a great Job with his body language and mannerism in KK, kamal also did well but it wasn’t as impressive as Surya. Kamal was always looking BIG on the screen rather than looking fit for the cop role. In my opinion, the screenplay was also not that great, movie wasn’t free flowing, the way he slips near a tree and finds the first corpse absolutely sounded cinematic. And the biggest comedy was Kamal boasting himself to the NewYork police with a dialogue “Raghavan Instinct”, it was like “enna kodumai saravanan”. Identifying the culprit at interval and dragging the movie for one and half hours more was also too much, and I donno what for reason Kamalini is there in the movie. Coming to the good part I liked all the songs, Manjal Veyyil in particular, Hariharan has done a splendid job with his voice. On the Concluding lines VV is ok Kinda movie and I would rate 6/10.
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US Travel

Hyderabad -> Frankfurt -> Portland -> Seattle intha route la thaan Vetti Payyan went to America. When I started from Hyderabad I was a little worried as I was traveling alone, some intuition was telling me that I’m going to goof up somewhere on my way, but to my surprise in both Frankfurt and Portland I got to my connecting flights at ease and I safely reached seattle. In all 24 hours of travel, I hardly slept for five to six hours. It was around 3 pm on 10th August 2006 (PCT) by then, since I did not have any close friends or someone to pick me up, I took a cab myself from seattle airport and headed to Redmond.

Inspite of a reception or the like, the way I have to get the keys and occupy my apartment were rather unusual, so a couple of lines about it. I was given the directions to a key room which is at a place called Timberlawn apartments and a pin number to open the key room. My apartment keys were placed in that key room, so after taking keys from there I got to my apartment #V1065 @ the Trails of Redmond apartment complex. A long and tiring journey comes to an end and Vetti Payyan reclining for a deep slumber.

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