Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Numero Uno - My Hero


I hardly give time to speak of films - be it Tamil or English.. But, certainly Kamal Hassan (shortly as Kamal hereon) is one person I always talk in favour of in any conversation. I remember I have watched more Rajini movies in my childhood than any heroes - a typical child of a Tamil Nadu. I remember it is Devar Magan which made me to like this film Hero. His ideology had been different always and writing a blog on how he is, at this time would only prove how obsolete I am !

He used to be an actor who never compromised on scripts for box office sake. Never had scenes that are just commercial value and had always strived hard to take Tamil Movies to international standards. Oflate, I feel he is diluting a bit among the tamil masala films of recent years. His MBBS remake film would tell he "had" given space to have "commercial items" in his films too. May be he felt he should do an "actor job" for a film. I can never accept Anbe Sivam a film having no directional interference from Kamal. so is Devar Magan. Bharathan - the director of Devar Magan has commented Kamal took over direction of most of the scenes in the second half of that film.

If anybody thinks style is "Rajini's copyrighted word", I would suggest them to watch Kamal's looks in every movie and I can hardly forget the long "Funk hair" that he sported in Devar Magan. As I write this material, I am hearing songs of his next venture - Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu and hoping that the movie would be a neat presentation that goes well with Box Office as well and put a 'full stop' to the so-called commercial movies that make the tamil film industry yucky recently !

2 comments:

Karthik Srinivasan said...

Stylish acting is different from acting with the help of styles.. Now u fit Rajini and Kamal into which ever category applicable :-)

Every top actor(except one, u know whom) in Tamil cinema is good in his own rights for me... But Kamal is totally in a different league. His no. of filmfare and national awards speak of what league that is. Hope VV will change the trend of commercial cinema as u had mentioned.

Hell's Angel said...

he's a gem.. he doesn't fit into any category in acting style.. hez unique.. an actor who doesn't compromise on scripts 4 the sake of box-office hits..
hez an actor of versatility and perfection and delves into each and every aspect of his roles and personifies as one & does it with aplomb..An actor with such perfection is a sure gift to India(esp to kollywood)..
with a string of dumb movies getting released VV's sure gonna give a refreshing experience to the audience and gonna ROCK!!

btw My comment longer than ur post??:p