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Thanks for the Moderator whoever merged it.
From the 50s to 70s there were great talents in all area except, maybe, cinematography. There were experiments, small scale pre-indie indie like Andha Naal, megaforce like Karnan, VPK, Nadodi Manna, wonderful music, great lyrics, fantastic dialogues, clash of ideologies and politics, genre fusion of west and east like Puthiya Paravai, fantasy tales where lack of sfx totally ignored like Maya Bajaar, total exploitation of a single actor's talent like NT in Navarathiri, Bale Pandiya and Deiva Magan in three different genres, wonderful competition from great studios like AVM, Gemini and Sujatha, not to mention vehicle studios like Sivaji films and MGR pictures, Hindi films were remaking Tamizh films and vice versa, Hindi talents were acknowledging Tamizh talents like Sanjeev Kumar's colossal failure to reenact Navarathiri and his own admittance...these are GIGANTIC achievements in their own way, if you ignore comparison to Hollywood or anything Kurosawa had ever made.
And then came the 80s... :roll:*
*with exception of Raja and the other two, you know who, of course.
It was a case of feeding mere keerai to the yaanai, I mean, Ganesan :D That was all they could afford at that time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
Groucho,
This triple jump is superabudant for this 3 decade jr kid.
Thanks for the pointer, Cinematography is one area it clearly lacked.
* - This is what I exactly mean!
Most films I cited as examples are from sixties, therein lines my leaning :D
A very interesting poll and a very difficult choice to make ....
But I have voted for the 80's because of the presence of some very talented heroines then. Suhasini, Revathi, Saritha, Sujatha, Radhika and Lakshmi come immediately to mind. They were not just glamorous embellishments to the movie. And a lot of credit goes to the great directors of the 80's ....K.B, Bharathiraja...Bhagyaraj among others who could offer some great roles these talented artistes. I will single out K.B for special praise for this . So many of the films by these ladies in the 80's are classics.
Interestingly, Hindi films had Shabana Azmi and Smitha Patil around the same time. Two all-time greats. And 80's was the age of middle cinema...the genius of Shyam Benegal... who again brought out the best in these two actresses.
And I also chose the 80's because of the one and only Ilayaraja..He was really Ilayamaharaja during the 80's.The great man had the sort of creative output which even he found difficult to replicate in the 90's
ThEvar Magan, Mahanadhi, Michael Madana KamaRajan, Guna, Hey Ram, Kurudhippunal
the defence wrests
Tailgating with much more fire on the axe.
vikatan,
please unga movies lista podunga.
PR, wholeheartedly agree :ty:
சமீபத்தில் ‘தமிழில் எனக்கு பிடித்த 10 படங்கள்’ என்னும் தலைப்பில் வலைப்பதிவில் என்னை எழுத அழைத்த போது நான் குறிப்பிட்ட படங்கள் இவை http://cdjm.blogspot.com/2010/04/10.html
அதை முடித்து விட்டுப் பார்த்தால் 10 -ல 4 படங்கள் 90-களில் :shock: .ஆனால் இதை வைத்து 90கள் தான் சிறந்த காலகட்டம் என சொல்லிவிட முடியாது ..ஏனென்றால் ஒரு காலகட்டத்தில் எத்தனை நல்ல படங்கள் என்பதோடு எத்தனை சதவீதம் குப்பை படங்கள் வந்தன என்பதையும் சேர்ந்து ஒரு பொது மதிப்பீடு செய்வதே சரியாக இருக்கும்.
5 மிகச்சிறந்த படம் , 5 நல்ல படம் ,50 குப்பை படம் என்பதை விட 1 மிகச்சிறந்த படம் 20 நல்ல படம் 30 குப்பை படம் என்பதே நல்லது என்பது என் கருத்து.
அதன் படி ...இன்னும் தான் யோசிக்க வேண்டும் :lol:
btw isn't this kinda a hopeless exercise. When we look back, we cannot enjoy the films without giving a time handicap. When we enjoy them we enjoy them as a curiosity.
Even in the breathtakingly ahead-of-its-time andha naaL, has so many dramatic lung-burning speeches.
Of course, in saying this I am assuming here that a movie is storytelling, and the rest are embellishments - which is not a widely accepted PoV around here. :lol2: