Your "Guilty Pleasure" Favourite Films

Credit: "Critics and Confession" comment by Thirumaran.

Okay, we all have them in our collection. It's time to come out of the closet and admit that you like them. I think I have done in the past, with regards to pre-Nayagan Kamal films like Per Sollum Pillai, Manggama Sabatham, Kathal Parisu and heck, I even liked Viratham that I bet many Kamal fans didn't watch.

Other guilty pleasure of mine include the films Sathyaraj did with Shakti Chitambaram - Mahanadigan, Englishkaran, Kovai Brothers and the recent Guru Sishyan. Silly Sathyaraj lollu makes me laugh anyway.
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Guilty pleasure as in revisit often but would not like to admit?

Something like that.

Could be that it's playing in the TV, and you watch 'em anyway, and, yes, not admit especially here where highbrow types might look down on you. Or so you might feel.

apdi edhuvum perusA (unconfessed)illai. "Ranga" countless times in theatre but I have recounted that many times in Hub.
sendhUrappUvE countless times in theatre - again confessed in Honestraj thread.

High Brow Intellectual: why did you watch sendhurappUvE many times?
Me: Because I could.

I could say this: Vijayakanth movies neraiya, interest-Oda pArthurukkEn. Again, that is also quite well-known to people who visit the Honestraj thread.
True guilty pleasure-nA, it is this:

I quite liked Sarathkumar in some moments in some of his movies, especially one involving him to be bashfully comic - kattabomman, the movie where kasthuri dares us "nAn Adi kAttattumA recordu danceu" etc. I mean, quite to the extent of "nallA dhAnE paNdrAru idhellAm..."

Remember his bashful pointing to Vadivelu when "minnal" tharai-thEchufies with her feet in front of him in the mAyee "Vadivelu poNnu pArkum" scene? I quite like that persona of his.

Favorite guilty pleasure got to be Makkal Thilagam films. Not all, for I think films like Kudi. Kovil, Anbe Vaa, EVP, AO, etc could be enjoyed without overburdening sense of guilt.

Nothing wrong with those films, Thilak. They are classics.

If it's Makkal Thilagam, my guilty pleasure will be duds like Tedivantha Mappilai, or even Ninaitathai Mudippavan.

NT guilty pleasure? Ah, far too many... :think:

Yes, that's what I said. Those are the exceptions. :)

Visu films

Remote lock aayirum

Veerasaamy - urination scene, song sequences - especially the gestures, the ending.

Dharmapuri - thambala thattu acting as bulletproof, Captain kicking one guy sets off a pack of cards motion with a whole bunch of baddies, lined up behind him. (Tho the credit goes to Ramarajannan for bringing this kind of action sequences to TFI. In one film, he lines up all the goons in a straight line. And in one flying motion, fists down everyone. :notworthy: )

Wait a moment. I think watching it with the perverse pleasure of laughing at the film, heckling etc. does not qualify.

Films you seem to inexplicably like 'as is' is what we are talking about.

Confession is for the brave. Kamaan now.

People will be disallowed from quoting from this thread in future film-appreciation arguments.

I trust our hubbers wouldn't get pedantic about all this.

But I think Groucho started this thread for 'as is' films that appeals for inexplicable reasons. Not unintentionally funny films (I think there's another thread for this).

No, laughing at or heckling no qualify. Only like-like qualify. Genuine like.

Another one that will raise many eyebrows: 123. Yes that film with Master Sundaram's kids. I like it, and thought the boys did well.

One NT film, really stupid one, that I revisited many times: Yamanukku Yaman. Garish costumes, frightening wigs aside, it was pretty funny.

Tik Tik Tik.
Fails completely as a thriller. Whimsical story. Direction is appalling. But completely enticed by always agreeable Madhavi :P

MadhavilAm guilty pleasurela kaNakku vaRAdhu. It is a healthy and legitimate pleasure, I say.

Rajini = Kazhugu. Fast paced total masala flick. I adore the ending.

More Kamal = Guru, Ullasa Paravaigal. I don't mind even revisiting Japanil Kalyanaraman, enakku terinja orey Tamizh film sequel of that time, just for Kalyanam.

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MadhavilAm guilty pleasurela kaNakku vaRAdhu. It is a healthy and legitimate pleasure, I say.

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Yes. For this thread, I'd add Ambika & Amala to this list.

Hmm, just thought a bit about what my list would be. ammUr padangaLla idhu konjam tough call illa? I mean, the "nothing great, good timepass" angle is so ubiquitous that it's hard to say where the line of guilty pleasures starts for oneself.

For starters, several films of Rajini and Kamal.

As some of you know, guru sishyan is right on top for me! Rajini is in great form here. Also, rAjAdhi rAja, mannan, aNNAmalai, uzhaippALi and so on. Most of the late 80s-early 90s Rajini films are truly addictive in this sense. Even the fairly turgid melodramas like dharmaththin thalaivan, dharmadhurai do the trick for yours truly.

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MadhavilAm guilty pleasurela kaNakku vaRAdhu. It is a healthy and legitimate pleasure, I say.

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ippadi ponna, 10 page kooda thERaadhu. All the best. :P

Youth - Ippo potta kooda virumbi paappen

These days, obscure 80s-90s movies. Visu films top the list

Indha visaranaila pala unmaigal velila varum pola irukke :mrgreen:

Yeah, mostly from the 80-90s timeframe. Karthik, Prabhu, Sathyaraj, Vijayakanth 'nu adukkittE pOga vENdiyadhu dhAn.

Many Prabhu Deva philims. Rising star, wonderful performer-nu nambi iruntha kaalam athu.

List:
Indhu
Mr. Romeo
Kathala Kathala (share with Kamal's list)
Nam Iruvar Namakiruvar
VIP
Manadhai Tirudivittai
Ezhayin Sirippil

Time for me to :oops:

Yeah, I also thought of nAm iruvar namakkiruvar! You're right on the money. Prabhu Deva is a good candidate here.

Bhagyaraj's 90s films. Hopelessly anachronistic, but fun nevertheless.

Kodi parakkuthu
Raja Chinna Roja
Singara Velan - as a Kamal movie
Vikram

will post more when I recollect...

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I like Bagyaraj and FravudevA films.
Hardly feel embarassed about them.

Visu is ..predictable, regressive, badly made stagey - ellAm solluvEn aanA ukkAndhu pArppEn. :mrgreen: aboorva sagOdarigaL. Anyone?

arasiyal padangaL: amaithippadai, Gurudhanapal, and, gulp, RK Selvamani! (makkaL Atchi, anyone?)

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Originally Posted by equanimus

Bhagyaraj's 90s films.

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Same same. RR, agree on Vikram.

PR, GEn-Y might have reasons to sneer at Bagyaraj though. As for Visu, I am with you. Pattukottai Periyappa anyone :P

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amaithippadai

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idhukkellAm enna thayakkam.

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Gurudhanapal,

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Dontach !
thAimAman, Maaman MagaL, periya idathu maapiLLai, kalyANa galAttA. Guilt-ku idamE illaiyE.

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RK Selvamani! (makkaL Atchi, anyone?)

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Ah..of course :-)

Gurudhanapal films rejetted from this thread. Please refer to Annan's thread for clarification :D

RK Selvamani, good candidate. Makkal Aatchi & Arasiyal, good companion pieces.

P_R,
But 90s Bhagyaraj became very different from 80s, right? In one sense, he was making the same kind of films, but I think he also got stuck in a time warp and didn't adapt to the new status quo form, because of which his films were generally immersed in plot mechanics, and often very stagey (think ammA vandhAchchu and such).

Bhagyaraj - Rudra
PD - Kaadhalan. Apart from the songs/visuals, I like the film itself. Can watch any number of times.

Poonthotta Kaavalkaaran
Durga :oops: (my childhood favourite)
Poove Unakkaaga

Thiruda Thiruda - Critical/commercial dud. But, a big favorite of mine.

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Originally Posted by equanimus

P_R,
But 90s Bhagyaraj became very different from 80s, right? In one sense, he was making the same kind of films, but I think he also got stuck in a time warp and didn't adapt to the new status quo form, because of which his films were generally immersed in plot mechanics, and often very stagey (think ammA vandhAchchu and such).

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Yes I agree.
I saw the 90s only now :oops:

Perfect description of the problems in his 90s films. Time warp dhaan.

irundhaalum kudumbathOda pOyi first weekla paathuruvOm. Practice continued till vEttiyai madichu kattu :lol2:

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Thiruda Thiruda - Critical/commercial dud. But, a big favorite of mine.

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idhukkellAm guilt feel paNNappadaadhu 'ngrEn.

Critics-kku enna theriyin? Venkirau-ai kEttu paarunga.
adhE maadhiri public-ku enna theriyin? Flau-ai kEttu paarunga.

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amaithippadai

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idhukkellAm enna thayakkam.

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Gurudhanapal,

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Dontach !
thAimAman, Maaman MagaL, periya idathu maapiLLai, kalyANa galAttA. Guilt-ku idamE illaiyE.

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vERa vazhiyE illai, irukkaNum 'ngaREn. :lol:

PR, that gives me an idea to start "Critically acclaimed, public loved films that you hate". :P I yam looking at you, Roja.

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Originally Posted by groucho070

PR, that gives me an idea to start "Critically acclaimed, public loved films that you hate". :P I yam looking at you, Roja.

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