Tamil Valga !

Voting.Feminism.Education.Patriotism.

Rapping.BeatBoxing.Ciphering.Bboying .

Can't connect the dots? That’s only because you missed HIP HOP TAMIZHA,the most exciting,energy-skyrocketing ,awe-inspiring concert to have ever happened in the history of MIT since Karthick 3 years back.

Adhi, the man behind the birth of Hiphop Tamizha with his talented band literally set the stage on fire with their overwhelming introduction as to what hip hop was all about.

Hiphop is not just long Tshirts,baggy pants and saying Yo-Yo , he told the crowd.

Why Hiphop Tamizha? We got the answer to that when we got a lecture on how the dudes go “Wassup Bro/Dude/Homey” and the girls go “Hey you know what ya ….”.
 Quit the act and speak in Tamil,he says.

“Ennaku konjam konjam than Tamil theriyum ,Tamil theriyum” –  He made the crowd repeat this a zillion times to stress how silly leave alone plain desperate it looks when youngsters do the “I know only English act”

They had just 10 minutes to carry out their entire sound check completed, yet not a single complaint, not the slightest fuss. Dressed in black with red shoes to die for ,  Adhi made each and every person in the OAT fall in love with him that day. Not for his hip-hop antics, not for his adorable looks but for what he believed in. From voting to education to women empowerment, the songs weren’t about some long lost love but issues of society.

While he stressed on the value of 99% women on one side, he sent the the reputation of the remaining 1 % down the drain with the hit song of the day “Club illa ,mubbula…. Ladies ellarokom vannakamanga”

“MIT , make some noiseeeeee….” Bharadwaj Balaji aka Beat Box Machine BBB ,India’s first harmonica beatboxer enthralled the audience with drums,harmonics and what not flying out of his mouth. “Boom jhak chak chak boom chakk chakk boom”  he went  and the crowd went crazy. Siraj did the vocals , Suzanne wowed us with her strong attractive voice and the Bboyers led by Bboy Bravo introduced us to the authentic breakdancing .

Cant forget the campus’ own boy Fenny Daniel , a first year student who must have pinched himself for he was standing on stage with the Hip Hop Tamizha group,performing with them. They had picked him up for his extraordinary violin playing skills.And boy was he in heaven !

Remember that lone teacher that makes class both informative as well as fun? Well, Adhi just donned that role. No matter who he introduced , no matter what issue he highlighted ,no matter how he insulted/praised the girls, in the end the spotlight was only reserved for Adhi.

Here’s to the band that prefers to remain Underground !

Rajeev Masand gave this a rating of 3/5.

IMDB gave it a 7.2/10.

Cast: Daniel Radcliffe 
(and some other substantial yet unrecognisable actors)

Genre: Horror

4 Good reasons to watch WIB at the theatres.

Woman In Black revolves around one and only one thing – A woman in black. The story starts off with the main protagonist Arthur Cliffe( Daniel Radcliffe) a lawyer cum widower cum father of a 4 year old kid. Financially stretched, Arthur has to settle Eel Marsh House , land of a recently deceased client Alice Drablow or risk losing his job. Worried about the future of his son and unable to forget his dead wife, he sets off to complete the job, but as obvious, all is not well in horror town. Little kids die accidently, locals eye him with disdain, ghostly child apparitions jump out of the screen just as the suspense builds and the woman in black says hello to Arthur every 15 minutes. He stays over at the estate, reads letters and sees things that make him realise that there could be a connection between the ghost children and the deaths of local kids in the village.  Desperate to finish his job, he finds help in Sam Daily (Hinds) and his unstable, possessed wife, who warns him to stay away from the haunted estate or risk losing his son. 

Radcliffe in his first post-Potter adult role movie makes a desperate attempt at playing the role of a father with credible stubble. In the beginning ,his audacity at pursuing “the woman in black” and countless other ghostly apparitions is praise-worthy but after a while he appears emotionless .However the faultlessly furnished set piece of Eel Marsh House settles as a perfect score for a haunted house. With its superbly captured rocking chair, thumping noises, oddly tuned toys and sinister shadows, the house steals the spotlight from Radcliffe with a life of its own. This doesn’t suffice to retain the audience attention. What starts off in a seat-gripping, popcorn dropping way goes downhill as every feeble attempt to scare evokes only howls of laughter.

The final twist seals the fate of this horror flick. Take an extra-long intermission but don’t miss the closing scene.

Whether it got rounds of applause for the completely unexpected yet unnecessary twist or because the movie was over is anybody’s guess.

My verdict: Never believe a review. Go watch it for yourself.