Golden Period of Tamil Cinema

These "forced conditions" were not only the image thingy. It was also the "songs" "fights" thingies.

There's nothing wrong if a musical has a lot of songs - thillAnA mOganAmbAL or sindhu bhairavi or mudhal mariyAdhai.

OTOH, it was ridiculous to push in a lot of kanavu scenes and unnatural situations to have songs in every movie. This should disqualify a lot of 60's movies, as compared to avaL appadiththAn and such ones, for e.g.

Songs that are in the background, moving the stories are ok - and so are the occasional festival kind of ones or thAlAttus.

OTOH, the mindless duets, kanavu scenes etc that are totally unnatural to TN life disqualify such movies from being considered as neat cinema :-(

(And this is coming from a person who spent countless hours listening to TFM - pure objectivity, I say!)

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Originally Posted by app_engine

In other words, late 70's was the time period when directors could make movies without bothering about "image" of the lead artists.

And that showed in the class of those path-breaking movies that are being talked about in all forums! Like the avaL appadiththAns, uthirippookkaLs, 16 vayadhinilEs ...

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What about all or most of MGR's movies? Didn't he act till 1977 or 78? Were the directors able to make his movies without bothering about his "image"? :o

app_engine .. your point of view is taken .. but we cant generalize that only in 70's people did make films without thinking of lead actor's image..

most of the people who wanted to think out of box or who ever thought out of box had their cast & crew who are not that popular or not with the typical hero status

KB used nagesh, jayanthi etc because people didnt tag any image to these people ..

So i dont buy your argument of 70's though

bay,
Actually I'm talking about the period when MGR was about to leave or left the field, as the golden period :-)

No MGR movie in 60's / 70's , IMO, qualifies to be considered "quality" cinema. (Neat entertainment, no doubt, but not for serious consideration).

rajeshkrv,

Even those Nagesh movies had some stereo types, IMO. In addition, they were "drama on screen", could hardly be called cinema :-)

In any case, that's only my PoV - you need not buy that :-)

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bay,
Actually I'm talking about the period when MGR was about to leave or left the field, as the golden period :-)

No MGR movie in 60's / 70's , IMO, qualifies to be considered "quality" cinema. (Neat entertainment, no doubt, but not for serious consideration).

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You're only left with 2 or 3 years in that case! :P

I feel like no matter what the decade is, there have always been directors that tried to break any steretype, let alone not bother about a hero's image! I'm sure we can name such directors in every decade.

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mexicomeat,
You're talking about எதிரொலி (கே. பாலசந்தர்).

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nanri hai

I would love to read a synopsis of the movie - Too bad it is not there in imdb.

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If you don't mind my poor writing skills :) http://www.mayyam.com/hub/viewtopic....432263#1432263

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Annatha!!!! adakathukum oru alavu irruku.... Ungaludayathu poor writting skilla....

i had seen the movie way back in DD days.....i will give a try soon....

bay,

From the beginning of this thread, I' m not for this decades thingy. That was scale's idea.

To me, the "shackles of heroism" were getting released around 1975 and they came back strongly again by 1985.

Golden years, gold whop whop whop :musicsmile:

If people talk about movies of 60's or prior, except KB & Sridhar, most movies were known by hero names. (Often it is told that Sridhar's were the first ones to have got acknowledged as "director's movies").

OTOH, when one talks about the time period I'm talking about, they were almost all directors' movies! That was till the SPM-AVM mafia killed the creativity again :-(