Thaanga mudyiadha 5-rooba-kodutha-10-roobaikki pongum actors

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Originally Posted by groucho070

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Originally Posted by Shakthiprabha

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Originally Posted by Plum

'Baby' Shalini will shortly have their files updated here

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I am waiting I am waiting grrrrrrrrrr :desperately_controlled_emotion:

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Me too (sharpening my Arua, sparks flying)

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groucho, shaktiprabha: The best must be saved for the last. Shalini's case is coming in a few mins...

Updating Case files for the candidates:
The Case file on 'Baby' Shalini

Here comes the one that children and adolescents of the 80's just cannot flush out of their system, a scar for life that refuses to be healed even by the dignity of the grown-up Shalini:

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Originally Posted by Plum, in a late realisation of dereliction of duty,

...that gives me the realisation that one of the youngest and annoyingest proponents of the title of this thread has escaped attention so far.kadamayil evlo thavari vittaen - ladees and gendlemenan, presenting the peerless, multi-lingual, multi-medium, emotional atyachar of a kid - baby shalini!!!
No questions asked - direct nomination.

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Shaktiprabha is so traumatised that she is willing to go illegal and cast multiple votes for the honourable purpose of nailing this child artiste!

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Originally Posted by Shaktiprabha

aaaaaaaaaaah! No more competition !

She was THE MOST SINGLE HANDEDLY ANNOYING artist one can ever dream of. I would like to put 999 votes on my behalf alone.

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Here's Shaktiprabha's description of Shalini's deadly impact even after a decade of the wound:

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Though its not her fault, abs no excuse to shalini (my personal feeling) shez really irritated kids(teenagers) of those days and I cant ever forgive the nausea I’ve had after watching her and listening to her mazhalai mozhi , I think I did carry grudge against her as an artist when she banged back all charged as a heroine. It took long long time for me to get over the irritation .

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There were passionate pleas to dismiss Shalini's case given her 'good behaviour" as a heroine. Here's the response to this argument quoting Shalini's multi-lingual torture achievements:

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Originally Posted by Plum

We cannot explain away Shalini's performance as a 'baby'. Thirubavum solraen- naan malayalam, telugu ellam kooda quote pannuven. Pala mozhila avasthai pattirukken - avangalai mattum list-lerundhu edukkaradha illai.
'Baby' Shalini-ai mannikkave mudiyadhu - neengallam modhalla avangala Alaipaaythae-la paarthuttu appappo pazhaiya padathula child artiste-a paarkareengalo ennavo? We were scarred in our childhood by 'Baby' Shalini. The adult Shalini's dignity cannot make up for that. Kashtapattu case-file ellam pottirukkome. Romba oppose pannineengana, next case on Shalini will come from Malayalam. Appuram Telugu. As I said, multi-lingual torture. Anubavichavangalukku dhaan puriyum

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Just when Plum seems to be mulling over the plausible argument in favour of Shalini given her performances as an adult, he remembers Bandham:

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Originally Posted by Plum

'Baby' Shalini-yai pala mozhila paartha engalukku dhaan adhoda vali theriyum. See Shaktiprabha's post for the impact she has had on people who saw her first hand then. Even as I type this 'Bandham' comes to my mind and the chair I am sitting in rocks involuntarily.

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Then there is Prabhuram, who in a typical short post summarises Shalini's career as a 'baby':

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Originally Posted by prabhuram

Years and years of a simple 3 line algorithm:

-bend head sideways till left-ear touches shoulder
-upon contact proceed in the opposite direction till right-ear tocuhes shoulder
-smile all the while even in , particularly when in, states of hopeless misery

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Finally, Plum, in a burst of outright passion hitherto unexhibited in the HUB, is forced to write a paper on one of Shalini's legendary performances:

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Originally Posted by Plum

Baby Shalini's incomparable contribution to the conversion of tamil cinema kids into 'adolescent/over-ripe/veteran by birth' status

This is a book waiting to be written. For now, my humble contribution will be a germ of an idea for a chapter:

There is this movie called Nilavae Malarae. This is especially a must-watch for Prabhuram. For, as though, one Nadia wasn't enough to challenge the audience, it had her in a double role, Rahman to complement as the pair for one of them, and if that was not enough, Lankeswaran Rajesh opposite the other Nadia.
Then, there was Baby Shalini.
In all the melee, the only consolation prize for the viewer is that one of the Nadias kicks the bucket - wait, did I say consolation? Take that back. That is only a cue for Rajesh and Shalini to get the other Nadia as a surrogate mother for the insufferable kid, and the associated complications with the question of what that means as a relationship for Rajesh.

Let's stick to Baby Shalini. She plays the precocious kid that Shalini pioneered, who understands issues way beyond her size and years, and plays a big part in getting the second Nadia and Rajesh together as a substitute for her dead mother(also Nadia). Infact, the combination of Nadia and Shalini is so deadly that Rahman decides to consume poison in the climax, thus paving the way for the made-for-each-other pair of Baby Shalini and Nadia to get together, with Rajesh left to face the resultant mess.

Anyway, thats the story, and unlike Kutti Padmini, who resorted to 'childlike' means in Kuzhandhaiyum Deivamum, here Shalini has to think beyond her maturity, or rather not beyond her but generally perceived to be beyond kids of her age. One of the pivotal scenes involve Shalini insisting that she'll go to school only if her parents kiss her, brings Nadia to her right, and Rajesh to her left, shows cheek to Nadia and facing Rajesh's cheek, and withdraws at a strategical moment.

The annoying writing of the scene apart,
'Baby' Shalini brought her own impish self alive in this scene, and added a dimension that even the fertile writer-director S.A.Chandrasekhar couldnt have thought of, and scarred my childhood forever.

'Baby' Shalini - only those who have experienced can measure the magnitude of her impact. One of a kind.

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We'll sign-off with this couplet:

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Originally Posted by Plum

Simbu kodumai, shamli kodumai enbar
Shalini-than van-thiramai ariyadhor

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-edited-per-suggestions-of-our-own-pulavar-prabhuram

Updating Case files for the candidates:
The Case file on Ashish Vidyarthi

It is hard to concoct evidence against a man who won the national award for 'best supporting actor' on his debut. That I am contemplating to do so is an indictment of his subsequent career choices. While, per se, choosing to play cardboard villains in the lucrative tamil and telugu industries is not to be scoffed at, given that 'moolah' is a key differentiator in career choices that most of us make, his reduction of self into a set of standard 'villainous' expressions certainly qualifies him here.

To be fair, I am just writing this file because he has already been nominated by Hubbers, and he never came to mind while running this thread. However, someone must do it and it might as well be myself.

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Originally Posted by Plum

An exaggerated 'hey hey hey hey' is a standard invocation of Ashish in tamil/telugu movies. He seems to have been unable to shake off the "seema pourusham" gestures he was condemned to in countless Balakrishna, Chiranjeevi and Mohan Babu movies in the late 90's and early 2000's.
His turn as the police inspector who torments Vikram in 'Dhill' is a case in point. Atul Kulkarni's controlled performance in its Hindi remake tells us why that script alone cannot be blamed for that performance.

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Originally Posted by crajkumar_be

He always lip-synchs in something which 'seems' (not 'sounds', mind you) like Telugu, no matter which language the film is in. (That seema pourusham influence again). adhavadhu, endha vaarthaya irundhaalum vaaya "ooo" ne vechippaaru ('pantulu, 'shirtulu' etc).
Even as we are discussing this, please do a random search for his vids on youtube and check out for yourselves.

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(Romba kashtapadaren ivar mela case ezhudha, nominate pannittu odi ponavanga konjam help panna koodadha?)

Updating Case files for the candidates:
The Case file on ShanmughaSundaram

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Originally Posted by Plum

My first introduction to this peerless fountain of emotional acting was in Kizhakku Vaasal, and specifically in the scenes where he helplessly asks Khushboo naa thazhu thazhukka "Unnai epdima naan adippen". A neigbour of mine in the theater commented "Seruppala dhaan;idhu koodava solli tharanum"
(ok, invented tale, romba kashtapadarenpa, help pannunga)

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Originally Posted by Plum

Ofcourse, SS's most famous exhibition of his uncontrolled over-emotions was in Karagattakaran where he goes "Adhi naan un kitta epdika solvaen" (so far so good but followed by a needless naa thazhuthazhukka addition) "epdikka solvaen!"

Read that sentence again. Harmless. But look at the way our man interprets it : There is emotion in every punctuation mark;every word;every syllable. That, in a jiffy, sums up Shanmughasundaram, the man, a fountain of exaggerated emotions that needs just a mild clap in its direction to start spouting.

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Originally Posted by Plum

EC's note: Case file is very weak. Original-a nominate pannina Bala Karthik is summoned by the authorities here to present more evidence on this case.

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Dum Dum Dum - When Madhavan rushes to Ambasamudram on hearing the "news" that his mother (accused) is seriously ill. Appo kalyana pecha pesittu avinga reaction

Ramana: Jail taarchar scene. Rendu scene-layum the way she breaks into a cry without warning is the reason she is nominated.

Other films in general: She alternates between a weak pleading voice and talking while crying and the line between the two is not only thing but is breached often without warning

He always lip-synchs in something which 'seems' (not 'sounds', mind you) like Telugu, no matter which language the film is in. adhavadhu, endha vaarthaya irundhaalum vaaya "ooo" ne vechippaaru ('pantulu, 'shirtulu' etc).
Even as we are discussing this, please do a random search for his vids on youtube and check out for yourselves.

Some 'credit' must be reserved for the dubbing artist also.

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Originally Posted by Plum

Updating Case files for the candidates:
The Case file on Ashish Vidyarthi

It is hard to concoct evidence against a man who won the national award for 'best supporting actor' on his debut. That I am contemplating to do so is an indictment of his subsequent career choices. While, per se, choosing to play cardboard villains in the lucrative tamil and telugu industries is not to be scoffed at, given that 'moolah' is a key differentiator in career choices that most of us make, his reduction of self into a set of standard 'villainous' expressions certainly qualifies him here.

To be fair, I am just writing this file because he has already been nominated by Hubbers, and he never came to mind while running this thread. However, someone must do it and it might as well be myself.

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Originally Posted by Plum

An exaggerated 'hey hey hey hey' is a standard invocation of Ashish in tamil/telugu movies. He seems to have been unable to shake off the "seema pourusham" gestures he was condemned to in countless Balakrishna, Chiranjeevi and Mohan Babu movies in the late 90's and early 2000's.
His turn as the police inspector who torments Vikram in 'Dhill' is a case in point. Atul Kulkarni's controlled performance in its Hindi remake tells us why that script alone cannot be blamed for that performance.

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(Romba kashtapadaren ivar mela case ezhudha, nominate pannittu odi ponavanga konjam help panna koodadha?)

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Other films in general: She alternates between a weak pleading
voice and talking while crying and the line between the two is not
only thing but is breached often without warning

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:-). Updated the file.

Updating Case files for the candidates:
The Case file on Asokan

EC's note: ivarai pathi onnum perisa evidence quote pannave illai makkal. I had to include him on my personal conviction and prabhu ram's implied promise in his one line post "Murugannnn". I have applied the "consult the expert" strategy here and collected some evidence. Prabhuram has to do the rest. In this case, the expert is Hubber Bhoori, who used to piss off NT fans sometimes in the NT threads; nevertheless, since I always have the habit of listening to everyone, I remember reading his blog at some point and remembered his 'special affection' for Asokan.
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Originally Posted by bhoori

எனக்கு அசோகனை பார்த்தால் சிரிப்பு வரும், இவரை பார்த்தல் அதுவும் வருவதில்லை. பக்ஸ் சொன்ன உலகம் சுற்றும் வாலிபன் படத்தில் கூட, “அந்த பெட்டியை கொடுத்துடு” வசனத்தை விட அசோகன் உருகி உருகி “முருகன், நீங்க பெரிய மேதை முருகன்” என்று சொல்வதுதான் நினைத்தாலே சிரிப்பு வருகிறது.Asokan is truly amazing. Bags and I find his serious acting very funny. Of course, he didn’t intend it to be funny…

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Bhoori delivers big time

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Originally Posted by Bhoori

எல்லாரையும் விட நான் மிகவும் விரும்பிப் பார்க்கும் பழம் பெரும் நடிகர் அசோகன்தான். அசோகன் வந்துவிட்டால் எனக்கு மிகவும் கொண்டாட்டமாக இருக்கும். அவர் ஒவ்வொரு வார்த்தைக்கும் நடிப்பார்; தன் முக பாவங்களை மாற்றுவார். அவர் புருவம் மேலே போகும், கீழே வரும். முகம் அஷ்ட கோணல் ஆகும். பறக்கும் பாவை படத்தில் மனோகர் தொலைபேசியில் பேசும் ஒரு காட்சி வரும். மனோகர் என்னவோ சாதாரணமாகத்தான் பேசுவார். பக்கத்தில் அசோகன் மனோகர் பேசும் ஒவ்வொரு வார்த்தைக்கும் ஒரு ரியாக் ஷன் காட்டுவார் பாருங்கள், அவார்ட் கொடுக்காமல் வேறு என்ன செய்வது?

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Actually,
yours truly
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Asokan in Murattu Kaalai - height of comedy. Note: he played a righteous police officer in the movie, was not supposed to do comedy
Asokan in Alauddinum arpudha vilakkum - killer comedy. I am serious. If you are 30 plus, avoid it. Sirichu sirichu heart attack nichayam.Actually, even if you are 30 minus, skip it for same reasons.
Asokan in general - over-acting in dictionary definition with rare exceptions.

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