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Wadjda (2012)
Beautiful and Inspiring tale of a saudi girl
Wadjda is a sly kid, entrepreneurial, even conniving. She's like Tom Sawyer if he were a girl and could recite long passages of the Quran from memory. Played by Waad Mohammed, Wadjda is the title character of writer and director Haifaa Al-Mansour's fine debut feature, a family drama with some very funny moments. Most of those are courtesy of Mohammed, an appealing 12-year-old actress with solid comic instincts.she wears jeans and baseball boots. She also listens to western pop music on the radio, hangs out with a boy, Abdullah, and has her own small business selling plaited friendship bracelets to her schoolmates.
When Abdullah crows about having a bicycle, Wadjda is inspired to step up her moneymaking activities in order to buy one for herself.
The limitations and humiliations conferred by her sex confront Wadjda everywhere she turns, from the building-site worker who sexually harasses her to a family tree on the wall of her home that lists only males.
In a subplot, Wadjda's mother (Reem Abdullah) is anguished because her husband (Waad Mohammed) seems to be on the verge of marrying another woman, in a polygamous arrangement. This is appalling, and so is a brief scene in which a girl of 10 or 12 gleefully shares pictures of her wedding to a 20-year-old man.
These are little flaws, however, in the fabric of a first-time feature that doesn't falter in achieving its main goal: to make clear certain realities of female life experience in Saudi Arabia while also proffering comfort in the form of the hope of a fairer future.
Don't MISS THIS Beautiful MOVIE!!!!!!!! IF U R A Muslim IT's A MUST
Soodhu Kavvum (2013)
Superb Dark Comedy and ENTERTAINMENT UNLIMITED!!!!!!!!!!!
Soodhu Kavvum stars Vijay Sethupathy and Sanchita Shetty, along with MS Bhasker, Ramesh, Simhaa, Ashok, Karunakaran, Yog Japee and Radha Ravi in significant roles.
Dass, a small-time smuggler, wants to graduate to the next level, kidnapping, which he believes is more exciting and lucrative.Pagalavan (Simhaa), Kesavan (Ashok) and Sekhar (Ramesh)are three desperate jobless friends
Dass convinces them that he has the perfected the art of kidnapping and asks them join him. Having no other alternative, they do.
Soon they become successful, and can pull off a series of kidnapping without any hitches.
there are no typical comic one-liners or forced comic situations With every film that he has acted in, Vijay Sethupathy has always managed to raise the bar to an entirely new level. As a Grey-haired, 40-year old with psychotic tendencies, speaking broken English, Vijay Sethupathy in Soodhu Kavvum is truly unbelievable.
There is some good all around performance, especially Simhaa and Ramesh, who manage to steal the show with their unpretentious and honest performance.
Full credit goes to the director, Nalan Kumarasamy, for transforming a simple plot into an extremely engaging film, with ingenious characters and entertaining situations.
Good cinematography, crisp editing and the refreshing non-conventional background score make this film even more distinctive. A must-watch.