National Awards, India

[Plum]

Yeah, I didnt list Rajini's 70's movies. It was a general response.

Some performances of Rajni in 70's Bachchan cannot manage in another 7 jenmams:

1. thappu thALangaL
2. avargaL/mUndru mudichu
3. 16 V
4. Above all, muLLum malarum.

And that's not exhaustive. Just look at the versatility, the variety, and not just width but depth in each of these. Compare that with the single note (intense young man) of Amitji in 70's.
I mean, it is a no contest in Rajini's favour.

[MADDY]

enna equanimar padichittu poittaaru - vaanga sir respond pannunga :P

branding Amitabh as a "single note" actor itself is not acceptable to me.......cheeni kum comes to my mind immediately since he just did everything in the movie - the scene where tabu returns his pulao - i thought he had multiple gestures lined up one after another conveying a sumaar-written scene......IMHO, rajini can never do that.....

secondly, Amitabh's Don and rajini's Billa - Amitabh simply outplays rajini.......the control and poise that amitabh had for a don role was unmatched - rajini was really not a international don, he looked like a mere local rowdy......

interestingly, to me, rajini lost the plot(acting) in 80's and completely lost after thalabadhy.......

[Cinefan]

NA awards are agenda driven,lost their value the day Anil kapoor won it for Pukar,Saif for Hum tum and Priyanka/Kangna for Fashion.

As for Amitabh,he was good in Paa,have not seen Mammotty's films last year and so cannot compare.Was Amit's National award worthy-not so sure.

But one thing,am sure Kamal and Ilayaraja have given more award worthy stuff and from the little I have seen of Lal and Mammotty,they sure deserve more than what they have won.

[Plum]

It speaks of bollywood brainwashing that you expect an International Don to be suave and stylish only. A guy looking like a local rowdy can and probably is a typical profile for an international Don. Afterall, Dawood Ibrahim is not a looker, is he?
Lining up gestures - it is not about that either. He was still a patriarchal old man fully in control of his circumstances. His comfort zone is very much there.

If you deny his single note in 70's - his golden period - tell me where am I wrong about that.

A straight comparison of Don to Billa to make a definitive judgement is what I find insincere analysis.

It seems to me it finally boils down to surface attributes - who is polished, who is more poised etc. Fair enough since those are the only terms in which one can prop up Amitki over Rajini.
Over to kid_glove!

[MADDY]

If you deny his single note in 70's - his golden period - tell me where am I wrong about that.

theres lot of difference in sholay and a zanjeer..........he did a range of roles in 70s and he never came across as single note - he could do variations well enough......

A straight comparison of Don to Billa to make a definitive judgement is what I find insincere analysis.

well, thats just one of the many amitabh remakes that rajini did........infact for every rajini movie of 80's - there was a amitabh performance as a template to be bettered upon......that itself is a testimony to amitabh........

It seems to me it finally boils down to attributes - who is polished, who is more poised etc. Fair enough since those are the only terms in which one can prop up Amitki over Rajini.Over to kid_glove!

not really, even depth wise, amitabh was great..

[Plum]

What are those variations? Even equa is holding back from elaborating that. I suspect he'll come up with is variation really a criteria, which is fair enough.

[AravindMano]

cheeni kum comes to my mind immediately since he just did everything in the movie

[Plum]

Everything-nA? diving, running, jumbing ellAmA?

[MADDY]

wat variationsa - namak haram, abhiman, parwaana in 70s - i dont think he was just a "intense" actor, he was more than that........anyways, i would wait for equa's views -

[MADDY]

Everything-nA? diving, running, jumbing ellAmA?

actually, yeah