View Poll Results: Which is your favorite Kamal Haasan film

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  • Anbe Sivam

    20 20.20%
  • Salangai Oli

    11 11.11%
  • Nayagan

    7 7.07%
  • Aboorva Sagodharargal

    12 12.12%
  • MMKR

    8 8.08%
  • Thevar Magan

    15 15.15%
  • Guna

    8 8.08%
  • Mahanadhi

    8 8.08%
  • Hey Ram

    4 4.04%
  • Virumaandi

    6 6.06%
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Thread: Sindhanai Selvar Dr.Kamal HaasaR - favourite movies,scenes 2

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    Quote Originally Posted by venkkiram View Post
    Calcutta riot scene koduththa impact-ai vida inge athai commercial enRa peyaril dissect panrathu payangara impact kodukkuthu!
    ALL of us here totally get that you are disgusted and shocked at the suggestion that this sort of traumatic scene is conceived and shot as it'd be in a mainstream film.* We all get it. If you don't have anything to add beyond expressing your shock, please move on.

    * If you care to think this through logically, are you saying the very presence of such a scene means it'll be treated the same way by all filmmakers irrespective of their style?!

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    Quote Originally Posted by equanimus View Post
    Yes, the subject itself is quite muddled for Tamil with a catastrophic event that doesn't resonate all that much with people in this side of the country, the multiple languages involved and so on. And Kamal did reserve some bit of primacy to his Tamil identity, so it couldn't be made a proper Hindi film either. In that sense, he perhaps intended a truly pan-Indian film that he hoped would succeed.
    Excellent point (though I haven't watched HR)!

    Kind of similar reason that makes some MR movies so "anniyam" to watch!

    If KH wants to make a historical (not purANA levels, ithihAs level only) and get great "veku jana" response in TN (another equivalent word for commercial), it may have to be either chEra-chOzha-pANdiya biz or drAvidian biz

    MR should have colloborated with KH for iruvar

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    Quote Originally Posted by equanimus View Post
    Yes, the subject itself is quite muddled for Tamil with a catastrophic event that doesn't resonate all that much with people in this side of the country, the multiple languages involved and so on. And Kamal did reserve some bit of primacy to his Tamil identity, so it couldn't be made a proper Hindi film either. In that sense, he perhaps intended a truly pan-Indian film that he hoped would succeed.
    உன்னைபோல் ஒருவனில் கூட கோடிகாட்டி இருப்பாரு, "அது வேற ஊரு, இது தமிழ்நாடு, மெரினா பீச் தண்ணில நிம்மதியா நாம காலை நனைக்க முடியுது, எதுக்கு அவங்க பத்தி கவலைப்படணும்"
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    He mentions in HR
    Lalwani: Road poorA bodies...unakku puriyAdhu nee South Indian
    Saket: illai...puriyum

    This is a friend who knows Saket was going to Calcutta and was there on Direct Action Day. Still he forgets and the only thing he remembers is the stereotype.
    மூவா? முதல்வா! இனியெம்மைச் சோரேலே

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    To put this whole perspective (challenging the elitist notion of a dichotomy between the artistic and the commercial) in the right context, it's not at all about what filmmakers themselves say or think about their films or the struggle they went through in making them. Some filmmakers are naive (or to put it in less charitable terms, dishonest to themselves) enough to think that they're not in it for a mainstream success. For example, like how Cheran argued that Kamal didn't want a mainstream success in Hey! Ram (this is from the Vijay TV programme on Virumaandi with Madan).

    The struggle a filmmaker goes through (finding the right producer, etc.) in making a serious film in mainstream format (as opposed to an open-and-shut formulaic film that is less a gamble but OTOH more likely to leave the audience unshaken!) is of course real and a different matter. Note that, even here, the struggle increases, not decrease, with trying to reach out to wider audience.

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    கல்கத்தா கலவரங்கள் முடிந்து, ஆனால் சாகேத்ராம் இன்னும் அபயங்கரை சந்திக்கவில்லை. அப்போது காந்தி கல்கத்தா வந்திருப்பதாக தெரியவரும். ஒரு இடத்தில் மக்கள் கூடி நிற்க, அங்கே மாடியில் கதவைத்திறந்து காந்தி தோன்றுவார். எனக்கு இந்த அறிமுகமே ஏதோ வித்தியாசமாக இருந்தது. (இதுபோன்ற பல விஷயங்கள் தான் என்னை படத்தின்பால் இழுத்துப்பிடித்து வைத்திருந்தது!) பலரும் காந்தியை வாழ்த்தி ஏதோ கத்திக்கொன்டிருக்க, சாகேத்ராம் "கல்கத்தா ரியாட்களுக்கு நீங்கள்தானே பொறுப்பு??" என கோபத்துடன் கேட்பார். சிறிது நேர தயக்கத்திற்குப்பிறகு காந்தி ஒத்துக்கொள்வார். (இங்கே காந்தியின் நேர்மை கவனத்திற்குறியது) அவர் தவறை ஒப்புக்கொண்டதையே ஒரு தீரச்செயலாகக்கருதி, கூட்டம் மீண்டும், பாராட்டுக்கோஷத்தை துவங்கும். சாகேத்ராமோ கடும் ஆச்சர்யத்துடன், "என்னடா பாராட்டு கோஷமிடுகிறார்களே?" என பார்ப்பார்! மெல்ல அந்த கூட்டத்தில் இருந்து விலகுவார். சாகேத்ராம் முதன்முதலில் கோபப்படுவது அப்போதுதான். அந்த தணியாத அடிமனது கோபம்தான் கிட்டதட்ட பெரிதாகி, அபயங்கரால் மேலும் ஊதப்பட்டு, கொலை செய்ய தூன்டுகிறது என்ற அடிநாதம் புரிய, எனக்கு நேரமாயிற்று.

    அபயங்கர் சாகேத்ராமின் மனதை, பேசி தன் சித்தாந்தத்தின்பால் ஈர்ப்பது, அந்த நுண்ணரசியல், இதுபோன்ற விஷயங்கள் எல்லாம் எனக்கு மெல்ல புரிய ஆரம்பித்தது. சாகேத்ராம் மைதிலியிடம் காந்தி பற்றி அந்த ஃப்ளைட்டில் உரையாடுவது, அந்த 'ஓனாய்' வசனக்காட்சி, மஹாராஜாவும் அபயங்கரும் விவாதிப்பது, கிட்டதட்ட, சினிமாவில் இதுபோன்ற விஷயங்களை நான் முதன்முதலில் உணர்கிறேன். இரண்டாம், மூன்றாம் முறை எல்லாம் படம் பார்க்கப்போனபோது, இதுபோன்ற நுட்பங்களே என்னை மீண்டும் பார்க்க தூண்டியது. உலகப்படத்திற்கான முதல் அறிமுக்க வாசலாக எனக்கு ஹேராம் அமைந்தது. இன்னும் வாசலில் தான் நிற்கிறேன் என்பது வேரு விஷயம். ஆனால் இந்தப்படம் ஏற்படுத்திய ஆச்சர்யம் உற்சாகம் எல்லாம் நன்கு நினைவிருக்கிறது! மறக்கமுடியாதது!!

    கமலின் மற்ற படங்கள் தேவர் மகன் கூட, இந்தளவு ஆழமில்லாமல், கடைகோடி ரசிகனுக்கும் எளிமையாகப்புரியும். தேவர் தலித் உள்பட எந்த அரசியலும் சுத்தமாகத்தெரியாமல் பார்த்துரசித்த படம் அது!

    இந்தப்படத்தில் சிலபல இடங்கள் புரியாமல் போனாலும், ஆளாவந்தான் தெனாலி போன்ற படங்களைவிட என்னை அதிகம் ஈர்த்தது ஹே ராம். (தெனாலி பின்னர் பிடித்தது வேறு விஷயம்)
    Last edited by sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar; 22nd May 2012 at 01:40 AM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by P_R View Post
    He mentions in HR
    Lalwani: Road poorA bodies...unakku puriyAdhu nee South Indian
    Saket: illai...puriyum
    Wow! what a dialogue! In previous gen, there were movies like Baaratha Vilaas where the unity among diversity is shown in a very direct manner. Here, 2 friends, one south indian and another north guy. What a beauty this character has! When, Lalwani tries to skip the topic citing the geography, saketh refuses these physical border and says that he understands, and thus indirectly ask him to continue. What a simple but effective scene! Kind of Chetan baghat's '2 States' in a very crisp form!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Plum View Post
    I think to truly understand what equa is talking about - why Kamal's (what we call as) artistic films (as opposed to commercial films ) are actualyl commercial - you must see "true"art movies like the malayalam ones where the character a) brushes teeth for 5 minutes in the movie. And it has no relevance to anything in the movie. Simply 5 minutes of screentime capturing a "Realistic" pal theichal b) a solitary cow grazing for 10 minutes. Same shot. for 10 minutes.

    Well, I am ofcourse trivializing but I have seen such "art" movies too - leaving them aside as faux art movies, even some acclaimed art movies have nothing for the "commercial" viewer (I mean myself) and in that context, while Kamal gives us high art, he gives it to us in capsules quite relatable to a normal commercial film watcher - if only such a viewer can make a slight leap of sensibility and mental ability.
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    SKV, not sure I agree/. Veedu/Sandhya Raagam - the two BM movies which mathc your description were thoroughly engaging and enertaining unlike the Malayalam movies I talked about(Tooth brushing and Cow grazing)/
    Well, I don't know which Malayalam films you're referring to (duh!). But the point is, WITHOUT getting into the question of whether a film is engaging or not, it's possible to roughly estimate the commercial prospects of a film. An aravindmano or a kid-glove may find the films of Adoor and Aravindan engaging for a whole set of reasons, but they're way off the mainstream and are clearly WAY LESS commercial than the most offbeat of Kamal's films. Veedu and Sandhya Raagam (especially the latter, no coincidence it didn't even have a commercial release) are also films in that mould (i.e. not at all mainstream in the way Hey! Ram is) except that they may be more accessible for curious film viewers.

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    Wonderful discussion on Hey Ram. Sakala, your last post on HR was excellent!
    equa, P_R, sakala excellent views on Hey Ram and its commercial aspects.

    //P_R thanks for those hindi film recommendations, I have watched a few (do dhooni char, Rock on, Ishkiya, band baaja baarat...), but your list seems to be bigger. Not leaving anything it seems. Atleast the films you mentioned have indian subject/heart in it (if not mostly rural). May be these films have come at different times?. Good to know that option is not shut down. May be I am expecting too much having seen our films.//

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    Quote Originally Posted by P_R View Post
    He mentions in HR
    Lalwani: Road poorA bodies...unakku puriyAdhu nee South Indian
    Saket: illai...puriyum

    This is a friend who knows Saket was going to Calcutta and was there on Direct Action Day. Still he forgets and the only thing he remembers is the stereotype.
    illai.. puriyum, only becuase he was directly affected, sari dhaanE? idhula enga irunthu national integration, bharathavlaas etc?

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