Imagine waking up from a lousy cupboard under the stairs in the house of a pestering aunt, pedantic uncle and bullying cousin, to a thundering whole new landscape of exquisiteness; Imagine transforming from a subnormal muggle( I know you are wondering what it is. But let’ s get to that later) to a magnificent hero; Imagine all the people around you pouring showers of hope on you with endless love and enormous pampering. Sounds magical ain’ t it? – What if I say that, it is a whole new world of magic in itself! Welcome to the wizarding world of Harry Potter brewed by J. K. Rowling and filtered under the cuts of many directors much better than a Mylapore coffee.
Oops! For the cliché damp intro, believe me, I have just underdone it. Now my job here, was to tell you guys why HP should jump into your‘ bucket list of movies to watch before you die’. Nope, I’ m definitely not from the production team, but hey I need to do FairPlay for being a fan, here’ s to my Chennai people on a ten-point note justification.
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From a massive point of view on what sieves most Chennaities from watching Hollywood Is the language and its plot complexity. But tell me, if anyone has had their minds blown off( of course wallets too) and produce 3 hours of non-stop visual treat, to maketh the frames speak more than the dialogues – an unimaginable castle, floating lamps, artificial sky, impeccable costumes, irresistible food on tables that never end, a golden snitch, a three headed dog and a nearly headless nick, trust me you’ d need no language to go“ Wow” every minute.
Even as each spell turns so alien but so perfectly fitting to the English dictionary, it’ d just add a jinx to this magic to not watch an unreasonable Tamil version( Maybe, for you to actually understand why Kochadaiyan alarmingly failed to amuse anyone anyway even though it was Rajinikanth).
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Unrealistic someone might say, To the ever-tireless admirers of Kamal Hassan’ s bootham from Arputha Vilaku to shout out whistlers of Rajinikanth when he fired a bullet from an empty guitar box, here I say why wouldn’ t a young boy’ s Wingardium Leviosa of levitation or a swish from wands be less amusing …? This especially being more realistic than truth reasoning reality itself. It’ s believable factor is the small change that I want you all to experience( Isn’ t the whole job of movie making to make the unbelievable- believable?)
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