7/G Rainbow Colony & Monty Python

With amma away in Delhi, it was a pretty lonely weekend. So on saturday evening went with some ex-colleagues to Mayajaal Multiplex on East Coast Road for the night show of tamil movie "7/G Rainbow Colony". Just into his third movie, Selvaraghavan seems to know the pulse of the tamil audience and has delivered a hat trick.

The music is haunting , but then i still feel his second movie had more soul haunting music by Yuvan. The story was tight and the screen play was tighter. I guess everyone would identify with the roles portrayed, more so the youngsters of these days - the confused generation in my terminology. The story tracks a typical "local" fella chasing a sophisticated girl in the same colony and then how he convinces her to ultimately reciprocate his love post-intermission. But then, just like the girls of these days, she is caught between him and her parents, rather between him and her fiance (the person engaged to her under pressure from her parents). The story takes a queer turn after that and she dies in a road accident - typical ending of a Selvaraghavan movie.

7G Rainbow Colony
Originally uploaded by theiyer.

Though I do not quite agree with the ending which was pretty cinematic , with the protagonist turning schizophrenic after her death. Guess the director could have thought of something different.

But guess there was one statement by the protagonist which probably describes the current scenario in Chennai - "It is very difficult to find a good looking babe these days, and if you do fine one, they are already booked". The ultimate truth.

After the show, reached home on saturday night at around 1. That was quite fast considering the drive was around 16 kms. But then zipped back in my limo at around 100 kmph (amma, hope you dont read this)

But the weekend entertainment was not to end on sat night. Spent the Sunday lazing around and making a late lunch at home (thanks to the ready to eat MTR stuff). Then went on the regular sunday evening jaunt to Landmark to browse through books.

From there headed straight to Sivagami Pethachi auditorium for one of Evam's plays - "Python....Hyssssteria"....based on the Brit character Monty Python....The play was actually a collage of numerous humorous and zany incidents which was truly rip roaring...crazy situations that can never happen in life...

Guess the sunday did end in a great manner...