Originally Posted by irir123
rajasaranam - while that article did have some valid points, IMO, it was also a veiled personal attack against Kamal! even more irritating was the repeated reference to better actors in Indian cinema, even without mentioning their names or making an attempt to compare and contrast acting styles! halfway through the 1980s, kamal had already traversed/covered every emotion/expression possible on screen - hence it was his choice to foray into creative roles using makeup as a prop! do you really think Kamal ought to have stuck to family melodramas a la K.Balachander style ?
what most people dont understand is the fact that unlike Hollywood, we just do not have an entire plethora of filmmakers with challenging scripts - for example, Clint Eastwood could afford talents like Tim Robbins, Sean Penn in MYSTIC RIVER, only coz, there are tons of interesting scripts like 'Mystic..' - therefore, for Kamal to go beyond what is widely perceived as ordinary as far as Indian cinema is concerned, it was necessary to indulge in stuff like makeup/prosthetics etc at the risk of being called gimmicky. But to dismiss him as a poor clone of Hollywood stars is unwarranted - without giving due credit to his actual range
unlike most stars in india, probably kamal is one of the few who has constantly faced criticism and yet constantly tried to overcome the same - for ex 'Alavandhan' mite have been a goofup in terms of screenplay etc, but I found the character NANDU a new frontier explored by kamal
the fact is we dont have someone like martin scorcese (who cud exploit de nero so convincingly in Raging Bull or Taxi driver etc) or a coppola to exploit pacino/de niro or any of their likes to make masterpieces with someone of Kamal's talent - its as simple as that! even if someone were to have the ability to make a movie with an interesting script, its gonna fail coz, howsoever hard it might be to accept, we dont have an adequately cinema literate audience! why we dont even have enuf no of people who read quality literature!
given this context, the very fact that kamal has straddled such a thin line is amazing!
"vaazhndhaalum yesuvaargal! thaazhndhaalum yesuvaargal"
