just a random note to give my blogging a kick start again....
of late i have been highly irritated by one thing - Tamil movies especially the latest ones.
With much happiness I went to watch a movie in India and ended up in 'theeratha vilayattu pillai'. That was the first time in life i ever wanted to meet a director or an actor to appreciate their film making. I wanted to honor them so much that they don feel the need to take another movie in all their life - awful, horrible, silly, immature, predictable, clichéd and what not. Could there be a worser depiction of a hero personality ?? Damn what did they even think of the audience. Did they think that all women were only looks and no brains.. archaic dialogs - for how many more years does the Tamil industry think portraying a guy who goes around giving advice to women as heroism ?? It was a very poor adaptation of Teulgu movie 'Chukalo Chandrudu'. The hero goes in for a ride with three women of which he finally chooses one and that too not out of love, but pity. Thanks to the movies that usually give the worst impression of love and relationship. It just adds more color to the already highly hypocrite Tamil society. I totally gave up hope expecting the female protagonists to show pea size intelligence when the male lead was himself a s***er on earth !! If ever the male lead was trying to act cool or smart, he better have done that wearing a board around his neck saying so !! Who on earth wears two hoodies in hot Chennai with one being pink and the other a darker version of mauve combination ?? Vishal was trying a very bad imitation of Vijay(who is in himself less than a moderate actor in recent times). I just hope the director or actor use a little of the god given brain to come up with decent movies which do not focus on jobless, aimless, senseless, brainless, good for nothing guys as center of action ( even tho we accept with noble heart their dirty and horrendous appearances combined with eye blinding dressing sense )
My second experiment over leisure time(which is pretty much the entire semester) was to figure out which was worst of the two worse movies - 'Vetaikaran' or 'Asal'. Both supposedly being from box office leads and hot female cast, yet again Vijay and Ajit did not fail to disappoint me in their regretful movie making !! Asal (aka Billa2) could have just re-released Billa and just morphed Sameer Reddy and Bhavana for Namitha and Nayanthara. Do you know how it feels like during exam preparation, you get to a lesson you already know or is same as another one you learnt, you would want to just skim through the pages and say am done - thats the exact feeling i got. I did not want to watch the movie but still felt little things here and there are different so must watch. Trust me it was such a pain. What is the matter with Ajit - does he think redoing the same kind of roles saves time in homework on acting ?? And in the end he ends up with Bhavana just for the sake of a happy ending while all through the first half he is supposedly romancing Sameera. Just being a strong person does not call for Sameera being ditched in the end while the only thing Bhavana shows is pure ignorance and dumbness !! Ultimately it was such a lame, hi-fi(supposedly) repetition of a previously OK movie.
However I should say Vetaikaran took me by surprise in being much watchable than Asal. Despite having all the drawbacks as Asal, it lacked the mundane boredom especially for one who watched Asal right before watching this one. Vijay escapes most movies by the little humor he tries to bring out. There there, I just mentioned it was a teeny tiny percent tolerable which doesn't call it a good movie in any case. I remember as a child watching the negative role guy, some two decades ago, performing another negative role, but his tone and intonation, modulation, dialog delivery, body language, why even his hairstyle has stayed intact for years now !! Does that mean I must be happy that Tamil movies are consistent or sad that there is shown very little improvement in recent years ??? Yet again the movie was predictable, requires no intelligence on the directors part to film, cause most scenes are just poor replicas of old movies probably by Vijay himself.
I obviously cannot blame the entire Tamil film making for these ill made movies, however they also represent a class of thinking and am terribly worried at the rate at which these movies are made. Also I still do not understand why any movie considered good must be related to so much pathos that in the end you would feel so guilty of any happiness you have in life. Except for a handful movies very few concentrate on focusing anything positive about the world or life. It is at these times I really feel we are really god gifted to have movie makers like mani ratnam or venkat prabhu or gautam menon (and very few more) down south !!
