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    Thala Ajith's 56th Film-Vedhalam-Veeram Siva-AMRathnam - Anirudh - Winning combo

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    How I wonder what you are...

    Thoughts on stars, those people who keep making us go to the theatres even if, sometimes, we wish better sense had prevailed.

    Why is Vedalam, Ajith’s Deepavali release, doing such boffo business at the Tamil Nadu box office? A lot of people have asked me this question, including a Delhi-based journalist who’s doing a story on the film and wanted to know: The movie is a disaster – in storytelling, acting, aesthetics and music. How has this masala genre as the template for heroism and mythmaking survived in the 20th century?

    I don’t know if I have the answer. If we knew why films worked, there would be no flops. But yes, the extent of the Vedalam’s success is surprising, given that it has terrible comedy, a romantic track that appears to exist simply because you cannot have a film without a heroine (the hero barely looks at her in that way), and the villains have basically been instructed to act like gorillas after the zookeeper forgot their feed. And yet, something keeps us watching, and that something, I think, is the star. He’s the feed bag for the otherwise starved audience.


    Let’s extend that culinary metaphor. The thing that makes a star a star is that secret (or sometimes not-so-secret) sauce he or she spices up the screen with. With Vijay and Shahid Kapoor, it’s the way they move. Many actors are good dancers, but when they dance, you hear them say, “I can execute these steps.” With these two, you hear, “Look at me be.” They don’t dance. They… flow. And watching this can sometimes be enough. No one seemed to like R… Rajkumar, but the exuberance of the song sequences left me with a high I couldn’t shake off for days. I don’t trust people who say they enjoy films only if there’s a “script,” or if it “makes sense.” With a certain kind of movie, yes, we expect all that — but there are films that engage us in other ways. When a star in his element, when Vijay cuts loose the way he does in the Karigalan number in Vettaikaaran, it’s like the sun has been replaced by a disco ball. Suddenly we realise how gloom-dispelling, how life-sustaining this stuff is, that trashy pleasures are a big, big part of why we go to the movies.

    But what about other aspects of the performance, you ask? But a star is not required to be the on-screen answer to a multivitamin tablet, an A-Z repository of talent. That’s an actor’s job. It’s the actor who’s obligated to demonstrate his prowess at several levels. He must laugh. He must cry. He must do everything Kamal Haasan can do.

    Now there’s an interesting case — an actor who’s also a star. And also a writer canny enough to give his fans the actor-star they come to see. His latest film, Thoongavanam, has an unconvincing moment where the tough cop he plays breaks down. See Kamal as just an actor, and you’ll find this to be uncharacteristic behaviour for a character toughened by years of service, but as a star, you can’t be too subtle. Your fans expect these emotionally charged moments where they can say, “Wow, what a great actor he is!” That’s what’s in the feed bag. My favourite Kamal Haasan moment in recent years is when his effeminate dancer in Vishwaroopam transforms, in a heartbeat, into a raging warrior. You’ve seen the actor thus far. Now we see the star. But wait, wasn’t the actor a false front as per the script — in other words, weren’t we always watching the star? Or is the measure of this star how far out on a limb he goes as an actor?

    You could tie yourself up in knots deconstructing this scene, as also the one in Enthiran, where Evil Rajinikanth sniffs out and captures Good Rajinikanth, who’s in hiding as part of the former’s army. But what’s happening on screen is just the appetiser. For the main course, dig deeper. Evil Rajinikanth is the persona that we saw early on in the actor’s career, the thrilling bad guy who was gradually replaced — due to the compulsions of, yes, stardom — by the duller do-gooder Rajinikanth, and here’s the revenge. Idhu eppidi irukku? These are quintessential star moments, which allow us to go beyond the script and “converse” with star personas that have evolved over the years.

    Does Ajith, who’s being compared to Rajinikanth after Vedalam’s success, have this kind of stardom yet? Maybe; may be not. It’s easier to look back on a star than to comment on him mid-creation. But with the shades of grey he’s able to accommodate in his characters, he’s at least a bracing change from other bland heroes whose stardom is a trap, confining them in cocoons of cloying virtue.


    But sometimes, we become moralists and insist on virtue. When I posted a review of Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, a friend commented, “I don’t understand how a convicted murderer still gets to be leading man.” It’s terrible and perhaps points to a huge character flaw in me, but maybe some of us find it easier to separate the real and make-believe worlds, the way we do with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski. Because on screen, Salman Khan is a star – his USP is an endearing brattishness, abetted, no doubt, by his off-screen status of an unattached man who still lives with his parents. He’s the boy who never grew up. And Shah Rukh? He was a zillion-watt star in the Kabhi Khushi Khabhie Gham days, when he resurrected the s-s-s-swooning romantic hero for the Internet generation. You weren’t sure if he was going to carve your name in blood or carve you up. Then there’s Aamir, who’s single-handedly positioned himself as the biggest star-brand since Amitabh Bachchan. Quality, hard work, reliability — these may sound like jottings from a 1923 Boy Scout’s manual, but Aamir Khan has fashioned these resolutely unglamorous traits into a survival kit for stardom.

    What about heroines? Sridevi was once called the female Bachchan (and later, I think Madhuri Dixit was too) — no further acknowledgement of stardom is necessary. But as much as I enjoy some of their performances, they put too much of themselves out there. I preferred Rekha, who had more mystique. She was the thing you saw when you peered into a deep well on a moonless night.

    As for today’s actresses, they may be stars in terms of box-office value (Nayanthara, who’s apparently installed a hit-manufacturing unit in her backyard), and there are certainly some good performers, but they aren’t unique enough, the sauce isn’t special enough. Then again, you may differ. Because tastes differ. I’ve never understood the Hema Malini phenomenon, for instance. Very limited performer. A dazzler in her Johny Mera Naam days, but not so much later. And yet, she kept shining. What, I keep wondering, was the secret sauce? Her innate Indianness, perhaps? Sometimes, even this unknowability is the stamp of a star.
    Baradwaj Rangan
    The Hindu
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    Quote Originally Posted by Freedom View Post
    As much as I'm happy, I'm not really sure if I want to see him in similar masala flair. I still feel Ajith is missing a film like Dhool, Gilli(pucca commercial no bars hold masala). I need something on those lines.

    But it would be better for him to move to some new gen directors and keep himself on toes with next upcoming generation of audience.
    Exactly my thoughts...personally i feel hsri is much much better director than siva in all the departments

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    Therikka vidalaamaa?

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    Looks like VMI is sponsoring crapfest in vikatan. 4 factually wrong articles written and sponsored by VMI.

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    http://ns7.tv/ta/vedalam-two-week-bo...117-cores.html

    இரண்டு வாரங்களில் 117 கோடி ரூபாய் அளவிற்கு வேதாளம் திரைப்படம் வசூல் ஈட்டியுள்ளதாக தகவல்கள் வெளியாகியுள்ளது.

    மிகுந்த எதிர்ப்பார்ப்பிற்கிடையே நடிகர் அஜித்தின் நடிப்பில் வேதாளம் திரைப்படம் தீபாவளிக்கு வெளியாகி ரசிகர்களின் வரவேற்பால் பிரமாண்ட வெற்றி பெற்றுள்ளது. இந்த படம் வெளியான முதலே படம் குறித்த தகவல்களும் வசூல் குறித்த செய்திகளும் வெளிவந்தவண்ணம் உள்ளன,

    அதுமட்டுமின்றி மழையை கூட பொருட்படுத்தாமல் ரசிகர்கலில்ன் வருகையால் நல்ல வசூல் பெற்று வருகிறது வேதாளம் திரைப்படம். மேலும் இந்த படத்தின் வசூல் முதல் நாளில் தமிழகத்தில் மட்டும் 15 கோடி ரூபாய்க்கும் மேல் வசூல் செய்து சாதனை படைத்தது, இரண்டு வாரங்களில் 117 கோடி ரூபாய் அளவிற்கு வசூல் ஈட்டியுள்ளதாகவும் தகவல்கள் வெளியாகியுள்ளது.

    வீரம் படத்திற்கு பிறகு அஜித்தை வைத்து சிவா இயக்கியுள்ள இந்த படத்தில் லக்ஷ்மி மேனன், ஸ்ருதி ஹாசன், சூரி ஆகியோர் முக்கிய வேடங்களில் நடித்திருந்தனர். அதுமட்டுமின்றி மீண்டும் அஜித் சிவா கூட்டணி ஒரு புதிய படத்தில் இணையவிருப்பதாகவும் சமீபத்தில் செய்திகள் வெளியாகியுள்ளது, இது குறித்த அதிகாரப்பூர்வ அறிவிப்பு வெளியானால் இந்த கூட்டணி இணையும் ஹாட்ரிக் படமாக அடுத்த படம் அமையும் என்பதும் குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது.


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    Vedalam title'i kalaaikallam'na, Thala check vaichar
    Therikka vidalaamaa'i kalaaikkalaamna, avangale avangalukku check vaichutaanga

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    Thala is giving continuous hits without big directors. Pandikai release or not, Thala padamna hit thaan. Competition, no competition, positive review, negative review don't matter.
    Jana movie la oru dialogue solluvaar Thala. "Ethiroyadai balathaiyum eduthu kondu jeichitte iruppan"

    Mahanathi Shankar Dheena la oru dialogue solluvaar "Thala irukkum pothu vaal aada kuudathu."

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    some one mention here , that there was a scene / reference to SS in vedhalam, I cant quite remember it, can some one tell me what scene / reference that is please ?
    Om Namaste astu Bhagavan Vishveshvaraya Mahadevaya Triambakaya Tripurantakaya Trikalagni kalaya kalagnirudraya Neelakanthaya Mrutyunjayaya Sarveshvaraya Sadashivaya Shriman Mahadevaya Namah Om Namah Shivaye Om Om Namah Shivaye Om Om Namah Shivaye

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