Originally Posted by
P_R
fullA padikkalai. Music comparison ellAm purinjukka mudiyumnu thONalai. But will respond to this point alone
Great artists should not be judged by the standerts set for normal human beings-nu sollunga rightu.
Anything and everything gets disproportionately attributed to -what gets a tad thoughtlessly bandied about as - arrogance 'nu solRadhu kooda sari.
But, ellAmE edhirkatchi agenda based image- 'nRa maadhiri ellAm solla vENdAngREn.
"yEzhu swarangaLum ennidam viLayAduvadhu pOl" (Jagathratchagam book release function) and all makes one (adhaavadhu me) cringe.
I then have to remind myself of Kamal's comment that we are talking about a talent on par with that or Bharathi (agree, disagree adhu vERa matter, just invoking it for how it provides me an alternative framework to look at it) and who doesn't enjoy Bharathi's arrogance சுடர்மிகு அறிவுடன் படைத்துவிட்டாய், இந்தப் பதர்களையே எல்லாம் என்று எண்ணி இருப்பேனோ etc.
Perhaps had we been contemporaries then, we would have cringed for those too.
Today there is an inevitable mythic, larger-than-life image to it, so we consume his persona with glee.