Khan Saheb Kamal Haasan's Jamaat/Jeba Koottam/Devasthaanam - Part 8

[SoftSword]

// ah okies... neenga salem'la irundha kaalatthula, salem was having the maximum number of theatres... and movie releases would happen like festivals, especially rajini-kamals...

[irir123]

tamizharasan - disagree wrto Nayagan - at least at Udhayam cinema complex, it was 'ee, kaakka' for first 2 weeks - we were living less than 2kms from Ashok pillar - so I can vouch for that !

OTOH, 'kakki chattai', 'oru kaithiyin dairy' were amali dumali hits from day one!

[Nerd]

Funny to see IRIR who is SO FREAKIN AGAINST audiences celebrating artists as demi-Gods use words like amali thumali / traffic jam etc. and in the processing talking high of veRum BO suksass.

[tamizharasan]

tamizharasan - disagree wrto Nayagan - at least at Udhayam cinema complex, it was 'ee, kaakka' for first 2 weeks - we were living less than 2kms from Ashok pillar - so I can vouch for that !

OTOH, 'kakki chattai', 'oru kaithiyin dairy' were amali dumali hits from day one!

Nothing to argue here. So you are trying to say that Kamal does not have fan base to keep the movie busy for even first 2 weeks and WOM is the only to get commercial success for him. During those days seeing Rajini or Kamal movies is impossible for the few days. For movies like Maveeran, Vikram which incidentally home production for both Rajini and kamal, I had seen people walking on the heads of other people to get the tickets on the first day. Anyway freeya vidunga.

[tamizharasan]

Funny to see IRIR who is SO FREAKIN AGAINST audiences celebrating artists as demi-Gods use words like amali thumali / traffic jam etc. and in the processing talking high of veRum BO suksass.

Internally most of the people enjoy the BO success of their favorite stars and I have seen it very obvious in all threads here. It really does not matter who is their favorite hero. Inga ellA sandaiyum BO Success-a vachchi thAna.

[irir123]

Nerd - I am only sharing my observations!! I never did say I was part of any of this celebration nonsense, nor am I in favor of any of the 'milk/honey abhishekam' of cutouts nonsense!

and never have I taken the risk of watching any film (Rajini or Kamal, doesnt matter - btw, as a mini-digression, just so that you know - until I was 14, I was an ardent Rajini movie watcher - its from the late 80s, i got disinterested with his 'image' based films! maybe all of that coincided with my reading habit that had just then picked up bigtime) on the day of its release.

palmoil, kerosene, aavin milk, idhukkellaam veyyilla nikkaradhu poradhunnu, cinemakaranukku yaen nikkanumnu thaan!

[tamizharasan]

irir123
My point here is people go ga ga over their favorite heroes box office achivement more than anything here. Do you think I don't agree with any of Kamal's box office success. After these many years producers are still willing to pay several crores for Rajini and kamal to act in their movies as heroes. That itself talks about their box office success. No one does business for free in Cinema and no one knows that better than Kamal himself and that is why he always claims that he wants all of his movies to be successful.

[Bala (Karthik)]

Funny to see IRIR who is SO FREAKIN AGAINST audiences celebrating artists as demi-Gods use words like amali thumali / traffic jam etc. and in the processing talking high of veRum BO suksass.

+1000, idhula ivaru BO verdict vera pass panraapla, jithu vela panni potrukkaangalaam...

And adhu eppadi Kamalukku mattum BO la interest-e illadhavanga ellaam oh, idhu correct-a? Appadi theriyalaye nu kelvi ellaam ezhupparaanga. Yempa yen?????

[P_R]

And adhu eppadi Kamalukku mattum BO la interest-e illadhavanga ellaam oh, idhu correct-a? Appadi theriyalaye nu kelvi ellaam ezhupparaanga. Yempa yen?????

I am counting myself also here. I don't deeply care about BO numbers but I posted about Anbe Sivaum.

sandhEgaththukkAga illeengaNNA, but oru vishayam therinjikkalaamnudhaan 'nga.

You may remember the discussion we had about Kamal's comments about the producers support (lack therof) about Anbe Sivam to the extent of saying 'if it were a Rajkamal film, this would have been a hit'). Hence the surprise to see a 100 day foster for that film.

[Cinefan]

Just for info,
I saw Mahanadhi at Anand theatre(?,the theatre whose owner was the bad guy in Agni.....),Chennai for the 1st time when it was nearing it's 90th day.Theatre only 20 to 25 % full.

Guna -3rd day,Shanthi theatre,B'lore.Annikku Mama vettu Gruhapravesam.Theatre valiya dhaan poganum.House full but it fell from the very next day despite rave reviews in the local news papers.