SALEEM - Eternal Bullshit of the Brainless Mind

SALEEM will go into my list of films which should be watched before you die.

Its a big budget film of 23 crores as claimed by Mohan Babu and you can easily see where this huge amount of money is spent when you watch the film.I am not gonna give a plot summary or any spoilers here as there are many chances that it might bring down the amount of horrible effect on you.After a film like OKKA MOGADU one expects Y.V.S to come with a decent film but he surprises us with SALEEM.



We have Ileana as the heroine and Vishnu Manchu as hero.SALEEM is basically a semi-porn film or should is say semi-soft porn film? whatever .. this film gets a U/A certificate from our prestigious Censor board which is still a mystery to me... SALEEM gets a U/A but Magadheera gets a A certificate,looks like i got diverted from the film.. sorry... continuing with the film we see Ileana in torn stockings,translucent navel cover-ups,loose tops,etc... if you are a guy then you are bound to be mesmerized by the costumes.Now moving away from the costumes let us come to Ileana sizes (sorry its not my idea,i am good boy,idea belongs to YVS), YVS teaches the audience the art of measurements for example 'jana bethedu' etc.. and the vocabulory of measurements are conveyed to us by child artist Bharat,what a wonderful idea by YVS.

After the sizes of Ileana i have to talk about what is shown in the film... again sorry,i am a good boy,i am just writing what is there in the film.We see a lot of cleavage,thighs,back,waist and last but not the least the bellybutton,the bellybutton trademark is inherited by YVS from his guru K.Raghavendra Rao,we see bellybuttons in almost every film of YVS,the bellybutton of heroines is common but in this film he uses the ZOOM option available in his camera,he zooms for an average of 1 minute in almost every song and in some scenes.



I have told the best part of SALEEM now let us shift our focus to our hero Vishnu.Vishnu looks much better than his previous films and has decreased his weight....(23 crores a majaaka!). Our hero has some secret background which YVS doesn't wanna show in the first half but he shows us the extraordinary capabilities of our hero.Some of the extraordinary capabilities are mentioned here... Vishnu runs faster than a fired bullet to save his future father-in-law,he re-writes all the laws related to Newtons laws of gravity,he can seize all the airports of Bangkok (is he the Prime Minister of Thailand?) ... there is fight sequence in the film when he meets Mukesh Rishi's people .. who the hell composed this fight sequence?? i think even this fight sequence is idea from the expertise mind of YVS.. and why the hell will anyone take the tigers nail hanging in the neck of an ugly and untidy man?? (evari pichi vallaki anandam).

SALEEM is incomplete without its dialogues,here are some of the dialogues (may not exactly be the same..)

Ileana: Dash ..

Vishnu: Bongu Le...
i was wondering what does 'dash' mean? i know a meaning a 'bongu' .. are there any other meanings of 'Bongu' ?

Vishnu : vere vallu gun tisinaka alochistaru,adi valla MINDSET ,nenu tiyyaka munde alochista,adi na ASSET... wah wah!! what a rhyming.

Vishnu: Vallaki Gun pattukovatam telusu,naku gun to adukovatam telusu ..

Vishnu: Gun chooste love lo padipota..

Mohan Babu: Andaru Gun mata vintaru,gun veedi mata vintundi


Vishnu: Tsunami chusi miru paripotaru.... nenu dani mida adukunta... nenu TSUNAMI (don't worry he didn't change his name,its just a metaphor)

Vishnu: miru BULLET .. nenu ATOM BOMB


and repeated dialogues like...

Vishnu: isariki ila kaniddamule.

Vishnu: dummu repesta..

Mohan Babu: Boom Boom Bhulak .. (does anyone know what it means?)


YVS infuses some amount of patriotism in the film,he says that europeon culture is shit and Indian culture is wonderful,huh..what an irony!The climax is very very very unpredictable, FLASHBACK! hey...there is no flashback,the climax reminds me of 1980's and 1990's flicks where all the family members,villains,hero,heroine meet in a some defunct factory.Mohan Babu tells us some good stuff in the end about true love etc.. "All Izz Well"

Conclusion:

There is a dialogue where Vishnu says to Ileana "ni kovvu anta akkada unnatu undi,anduke burra sarigga pani cheyyatalledu" BANG ON , if she is intelligent she would have never accepted such a script filled with shit.

If you are thinking of watching the film just for Ileana then i would recommend you go to a internet cafe and spend 10Rs which is much worth than this film and because apart from those scenes SALEEM is filled with unbearable stuff.

Please dont carry instruments like knife,blade etc... because there are people waiting for you back home.SUICIDE is a sin.

CACHE - Nothing is HIDDEN

Most of the film viewers try to find the 3 M's in a film ,Does a movie need to have a Motive? Message ? Meaning ?. Michael Haneke's 'Cache' is a film which defines the 3 M's without any definition.Accidentally four years ago i watched Michael Haneke's 'The Piano Teacher' which made a profound impact on me for its disturbing narration without violence and the shadow of darkness lingering in the film. 'Cache' is a similar kind of disturbing film which is infused with terrific images.



Georges Laurent(Daniel Auteuil) and Anne(Juliette Binoche) are married couple with a son Pierrot. The film starts with a long static shot with some credits on it, this static shot is actually the video sent by an anonymous man?, the first video shows that Georges house is under surveillance, when Laurent and Anne watch the first video tape Laurent says 'How come i didn't see him' referring to himself in the video. Later they receive some comic drawings which look intimidating,even Pierrot receives it and asks his father 'Why did you send it to school?'

In the next videotape Laurent's childhood home is filmed and he visits his old home where his mother stays who is battling with old age illness,there some important conversations take place.The next videotape leads to a man named Majid who is connected to him in his childhood and Laurent accuses him of sending the tapes which he denies.The way events unfold after this is tragic,horrific and disturbing without letting us know the truth behind the mystery.


I cannot write the whole plot and synopsis here because it will be a spoiler and might decrease the thrill and intensity when you watch the film.The undercurrent of the film is the unseen horror and the disturbing theme which holds on us till the end of the film.Even though the mystery is unexplained the point Michael Haneke makes in the film is clear cut.Haneke shows the hidden and makes a point of what can happen and what is to happen when something is hidden and how things get unnoticed even though they carry much importance and meaning.

Haneke shows what is hidden and hides what we are interested in seeing but everything can be seen if one really wants to see it. Laurent hides some facts with Anne,Pierrot hides something from Anne, Anne expresses her motherly love to Pierrot,Laurent hides his emotion before his wife and others when he cant find Pierrot but ultimately cries in the kitchen,Haneke makes his point in Cache but to understand his point we need to remove our hidden eyes .

Like David Lynch's 'Mullholland Drive' Cache plants innumerable questions in our mind , though we might never comprehend them 100% but the beauty of these films is that they create a silent impact which increases our intrigue towards finding the truth and searching for 3 M's .

-- Did you see Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi in the film?



Do not proceed from here if you haven't seen the film.

1. The film starts with the first videotape and some titles appearing on it,if you are attentive and are blessed with normal vision you can see the title CACHE embedded in it.

2. The conversation between Laurent and Anne while watching the first video referring to himself he says 'How come i didn't see him' .

3. The first video hints that the camera is not hidden and might be an act of voyeurism.

4. Watch the scene in which Laurent meets Majid is there an act of indirect voyeurism?.

5. The videotapes are infused with some images of a boy,which suggest something to us.

6. Listen to watch Majid's Son says when he confronts him in his office.

7. The last and the long static shot where Pierrot meets Majid's son.

and many more..

The above hidden elements and many other hidden elements throw questions instead of answers,the questions are the clues to find the hidden answer (s) ?