Two movies, kids, grown-ups, triangle, magic and popcorn! :)

Over the past few days, I visited the Sathyam cinemas often, thanks to the online booking they have introduced (thecinema.in). Two movies that I particularly liked - 'Harry Potter and the goblet of fire' and 'Kanda Naal Muthal' (which translates to, "from that day I saw you"). Both the movies occupy completely different bandwidths if you were to classify them on a movie spectrum. But, just that I couldn't stop comparing both.

Both happen to be stories of 3 friends - two males and a female, where one of the guys keeps fighting with the girl. The tamil movie deals with emotions among the three and how they tackle it and pair up, while the english flick talks first of friendship and then growing puppy love among them. And to top it all, both the movies keep us glued to our chairs for the whole length of the movie! While one talks of what happens in an utopian land where witches and wizards taught magic to young witch and wiz-kids, the other movie is very earthish, and juxtaposes very banal activities, like friendship, love, romance, ego etc, though in an acceptable and comic manner. Lots of scenes to relish often in both. A striking similarity between the two flicks is the absence of even one smooch (smooches have become so common in even Indian movies :) ) or sleazy scenes...

A must see is what I would say when you ask about both the movies!!