maaberum nadigar, maamanidhar - avar marupiravi eduththu vandhu meendum nadikka vendum enbadhu en praarthanai.
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maaberum nadigar, maamanidhar - avar marupiravi eduththu vandhu meendum nadikka vendum enbadhu en praarthanai.
A small writeup on Nadigar thilagam by me.
http://passionforcinema.com/memories-about-a-lion/
I wish Murali could write an English article on NT, and jai could guest-post it on passionforcinema.
jai, that article was very good, btw,
Awesome writeup Jai. You wrote, "Writing about Sivaji is a humbling experience as it is similar to being asked to explain about the brightness of noon time Sun." It sums up the feeling I have when I am compelled to explain his performances when writing reviews of his films.
Edit. I, too, find it hard to translate Nadigar Thilagam. Jewel of an actor? Not necessary direct translation, right?
May beQuote:
Originally Posted by groucho070
"Example of an actor" ?
I dont feel satisfied with the translation either.
"Pinnacle" would sound better.
Blogged about NT, myself. Click here or my signature.
Thamiz thayin mootha magan nam ithaya theivam nadigar thilagam ninaivu thinam
Yendrum nam ninaivukalil vazkirar
Nadippuchudare vazga
Vazga Sivaji
2001 July returning home from a college culturals at REC Trichy (IIRC). Had made decent money in three days and spent - what then seemed- atrocious amounts before heading Chennaiward. I had the weekend to breathe before college again.Was having the last dregs of the delusion that I could go about being someplace new and being someone else every now and then and get paid for doing things I enjoy.
A friend of mine who had the misfortune of having the seat next to me on the bus bore through my sophomoric ruminations on how the word 'actor' is an interesting paradox. "They don't have to act. They have to just be. They have to 'be' in different situations, climes, lives. They have to be what they are not. They don't ever have to 'do'. The rest of us have to do. We have to 'act', to manifest ourselves through actions and submit sufficient apology for our existence." He was the mimer of our dumb-charade tag team. He felt I was going off an a tangent clinging on to a feeble line of thought. Acting was doing, he must have felt. Surely no joke to be convincing in an alternative existence.
"Sivaji passed away" is how my mother welcomed me as I entered home after being away for 3 days. No mobiles back then for her to be worried about not knowing my exact coordinates every few hours. But I am reasonably sure if we had it, she'd have called up to convey the news. Never been much fans of Sivaji at home. My parents not much into movies and me not much into old movies then. But this was still news that we all felt important.
Just to get away from Sun TV's funeral marketing I fished out the old Muthal mariyAthai tape to have lunch over it. General chit-chat over good actor stuck in bad movies in his late years proceeded. By the time we moved into rasam we were roundly unanimously dissing films in general.
This 'good actor' bit was also received wisdom for me. His new films I had seen in theatre/tv were ordinary. Perhaps I should look up the old films to know what had now gone missing. Not to be judged by those who professed the loss loudly on TV today. Whatever little appreciation that I developed was much later and much thanks to this thread.
The next evening though, like every self respecting elitist I promptly settled on watching the weekend's latest release Tamil film with the extended family.The title card had a Sivaji homage. That was quick ! The movie was terrible. Perhaps the last ill-fitting movie he was a part of.
Well, green of me to judge and be outraged. He was everybody's.
நடிகர் திலகமே.......
என்றென்றும் உனை
நினைத்திருப்பேன்,
என்றாவது ஒரு நாள்
மறந்திருப்பேன்,
அன்று நான்
இறந்திருப்பேன்
குருவே :notworthy: