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

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

WOW!

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/e...w/14891693.cms

Kamal Haasan’s next co-star is a 7-year old girl
Subhash K Jha | Jul 14, 2012, 12.05PM IST
The indefatigable 57-year old Kamal Haasan's co-stars are getting younger by the week.

If his co-stars in his recent films have ranged within the age-group of 22-35, in his next project which would be his Hollywood debut in the English language produced by Barrie Osborne, Kamal Haasan's co-star is a 7-year old!

The hunt is on for a 7-year old American girl who will be cast opposite Kamal Haasan. But you can's apply for the job just because you're 7, female and Caucasian. The little girl would be in almost every frame with the actor. And she has to match his virtuosity.

Admits Kamalji, "It's not just about the girl looking cutely into the camera. She has to be able to act. That's the age at which I started acting, so I know exactly how it feels to be facing the camera when you're that age, so I'll be a very considerate co-star."

Kamal Haasan describes his Hollywood debut as a study of civilization masquerading as an adventure story. "There will be lots of activity on the surface and also below the line of visibility. It's actually an idea that I related to Barrie. He immediately liked it. I like the idea of working with a child."

Interestingly Kamal Haasan's heroine in his new film Vishwaroop is no spring chicken either. Pooja Kumar who plays the lead is 35.

Says Kamal Haasan, "It was meant to be a girl who looks mature and sensible, since she plays a nucleur scientist. Which is why I thought of casting Sonakshi Sinha and Chitrangada Singh. It isn't about age. It's about looking capable and in-charge."

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makkaLE, I'm not surprised either. As I said, Aamir has to be criticized for this. But what I find wrong here is the reflexive logic of slotting together all azhugAchchi shows as one and the same. Isn't this exactly the logic often used (reflexively or consciously) to brush aside uncomfortable topics? That it's too sad (exaggeratedly sad!), serious and so on?

And in the same vein that logic that it's all fake because it involves a Bollywood star like Aamir Khan or something like that. Sure, Aamir's needs to be viewed critically (and the best comments I've read on the show are indeed critical of it on some grounds; as one piece on Kafila put it right after the first episode, "Dil Se Nahin Dimaag Se Dekho"), but that's not the same as being dismissive of it on flippant grounds.

Visu enna paNNAr. yEdhO Lakshmi paNNAngannu sonna paravAla.

Great point. This is exactly what I'm talking about. If k-g had mentioned Lakshmi's show or Rose's show, there is a point to it.

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Actually another point I wanted to make is how the same brigade who bash Lakshmi and even worse, uncomfortably snigger at Rose, seem to be taken into 'Aamir the Social changer'.

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What's flippant here, seriously I find AK's shows being manipulative. His technique is quite visibly like Visu's than Lakshmi's. Of all, Rose hosts it best.

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With a huge team of writers, both creative and research team, editors, and array of production staff, the issues are varied and makes it 'different'. I'll give him that.

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adheppadi same brigade-nRa conclusion-ukku vandhInga? I haven't seen anyone who sniggered at Rose's show and praise Aamir's. yArai manasula vechchittup pEsuRInga? Aamir's show-ngradhunAla adhukku general-A automatic popularity irukku-nRIngaLA? Which I agree with. And in any case, we shoudn't be waking up to theses issue just when/because a superstar is talking about them. That is also a totally fair point. But unga dismissal flimsy grounds-la irukkumbOdhu, it's hard to take you seriously either. (A stance like "personally I can't watch such shows" is different. )

But don't celebrate him like a Saint.

Similarly, I understand this point. But to watch the show and engage with it is not to make him a saint. There are a lot of critical pieces which are more insightful than the show itself, but they engage with what the show sets out to achieve and point to its limitations.

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adheppadi same brigade-nRa conclusion-ukku vandhInga?

Because I've been to lunch with such people, at work, home, functions and elsewhere.

I haven't seen anyone who sniggered at Rose's show and praise Aamir's.

I have.

yArai manasula vechchittup pEsuRInga?

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Aamir's show-ngradhunAla adhukku general-A automatic popularity irukku-nRIngaLA? Which I agree with. And in any case, we shoudn't be waking up to theses issue just when/because a superstar is talking about them. That is also a totally fair point.

But unga dismissal flimsy grounds-la irukkumbOdhu, it's hard to take you seriously either.

No one asked you to.

But to watch the show and engage with it is not to make him a saint.

There are a lot of critical pieces which are more insightful than the show itself, but they engage with what the show sets out to achieve and point to its limitations.

I've read those pieces before. I didn't want to post it here, because I'm not taken in to the show as I haven't seen it fully (have said as much here)

I'm referring to 'Aamir the star', because it's posted in 'Kamal the star's thread.

I had to post my issues with Aamir's mode, much like the way people are open to vent fury on Kamal here.

Doesn't seem problematic for me.

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What's flippant here, seriously I find AK's shows being manipulative.

munnayE sonnA mAdhiri, that's fair enough, k-g. Even I've this uneasiness with TV shows dealing with issue for a set of reasons, one of which is how they manufacture reality (as oppose to a more modest way of just recalling it), e.g. veyilla vElai pAththAngannu solla, adhu mAdhiri summA shoot paNRadhu. You know, this whole idea of visually showing what had happened but there's invariably a whole sense of fakeness to it. And I just don't like it. And I mean to include all shows, informative or otherwise, even from the likes of Discovery channel and so on. indha amsam enakku indha show-layum pidikkala.

His technique is quite visibly like Visu's than Lakshmi's. Of all, Rose hosts it best.

I'm not sure about this. Visu's shows are not about systemic issues, its victims and so on. Individual poverty paththi pEsaRadhOda sari. minjippOnA current cut paththi EdhAvadhu solvAru.

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Again, you're referring to the issues, but I'm referring to the way one hosts. Aamir's is none so sophisticated or visibly 'intelligent' as it's made out to be. To host a show, is not to have tissues by your side.

And honestly I'm okay with Aamir's hypocrisy. He's after all a star. I know how some people who would bash that mode in Tamil, but like Plum said, English/Indhi BR-titis helps too.

As for discussing on the show, you have to take it up with regular watchers.

[Plum]

Flippant or not- manipulative, self-promoting and probably financiall beneficial to Khan, too,. I can applaud his marketing genius but git is essentially pre-empting hagiography - which is still going to come to this very thread soon inspite of pointed criticism pretty much exposing the intentions. IdhE threadla Kamal's unobtrusive karutthu solling integrated into screenplay has been questioned - afterall marketing effort-ai flippantA dismiss paNNA dhAn enna?