I've never been a great fan of extremely commercial "masala" movies... Yes, I did enjoy watchin' films like "Murattu Kalai" (Rajnikanth) and "Sakala kala vallavan" (Kamal) when I was a little kid, and those were commerical "masala" movies I guess... Infact, I can watch these films even now and enjoy them... Sure, they were commercial mass-entertainers, but somewhere at the bottom of it all there was an undeniable human touch... I mean, the heroes weren't flying around on all sides... Somehow, I haven't been able to enjoy the extra-dose of unbelievable, gravity-defying stunts and logic-defying song-sequences obtrusively inserted into the screenplay... If the protagonists in the film "Matrix" flew around, it was because according to the story, the whole sequence was happening inside the minds of the characters and not in the physical world!!! But, our film-makers insist of havin' a "matrix shot" in the stunt sequence just to make it look kool!
And why do the villains, especially the imported-from-other-states kind, in our films always have to be over-exaggerated and loud? One of my big problems is that I'm a fairly good lip-reader (how that happened has to be an entirely different blog!) and so I can pretty easily make out most of the Hindi dialogues that these villains are actually mouthing... And the poor dubbing artiste has to somehow try and match this with the tamil dialogues... Good luck with that!
Now, comes the twist in the screenplay of my life! I've been recently cast to play a character in a "commercial" film and the script requires me to be yelling and screaming most of my dialogues in the film!!! Hmmm... I guess I've become a part of the machinery that I once despised!!!
And why do the villains, especially the imported-from-other-states kind, in our films always have to be over-exaggerated and loud? One of my big problems is that I'm a fairly good lip-reader (how that happened has to be an entirely different blog!) and so I can pretty easily make out most of the Hindi dialogues that these villains are actually mouthing... And the poor dubbing artiste has to somehow try and match this with the tamil dialogues... Good luck with that!
Now, comes the twist in the screenplay of my life! I've been recently cast to play a character in a "commercial" film and the script requires me to be yelling and screaming most of my dialogues in the film!!! Hmmm... I guess I've become a part of the machinery that I once despised!!!
