V(ery) V(ery) (Disappointing) Website

Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu now has its official website [link inadvertently provided by Karthik :-].

Official websites for Tamil movies so far have been depressingly unexciting. Maybe because they were all usually created by 1 of 2 companies (Indiaglitz and Galatta), they tended to be similar in concept and were differentiated only in packaging. They all had the same categories like Story, Gallery, Wallpapers, etc., with the only difference being in where the links were placed and what colors they were in. But even by those low standards, VV's website sucks. Considering the innovative puzzle-type invitation for the audio release and the slick trailer, I was expecting a cool website but was disappointed.

First of all, the website seems to have been put together by someone who was overexcited by the concept of Flash. This was probably a guy who had been writing plain ol' HTML for a really long time and just realized how much more he could do with Flash. Every inch of the site seems to have been created using Flash. Result - it takes an extremely long time to load anything, even a simple photo. By the time I tried to see the trailers, I was fed up of the 'Loading...' messages and simply gave up. There's not much variety in the audio or video parts either and the loud clangs and bullet noises got on my nerves pretty fast.

And then there's the English! Isn't there a single person, on Galatta's website design team, who can come up with a proper sentence in English? I knew I was in for some bad English when the initial credits said "from the direction of Goutham Menon's". But the synopsis section really had me ROTFL. These are actual lines from the synopsis...

"Its Kamal Haasan and director Gautham Menon blend in the film Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu."

"He has strived to put in his best efforts to be put into the film..."

"But the producer Manickam Narayanan smoothly sailed the ship in a perfect harmony."

The site starts off well with the whole key trick and Kamal looks cool in the gallery (but why no pictures of Jo or Kamalini Mukherjee?). But beyond that the website offers little and is all style(not very good style either) and no substance. Lets hope the movie doesn't end up being the same...