Tamil Cinema and Politics

Never imagined that a day will come when we will see the last of Kamal and Rajini movies. With current path they have chosen Kamal has already indicated that Indian 2 will be his last. Rajini hasn't confirmed yet. In the euphoria of their political entry no one is actually talking about the void this will leave in Tamil Cinema. At least Rajini has been playing hide and seek about his last movie but Kamal's move was totally unexpected. We always thought he will never leave cinema.

The debate or Rajini vs Kamal is still one of the most favorite topic in Tamil Cinema but now it has to be discussed in the context of politics. Lot of unexpected things only proves that it is difficult to predict life.

Engeyo Kaeta Kural

I happened to watch this movie in Jaya TV today. This is one of the few movies in which Rajini chose to do something outside the regular commercial formula which he is dishing out nowadays. Only when watching these movies we really feel at the decision of Rajini not to do an offbeat movie. Rajini has proved his mettle in doing character roles in many movies and they were successful too but still he chose the commercial route.

People call that Rajini took the easiest route compared to Kamal but I think it is the other way around. For Rajini if the film is successful he is safe else he will be trashed for making a flop movie and for doing commercial movies. In Kamal's case it is a very safe passage. If the movie is a hit he will be praised that he is the man who can make an offbeat movie a commercial success. If it fails he will be praised more saying people didnt understand his view. So either way he is safe.

I feel Rajini despite having the potential to do such artsy movies chose the commerical route and robbed us of some fine movies.

I wish Rajini goes backs to his roots and provides one solid performance based role before he signs off from movies. That will be a treat to watch.

One awesome pic of the two legends together. Though we never see Kamal associate himself with Rajinis film in any form Rajini never fails to pay Kamal a visit everytime a situation comes

Dasavatharam

தசாவதாரம் சிவாஜியின் பரபரப்பை எல்லாம் மிஞ்சிவிட்டது. சிவாஜிக்கு AVM நிறுவனம் எந்தவித விளம்பரத்தையும் செய்யவில்லை ஆனால் தசாவதாரம் தயாரிப்பாளர் எதையும் விட்டு வைக்கபோவதில்லை என்பது இந்த விளம்பரத்தை பார்த்தாலே தெரியும்.

அமெரிக்க ஜனாதிபதிக்கும் ஒரு தமிழ் திரைப்படத்திற்கும் என்ன சம்பந்தம். They say its because Kamal plays the role of Bush. There have been numerous programs where Bush look alikes have come. When such being the case we read the news that Dasavatharam will be shown to Bush.

How much truth is in this news? They might somehow manage to do it also.

All the best to the team.

Long time

Its been a long time since i posted something here. As i mentioned in one of the earlier posts they have banned the access to blogs in my working place so i dont get much time.

Traffic problem within chennai has only worsened with the statistics proving number of fatal accidents in chennai is the highest among the cities in India. Kudo's to the reckless driving of chennaites.

Last saturday watched Santosh subramaniam. A very clan entertainer. Jeyam Ravi is ery good. Its refreshing to see a movie without any heroism. Its a feel good movie. The songs and dances are awesome.

IPL is the talk of the town nowadays. I once used to be a follower of cricket now am struggling to get the same interest i used to have.

Dasavatharam songs and trailers has been released. The still which shows Kamal under water is awesome. Does Kamal have a winner in Dasa? We have to wait and see.

Given below is a picture which shows a campfire. I love such campfires where people dont barge into your privacy but let the conversation take its own course.

Picture courtesy : www.sungubala.com/mountain-activities.htm

Vetayadu Vilayadu

First kudos to Kamal and Gautam for coming up with a film which is above normal Tamil film standards. In the past there have been investigative Tamil movies but Vetayadu Vilayadu stands different from those movies.

For those who are familiar with Television shows like CSI and movies Hannibal Series, will be able to notice lot of similarities between VV and those.

For those who expected a different movie from Kamal can be happy as this is a very different movie for him. But for those who expected a different movie from Gautam will be disappointed as the movie resembles KK in many ways such as repetition of Character names, movie plot, song picturisation and placement of songs.

Nowadays a new trend is noticeable in tamil movies where the honest guy kills the bad guy with all vengeance examples Saami, KK, Dhool, We can feel the punches ourselves.

The movie starts of promisingly with one such fighting scene between Kamal and bad guys with the impact as mentioned above. And then Kamal is pulled into a investigation of his mentor daughter.

During this investigation Kamal travels to New York.

The movie is all about how Kamal finds the bad guys who were responsible for the murder of his mentors daughter. There are lot of loop holes in the story which are part and parcel of any investigative movie. The reason given by the bad guys for the murders and the way they commit murders (they travel from US to Keeranur for a murder) is not convincing.

But whatever is the story we can always find these kinds of faults if we can forget this and watch it is entertaining.

The movie is very long. There is no need for Jyothika or Kamilinee in this movie.

Kamal’s performance is brilliant and he has underplayed but we can see he is ageing.

Harris Jeyaraj music is good but reminds of KK at lot of places especially in the song “Partha mudhal nalle” . The intro song for kamal “Karka Karka” is peppy and crisp.

Anthony has showed in lot of places his editing skills especially in the above song.

Gautam has tried to give a western type cop movie with some Indian sentiments thrown around here and there. So the movie neither looks like a full Indian movie or western movie.

On the whole this may appeal to some but not to all.