Nadigar Thilagam : The Greatest Actor of the Universe & The One & Only BO Emperor

[anm]

Whether NT over-played or under-played he always made sure the respected scenes are thoroughly enjoyable. If we take his romantic scenes as examples; I can mention one for each. I watched ‘Irumbu thirai’ recently and it is one of the movies where NT showed his subtle but superb performance. There is a scene when NT describes Vyjayanthimala about his lady love and how he met her. It was funny but very sweet to watch. As NT describes it, Vyjayanthimala gets really jealous and knowing that, he carries on until he tells her how old they were then. Fantastic scene. Secondly, one of NT’s over-played romantic scenes is (there are many, but one I could remember at the moment ) in ‘Deivamagan’ where NT goes after Jayalalitha and makes funny moves to attract her attention. His body language is more than subtle but equally enjoyable and sweet!

Dear Vankv Sir,

With all due respect to your coinage 'over-play' and 'under-play', I beg to differ from views that our NT always portrays the character he plays showing how that particular character would act or react to that particular instance and not as you mentioned, this we can cite many examples and even our Mr.Ragavendra Sir too mentioned about this aspect in one of his write-ups. This is what my view too and kindly excuse me for that.

Anand