Kieslowskii - Freak who freaks me out! Part I

I was really surprised and flabbergasted to know that some people couldn't comprehend even the simplest of simplest of films, Of course , I don't claim that I can understand every damn frame this film maker throws at me. But how on earth do you want me to believe that you have not understood the simplest of that he non-chalantly shows on screen. Any person with slightest sense of emotion should by general principal understand and comprehend what he shows on screen. I cannot accept "feigning". This write up is a lampooning attempt for a film which I have selected for today is "Krzysztof Kieslowski's: Three Colours: Bleu".

Like all his films, this film deals with distinct human emotions which we all can relate to. Any reasonable human being who claims not to have felt or come across these emotions needs to look at his life seriously.

This write up is not going to explain the plot , instead I will discuss about the brilliance of this genius. The story revolves around Julie who meets with a car accident. The accident kills her only daughter and her husband, who apparently is one of the biggest music composer of all times. The film deals with trials and tribulations of Julie and how she grapples with the sudden spate of changes in her life.

Julie is not the kind of heroine which we are used to seeing in some of the contrived women centric films , She is one among the thousands who is still trying to cope with her husbands death and of course her unfortunate change in fortunes.Now, before going into the details, I would like to state that, I am more concerned about the people who have seen the film and still couldn't understand why Krystoff is called one of the greatest and I would be really itching to call him THE greatest, and still debate on it.

The film is named blue for obvious reasons. The film has blue tone through out, but blue here signifies the memories Julie has about her past. please keep in mind this very interpretation as we move on.

Coming back to Julie, she is not a very headstrong woman who can stand up and come to terms with what has happened. It would be utterly illogical to show her as getting on with life after losing her celebrity husband and her only daughter. She obviously struggle's to come to term's with reality. Do you guys remember the first scene where a boy sits on the side of the road with wooden ball attached to a stick and he tries to fit the ball over the stick. The moment the ball fits the stick the car crashes, I am sure it was meant to be an allegory but I cannot comprehend as to what KK really tried to mean here?, That accidents happen by chance? or does he mean that it was meant to happen only when the ball fits over the stick, which obviously means FATE. It could have been anything and upto us to take it in which ever way we want to.

Coming back to the story, Julie is admitted to the hospital and more than the bodily pain which she suffers, the mental pain and heart ache seems to be getting the better of her. She distracts the Nurse on duty by breaking the glass window pane; As the nurse goes out to check the mess . She slips into the adjacent room(filled with medicines) and tries to consume random tablets in an effort to end her life. The nurse soon finds that out,and on seeing the nurse Julie spits it out. It was obviously the most weirdest situation to be in for Julie. She asks sorry for breaking the glass. Now this obviously should lead anyone to think that Julie thinks that breaking the glass was bigger vice than trying to end her life. Nurse quite quickly replies "the glass can be replaced". Just look at the way dialogues are written, if this is not a punch dialogue then what is?.

So, Julie recovers goes back to her country house with haunted memories (Again we can see shades of Blue). But after coming to a conclusion that ending her life wasn't the right way to go about her life, she becomes convinced that completely cutting her off from everyone and everything would do her more good, because she cannot even think of falling into an maze made of emotional strings. She sells her house, sells her antics except her daughter's Blue wall hanging made of Blue crystals and she wants to go to a place where no one knows her, no one can recognize her. Again her memories haunt her, she is not able to get over her husband and her love for her. What does she do? Calls her friend who apparently fell in love with her and makes love to him. The casual sex doesn't do any good to her rather it only rekindles the memories of her friend and her husband from time to time. She now goes away to Paris takes an apartment where there are no kids, furnishes her house with her daughters antique wall hanging. Every time, Julie has a ridiculous or a negative thought the blue shades turn to black. This cannot be a brain child of an average film maker at all.


Like memories Music too plays a vital part in the film, Since her husband was a famous musician it is obvious that music forms one of the best memories for Julie. She tries to destroy her music as well, throws all her notes she had previously written with her husband into garbage van. If you notice as she picks up the notes , the music is played in the back ground . The moment she throws it into the garbage truck the music fades out.

Well ironically later on in the film, you would find a solitary beggar playing the same tune again, and Julie asks the beggar from where he learnt it. He says that he composed it on his own. This is again a brilliant way of saying or rather a slap in the face of Julie that "You might have destroyed the paper having notes, but you cannot destroy your music". Life beckons her, her memories follow her everywhere she goes, but its Julie who cannot come to terms with her life. Haven't we come across such people?

You cannot even argue that beggar is not needed for the film, he is not the typical character we have most of the films there to fill up the screen space and time, the beggar makes her realize that she is important and so are her memories. The most striking part about the music in the film is as I said is as important as her memories themselves. A self proclaimed fan of Beethoven himself, KK gets in to the head of how a musician thinks about his music, how they write music. In the final sequence when Olivier and Julie try to finish the composition, Julie makes a lot of changes to the notes and she changes the instruments. Every time they run their hand through the notes , there is music in the back ground. Beethoven apparently thought about music as as he lost his hearing capabilities, because he could never hear it. I obviously didn't know it was directed at Beethoven but I am sure we can appreciate at how the music changes when Julie changes the instruments in her notes, from trumpet to piano to flute and so on.

She always prefer's to swim when no one is present, During the course of the journey to her new life in the apartment, she gets acquainted with a prostitute and make friends with her, both begin to share a good amount of closeness and suddenly Julie's heart is looking to confide into someone. One day, the girl sees Julie running off and she goes to the swimming pool to meet her,and she asks her if she was crying. Julie replies "no it was water". And suddenly group of children run and dive into the water.

It simply means people are forcefully starting to come into her lives again. the next scene is where she goes to meet her mom. This is vintage film making where there is a shot of Julie's mom watching TV, she is watching a man walking on a tight rope and Julie's face is reflected on the glass door which means Julie is also walking a tight rope.

The most important and the most unique scene is when she swims alone , IE , before she goes to meet her Mom. She tries to end her life by curling herself into a shape of a baby in the womb inside the water. After a few seconds, notwithstanding , she comes out, this means that she is reborn again. Again, I never understood the reborn angle of it, but you cannot possibly tell me that you never understood the purpose of that scene, which to mean that no matter how hard she tries; she is not able to cut herself off from the outer world.

I am sure this would induce movie enthusiasts in knowing more about this film maker, for those who claim to have not understood the movie, Allegories cannot get better than this. Decide for yourself.

UDHAV NAIG

Look at the history and Innovate YOU IDIOTS!

Here comes an article from me after a long time, I was under extreme dilemma to decide on a topic to write about and I had zeroed in on a few topics namely , "Brilliance of Stanley Kubrik", "Kieslowksi fucks you through his lens" , "Martin Scorcese declares war".

Somehow, I realized that there is nothing mendacious about these film makers and I decided for once that tribute's can wait. This write up will precisely deal with our very own Tamil Cinema and its history of Innovation. I am not going to pin point the year and the dates , Chronologically provide succinct data about Tamil films that have been successful till date, I have not seen much of Tamil Cinema to do that too. But, I am going to illustrate the need to innovate, and how innovation has reaped rewards in the past.

I can't help but talk about the pusillanimous directors and actors we have today....though I would refrain from talking about their doleful state of affairs WRT to films.

Lets start from our very own MGR and Shivaji, Frankly I don't know about Tamil Cinema before these 2 icons, and I think its not really appealing to talk about cinema before 1940's. MGR carved a niche for himself through his songs and he was very good at stunts too. The songs were hugely popular with people because he could practically deceive people that it was literally god's words. People were absolutely convinced that the man makes sense (Of course he did) and he could bring in a sense of Personal bond with his fans. This paved the way for his meteoric rise.

Now,If you askme, I would call this an innovation, He convinced people that... he is a GEM of a guy, he can Fight, he is strong, he can decimate any opposition, he is man of values and WHAT NOT. TN was swept under a MAT called MGR. MGR was a man who was looked up to as THALAIVAR. This personal bond was telling factor that made his name common in every house hold.

The unimaginable fan following he had was directly proportional to amount of "Good Values" he propagated on screen. He mastered the art of aggrandizing his on screen persona that reflected his growing exponential fan base.

He never allowed the audience to see the "Character in his films", whether he played a "Rickshaw puller", " Cop", "Brother", "Rich Zamindar", even sometimes "Thief"...
I have always wondered Why people chose to cloud their minds from seeing just the character on screen, and always "focused" on "WHAT MGR their Thalaivar" says.

I am not going to go in to this very uninteresting debate on how it all started, I presume it was a simultaneous cycle, where in MGR tried to project himself as do - gooder, the audience also picked it up and concluded that MGR is always magnanimous. Other than this simple hypothesis, I cannot not speculate anything more and I will not speculate anything more.

I still insist, MGR did something that other people couldn't manage to do, If you are a rational man(man here refers to human) you would be asking number of question sto me, and one among them would be "Then why didn't our audience reject him once he got redundant after few years."

My answer would be slightly irrational, I would say, he already managed to carve a niche for himself, that "He" means what he says on screen, more often than not he always backed his words with his action...his fans were smitten by this capacity of MGR to "Do" things that he says "ON SCREEN". This elevated him to god level status and thus the legend of MGR still lives on , not only does he is a legend but also rakes in votes once in 5 years till today.

This era is incomplete without talking about Shivaji Ganeshan. He was a different commodity all together....Now, what did he do to keep "His" kind of audience hooked up to him. He lived the character literally, whether it is "VeeraPandia KattaBomman " , my favourite "Deiva Magan" , "Pudhiya Paravai", "Bharatha Vilas" and the most famous of them all "Thillana Moganambal". His era , unfortunately Coincided with arguably the most influential On Screen performer of all time in South India.

Then how on earth did he manage to stand tall?.

The Magic Word - INNOVATE!!

The way he portrayed complex characters and the way he emotes on screen were simply impeccable and his "Method" of wooing audience was directly and diametrically opposite to MGR's. The difference is blatantly obvious. He made audience forget that the person on screen is "Shivaji" and it was "Veera Pandia Kattabomman" himself. The man made it possible every single time he donned the grease paint. Though , am not really impressed with these 2 actors, I still relish his films , a few of them that I have already mentioned.

Again the magic word is INNOVATE and be different, this fetched Shivaji Ganesan lot of laurels and a HUGE fan base.

Marlon Brando reportedly remarked " Shivaji should not be called Marlon Brando of Tamil Cinema, Rather I should be called Shivaji Ganesan of Hollywood" .I really don't know if the quote was authentic, but I would say the quote actually doesn't have irrationality written all over it.

We have to move on to the next generation, RAJINIKANTH and KAMALHASSAN. The 2 are undoubtedly the top guys in TC right now. Innovation has played a vital role in their careers as well...

Rajinikanth AFAIK, broke into the limelight with thunderous THUD. He was the most unique person on screen, doing something different all the time, the way he uttered his lines, his gimmicks on screen, his cunning-ness , his negativity, his hair style , the dark complexion everything about him was new and different.

After seeing arguably 2 stout actors for 30 long years , time had come for our audience to switch to something different...The change was Rajinikanth and Kamal Hassan.

Back then, Rajini was everything what a conventional hero will not be identified with.He was dark, Slim, Fiery eyes, full of gimmicks, handsome but not so handsome, fast and oozing style. This repertoire of style included everything from flipping a Cigarette Nonchalantly into his mouth, or running his hand through his head, or flipping his coat with hands around his waist.

What he did on screen was something very distinct, unique appealing and belligerent, he broke all rules of a conventional hero and that's a telling factor of his success so much so that, his " Gimmicks" still sells today, which re-Iterates that the investment towards innovation has paid him rich dividends.

This Era was also flooded with extremely talented and refreshing film makers like K. Balachander called the "God Father" for the 2 pillars in Tamil Cinema today, Balu Mahendra (Helped Kamal to a National Award), SP Muthuraman( Or (Rajini - Courtesy -SPM), the most intelligent Screen play writer of 80's Bhagyaraj and many more.

All these film makers were different from Each other and the MAGIC WORD AGAIN IS INNOVATE.

Let's move into the late 80's and the 90's, this period was spewed with successful films (At least a majority of them) is what we now call meaningless and NON- Sense cinema. It wasn't completely meaningless back then, because like always,Audience wanted something new.

They decided that they have enough films that were realistic and they were ready to lap up even nugatory films that can only be compared with pigeons pee in 2009. Some huge hits include Sagakalavallavan, Chinna Thambi(What nonsense was that!!!), many Rajini Movies that were ridiculous like Dharma Durai, Naan Sigappu Manidhan (GOSH!) and many more.

Once - So - Popular directors like Balachander and Bharathi Raja were seen in disarray and they completely lost their foothold and people demanded different films. Sadly KB and Bharathiraja could neither make films that people expected nor could stake a claim for their films with the audience.

Then came the MASS masala Bandwagon made popular by Rajinikanth, and paraded on by Ajith's(And his derivatives) and Vijay's(And his derivatives),both apparently are derivatives of Rajinikanth himself. Rajini interestingly shifted his focus from his style to a more MGRsque method of having the personal connection with his audience. Super star's fans always looked for hidden but not so hidden messages on various things. Namely, Spirituality, Religion, "Values" (Though we can have criticisms about it, people were OK with it), and Of course the most important of all Politics.

Kamal's career also took a hit with his "In ability" to put up with paradigm shift, he innovated with his "Own" brand of cinema ,providing an explicable mix of Great acting with ample "commercial factors" , namely an item song or a KUTHU song or arbit heroism. However, Kamal the actor refused to give in to rigors of industry and continued to do films that he liked. This helped him hold his own against barrage of actors who were hell bent on doing everything that RAJINIKANTH does in his previous film.

Kamal took up script writing, direction, Production to constantly keep differentiating himself from the rest of "MASALA" coterie. I am sure he was aghast at the pollutians bothering Tamil cinema namely his good friend, but he couldn't do much as people were unanimous in their support for Rajinikanth. Kamal still soldiered on, with every flop came a Big hit and followed by a "film" that spoke of his credentials to experiment.

His biggest HIT in 90's was Indian , it was a distinct mix of "Kamal's idea of Innovation"....it coupled Great Acting and entertainment...it had ample comedy, Love, Exposure everything to please the foolish front benches.

So, as we can see, the Magic word again is to be different and Innovate.

Just when we thought that MASALA cinema is here to stay, post 2004 people have rejected many films that are supposedly made to entertain people. Post- Ghilli, very few MASALA films have made it big, one's that made it big also had something new in them, starting from music ,dance stunts, costumes etc.

BILLA is an interesting film to analyze, it had the same things that are considered despicable and it didn't even have good acting, still it was liked by people because it was different. The whole idea of bringing Hollywood style visuals to Tamil Cinema was something new. It of course clicked with the audience because of its Innovation.

I do agree some films have clicked with completely no innovation at all, these films would actually be the ones that were successful because of the "WAVE" created by the trend setters.

Just like how some films set up with a village theme were successful largely because "It was similar to Bharathi Raja's films"

Just like how many films following the GHILLI pattern were successful.Some films just tend to be lucky and get people's nod. But that is no way a deterrent for film maker's to not to INNOVATE.

You needn't be a poly math to do this analysis, anyone with a slight sense of brains can do it, I am amazed at how film maker's themselves have ignored this crucial factor.

The present state of Tamil Cinema is appalling, we have 2 good movies every year all other movies flop at the BO , this suggests that another wave is waiting to HIT Tamil cinema, and we are going to be taken back to the glory days of KB and Bharathi Raja and Balu Mahendra.

With Rajini at the fag end of his career and Ajith's and Vijay's biting dust too often for them to feel safe, I guess its an interesting road ahead for people who like Innovations.

So, please INNOVATES YOU IDIOTS.

All said and Done, I am also reminded of a saying "If wishes were horses, only beggars would ride them".

See ya Soon

UDHAV

Two Leaves, One state and that Romance -( Off topic)

Some ten months after I was born, the man closest to her heart (her only moral support and her political mentor) died. All that she wanted to do was to have a look at his dead body. She wasn't allowed. She somehow survived the trauma and went to the state assembly where some men headed by one of India's 'greatest' hypocrites ran out of arguments against her and resorted to physical assault. They tried to pull off her Saree. She survived this third grade act too. She would go on to survive a lot more in her way to create Tamil history. On June 24 , 1991 - J Jayalalitha became the first elected women chief minister in the history of Tamil Nadu.

From that very day it has been a very romantic tale. The people love her and she loves them back. And suddenly they are angry with her and she is angry too. They irritate her by going on a blind date with the sad guy and his family for five long years and they are too bored of his false promises by then. So they come back and she accepts the love of her life with open arms. This article goes back in the "sands" of time to reason out why she is definitely the better of the two things to have happened to Tamil Nadu.

To start off with, it is completely undeniable and a fact that Jaya would only be proud to accept that most of her even now growing popularity is thanks to her association with M.G.R. who for many other Tamilians means another three letter word staring with G and ending with D. In fact there are still remote villages in Tamil Nadu where people believe M.G.R. is alive and every time they vote, they vote for their 'thalaivar'. But there has to be something in the work and effort that politicians put in, in order to sustain the already available support of the people. And it is this extra effort that Jaya has put in without which it would have been impossible for her to be so popular despite being the target of a witch hunting of an unimaginably huge scale launched by the sad man who despite being in the political scenario for almost twice as many years as Jayalalitha is still not sure of holding on to his government for two consecutive terms.

Her first term as chief minister saw some of the most interesting ways of misusing power. We need pioneers in all fields and here was a very independent lady with complete control over a very important state of the country. She did do a lot for development but not a lot enough to attract the controversy addicted media. The most infamous among her notorious activities of those times were making Balu Jewellers go down under, causing a huge stampede in the kumbakonam mahamaagam, indulging in excessive corruption and owning a special 'collectors version' of 'wealth' :) [something which sun news (an open insult to unbiased news making) went on to publicly display a million times as soon as Jaya was arrested after being voted out of power]

But why did the media not look at the fact that during this very first term of her government, she banned high interest private loans, almost completed the Veeranam Water Supply Scheme for Chennai,banned lottery tickets to encourage savings, set up All women police stations, installed 'Rural Women Self Help Programme benefitting lakhs of ladies in villages, initiated the 'thottil Kuzhandai Thittam' which definitely is the work of an administrative genius.

Well one can't expect the people to take notice unless its told to them, and Jaya did not do this properly. More over there were multiple factors like the minds of Rajinikanth (offered a Padma Bhushan in exchange of campaigning - how lame) and Cho Ramasamy ( who genuinely wanted change and now repents ) which voiced for a change of governance and unfortunately led the people into a whole family of brilliant squanderers. Also known as the cement pirates, these men in charge of the state from 1996 to 2001 built more subways than necessary and took more commission than they could possibly handle.

But by the end of those treacherous five years from 1996 to 2001, an entire state was nodding in
disagreement with the way they were being governed. Jaya was in a pre-poll agreement with some similar minded parties. She went from district to district in break neck speed. Campaigning hard. Getting to the grass roots, speaking about the real issues. And what the 'makkal' gave her back was what she called the 'maghesan theerpu' - an absolute rout. Independent majority and complete power. And this time it truly was a golden era. Where there was a lot more right than most of the wrong. She wasn't allowed to be CM for some time, but she used puppets to continue administering the state with some great courage and caution at the same time.

Very good things happened to Tamil Nadu during this second term. The New Veeranam project was completed. The revolutionary 'Rain Water Harvesting scheme' was introduced. Veerappan was caught and killed. Video Piracy was brought to a minimum. She also carried out some very innovative acts like introduction of video conferencing in Jails and Courts, thus eliminating the need to bring the accused to extend the remand every time.

The best part, however was the mighty display of the iron hand during the teachers' strike. Though all political analysts say, it is this act of tough and near-oppressive administration that helped the DMK alliance come back to power in the next elections, I personally feel it is probably the best way of curbing chaos in a state where millions of people reside. 'Nethi Adi' is what they call it in tamil - she hit the nail on the head. And the people on strike had to comely come back to work.

But as it happened, an alliance of discomfort came together just for the sake of setting up their kids as union ministers and are presently ruling this state with the worst ways one can ever use to rule the place.

And you should see how the people, midway through this dreadful phase yearn for their mother. You should see how they react to her calls for support in the meetings. There is bliss and poetic silence in the multiple ruptures of noise that they make when she says "karunanidhiya thooki poduveengala? seiveergala?". The way she is campaigning and getting closer to HER state for these Lok Sabha elections are only a sign of things to come. The real romance will start in 2011. When the state will run back and jump into the arms of the real mother of theirs and the mummy will return. Again.

KILL MASS

Kill Mass

The reason for me writing this is well known, I have been really wondering how people can stoop to such a state so as to not comprehend things in a rational and logical way.

I have tried my best to project what I think about various ridiculous idiocies.

Definition of MASS HERO:

1) The first scene of “his” movie should start with an introduction song or a fight.
2) The story is usually tailor made to make his fans happy ( I really don’t know how he satisfies the audience) :D
3) The heroine’s scenes are strategically placed and really move the story forward.
4) The producer cuts production cost by usually reducing the clothes of the movie.
5) The money saved by point no.4 is used in buying aruval…until recently for guns.
6) The movie SHOULD have 6 songs and 4 fights.
7) In between the 6 songs and 4 fights, 5 comedy scenes …. 5 love scenes, one love making scene and of course the main story (If one exists) has be told.
8) Few unwanted dialogues like “20 varusham munnadi enna paatha madhiriyae irruku” dialogues which we have heard over and over again.
9) Hero should come in every other scene.
10) Heroine should strictly get married to the hero at the end.
11) Include any other Illogical, irrational and ridiculously sentimental scenes.

End Product -: The hero successfully has given a quality product which has satisfied his fans.

The above points are just to warm you guys up.

Chapter One:- 1

Theory of relativity

This is one important theory which has made my hair at the back of my stand up, this theory talks about how people “think” some one is a good actor, good director, good musician etc.

An actor ”Y” is called a good actor if he is better than some other actor, say X…why??
The answer is simple, the other actor X has given shit movies and does not know ABCD of acting.

Yes you heard it right.

You are considered good student even if you just pass your assessment, because all other students have failed. This is one great logic used by MASS RASIGARGAL to just reinforce the very point that their hero is a good actor.

Another analogy

Imagine you are a part of a team consisting of 4 salesmen, the target is to sell 100 candles every month, your colleagues are so damn poor and cannot even sell 10 candles a month…now you sell 50 candles. That is 40 more than your colleagues, and voila...you are a good salesman.

Yes…doesn’t matter even if you have sold 50 less than the required target, still you are better than others. So you are good.

Please don’t exactly go by the above example. Its a farce, and proclaiming you as a good salesman will put you in a hot soup.(If at all you are a salesmen)

Many fail to realize (some cannot comprehend, we need to help them) that to be called or considered good you need to be able to validate your claim to be called good. A person who can sell 100 candles also cannot be called as good, because they are expected to sell 100 candles a month, so he is just normal salesman. A person who sells 150 candles is what you call good. He is pretty good salesman who can do wonders when given conducive work situations.

The above example is just to illustrate how people perceive someone as good, bad, excellent etc.

These analogies can be used to any of the “Supposedly “ over rated “Actors”, “Versatile” , “Different” Directors, movies, Musicians etc.

The very point I am trying to make here is, that one cannot be called good if he is merely better than others. He can only be called good , only if he is better than average or holds his own against someone who is already called good.


Chapter Two:-

Subjective opinions:

This is close to what you call ridiculous, rib tickling, comical, satirical, irresistibly funny argument a MASS FAN can have in his defense.

I will try to present a case here.

1) Shakila is a better actor than Meryll streep, Julia Roberts and it is subjective view.
2) My friend (assuming I study in 12th standard) has a better knowledge about aeronautical study than Mr. APJ Abdul Kalam and it is my subjective view.
3) Rajini’s directorial debut Valli was better than Hey Ram, and it is my subjective view.


The above statements are few examples of subjective arguments which I can have with any of you.

Just because those views are subjective to me, it doesn’t mean that I make sense, and it doesn’t mean that my view should be taken as subjective and I should not be mocked.

Any sane person who has seen devil wears prada and Erin Brokovich should by general principle ridicule me, and rightly so.

Now if I make all these claims and say “I don’t care…I like rajini kanth more than Kamal and I don’t care even if a good reason exists”. Then I am sure the very sane person wouldn’t even care to argue with me.

I am of course not justified. I have no reasons to believe so.

Still I make that claim…it’s purely my personal view and of course something without no rational or logical conclusion by me. I am perfectly OK with this, and I am sure the other guy should also be OK with this.

Now what the other guy would not be OK against is that, If I make an argument saying that, I have equally justified views to consider Shakila to be a better actor than Meryll streep or Julia Roberts. I cannot expect the sane person to just leave my subjective view, but to think that I have a poor intelligence quotient related to my ability to comprehend films in a way a film should be perceived.

I may be a shakila fanatic, but if I say that for me she is a better actor than Meryll Streep or Julia Roberts than I must be by all probability be a FOOL. Because even though my view is subjective, it doesn’t make sense at all.

Absolutely No

Yeah, you can ask me “are individuals not credited with their own personal opinions”

Yes, they are…but when you make a statement in public, when the things come outside of your mouth then it’s no more subjective… if things are so subjective then why make it public at all?????

Now, when you and me have diametrically opposite views about a particular topic then how do you expect me to keep quite when you make such a stupefying statement?

Why do you get all touchy when I question your view of how you perceive films, after all you have decided to make your “ Subjective / personal views” public, it deserves the flak it deserves, it deserves the criticism it deserves, especially when you are talking something diametrically opposite to what I believe, just because there are LOT of ignorant people like you, it doesn’t mean that you have a right to be justified in calling every other view as subjective. We can debate and come to a solution, and not just consider views as SUBJECTIVE because, I find the argument extremely extremely escapists and cowardly argument.

Let us take up a very popular argument.

“I like the mass movie X over pithamagan or color trilogy or full metal jacket or any other classic.”

Now this is the most common SUBJECTIVE argument which I often come across.

I like the mass movie X because it gives me satisfaction more than that of pithamagan or any other movie that deserves to be called sensible.

It would simply be because he / she just likes the hero, so he would, by all probability like what ever is being dished out to him.

I usually press for the reason as to why he likes what he sees as good.

He says….song , dance gaana bajaana..and I tell him how pithamagan and other movies have been beautifully conceived and how the actors have literally lived the characters with heart and soul.

Then my friend would be offended…he would say..” Ennaku pudichuruku avlo dhaan”

This is the very point I am trying to make, no fan will be able to justify other than saying, I like X over Y, because I just like Y and I accept Y even though I cannot give a comprehensive answer.

The fact that one argues that I prefer entertainment and you like art is farce.

What is entertainment you are referring to?
Villu is entertainment? And it is subjective?
Aegan is what I call entertainment and it is subjective?

What are movies?

To call Aegan a movie or villu a movie is itself condemnable.

These “attempt” at filming sequences and calling it a feature film is equivalent to abusing the celebrated film makers. Fine, you may not like NK over shivaji, there are so many movies..take for example Kill Bill(Not an art film), even then I know you would prefer shivaji over a movie like kill bill, or say a better commercial movie like speed, or say spider man.

Ask these questions to a hard core Rajini Fan and he would always say, that he would prefer shivaji over any other film that you can possibly mention any day.This is the point I have been trying to convey, unfortunately I was never given a chance to.

The fact that one would like a movie of his favorite star over every other movie (art, entertainment, commercial, crap , shit) should suggest the point I am trying to make here. The very fact is he has tuned his mind to accept anything and everything from his fav star.

This is what I call stupidity transcending all barriers, that’s all I can say.




Chapter Three: -

Hypothesis-Ajith is a Good actor

This is the most simplest one for me to write on, a very interesting one too. :D

Let me not take too much of time giving an intro who Ajith Kumar is, and his films…so I would straight away jump into my reasons for thinking that he is not even good enough to be considered as good.

Some of the claims by his rasigargal.

1) Valee- Deaf and dumb character.
2) Villain
3) Varalaru
4) Kireedom
5) Mugavari


Valee- I am usually corrected when I say, valee’s acting was not realistic…any performance that is not realistic cannot be called as good. True, he did what was expected But to call it good, he needed to be realistic in his portrayal.

The fact that I am so confident saying this because, I have seen and moved with people who suffer from Hearing and speech impediment. The way they laugh and way they cry, way they communicate are completely unique and nothing was projected in the movie.

Any person, who cannot speak or hear, would have been taught sign language, and no where I have seen people understanding what a person who sits outside the cubicle is talking. I mean, it is statistically very very improbable.

Even then I feel a movie whose main protagonist is a person with hearing and speech impediment and none use sign language or very very minimal sign language is laughable.

In all households who have such a person, almost every one would know sign language, this can be seen in day to day life. None of this happens in Vallee.So, by all means, the performance might have been satisfactory, but it cannot be called as good because as an ACTOR he needs to give his own inputs to the actor. Like I have already discussed, something that is satisfying to the context need not be necessarily good.


Varalaru :-

People who learn bharathnatyam and seen bharathnatyam performances can pretty well conclude, it is most unconvincing portrayal of a bharathnatyam dancer.

All his other feminist mannerism were great, but that was out side of the whole character, he needed to convince me that he is indeed a good, as proclaimed in the movie, bharathnatyam dancer.

Villain- The other abnormal character was good enough, al though movie as a whole was crap.

Kireedom- Please compare with the original.

Kandukondein Kandukondein- I don’t understand why people take up this movie to re iterate that Ajith has done a good job, any body could have done what Ajith did. Even after 10 years in cinema, if ajith can’t do such a simple role in KK, wonder what he can do…


Similarly, all other performances are trivial, irrelevant, unimportant or unimpressive.Take any movie, amarkalam-Again a very ordinary movie of a rogue turning into a good man because of love, almost every other actor in TC has done it.

Dheena- Again a very normal movie about rogues again.

I sincerely hope, the first 2 principles namely Theory of relativity and subjectivity are being heavily used to conclude Ajith is a great actor.

He is not…he is pretty ordinary actor with good looks.

A mass actor fan will not open his ears come what may and would always like his fav actors movies over every other movie…whether it is good, boring, bad.

This is what I call being reason less, and being illogical…

I would really Appreciate people, who say, I like him because I want to like him, there is no sane reason to like him.


UDHAV.