Sometimes I wonder if there is anything called luck. But lately after seeing a live example I found it is very much true. Yes I'm talking about Shivaji the movie and it's success run. If at all I wished that I could have had one hundreth of luck quotient that this guy has I would have been a millionaire by now :)
Shivaji's success run aside, I'm wondering if any actor could do the same and get away with it. The answer is *no*. I see some of you guys are mumbling Simbu, Vijay etc. Vijay gives only masala movies agreed but the guy seems to think a little and he has had his own share of flops. He had the same situation when Youth, Bagavathy, Vaseegara all went for a toss. Poove Unakkaga, Kadhalukku Mariyaathai, Love Today, Thullatha manamum thullum were good films. Simbu probably worked harder in his childhood days itself. All this guy needs is to keep away from direction and work under a few good names in the industry. Ajith had his own golden period too, like KanduKonden, Aasai and Vaalee. Without doubt those were good films.
I'm trying to think when Rajini gave a flop since he stepped out of Balachander films (except Baba ofcourse, which was pure shit), answer is some time in 1992 (Pandian?), even Uzhaipaali was not a flop. The pattern superstar chooses a movie is it should meet the following criteria
a) Acted by Amitabh
b) should have been a hit in Hindi
and thats all, you are all set and he's got a hit. Coming back to the million dollar question, I just want to understand only this, when your superstar is capable of doing only this, why the f**k you expect other artists like Vijay, Ajith, Simbhu and Kamal to give movies based on logic, or criticize them for their punch dialogues :-) ofcourse superstar was the one who started it.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Dasavatharam vs MMKR
Last Saturday I was watching MMKR (I've already watched it plenty of times). The movie is all screenplay (no big story). Thanks to the complicated screenplay, most of the tamil audiences stamped this as yet another masala movie (I hate when someone says that it's just another masala movie). The movie is way ahead of it's time(for a 1989 release I believe). I have not seen a tightly scripted comedy movie in Tamil since then. The movie had no lagging moments at all. Avvai Shunmugi was a bigger hit that MMKR (with due credit to this movie, MMKR is a much better movie).Thats why I wonder whether Kamal needs a person like KSR to present his ideas to front benchers. KSR is a master of that, see Avvai Shunmugi to get what I mean. The movie was a personal milestone for the actor and did very well in BO.
Second thing I'm wondering about Dasa is screen time each character will occupy. Michael did not have much screen time in MMKR. Assuming it took 2:30hrs to exploit 3 characters potential to the fullest (specially that of Kameshwaran and Raju), it's a pretty serious task to present 10 characters in 3:00 hrs time. In their recent interviews Oscar Ravi and Kamal look extremely confident of the end product, lets hope for the best :)
You must be wondering what started this. I'm just wondering what it takes to be successful both as an Actor and at the BO like Aboorva Sagodarargal (ideal mix of both?) did. I was'nt bothered much about Virumandi, Anbe Sivam (both would have costed 10 crores a piece max( I heard Kamal took a pay cut for the latter. Most of Virumandi was shot at sets in Guindy) and would have recovered most of it). When the budget crosses 50 crs it's important that the movie does well commercially and to be frank I'm relying totally on KSR to do this (and more ofcourse :-)
Second thing I'm wondering about Dasa is screen time each character will occupy. Michael did not have much screen time in MMKR. Assuming it took 2:30hrs to exploit 3 characters potential to the fullest (specially that of Kameshwaran and Raju), it's a pretty serious task to present 10 characters in 3:00 hrs time. In their recent interviews Oscar Ravi and Kamal look extremely confident of the end product, lets hope for the best :)
You must be wondering what started this. I'm just wondering what it takes to be successful both as an Actor and at the BO like Aboorva Sagodarargal (ideal mix of both?) did. I was'nt bothered much about Virumandi, Anbe Sivam (both would have costed 10 crores a piece max( I heard Kamal took a pay cut for the latter. Most of Virumandi was shot at sets in Guindy) and would have recovered most of it). When the budget crosses 50 crs it's important that the movie does well commercially and to be frank I'm relying totally on KSR to do this (and more ofcourse :-)
Friday, August 10, 2007
India's series win!
Well, Cricket, F-1 and Tennis are my favourite sports. I lost my interest on tennis ever since Sampras retired, not that Federer is not as good as Sampras :-), Infact he is better in many ways. Anyway I like Sampras better, that's the bottom line. Can't help thinking about Pistol Pete most of the time. Federer will soon surpass Sampras as a player, if that will keep Roger fans happy.
Coming back to the original subject, I'm immensely pleased with India's win in England. I felt pity for Dravid after India's shocking defeat to B'desh. Ganguly, Dravid and Tendulkar deserved this win, for it's most probably their last series in England. They have started firing as a team after a really long time. Australia do this every match, and India need to do it quite often. I'm also happy for Freddie Flintoff who worked his butt off for 2005 Ashes (He himself would be pretty pleased with series loss :) . Mr.Vaughan better realize that your team isn't going anywhere with out Flintoff, Simon Jones and to some extent Harmison and Hoggard. People often hail Anderson as a good bowler, for me he is far from a test bowler. Monty and Sidebottom are really good uns though were unlucky through the series. Tremlett is kinda 50-50. It's an Alarm bell for England, clearly indicating that their bench strength is *zero* and they sorely miss Troy's services.
Come August, should be an exciting year of Cricket starting with 20-20 world cup. Should be interesting to see how Aussies will perform with out *Great Glenn* and Master spinner Warne. Stuart Clark is good but I haven't seen him much outside Australia, same goes with Lee and Tait. Gillespie is doing well for Yorkshire, it will be interesting if he will offered test spot this year.
Coming back to the original subject, I'm immensely pleased with India's win in England. I felt pity for Dravid after India's shocking defeat to B'desh. Ganguly, Dravid and Tendulkar deserved this win, for it's most probably their last series in England. They have started firing as a team after a really long time. Australia do this every match, and India need to do it quite often. I'm also happy for Freddie Flintoff who worked his butt off for 2005 Ashes (He himself would be pretty pleased with series loss :) . Mr.Vaughan better realize that your team isn't going anywhere with out Flintoff, Simon Jones and to some extent Harmison and Hoggard. People often hail Anderson as a good bowler, for me he is far from a test bowler. Monty and Sidebottom are really good uns though were unlucky through the series. Tremlett is kinda 50-50. It's an Alarm bell for England, clearly indicating that their bench strength is *zero* and they sorely miss Troy's services.
Come August, should be an exciting year of Cricket starting with 20-20 world cup. Should be interesting to see how Aussies will perform with out *Great Glenn* and Master spinner Warne. Stuart Clark is good but I haven't seen him much outside Australia, same goes with Lee and Tait. Gillespie is doing well for Yorkshire, it will be interesting if he will offered test spot this year.
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