Compli, I'm not sure about him being more emotional than cerebral - unless you meant it as 'not cerebral enough'. Moments in Perazhagan where he re-channels Ghajini with head-twisting etc for Karthik, who has lost his mind after the death of Priya, are so obviously affected that uh, I can see where some of the criticism here is valid. Which then tells me that that performance didnt so much come from the heart as from the brain, and whats less, even turned out to be embarassingly obvious about that.
Coming back to your keratter, I just meant that he might genuinely be not interested in titles - doesnt look like fishing for compliments when he does that modesty thing in his interviews - saw more of matter-of-fact-ness. As you know, I have argued against this being a factor in evaluating an artiste so if I am saying this, it is not as an argument for his quality as an artiste.