Finally a FDFS!!!
Yippiee.. I have finally conquered an unconquered territory. First Day First Show of none other than the ONLY SuperStar, Rajini-starrer. And that too for a magnum opus like "Sivaji". What a milestone!!!! ;-)
Right from the day, the coup d'etat was announced by AVM studios, I wanted to watch this movie. Then, was in India and knew I wouldnt do a FDFS if I were to be in bangalore. Well its been a long time of 2 odd years and things did change for the betterment.
Last month when my roomie mentioned about advanced booking, I was taken by surprise and anger. Anger, as in the movie release had been postponing from the days of Pongal, 2007. But as our thalaivara says "kanna, naa lateaa vandaa kooda latest aaya varuvae", he has arrived with global red carpet welcome!!!
As I got to know that my roomie had bought my ticket for the first showing, I was skeptical till the end, of making it. The showing was at 8pm. And these days that is office hours. All's well that ends well. I got to enjoy the excitement of first showing right from standing in the queue to after-movie slogans.
Since we knew that the mass would be huge, we decided to attack the theatre atleast an hour before. When I say "WE", it was a gang of 15+. Of which, I knew only 2 personally before. Well, it did not take much time to mingle with each other. When we did reach the theatre, "clever" juntaa was already in. One more notable thing, I have never been part of Melbourne's Friday evening crowd. Believe me, just walking about 5-10 mins in the melbourne city streets, made me guess why my aussie colleagues leave early on friday.
As the clock started tickling towards D-hour, the decibel level outside the movie-hall increased. The slogans of "thalaivara Valzghae", "ulagattakkae Oruvanae SuperStar, rajini" etc., I knew it was only the trailer. Well, they call it "thalaivara music".
The crowd was let into the theatre after a proper security check(NO alcohols), we could only manage the front seats as the theatre wasnt that HUGE and the "clever" people had their say.
"Thalaivara Music" continued as the lights dimmed and the reels started rolling. After few rounds of advertisements and trailers, as the silverscreen showcased the "Sivaji" certificate from Censor board, the entire theatre erupts. The decibel level continues to raise as the screen showcases the lead actors name in HIS TRADEMARK style.
Just when its done, there is a dumb silence as the movie reel starts its first journey towards the screen. As they say, there is always a lull before the storm. The tempest was expected sooner than later. The whole theatre is up on its toes as thalaivar surfaces. I cannot listen anything but for the long long whistles, shouts and the crys. Yep, I was also part of it. Wonder, if I have ever screamed so much in my life till now, the amount I did in those 3 hours. Still feeling my vocal chords.
The movie continues in its own pace, but the theatre decibel level never grounds to level zero. Every frame of HIS, is punctuated with fanaticism to the core. I was only enjoying being part of the feast.
Just when I could properly reciprocate to tamil words, a bunch of people are queueing on the periphery of the theatre interiors. Yep, you guessed it right, "thalaivara train". My adjoining juntaa pulled me to be one of the compartment and I obliged. The train started moving on the rail-less route. Believe me, the train did have female bogies. Just when it had moved for a couple of minutes, there was no further movement. "Thalaivara train" was in state of deadlock. One of the smart bogies derailed into the theatre midway aisle breaking the deadlock state and the feast continued. All this, during the movie-screening.
As the train dispersed after few minutes, there was an interval during which juntaa enjoyed movie-watching. Comical scenes were laughed out, punch-dialogues were celebrated, overall it came to a state of "movie-watching".
This state continued till Intermission, as there was not much of Rajini magic. After Intermission, the celebreation levels reached its crescendo. There were many shots were Rajni was abused/beaten up/squashed and he even "dies". If it was any other movies, juntaa would keep mum till the lead took charge. But here, it was a different story altogether. Just a few snippets of overheard hues and crys :
*translated to english, as my tamil comprehension is poor*
"Dog..you will not go out of Tamilnadu if you come there"
"Will you have hands tomorrow??"
"Thalaivara HIT him back.. we cannot see you being beaten up"
And when thalai "dies" - "thalai take my life... come back to life"
Huhh.. way to much fanaticism. Moreso, in a place away from HIS forte. Have seen "Stalin" with chiranjeevi-frenzy fans, but this was truly miles apart.
I am just not able to articulate completely my fantastic experience here. After the movie ended, I had missed watching the movie as a result of being part of the phenomenon. So pakku decides to watch the movie again.
When you have friends network- which boasts of the distributor(for australia) himself, tickets for saturday noon show was not a dream anymore.
Pakku shall try to dissect "Sivaji" next up after the second showing..
Right from the day, the coup d'etat was announced by AVM studios, I wanted to watch this movie. Then, was in India and knew I wouldnt do a FDFS if I were to be in bangalore. Well its been a long time of 2 odd years and things did change for the betterment.
Last month when my roomie mentioned about advanced booking, I was taken by surprise and anger. Anger, as in the movie release had been postponing from the days of Pongal, 2007. But as our thalaivara says "kanna, naa lateaa vandaa kooda latest aaya varuvae", he has arrived with global red carpet welcome!!!
As I got to know that my roomie had bought my ticket for the first showing, I was skeptical till the end, of making it. The showing was at 8pm. And these days that is office hours. All's well that ends well. I got to enjoy the excitement of first showing right from standing in the queue to after-movie slogans.
Since we knew that the mass would be huge, we decided to attack the theatre atleast an hour before. When I say "WE", it was a gang of 15+. Of which, I knew only 2 personally before. Well, it did not take much time to mingle with each other. When we did reach the theatre, "clever" juntaa was already in. One more notable thing, I have never been part of Melbourne's Friday evening crowd. Believe me, just walking about 5-10 mins in the melbourne city streets, made me guess why my aussie colleagues leave early on friday.
As the clock started tickling towards D-hour, the decibel level outside the movie-hall increased. The slogans of "thalaivara Valzghae", "ulagattakkae Oruvanae SuperStar, rajini" etc., I knew it was only the trailer. Well, they call it "thalaivara music".
The crowd was let into the theatre after a proper security check(NO alcohols), we could only manage the front seats as the theatre wasnt that HUGE and the "clever" people had their say.
"Thalaivara Music" continued as the lights dimmed and the reels started rolling. After few rounds of advertisements and trailers, as the silverscreen showcased the "Sivaji" certificate from Censor board, the entire theatre erupts. The decibel level continues to raise as the screen showcases the lead actors name in HIS TRADEMARK style.
Just when its done, there is a dumb silence as the movie reel starts its first journey towards the screen. As they say, there is always a lull before the storm. The tempest was expected sooner than later. The whole theatre is up on its toes as thalaivar surfaces. I cannot listen anything but for the long long whistles, shouts and the crys. Yep, I was also part of it. Wonder, if I have ever screamed so much in my life till now, the amount I did in those 3 hours. Still feeling my vocal chords.
The movie continues in its own pace, but the theatre decibel level never grounds to level zero. Every frame of HIS, is punctuated with fanaticism to the core. I was only enjoying being part of the feast.
Just when I could properly reciprocate to tamil words, a bunch of people are queueing on the periphery of the theatre interiors. Yep, you guessed it right, "thalaivara train". My adjoining juntaa pulled me to be one of the compartment and I obliged. The train started moving on the rail-less route. Believe me, the train did have female bogies. Just when it had moved for a couple of minutes, there was no further movement. "Thalaivara train" was in state of deadlock. One of the smart bogies derailed into the theatre midway aisle breaking the deadlock state and the feast continued. All this, during the movie-screening.
As the train dispersed after few minutes, there was an interval during which juntaa enjoyed movie-watching. Comical scenes were laughed out, punch-dialogues were celebrated, overall it came to a state of "movie-watching".
This state continued till Intermission, as there was not much of Rajini magic. After Intermission, the celebreation levels reached its crescendo. There were many shots were Rajni was abused/beaten up/squashed and he even "dies". If it was any other movies, juntaa would keep mum till the lead took charge. But here, it was a different story altogether. Just a few snippets of overheard hues and crys :
*translated to english, as my tamil comprehension is poor*
"Dog..you will not go out of Tamilnadu if you come there"
"Will you have hands tomorrow??"
"Thalaivara HIT him back.. we cannot see you being beaten up"
And when thalai "dies" - "thalai take my life... come back to life"
Huhh.. way to much fanaticism. Moreso, in a place away from HIS forte. Have seen "Stalin" with chiranjeevi-frenzy fans, but this was truly miles apart.
I am just not able to articulate completely my fantastic experience here. After the movie ended, I had missed watching the movie as a result of being part of the phenomenon. So pakku decides to watch the movie again.
When you have friends network- which boasts of the distributor(for australia) himself, tickets for saturday noon show was not a dream anymore.
Pakku shall try to dissect "Sivaji" next up after the second showing..
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