1. Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu
2. Pattiyal
3. Imsai Arasan 23am Pulikesi
4. Veyil
5. Pudhupettai
6. Chithiram Pesuthadi
7. 'E'
8. Thiruttu Payale
It was an interesting year in the cinema industry. The year started with the Ajith - Vijay balance shifting the other way. Vijay went down and stayed down with no subsequent releases with his first flop in years, Athi. Ajith's meteoric rise after years of commercial failures came with Paramasivan and Thirupathi, two thoroughly bad movies that had masala, decent songs, and a newly slimmed down Ajith. He dropped out of the Naan Kadavul project for which he had originally slimmed down, seeing that it seems to be taking years to even start the movie. Director Bala has now expressed confidence that Arya is the new lead. Not sure when the confidence is going to start turning into celluloid.
Some of the films that I was looking forward to at the end of last year have turned out well, Vettaiyadu and Pattiyal making the top of my list. Sillunu Oru Kadhal was a dissappointment. It had good parts, but the flash back on which the plot pivots is terribly weak, as is Bhoomika Chawla's character, so the movie and its conclusion fail to satisfy. No idea what has happened to "the untitled Jeeva movie that will be starring Arya" which I had said I was looking forward to when I blogged at the end of 2005. The next Jeeva film seems to be Unnale Unnale, retitled from the previous July Kaatril. The audio was released recently, more on that later. Sivaji and Dhasavatharam still in production. Puli seems to have been dropped.
Upcoming movies I am looking forward to this year : once again, Shankar's Sivaji and K.S. Ravikumar/Kamal's Dasavatharam. Vishnuvardan's Billa, a remake of yesteryear Rajini movie. Jeeva's Unnale Unnale. Balachander's Poi. Suyatchai MLA, if I haven't gotten the title wrong; the movie starring Jeeva.
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