A man to reach a top position has to overcome many such types of “baacha” comments from some tom,dick and harry. Look at the article.

charu says that rajini has several crores but shows off simplicity just by wearing hawai chappals. But i wonder why charu took those photos by wearing a 20 dollar jerkin and putting up without any shame in his web site. Is this he thinks a intellectual person will do ? and oh god see how he looks ?

some body wants to mention Mr.pancake as something similar in position to manirathnam?
ha ha ha and rajini as chandrasekhar.

u mean to say chandrasekar is paid and recognized more than manirathnam. ha ha

Nice comparison but a joke.

if u say quality, then put another ha ha

P.S: I agree to some of your other points and i must admit this is the first time i’m coming across this Charu fella, so can’t opine on his works…

This author has been reading Charu’s posts ever since he has been writing in Vikatan.com. This author was one of the earliest readers of Charu’s first book.

Having said all of this, writing about what the author is writing here, could be highly controversial and that is not the reason why this post is written in an anonymous name.

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Three accusations have been made on Rajni. None of them are new – nor they have orignially come from Charu.

a) “Rajni does movies that does not spread sprituality and he has not done any movies to spread sprituality”.

- Has Charu seen “Ragavendra” – Rajni’s 100th movie? After this movie came, Matralaya has gotten so popular that that place has become one of the busiest spritual destinations for millions of people every year. Note: this writer has visited that place before and after the movie came in the 80′s.

- Has Charu visited Thiruvannamalai lately (pre and post Rajni following Ramana’s teachings?).

- Who in the hell can classify what is spritual and what is not. What is spritual to someone is not for somone else.

b) “Rajni’s movies show vulgarity. Chandramukhi in particular has 4 vulgar scenes”.

- Vulgarity – Eh?? Has anyone read Charu’s books? Showing a joke with a friend’s wife with some suggestive sounds is better than writing about a son wanting to screw his mom. Note: This author is neutral about Charu’s writings.

c) “Rajini does not invest his money back in movies. Kamal does and acts/makes superior movies”.

- This is a classical argument against a successful person. A few questions : Does charu invest all his money in literature? Why does he keep writing about sponsorship to European countries in his blog?

- Making a successful movie and making it profitable to all the parties involved is far more important than investing a little money back into the movies. Count the number of movies Rajini had lost money and count the number of times he has repaid the distributors. Note: This author is not a Rajni “fan”.

- Kamal and Rajini have two different styles of movie making. It is like telling Charu not to have his mustache since Ashoka mitran does not have one.

- Telling Rajni not to make the kind of movies he makes (and the accusation he makes it to become richer) is like telling that Charu should not write in the internet and he does it only to make money. Note: This author has no problems in Charu writing his blogs in the internet.

- Since when did Charu become the chief accounting officer or the tax consultant for Rajni. His point about Rajni’s marriage hall cracked me only to know why in the name of literature people stoop to such low levels in India to count against somebody’s personal income? Also, if Rajni is richer, what bothers Charu.

- Does Charu know all of Rajni’s charity/donations to make a statement about 100 Rs donation on his birthday?

- Any queue or any charity where there is a crowd would result in stampede. This has nothing to do with Rajni. For all this crying out loud, tell me any religious/theatrical/political public event where there is huge crowd in lines then I will count the number of stampedes and deaths in that event.

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Conclusions:

> Mixing up personal prejudices and biases against a popular person in the name of literature and review has been one of the syndromes of Tamil literature in general. (This author is not unaware of the over-generalization he makes here. The author can show a dozen such biased writing in the past one year).

> Writing about a successful person and imposing an elitist view and accusing the successful person not have lived upto arbitrary standards is plain wrong. There are no ways about it – even if this becomes from a successful writer.

Otherwise, films would just be stream of conciousness and real-time happenings. Every shot and a cut is planned based some factor. And a commercial movie like Chandramkuhi is no different in that matter. Rajini never proclaimed that Chandramukhi was for the intellectual upliftment of the society. It is for business and ofcourse for entertainment values. Now, if we are trying to judge the value system of these film makers, we have to take a bigger look at the value system of many people in the media/entertainment and politics. I hope you guys would agree with me on this.

After reading comment from Kabbadiwala, on Rajni’s Marketing Skill, i feel pity for Vasu the director who did the AMichitra thaaz story for TWO times!!

I know Rajni added LakaLaka Content apart, the screenplay by Vasu, Yes P.Vasu, is gripping and i think rajni may added some nuances but surely he is not the real contributer. when comes to screenplay andstory, and on screen directorial skills, Rajni is very poor, as seen in Valli and baba, the films he penned on his own.

The success of the film equally depended on story and the ppl who were behind the screen but it is pathetic that all credits were “Foreced” towards rajni

yes, nice to see that we must set tasks aside. like take up and review good tamil blog site and then really look at what they have.
Yes, charu is quite narcisstic, like his ego trips, photographs in berlin standing beneath a dilapidated building etc..but he can sometimes be right! we have to give him the benefit..we want to write how crazy he can get, with his little writing and achievements, yes, we can rubbish him by tonn loads…as you agreed NOT NOW, later….

looking at all the blogs and comments, it is surprising nobody ever wrote about the marketing and brand skills of Rajini in making chandramukhi a success commercially! in fact I think, that each scene and screenplay was planned with definite crowd pull and dollar realisation rates! Now, that is something I would admire about the remarkable ability of Rajini, to sense the market, hold its pulse, and pull out the dollars from peoples’ pocket without them realising it for seeing the movie!!! that is real brains man!!! Hats off Rajini on that…but all other criticisms are valid….

the only point i wish to make on sujatha’s article is sometimes oversimplification can lead to wrong results..yes taking a positive side, ofcourse, we got to discussing existentialism,becoz sujatha happened to write wrongly or right about it. But, I beleive given the type of people we are, we would have eventually got around to discussing existentialism and every other isms, even if sujatha did not write in Aavi!..

happy to note, there are more rounds of discussion…that is the only reason i chose to put in the comments!!!!

LG, this is what i meant as religious chicanery. I or anybody else has no right to sit in judgement of Rajni’s personal life. No two ways about it. However, what i’m trying to get at is this image-propelling speaches and the public obliging all-too-willingly. When he is making these statements on a public forum, its no longer personal and he’s fair game
That said, i think the points about the pleasure trip, tying the vulgarity to his personal life, contribution to thiruvasagam were all BS.

BTW, wasn’t aware of this existentialism thing… sounds interesting….