Quote Originally Posted by Stardust View Post
I agree with you on one thing, his effort in introducing new genre to tamil cinema is laudable. I liked AO to an extent, heck I could even end up liking IU, Selva-the person isn't going to put me off from watching it. If you read my first comment again, you'll realise I was judging him and not the movie.
AO had talked about the Pandyan-Chozhar rivalry, a topic that has been rarely unearthed in TFI. We have literary classics such as Ponniyin Selvan and we haven't seen any of these adapted into films. So for me AO was a step in the right direction and it had a fairly intelligent mix of history,fantasy and adventure. Hopefully we get to see a filmy version of Ponniyin selvan soon (a novel that I particularly enjoyed reading and which I believe should have been made as a film long ago). We had a film version of Parthiban Kanavu featuring Gemini Ganesan in 1960 though, but to make it palatable with current trends of cinema, it requires some effort.