The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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Genesis, Sorry about the notes on Vairamuthu. It is such an awful prism - dubbed telugu movie with an alien milieu for him, and a tune tailored for another language - to look at him through. That aside, I suppose I have noted about KV's lack of comfort with the milieu he set Subha Sankalpam in. I think you are right about Swathi Muthyam too, though I can't remember now exactly. It could be non-brahmin protagonists but if it is, KV does fail to evoke the same authenticity as the previous ones. Swathi Muthyam focussed more on inter-personal relationships, and milked some nice sentimental mish mash out of it, not to mention the (autism?) of the protagonist, and the widow remarriage theme. Despite all those memes, there is no specific focus on any of those aspects - the focus seems to be on kamal and his performance, a very good choice one might add, from a cinematic perspective. A good movie to celebrate Kamal, the performer as against Kamal, the creator. Possibly, by this time Kamal, the performer had accrued enough credit for his lifetime that even a zero count of good performances after that would not have reduced his standing as an actor/performer. Which is why I wish for the termination of the performer now and sole focus on the creator in him.