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I'm sure you'd agree that it is wrong to judge an actor's range based on what's plainly visible. nAn kaNNukkuth theriyAdha vishayangaLap paththi solREn. Intensity, mood etc. displayed by way of one's physicality. What the actor does to the character by "playing" it.Quote:
Originally Posted by crajkumar_be
Of course, we need that calibration all the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by crajkumar_be
One of the attributes that I like in Madhavan is his ability to blend in the film.
He hardly does getup changes, maybe twice to play two different rugged individuals.
Mostly, he would service the story as we saw even recently in Evano Oruvan and Yavarum Nalam, two totally different films. I doubt if he will do a film playing a hunchback, or a blind, or a multiple personaly sicko. He knows his limitation and works around it beautifully and chooses films that can best use whatever talent he has.
That is a mark of a good actor. I don't know if he is versatile or not, since the definition is not so clear. But he is a fine, fine actor.
Adha thaan naan "Or, apart from these De Niro brings something different in each role nu solreengala?" nu solli/kettirundhen. Not necessarily differences in physically observable traits or "habits".Quote:
Originally Posted by equanimus
Aboorva - Though you see the usual Nageshisms, the meanness was there which was a revelation to me.
Nammavar - I hadn't seen Nagesh in that mode. I mean i hadn't seen anyone in that mode
Innum edhavadhu kudthirundha indha madhiri vishayangal veliya vandhirukkum nu nenaikkaren
equa, now we talk.
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Originally Posted by Thalaivar equanimus as always cutting straight to the point
This is a good base to start evaluating candidates.Quote:
Originally Posted by Groucho displaying his junior equa weld movies champion status
P.S: I dont quite hate Vikram to the intensity that CR, groucho etc have displayed in this forum;he is pretty decent but limited - the very opposite of versatile but he is not bad at all. His national award was for Pithamagan Groucho not Anniyan. And remember this, the man who lost out to Vikram wsa Hritik Roshan for Koi Mil Gaya so I am sure you'd agree with me when you say that in the context of that year, Vikram's NA was well-deserved. However, as a counter to your Viikram-takes-actor-proof role theory, Upendra, who I would have thought quite was well placed to breeze through that role in terms pf physical screen presence, style of acting and screen image, did fail to capture the same intensity as Vikram in the Kannada version
Ditto Plum
He is not that bad at all
The only thing annoying about the national award win (PithAmagan) is that he pipped Kamal (VirumANdi) to get it. Otherwise nothing to grudge.
PR, if Kamal's Virumandi was the same year, then the quirks of our NA selection process means that he wsa not even in comptetion for the award. Hritik Roshan, per widely publicised reports then, missed out narrowly to Vikram that year. Kamal finals-ku kooda qualify aagalai :-)
For the record, I find Vikram to be a decent actor in his range but not versatile.
The choice comments are for his remarks about Thalaivar - thats not changing my opinion on him as an actor, obviously
Hey, I like Vikram too. idhula enna thappu? Certainly one of the good actors around. It's not as if Tamil cinema is blessed with the likes of Irrfan Khan!
Plum, I know it was for Pitha Magan. I am disputing that too. That's a plain actor-proof role. You dirty yourself up, get that dye done, lose weight (again), and act dumb and voila! Award committee will kiss your feet. It's a shortcut to glory.
I like the fact that PR brought Virumandi. Now, that is what I call a great performance .Sure, Kamal has nice facial hair. But it stops there, the rest is how he presented the internal conflict...the transformation from a happy go lucky village youth, and how he takes in when hell descends on him with that serious violent incident, the wisdom he picks up in jail. His interview session with Rohini itself is enough to pick up dozens of awards.
What did Vikram do? Stiff walking and some grunts.
Edit: By the way, I just don't like Vikram when he attempts heavy duty acting. But I like him fair enough in straight forward Masala films. He is good as an action hero.
Plum,Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
No, similarly, the Tamil media reports did say that Vikram pipped Kamal for the award. I remember reading somewhere that Vikram, Kamal and Hrithik were the 3 'finalists.'